Red Dwarf

[daibhidc]

Oh Lord, it's going meta...

Actually, it wasn't as irritating as I expected. I did like the conceit that they're in a universe which got two seasons we didn't, which is where all the stuff that changed between the last time we saw them and now happened. And the VW Starbug deserves a place in the series.

But tomorrow ... they meet Craig Charles, presumably, which is where it just gets silly. (Or, just possibly, they meet Lloyd Mullaney, which is even sillier.)

Comments

[sloopjonb.livejournal.com]

'Bit crap' kind of summed it up. Especially the infomercial for Channel Dave.

[ciciaye.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen it yet as I don't get Dave (or indeed any digital, yet), and rpdom is recording it for me.

Um...this means that I don't really want to see spoilers if possible... *points to the 'they meet Craig Charles* bit*

CCA

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

Whoops, sorry. Although I should stress that that was just an assumption about tonight's episode, not something I've actually seen happen.

[thisbluespirit]

I agreed with your Friday verdict and with this. I am enjoying it; it's not bad (thank goodness), but the cheapness of it is actually painful, like someone's shoved a relative underservedly into a shabby old people's home. (BBC, why are you not making this? Come on, you're a few SF episodes down on some other show this year: why not? Someone RESCUE THEM!) *coughs*

On the other hand, I like most of what's going on and clearly something is up and this can't be real. Despair Squid II is a likely theory, although I'm leaning to the Holly is paying them out for dropping a tank full of water theory (that's mine, okay, if it turns out to be true ;-D.) Except for the thing with Cat and the gold bits. That's making me go hmmm and giving me hope, because it's Red Dwarf, after all, and you never quite know what the explanation will be... However, if it is unreal, doubtless it will gets silly.

(But somebody rescue them from the lack of sets and money and time RIGHT NOW. Please.)

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

I don't think the problem's lack of money as such; the BBC didn't exactly throw cash at it either, but they knew how to use what they had[1]. They had the same in-house effects guys who did Who (well, to start with). If the Beeb made it today, they'd probably use The Mill.

It's just occured to me what this really reminds me of.

Blackadder Back and Forth.

A brilliant BBC comedy gets remade by a satellite channel, and it's ... all right. It's certainly funny, but somehow doesn't quite hang together, and the Original Concept that distinguishes it from its predecessor doesn't entirely work.

[1]One of Grant Naylor once wrote that he'd stopped telling people how amazing it was that Red Dwarf had the same budget as dinnerladies when he realised that the reason no-one was impressed was they didn't believe him.

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, you're right. That was kind of what I meant, but i didn't quite know how to put it into words, without sounding as if I was being paid by the BBC. ;-)

*sigh*

[silly-swordsman.livejournal.com]

Waiting for a verdict of the whole mini-series now...