Red Dwarf, this weekend

[HappyDayRiot]

It was better than any BBC sitcom has been for a long long time, that's how to resolve it. I'm looking forward to the next 2 now - Rimmer and Katerina carried this one for me.

"Sense and Sensibility... pray god there's some car chases in this..."

And The Inbetweeners is scream-out-laughing hilarious.

 

[MPH]

It was ok not that nmany funny moments in it hopefully that will change with the other 2 parts. Its strange however that people sometime complain about a laugh track yet it was crying out for one yesterday.

 

[Silent_Bob]

I can only guess that you must have been thinking of some dreck like Horne and Corden... or, god forbid (gulp) Hyperdrive. Ugh. I feel ill just mentioning it. Well, at least it showed that piss stained pretender vaguely what a space based comedy is supposed to be like, grumblegrumble.

Am a wee bit tipsy.

Ah Horne and Corden, the talentless wannabe versions of Mitchell and Webb.

I was pleasantly surprised that the new episode was watchable and was funny in parts, which to be honest is a big step up from the last two series. The CGI was extremely distracting, especially in the opening scene when Lister walks down a badly rendered corridor to use a badly rendered vending machine that looked like a watercolour painting. Also im not sure about Big Suze's accent.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

It was ok not that nmany funny moments in it hopefully that will change with the other 2 parts. Its strange however that people sometime complain about a laugh track yet it was crying out for one yesterday.

I think people found it a little odd at first. They'll get used to it eventually.

Once the three parts are shown back to back, I think people might see the flow of the story as intended, compensating for the slow start of the first 15 minutes. I got the impression that as soon as Katerina appeared and set what appears to be the main plot in motion (never mind setting her other, um, spheres of influence in motion), things might get up to speed for part 2.

 

[Jon1701]

I'm with Jim. I rather enjoyed it but I'm going to wait until we see all three parts until I grade the thing.

It did end too abruptly for my liking - and although the lack of a laughter track was distracting at first, I got used to it fairly quickly. Frankly, the most distracting thing was the belt-addition-to-conceal-chris-barries-expanding-waistline on Rimmer's costume but I'm just being picky.

I though the scene with Lister at the memorial was touching. I know its a tonal shift from the golden years (II-V), but I thought it worked well.

Can't wait for parts 2&3

 

[Jadzia]

I watched it again on the repeat last night, and second time around, no it's really not that good, and the story isn't captivating or interesting. I've been generous with my 53% rating I think, but I'll see how it ends today and tomorrow, and I'll update my rating accordingly.

 

[MNM]

I watched it again on the repeat last night, and second time around, no it's really not that good, and the story isn't captivating or interesting. I've been generous with my 53% rating I think, but I'll see how it ends today and tomorrow, and I'll update my rating accordingly.

How on earth do you come up with a rating of 53%? I'm not asking because I think that's low (though I do, I enjoyed the episode), I just find it impossible to see what criteria you could have possibly used to give a rating as acurate as 53%. 3 out of 5 for instance I can understand, but individual percentiles?

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Overnight ratings, looks like Dave even manage not only to be the number 1 digital channel, it also beat out Five in the ratings.

From Digital Spy

]he return of Red Dwarf for its first new episode in ten years was a huge hit for multichannel Dave last night, according to early ratings figures.The first episode of a three-part reunion special, Red Dwarf: Back To Earth, pulled in 2.06m (10%) for Dave between 9pm and 9.30pm. A further 341k (1.9%) watched at 10pm on timeshift channel Dave ja vu.
A subsequent screening of a classic episode took 1.01m (5.1%) at 9.30pm.
The success of Red Dwarf helped Dave to a primetime share of 3.2%, making it the most popular multichannel station of the night by a margin of almost one share point.

 

[Jadzia]

How on earth do you come up with a rating of 53%? I'm not asking because I think that's low (though I do, I enjoyed the episode), I just find it impossible to see what criteria you could have possibly used to give a rating as acurate as 53%. 3 out of 5 for instance I can understand, but individual percentiles?

I explained above. I had three criteria marked out of 10. Totaled 16/30 = 53%

• Expectations (compared to other programmes of today) = 5/10
• Fitness (The credit it does to it's genre, which is comedy sci-fi) = 7/10
• Faithfulness (compared to past episodes of this programme) = 4/10

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Overnight ratings, looks like Dave even manage not only to be the number 1 digital channel, it also beat out Five in the ratings.

From Digital Spy

]he return of Red Dwarf for its first new episode in ten years was a huge hit for multichannel Dave last night, according to early ratings figures.The first episode of a three-part reunion special, Red Dwarf: Back To Earth, pulled in 2.06m (10%) for Dave between 9pm and 9.30pm. A further 341k (1.9%) watched at 10pm on timeshift channel Dave ja vu.
A subsequent screening of a classic episode took 1.01m (5.1%) at 9.30pm.
The success of Red Dwarf helped Dave to a primetime share of 3.2%, making it the most popular multichannel station of the night by a margin of almost one share point.

That is impressive for a digital channel. Poor Five...

 

[MNM]

How on earth do you come up with a rating of 53%? I'm not asking because I think that's low (though I do, I enjoyed the episode), I just find it impossible to see what criteria you could have possibly used to give a rating as acurate as 53%. 3 out of 5 for instance I can understand, but individual percentiles?

I explained above. I had three criteria marked out of 10. Totaled 16/30 = 53%

• Expectations (compared to other programmes of today) = 5/10
• Fitness (The credit it does to it's genre, which is comedy sci-fi) = 7/10
• Faithfulness (compared to past episodes of this programme) = 4/10

Well I couldnt find that post, thats why I asked.

Still, seems way too arbitary to me, even if you do divide up a milion criteria and get an end number. I just dont see how you can realistically watch a show and then say, I give it x y and z for these reasons and therefore my rating for this episode is 53%.

Too over complicated.

 

[diankra]

Overnight ratings, looks like Dave even manage not only to be the number 1 digital channel, it also beat out Five in the ratings.

From Digital Spy

]he return of Red Dwarf for its first new episode in ten years was a huge hit for multichannel Dave last night, according to early ratings figures.The first episode of a three-part reunion special, Red Dwarf: Back To Earth, pulled in 2.06m (10%) for Dave between 9pm and 9.30pm. A further 341k (1.9%) watched at 10pm on timeshift channel Dave ja vu.
A subsequent screening of a classic episode took 1.01m (5.1%) at 9.30pm.
The success of Red Dwarf helped Dave to a primetime share of 3.2%, making it the most popular multichannel station of the night by a margin of almost one share point.

That is impressive for a digital channel. Poor Five...

Well, Five is almost a digital channel in a lot of areas. Its analog signal is so bad in my area that I never watched it before getting digital.

 

[flux_29]

Funny as allways.

 

[Jadzia]

I just dont see how you can realistically watch a show and then say, I give it x y and z for these reasons and therefore my rating for this episode is 53%.

Too over complicated.

okay. But complicated only took me a minute. Would you prefer it if I said 5.3 /10

It's much the same as how games are rated though isn't it. Reviewer plays a game for half an hour, gives it x y and z for these reasons and therefore their rating for the game is so many percent.

 

[Terrorfex]

Absolutely awful. I am a broken man.

I have followed Red Dwarf relentlessly since my early years, having been sad enough to cling to my entire VHS collection and even embrace Season VII despite the fact it's generally hated by Red Dwarfers.

What I saw last night depressed me more so than the new Star Trek Film.

What I saw was four main characters who'd lost their chemistry. I saw Rimmer and Lister as if they were just two guys who vaguely knew each other. I saw Cat, famed for his shallowness, reduced to to -actual- idiot instead of implied.

I saw no Holly, which was gutting. I never particularly liked Kochanski but not to even be given the briefest of explanations (yet) was poor. The ship changing from cigar back to bucket-shape without explanation was poor.

The bedroom CGI was awful - Bablyon 5 had superior special effects.

I've waited ten long years for this, and now as painful as it is to say, I wish I'd been waiting another ten.

 

[MNM]

I just dont see how you can realistically watch a show and then say, I give it x y and z for these reasons and therefore my rating for this episode is 53%.

Too over complicated.

okay. But complicated only took me a minute. Would you prefer it if I said 5.3 /10

It's much the same as how games are rated though isn't it. Reviewer plays a game for half an hour, gives it x y and z for these reasons and therefore their rating for the game is so many percent.

I didnt meant sound rude, so I apologise if I did.

And no actually, 5.3/10 is just as absurd to me. It's the 0.3 or the 3% I find unable to understand, and this is more in general than with you specifically.

If someone rates something 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 out of 5, then I find it easy to understand how they got to that. but say a 3.2 or 4.7 out of 5 seems impossibly arbitary. As does the 53%. Or 62% or 34% etc.

It's nothing personal, I just find that level of accuracy of a rating to show how much you (again general you, not you personally) liked or didnt like a show to be much too precise to mean anything given the circumstances.

 

[Jadzia]

I didnt meant sound rude, so I apologise if I did.

No worries. I know you didn't mean anything personally.

But I do understand your point, that if the grading resolution is too fine, it can be harder to relate to. But that varies from person to person.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I didnt meant sound rude, so I apologise if I did.

No worries. I know you didn't mean anything personally.

But I do understand your point, that if the grading resolution is too fine, it can be harder to relate to. But that varies from person to person.

Jadzia is only 14.7% perturbed by your comments.

 

[Captain Pike]

What I saw last night depressed me more so than the new Star Trek Film.

Have you seen it?

 

[Bacl]

What I saw last night depressed me more so than the new Star Trek Film.

Have you seen it?

The newest one? Nemesis?

I've seen it, and it was depressing, like watching a train wreck.