Red Dwarf 25th Anniversary Thread
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Maybe - but Red Dwarf takes the cake for having the same cast through most of those twenty five years. Not sure how many shows have kept the same three (four) core characters together for that long without recasting or replacement?
Mark
And bring back Holly!
I see that he's not in Series X. What happened? Norman Lovett just turned them down?
Consider that it's only 10(ish) seasons/series' with 6-8(?) eps per season spread out over those 25 years.
Can't be terribly hard to keep 4 actors together for that. I'm certainly happy they did.
Any word at all on a Series XI?
What's with deflating the 25th?
"Hey I lost 25 pounds! I'm thrilled."
"Oh really, Bob Smith across the street lost 50."
Get outta here...
"Hey I lost 25 pounds! I'm thrilled."
"Oh really, Bob Smith across the street lost 50."
Get outta here...
And bring back Holly!
They didn't have the budget.
He didn't take it well.
Meant to say this a few weeks ago! I went to Brit Sci-fi 3 at the space centre in Leicester on March 9th. Barrie, Llewellyn and Jules were all there and I went to their Q&A. The three have such great chemistry together, just a shame Charles wasn't there too.
Anyhoo, they did seem to be suggesting that there would be another series, it was just a question of finding the time in all their schedules...they seemed to be suggesting it wasn't likely to air before 2015 though...
The queue for their autographs was insane, so there is still a huge fandom for the boys from the Dwarf, and a lot of people obviously there to see them patently weren't born when the show started.
I didn't get their autographs, my main focus there was Paul Darrow and Michael Keating, and I did get their autographs and had my picture taken with them
Apologies for minor Blakes 7 diversion in this thread...
Anyhoo, they did seem to be suggesting that there would be another series, it was just a question of finding the time in all their schedules...they seemed to be suggesting it wasn't likely to air before 2015 though...
The queue for their autographs was insane, so there is still a huge fandom for the boys from the Dwarf, and a lot of people obviously there to see them patently weren't born when the show started.
I didn't get their autographs, my main focus there was Paul Darrow and Michael Keating, and I did get their autographs and had my picture taken with them
Apologies for minor Blakes 7 diversion in this thread...
And bring back Holly!
They didn't have the budget.
He didn't take it well.
damn.
Honestly, when it comes to Red Dwarf, I don't mind waiting, provided there is something to wait for.
Have a bit of a bump.
The collector mentality kicked in again. I wound up getting Back to Earth as well, just to round the collection off, and I've watched them all. Indeed I'm rewatching 10 now just to get the chronology sorted.
So 1-6 were brilliant as I expected. Season 7 wasn't quite as bad as I remembered, but after the great Tikka to Ride, it all went quickly downhill.
The surprise was Season 8. It's hilarious. It has some of the funniest stuff out of the whole series. Great moments, brilliant lines. It gets rid of the jealous Kryten-neurotic Kochanski dynamic that put me off season 7. The problem with 8 is that by bringing the crew back, it dilutes the story, loses the focus on the main characters. It feels like a wodge load of Red Dwarf moments in a show that isn't Red Dwarf. The real problem with 8 though is the finale, where too much is crammed into one episode and it all goes a little wobbly thereafter.
Back to Earth was worse than I remembered. At least on TV I had the novelty of new Red Dwarf after 9 years. This time I knew what was coming!
I'm surprised that Series 10 was commissioned off the back of it!
The collector mentality kicked in again. I wound up getting Back to Earth as well, just to round the collection off, and I've watched them all. Indeed I'm rewatching 10 now just to get the chronology sorted.
So 1-6 were brilliant as I expected. Season 7 wasn't quite as bad as I remembered, but after the great Tikka to Ride, it all went quickly downhill.
The surprise was Season 8. It's hilarious. It has some of the funniest stuff out of the whole series. Great moments, brilliant lines. It gets rid of the jealous Kryten-neurotic Kochanski dynamic that put me off season 7. The problem with 8 is that by bringing the crew back, it dilutes the story, loses the focus on the main characters. It feels like a wodge load of Red Dwarf moments in a show that isn't Red Dwarf. The real problem with 8 though is the finale, where too much is crammed into one episode and it all goes a little wobbly thereafter.
Back to Earth was worse than I remembered. At least on TV I had the novelty of new Red Dwarf after 9 years. This time I knew what was coming!
I'm surprised that Series 10 was commissioned off the back of it!
My kid has finally started watching.
I tried to force it on when he was nine, but he resisted.
8 years later and his girlfriend suggests that it's a good idea in passing.
She's blonde.
I tried to force it on when he was nine, but he resisted.
8 years later and his girlfriend suggests that it's a good idea in passing.
She's blonde.
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