I thought it was decent. I enjoyed the continuity references.
The Smegtastic Red Dwarf XI Thread
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That's almost exactly what I was about to pop in here and say.
Though some jokes here and there have been on the same level, but they're just rare.
This has been the most satisfying season since season (so far) seven probably. For me.
If they keep making seasons at leasty this good, I'll keep tuning in.
Same smegging channel, same smegging time. The worst smeg is yet to come!
It's interesting how much of this season is about tech developed between the 2200s and the 2500s. Or to put it another way, between Lister/Rimmer and Kryten, so Kryten can explain it. Good scripting short cut, but new.
Oh, and Krysis seems to confirm that Earth is the only planet ever to develop intelligent life. Everything comes from Earth (Cats, Mechs, holos, Gelfs, replicants...)
Oh, and Krysis seems to confirm that Earth is the only planet ever to develop intelligent life. Everything comes from Earth (Cats, Mechs, holos, Gelfs, replicants...)
Yeah, season one or two Rimmer was worried aliens would get him and Lister tells him there are no aliens, and sure enough for the entire run of the show: no aliens. Holograns, printed out humans, military experiments gone wrong like polymorphs and Replicants, the Inquisitor ( a simulant), wax driods, and so forth and so on. I thought at some point there'd be some aliens. In a way, it's been a good thing, having to rely almost exclusively on the main four to tell stories and not having the alien-forehead--of-the-week
All of that pretty much applies to the whole series. They've rarely featured a technology that Kryten wasn't familiar with, aside from maybe "Legion."
He sometimes has to "best guess" it. But yeah, it implies either humanity reached a scientific plateau OR got wiped out by the simulants/GELFs/epideme virus/giant mutated lobsters not that long after Red Dwarf left Earth, though the more recent series have suggested that automated systems are still running things (like the call centres).
Haven't they come across 51st century technology at some point?
I don't think so, unlike a certain time travel show I'm sure you're thinking of.
You're probably correct. Stupid memory...
Can of Worms was a good ep, even if it didn't quite give the Cat as much development as I'd hoped - guess he really just IS that shallow... The morphlings were cute, and their various defence mechanisms were well thought-out, except for their Achilles Heel at the end (but then I assume that "Mum" is supposed to be dead before the oxytocin wears off).
I had kinda hoped that those two Cat women were real at the end and Cat had been telling the truth but just being incredibly Cat-like is his evasive nature.
Haven't the last 2 series been exactly that?
Yeah, the last few seconds were disappointing. I always assumed there were more Felis' hiding down there.
Why did every epsode this series (or so it felt) have Gelfs in it? They're not that funny.
Twentica and Officer Rimmer didn't. Twentica had simulants instead, and there's the rub I suppose - if you need an intelligent, numerous and space-capable threat, the show has ruled out aliens or other humans, so GELFs and sims it is.
Or Mechanoids, holograms, or other AIs.
Thought that was a bit of a quick resolve at the end but it was definitely the funniest of the season. Cat is the best thing in series X and XI.
XI was a let down though. I thought at times it seemed like Naylor had written himself into a corner and wasn't able to come up with as interesting solution as he has previously done. Disappointed also that there is no cliffhanger considering that we actually have a cliffhanger for once that wouldn't take 8 years to resolve.
XI was a let down though. I thought at times it seemed like Naylor had written himself into a corner and wasn't able to come up with as interesting solution as he has previously done. Disappointed also that there is no cliffhanger considering that we actually have a cliffhanger for once that wouldn't take 8 years to resolve.
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