Red Dwarf

[Garibaldi]

I was kinda lukewarm on X but definitely a big improvement over season eight. Great news that it's been renewed.

[pulsemyne]

In-smegging-credible.

[:mediadavid:]

I honestly think X is the truest to the original formula - and therefore best - since season 2.

[Chadruharazzeb]

I can't get past Kryten's weird nose in X.

[makkuwata]

I'm sure the BBC have demographic surveys to support the choice, but it's staggering to me that the story they lead with is "Craig Charles leaving Coronation Street" rather than THE BOYS FROM THE DWARF ARE BACK

[MDY]

 

[Alex W.]

What happened to Kryten?

[Shoes]

[cohen205]

Were his hands always as big as novelty Mario gloves?

[Alex W.]

On his twitter Llewellyn says the new mask actually works quite well, but I'm not sure why it changed in the first place. Maybe this one's more expressive?

[Mr Cochese]

I think they lost the old costume or something.

[Baring]

Can't wait.

 

9 sucked but 10 was great.

[Stig]

2 hours ago, cohen205 said:

Were his hands always as big as novelty Mario gloves?

 

His fingers were but his hands were never that fat.

[Thwomp]

I understand that they no longer have a BBC budget, but surely it must be easier to make a decent costume these days? Look at the body of the new one compared to the old one, it's shit!

 

I had a thought before that produced a small erection: Red Dwarf by Telltale Games.

[Loik V credern]

9 hours ago, Shoes said:

 

 

I'm just seeing Melissa McCarthy in a Kryten suit there for some reason. What happened to the suit's definition, its ridges, I'd swear that was a deliberate parody if it weren't unsurprising. I can't recall much of the last series, only that it's got to that stage of fan service where just turning up and implying the animosity between Rimmer and Lister is enough to be funny. It's happened to most comedies I can think of, a self consciousness to the writing where instead of just being naturally funny it becomes aware of what the audience find funny, and appeals to that, a self congratulatory tone rather than a biting cutting tone. It happened to Family Guy too, the same jokes being told, but a different feel to them, and that's a comedy which can always look the same, but it can feel off. Happened to Malcolm in the Middle too, whatever raw commentary there was about family gives way to playing up to the characters and their funny ticks. A general vibe of happiness and contentment to the tone of the show that doesn't lead to genuine laughs. I grew up with Red Dwarf, it was a very special comedy for me, the way every episode built on the world and history of the characters, I've never seen anything come close to it. I think it's one of the greatest things ever created.

[Stig]

11 minutes ago, d ebolenk said:

 

 

I'm just seeing Melissa McCarthy in a Kryten suit there for some reason. 

 

Can't unsee

[SqueakyG]

23 hours ago, Shoes said:

 

 

That looks like Porn Parody Kryten.

 

 

[Chosty]

Wonder what his groinal attachment is like.

[JoeK]

I'm not especially concerned. The first Dave series was much, much better than I thought it was going to be, so quite looking forward to this...

[Garibaldi]

If Kryten were a bit shorter he'd fit perfectly in the kids costume section of the Argos catalogue.

[SpagMasterSwift]

The Cat is ageless like Prince was.

[stan]

Christ if they can't afford a kryten suit just have him as a human, it doesn't really matter anymore, just write it off and let robert llewylin-however-the-fuck-you-spell-it just have some fun.

 

I did  few episodes of red dwarf X last night. Pretty painful. If they want Lister sat on a sofa then just have them back on Earth and living in a flat and go full men behaving badly / game on / spaced / peepshow / everything else

 

God they're so old. Why haven't they committed suicide by now if this was genuinely their reality.

[Paulando]

IX and X were truly awful, and I think @d ebolenk gets it spot on a few posts above.

[stan]

yeah he nailed it

[PK]

Red Dwarf hasn't really felt like Red Dwarf since the end of series 6.  They said To Be Continued, but they lied

 

[Shoes]

Exactly. Since Rob Grant left. It's getting to the point where there's more shit Dwarf than good Dwarf. Breaks my heart.

[Guest]

All of them should be vastly ashamed.

[Shoes]

"Kryten, is there any possibility we could go just a little bit faster? I mean, so we're not being overtaken by stationary objects?"

[Protocol Penguin]

49 minutes ago, PK said:

Red Dwarf hasn't really felt like Red Dwarf since the end of series 6.  They said To Be Continued, but they lied

 

It's weird thinking back that 6 felt like the "we've run out of ideas" series to me at the time, and here we are...

[Paulando]

51 minutes ago, PK said:

Red Dwarf hasn't really felt like Red Dwarf since the end of series 6.  They said To Be Continued, but they lied

 

 

Oh, absolutely. Series 7 was more a sci-fi drama than a comedy. It has some good ideas, but it wasn't Red Dwarf.