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Fan-smegging-tastic stuff! Felt just like any classic episode, delivered some great lines and visual gags, and all the cast definitely still have it! Roll on the rest of the series!
I was enjoying watching Red Dwarf on Netflix and then they just had to yank it for some reason. I was in the seventh or eighth season and really enjoying it. Thanks a smegging ton Netflix...
The trailer suggests that the show's still good, now I just have to find a way to watch it.
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ZergSmasher wrote: I was enjoying watching Red Dwarf on Netflix and then they just had to yank it for some reason. I was in the seventh or eighth season and really enjoying it. Thanks a smegging ton Netflix...
The trailer suggests that the show's still good, now I just have to find a way to watch it.
Do yourself a favour and skip series 9 (called Back To Earth rather than IX), it suffers a lot from a different production company, lack of a studio audience (and thus no laugh track), a plot conceit that doesn't really work and is just a bit weird. Go straight on to series X (all on Youtube) as that's cracking.
ZergSmasher wrote: I was enjoying watching Red Dwarf on Netflix and then they just had to yank it for some reason. I was in the seventh or eighth season and really enjoying it. Thanks a smegging ton Netflix...
The trailer suggests that the show's still good, now I just have to find a way to watch it.
Do yourself a favour and skip series 9 (called Back To Earth rather than IX), it suffers a lot from a different production company, lack of a studio audience (and thus no laugh track), a plot conceit that doesn't really work and is just a bit weird. Go straight on to series X (all on Youtube) as that's cracking.
Agreed on all counts. Series 9 was awful and nearly killed the whole thing for me.
I think it's fair to say it's not one that's going to immediately sit alongside Dimension Jump or Polymorph or anything like that, but I still really enjoyed it, it was more than good enough. Cast are all still on form, the gags are still landing, it remains as silly and self-aware as ever, so I didn't find anything to dislike.
Not sure this week's was as good as the opener, largely thanks to the flashbacks that I feel were a bit misplaced and didn't feel very Red Dwarfy, but the 'guy beginning with R' scene is up there with the funniest moments in the show's history.
Just watched Episode 3 though (Sky Go have them On Demand a week early, I think the UKTV site does as well) and it's absolutely an instant classic, laugh a minute stuff, some surprisingly un-crap special effects, a brilliantly exploited plot and what may be Kryten's most hilarious gag to date...
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.. thought 3 was better than 2 but overall I'm happy.
Been some very good lines here and there.
Rewatched series 10 last week.. this one is better thus far IMO.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
nitpicky -- and thought the same about at least 1 of the previous episodes : was the ending really abrupt or that just me ?
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
Yeah, I can see that. Doesn't bother me that much, though; they'd taken the premise and plot about as far as it could go and I don't think this is the sort of show that needs a reflective last scene or anything. They'd got in all the gags they could and taken the premise to its natural conclusion, so I didn't think it needed anything else.
Actually, I think this series has been using its limited time quite well. Starting a lot of episodes in the middle of something rather than spending 5 minutes at the start of every one with the same 'Oh look, weird thing on the scanner/out the window/over there' scene means they can get a lot into the 30 minutes.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
Finally caught Eps 5 and 6 back to back. Brilliant!
Great stuff, good to see the out an about in the Universe meeting new life forms.
The universe still perplexes me (tons of 23rd-26th century ships flying about 3M years later?) but I don't think Red Dwarf was meant to make sense like a more traditional show - not a big deal.
I wouldn't mind seeing a new character, but that would be a difficult task given the solidity of the cast.
Roll on Red Dwarf 12!
Spoiler:
Butler was great, a super foil to Kryten.
Shame that the Personality Machine was not used on Rimmer. I would have more that loved to have another episode with Ace Rimmer in.
The final scene for Cat must have been very nice for Danny Jules - all those years in spangly suits finally pays off!
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So that's Red Dwarf XI complete! Hasn't it gone in a flash? But don't despair: you can still catch up with the episodes on UKTV Play or get them digitally on the BBC Store and iTunes, the DVD and Blu-ray come to the US on 8th November and the UK on 14th November... and best of all, SERIES XII COMES TO DAVE IN 2017!
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
I really enjoyed it, but I was a little dissapointed that there was no Kristine Kochanski, especially after season X hinted that she was still living on the Red Dwarf.
I think you might be in quite a small minority there.
I think most people feel the show works better when it's just the same 4 losers bumbling about, essentially without much hope of really doing anything.
... bit like life, you know ?
One wonders if this might be the divide between USA and Uk comedies perhaps ? The former always seem much more eager to have the heroes ( in the dramatic sense) actually be happy and have good things happen to them.
Howard Knows The Score
The Red Dwarf soundtrack albums are here!
11 November, 2016
We've lost count of the number of times we've been asked whether or not there's ever going to be a Red Dwarf soundtrack album. Those of you with a full collection of original series DVDs will recall that we put a huge selection of isolated music cues as extras to play on the discs (and some of you may have even been enterprising enough to extract them as audio tracks); but aside from that, there's never been an opportunity to put some of Howard Goodall's hours and hours of brilliant original themes and underscore onto an actual album release.
Well, until now. But never one to do things by halves, we're delighted to announce that as of pretty much now (depending on your locale and music store of choice) you can now buy not one, not two, not even three... but four official Red Dwarf soundtracks!
The new albums have been put together and released by Howard himself, as an independent digital-only release to go alongside his previous Red Dwarf Piano Fantasies tracks. He's personally hand-selected which pieces from his vast library to include - not just tracks you might have heard in the episodes, but also some unused pieces of score that have never seen the light of day before now. And not only that, but he's gone through and put them together into album-length single tracks, digitally remastering them so that they flow together as one glorious whole. So what's on each one?
The first album consists of two tracks: Captain Rimmer's Mandolin, which has just under twelve minutes of material from Series VI; and Bach to Reality, which is eighteen minutes from Series IV and V. Then the second album is a single track titled Eine Kleine Ductmusic, which is a whopping 25 minutes - much of it never heard before - from Series VII. The third album, Let It Smeg, has fourteen minutes of Series X material, before a bonus track called Red Dwarf Antique Extras - a selection of odds and extras from the first three series. And then there's Krysis, What Krysis?, the fourth album which has all the used and unused score for the most recent Series XI.
As well as score from the episodes themselves, you'll also hear a selection of remixed theme versions, and you might be surprised to spot more recurring motifs than you initially realised (sometimes even from series to series). And if you are someone who has an ear for that kind of thing, then you might be able to win a very special competition.
Because to promote the album, Howard is offering a once-in-a-lifetime prize to one especially keen-eared fan. If you can answer the following question correctly, then you could potentially win a signed copy of one of Red Dwarf's most famous musical pieces:
How many times is the Rimmer Munchkin Song quoted across the four albums?
(To be clear, the song we mean is the one that first aired in Series VII's episode "Blue" - although if you're listening through these albums, you'll note it first appears on the Captain Rimmer's Mandolin Series VI album, which Howard tells us is for reasons of length/distribution!)
For the purposes of the question, each distinct occurrence only counts once, so for example the song itself counts as one. You should give a timing for each occurrence of the theme that you spot (e.g. "at 1 min 13 secs of Antique Extras" - although that isn't one, by the way!).
You should email your answers to pa@howardgoodall.info, and the first person to submit a complete list with correct timings will win a hand-written manuscript of the Rimmer Theme, transcribed and autographed by Howard himself!
(Please note that this competition is independently run by Howard Goodall, and we at Grant Naylor Productions / Red Dwarf are merely promoting it. All queries should therefore be directed to the above address.)
Oh, and in case you were wondering about the series suddenly becoming incomplete when Series XII airs next year? A fifth compilation, Rhapsody in Red, will be released to cover that series shortly after broadcast. See, that Howard thinks of everything...
Find out more about Howard's music over at his website!
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
"Hey, last man in the universe, the only woman in the universe, who you were in love with, is still alive and in the very same ship you live in"
"That's cool, I'll just go on and pretend I didn't know that. No one else mention it either."
I was in the seventh or eighth season and really enjoying it. Thanks a smegging ton Netflix...
~16000 Astra Militarum: 
~1200 | Imperial Knights: 
~2300 | Leagues of Votann: 
~1300 | Tyranids: 
~3400 | Stormcast Eternals: 
~5000 | Kruleboyz: 
~3500 | Lumineth Realm-Lords: 
~700
6000 pts - Harlies: 1000 pts - 
1000 pts - 
1000 pts 
awesome I thought I heard something about this, but at the time it was just a rumor.