back to earth gets a lot of hate compared to the rest of the show but i think theres something interesting to be said about the lack of laughing in it due to the lack of live audience
noticed this within the first scene between rimmer + lister in their sleeping quarters, it was the same kind of conversation theyd have at any other point with the same kind of comedic moments/quips between them & there were several moments where i can hear where they WOULDVE had some laughs from the audience, but there was just silence
& i just think its such a subtly interesting little insight into what life on the dwarf is actually like for THEM from THEIR perspectives, they dont find each other as hilarious as the rest of us do from the outside bc they generally just dont get along most of the time, they have no one other than each other for laughs or entertainment
lister & rimmer arguing or the cat being egotistical or literally any of the comedic interactions the live audience wouldve laughed at were just met with complete silence or frustration from the others, they cant see in from an outside perspective thats literally just the way they live alone with no one but each other for their entire lives
idk its just like an interesting little thing i noticed while im at this point in my rewatch n js started to think about
Thinking about tattoos…
back on the art grind with bill "ive got some children i need to make into corpses" cipher
hear me out here but kryten could lift thors hammer in the way vision could and lister could lift thors hammer in the way captain america could
i wonder how the rest of the world/solar system/wherever people were living at that point responded to the radiation leak on red dwarf, if they all knew it was a radiation leak that wiped them out or if that info didnt get back to most of them, if its remembered as a historical event like the titanic or chernobyl, or if its a mystery that spirals into a bunch of mad conspiracy theories like the bermuda triangle or the loch ness monster
does it go down in history as "the mysterious case of the disappearing crew of red dwarf" or is it commonly known as "the red dwarf radiation leak tragedy"? did holly manage to get the information back to them?? or did they not even know the crew disappeared at all & just saw the ship start ominously floating out into space without any explanation
if they do know it was a radiation leak do they know why it happened?? do they know it was because rimmer didnt fix the drive plate properly & if so did he become a historical figure as "the guy who wiped out the red dwarf crew" or do they just know it was a botched drive plate with no other specifics??
did they know there was still a guy in stasis on the ship who had survived?? did they ever try to go on a rescue mission to get him?? did they find out about the cat race evolving on the ship???
currently working on piecing together all the idkhow lore to make a big long video essay, genuinely looking into EVERY single detail and leaving NO stones unturned very excited :D
glad this edit is enjoyed by others as much as it is by me its my honour🫡🫡🫡
coming onto tumblr because the red dwarf fanbase is actually active on here heres a rimmer edit i did ages ago
rimmer and lister making jokes about insects/ants having taken over earth in future echoes vs the books revelaling that insects/ants actually have infact taken over earth
the way jurassic park was only ever actually opened to the general public one time (jurassic world) & it still went wrong THAT many times before and after
low rimmer fit for edinburgh comiccon on saturday!!!
if the dude who recognised my red dwarf jacket in a damaged society the other day is out there somewhere pls reveal urself to me i am absolutely kicking myself for not getting ur socials
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