About time. The official announcement was made that Series XI and XII will be made later this year. Hopefully it's better than the last season, which was a bit of a mixed bag. It had a couple of really good episodes but at least half of it was rather dull.

It's about time they explained what happened to the rest of the Red Dwarf crew after series 8, including the resurrected Rimmer.

Series 8 was good overall, but it had its problems: Norman Lovett was well underused. His character is way funnier than Kryten and should have been given more screen-time. The multi-part episodes were a bad idea from the start; perhaps the "back in the red" could have been a two-parter but there shouldn't have been any more than that. The plot made no sense; Rimmer and Lister had access to the crew's confidential files and were sentenced to two years in the Brig. Kochanski and the Cat had never seen the files but were sentenced anyway. Holly was the ship's computer, and yet he too gets sentenced (why not just switched off?)

At the end of the series, all the blue midgets and starbugs are flown away from Red Dwarf, which is being destroyed by a highly corrosive micro-organism. All the Dwarfers take refuge in a mirror universe but Rimmer stays behind. It has never been explained how the ship was saved, or how the blue midgets and starbugs were returned without the Red Dwarf crew. My theory is that Kryten's nanobots repaired the ship, but that doesn't explain what happened to the crew.

(May 2, 2015 at 11:28 am)Aractus Wrote: About time. The official announcement was made that Series XI and XII will be made later this year. Hopefully it's better than the last season, which was a bit of a mixed bag. It had a couple of really good episodes but at least half of it was rather dull.

It's about time they explained what happened to the rest of the Red Dwarf crew after series 8, including the resurrected Rimmer.

Series 8 was good overall, but it had its problems: Norman Lovett was well underused. His character is way funnier than Kryten and should have been given more screen-time. The multi-part episodes were a bad idea from the start; perhaps the "back in the red" could have been a two-parter but there shouldn't have been any more than that. The plot made no sense; Rimmer and Lister had access to the crew's confidential files and were sentenced to two years in the Brig. Kochanski and the Cat had never seen the files but were sentenced anyway. Holly was the ship's computer, and yet he too gets sentenced (why not just switched off?)

At the end of the series, all the blue midgets and starbugs are flown away from Red Dwarf, which is being destroyed by a highly corrosive micro-organism. All the Dwarfers take refuge in a mirror universe but Rimmer stays behind. It has never been explained how the ship was saved, or how the blue midgets and starbugs were returned without the Red Dwarf crew. My theory is that Kryten's nanobots repaired the ship, but that doesn't explain what happened to the crew.

That must be the episode I missed! I know I missed one and have never managed to catch it. to you have it,s name so I can look it up?

What you mean "Only the good..." S08E08?

(May 2, 2015 at 11:46 am)Aractus Wrote: What you mean "Only the good..." S08E08?

On the off chance that you live in the US, Hulu-plus has the whole smegging series online. Of course, for some reason a glitch renders the endings of all Series X episodes unwatchable for some reason.

No doubt this thread will trigger a binge watch of all the old episodes... so that's a few weeks of my time up in smoke at least.

Also, I forgot to mention this earlier.

Craig Charles has resigned from Coronation Street in order to film Red Dwarf XI & XII. There's no news yet whether these will be 6-episode or 8-episode length series - I'd be hoping for the latter, you never know.

I really enjoyed Star Trek, Babylon 5 and Firefly. Red Dwarf never did anything for me.

(May 2, 2015 at 11:53 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: I really enjoyed Star Trek, Babylon 5 and Firefly. Red Dwarf never did anything for me.

KILL THE BLASPHEMER!!!!

Red Dwarf is better than those other shows mentioned.

(My opinion)

I loved the older red dwarfs. Series 8 was okay, but clearly running out of ideas. "Series" 9 was awful. Series 10 was pretty dull and pissing on the franchise. They better not still be running on empty or I'll... have no meaningful action I can take.

My favourites are still series 1 and 2. I love the absolute venemous hatred that Rimmer spews. He softened as time went on. I still enjoyed the other series very much though up until the above.