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September 6th, 2017, 7:05 AM
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Red Dwarf
I've been rewatching this over the past few weeks and thought it deserves its own thread - it's in danger of becoming a Simpsons-lite, as it's arguably been crap for longer than it was ever good, but those first few series are so good.
It's interesting watching them back-to-back to see how the show develops - the first series is almost unrecognisable from everything post-series 3, focusing more or less entirely on the bleakness of the situation, with Lister essentially alone forever, exploring the emptiness of life and how it affects him. As the show goes on they (understandably) add more characters and it becomes a lot less dark, gradually adding more sci-fi ideas such as Better Than Life, Bodyswap and Backwards...for me the turning point is Polymorph in series 3, which is probably (?) the most celebrated episode but is also the point at which they arrived on the plot structure of introducing a new monster enemy to be defeated each week, which is when it starts going downhill IMO. Not that it isn't still good for a long while; everything up to series 6 is mostly great IMO, with fantastic episodes like The Inquisitor, Quarantine and Gunmen of the Apocalypse.
Not really sure where I'm going with this thread, it's a bit of a ramble about a show that I'm watching and loving all over again. Does anyone like the later episodes? Where did you think it started heading south?
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September 6th, 2017, 7:24 AM
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Football manager?
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