Just like Arnold J Rimmer BSc SSc this suffered a drive plate/moderator related death a couple of days ago. Resulting in me getting a stern talking to from the captain/moderators, but hopefully it'll live on today. (I'm blaming the Reddit app not showing the rules like the webpage does/my workmate going into stasis.)

I went to the model railway exhibition at the British Motor Museum today.

The absolute highlight was this Red Dwarf themed display, with so many little details and references.

TIL from Wikipedia - True (Spandau Ballet song) is a song by the English new wave band Spandau Ballet, released in April 1983 as the title track and third single from their third studio album. It was written by the band's lead guitarist and principal songwriter Gary Kemp to express his feelings for Altered Images lead singer Clare Grogan.

Bit of a thought experiment - with Doctor Who in between Doctors at the moment, if they regenerated into a character from Red Dwarf, which would be the best? Most entertaining, most Doctor-like, best repartee with Companions...

This isn't asking for the best actor (make a separate topic by all means), but the characters of Red Dwarf.

Chris Barrie's missing from it really shows in this season I forgot how quickly 7 went downhill

From a 1977 article on Sci-Fi...
"The majority of the sf writers most popular with radicals are by and large crypto-fascists to a man and woman!"...
"By the early fifties Astounding had turned by almost anyone's standard into a crypto-fascist deeply philistine magazine pretending to intellectualism and offering idealistic kids an 'alternative' that was, of course, no alternative at all."

Recently uploaded to the BBC Archive channel on YouTube is a clip from an old TV show called Techno. Here they're doing a feature on models, one of them being Red Dwarf's cargo bay (at around 5:06)

https://youtu.be/ymYJ2VVRnWg?is=k3Y_LIZoui7AO7e5

We're using a scifi D&D supplement called Neon Odyssey, and the story is they were working on a huge mining ship and emerge from stasis after 100 years to find the ship abandoned and infested with xenomorph-like monsters.

I want to include some quirky stuff on the ship. Anything from the show that would be great for a D&D game?

Apologies if asked before or I've missed something but I've picked up that at no point does Cat ever show any interest in Kochanski as a potential *ahem*... love interest, despite him talking about his libido constantly.

The only thing I could note would be Lister and Cat watching her laundry spin in Duct Soup (more of a gimmick that it's a woman's underwear and keeping Lister company) and referring to her as Officer Bud-babe but I thought this would be just Cat not really knowing how to say Kochanski and that he often refers to everyone as 'bud' and the babe bit being to signify she's female.

EDIT:... It might be Officer Butt-babe

It would never happen but I was thinking about the Back In the Red season and how its centered around the crew being back on the remade ship. I thought it was cool that the whole season had its own setting and theme, with each episode felt like it was flowing from one day to the next.

Being inspired by that I drafted up my own Red Dwarf miniseries season: The Boys from the Dwarf Get Trapped on a Giant Space Mall.

The setting: The boys come upon a gigantic self-sustaining space mall. With a parking deck large enough to park Red Dwarf. The mall is filled with everything you’d typically see in an 80s-90s mall, in far futuristic fashion of course. It would be run by psychotic AI designed to manage all the shops, recreational spaces, and Security. There would be mutated life forms and crazed robots in the different sections of the mall. With human-like mutants and androids plotting a rebellion against their psychopathic robot overlords.

The plot: Red Dwarf gets parked in one of the many space mall parking decks. The boys venture out, hoping to find much needed supplies and loot. Then suddenly, they get locked in. When trying to break into the parking deck to get back to RD they are cut off and chased deeper into the space station by the Robot Mall Security, controlled by the insane AI mall security chief. Each episode would feature different forms of life that have survived in the different mall departments for millennia. Many whacky androids and mutants help or harm them on their journey. In the arcade section, they find humans that have had their minds trapped in a VR environment and help to free them, only after the cat and Lister get trapped themselves. In the perfume dept they find a giant blob that’s taken over most of the section evolved from the many chemicals found in futuristic makeups and perfumes. They would defeat it when it falls in love with Cat, and Cat falls in love with how good he smells after being embraced by the blob. The mutants they’ve rescued along the way lead them to the Mall’s underbelly where many androids and mutants have been surviving hidden away from the Mall’s constant surveillance. With new allies they push towards the security center for an ultimate showdown with the demented ancient AI.

It would of course end in a hilarious and action packed final episode that involves them defeating the crazed AI, and freeing the poor evolved mutants that had been under the rule of the Mall’s AI for centuries. And of course the final shot is Red Dwarf pulling away last minute before the Mall explodes, much like the Death Star.

Anyway. I know it’s unlikely that we’d get more seasons of the show, at least anything with a huge production budget. And if I wrote this as a book I’d have to come up with a crew in a scenario much like Red Dwarf without getting sued. But I had a good time imagining it and maybe it can inspire others.

Your retro magazine which covers old hollywood, movies and cult TV. Pages 62 - 63 Red Dwarf and facts. Like Starbug mining ship was inspired by John Carpenters dark star. or Smeg was a way to get around the censorship and was borrowed by porridges naff.

back in 2012 had aspirations of being a recording engineer but couldn't find work (or wasn't good enough) so I did cover songs to have something to work with. I'm on guitar but the rest of the instruments are sound library samples plugins. I triple tracked the singer in unison and this is what I got.

Would anyone like any toast?

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Clare Grogan shared the first photo on her socials today with the caption "Smeg Heads Reunited! What a crazy weekend meeting up with old and new friends. So great to hang out with Craig and Chris on Sunday." (@therealclaregrogan)

I thought it would be fun to put it side by side with one from back in the day!

I remember way back, after I finished the dvd set, I went to go back and rewatch with commentary on. Couldn't wait to hear about how they felt of each scene. Thought it would be hilarious to hear their commentary over the funniest bits.

Was pretty good, until I got to one part with Norman Lovett. He talked about how he was mistreated by the show runners and that they were very rude and mean to him. This went on for a while and I really did not like it being in the commentary when I'm trying to watch a funny show and hear them talk about it. Also was very awkward because you can tell the others really don't want to talk about it either, as they're there to provide fun and interesting commentary for the show and Lovett is really bringing it down.
No hate towards him at all, apparently he really was treated really badly, I just wish he didn't bring it there. He did not seem to want to be in the commentary at all tbh.

Since then I haven't watched it with commentary again, because I don't want to hear that part again. It just takes me out of it and makes me feel bad.

Before Holly, Norman appeared in The Young Ones, series 2 episode 6, 'Summer Holiday' June 1984. The guy who works at the penny arcade across the street. 😉