Red Dwarf- The Return

[Touring Mars]

I had the privilege of watching some of it round at daan's house, and aside from the odd joke here and there, the funniest thing about it for me was seeing Famine "watching" the second part, mostly with his head in his hands... I did think the bit where "Craig Charles" says that he needed to go back to The Priory was pretty funny too, but that was about it. Still, it has to go down as possibly the most ill-advised reunion since someone gave Kurt Cobain his gun back...

 

[Duke]

So, a quarter of a year passes and I'm no less accurate...

Honestly, did anyone anywhere outside of the BBC building think that this could do anything other than suck?

In fact, this is my first time ever inside this thread, because back whenever it was started, I read the title and said to myself "They're bringing back Red Dwarf? Wow, that's really going to suck."

 

[Venari]

What was good about it?

Russian hologram (although nowt we haven't seen before.)

The gag TM mentioned.

"Tell Rimmer he's a smeghead!"

The sets, actually - some nice CGi, and the memorial dome was fab. Although there was a visit to some place called 'Coronation Street' which I'd never headrd of, and those looked a bit shoddy.

I agreed with the Making of Progamme - CC at the memorial was touching.

The Carbug stopping procedure would have been funny in one of the older series... but not really here.

So, all in all, about 2 minutes of 'good' in an hour-and-a-half of 'suck'. To follow it with some of the 'good' episodes was ill-advised.

Shame.

 

[homeforsummer]

I've just watched all three on Youtube.

What was good about it?

Russian hologram (although nowt we haven't seen before.)

The gag TM mentioned.

"Tell Rimmer he's a smeghead!"

The sets, actually - some nice CGi, and the memorial dome was fab. Although there was a visit to some place called 'Coronation Street' which I'd never headrd of, and those looked a bit shoddy.

I agreed with the Making of Progamme - CC at the memorial was touching.

The Carbug stopping procedure would have been funny in one of the older series... but not really here.

So, all in all, about 2 minutes of 'good' in an hour-and-a-half of 'suck'. To follow it with some of the 'good' episodes was ill-advised.

Shame.

I agree with this almost entirely. I also thought the funniest bit was the kid shouting "tell Rimmer he's a smeghead". I also thought that as a story, it got better as it went on. I thought the "coming back to earth as characters" plot was very corny at first, but as it developed into a sort of reverse despair squid episode it improved (still not a patch on the original despair squid episode though - one of the cleverest comedy episodes ever IMO with a brilliant twist).

What it wasn't was a proper, laugh out loud comedy. It was more a drama with a Red Dwarf theme and the odd funny moment that felt strangely anodyne without a laughter track or live studio audience.

Half way through the second episode I wasn't impressed in the slightest. By the end of all three it'd improved, but it's still not as good as any previous Red Dwarf.

However, it still managed to be better than Blackadder Back and Forth...

 

[Sureboss]

Just got around to watching Episode 3.

The bit which baffles me the most was the quality of acting, shocking delivery of the gags, which weren't funny on the whole, but I was at least expecting the actors to deliver it properly.

 

[homeforsummer]

They've probably spent so long out of character that it was unnatural to them to play those parts again. It's much easier to deliver a gag that could only be said by a particular character when you've been recording the part for a whole year, five years, decade, whatever. Coming back after such a long time to do a few badly-written episodes isn't conducive to acting out a part naturally.

 

[Barracuda]

I haven't seen the third part yet but I can't believe how much it sucks so far. All in all I'm kind of glad to see them again though. Is it just me or does the chick with the Russian accent sound an awful lot like the one in the holoship episode.

A few days ago I decided to watch the whole series again and getting to the 7th and 8th seasons I just don't get why they decided to go that way with it. They could have done 12 seasons of just them going through the ship and I would have been satisfied. How they ended the 8th season also really pisses me off, how in gods name did they all somehow get back together.

Going through it the second time there's a LOT of stuff that doesn't match up or make sense, but I still gotta love the show.

 

[Sureboss]

Grant & Naylor worked. Naylor didn't.