Quote: john lucas 101 @ March 18 2009, 2:59 PM GMTI think Glaikit and Badvoc should have a 'Nerd off!
I had a nerd off once - it was gangrenous.
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Quote: Badvoc @ March 18 2009, 2:04 PM GMTAlso, in the first two series' he makes constant references to 'aliens' which confused me if he was meant to be one.
Rimmer was (until he died at least) a human.
Quote: Badvoc @ March 18 2009, 2:04 PM GMTSo it sounds like Grant and Naylor had no more idea than me as to his origins. However, there is a theory that each episode is actually set in a different dinemsion to the last, which could put an unusual spin on things- but could also encourage some very lazy thinking. Also, it would render the EPIDEME/NANARCHY storyline irrelevant.
What? This is not a theory which any of the writers have ever given any credit to so I think it's safe to dismiss it.
Quote: Badvoc @ March 18 2009, 2:04 PM GMTAs for Hattie Hayridge, the story told at the time of her departure was that she didn't particularly get on well with someone else on, or several people on, the set: whether this is true I don't know but it was 'whispered on the wind' so to speak. No-one's ever confirmed it one way or the other but no actual explanation has been given.
An actual explanation HAS been given. Hattie had so few lines in Series 5, they decided to let her go. The fact that Hattie has recorded commentaries with the other cast members, attended numerous conventions and toured with Norman indicate that she has no problem with her former colleagues.
Apparently Hattie Hayridge went to school with Princess Diana.
Quote: Nick @ March 19 2009, 9:55 AM GMTRimmer was (until he died at least) a human.
What? This is not a theory which any of the writers have ever given any credit to so I think it's safe to dismiss it.
An actual explanation HAS been given. Hattie had so few lines in Series 5, they decided to let her go. The fact that Hattie has recorded commentaries with the other cast members, attended numerous conventions and toured with Norman indicate that she has no problem with her former colleagues.
This is turning into a tag-team Nerd-Off!
Quick, somebody team up with Badvoc! LET'S RUMBLE!
Quote: Nick @ March 19 2009, 9:55 AM GMTRimmer was (until he died at least) a human.
Correct.
Quote: Badvoc @ March 18 2009, 2:04 PM GMTHowever, there is a theory that each episode is actually set in a different dinemsion to the last, which could put an unusual spin on things- but could also encourage some very lazy thinking. Also, it would render the EPIDEME/NANARCHY storyline irrelevant.
That's just bonkers stuff made up by fans wihth far too much time on their hands! 
Well, I read it in Wikipedia so it probably is bollocks!!
I didn't know that Hattie had attended conventions in recent years - I'm not THAT much of a nerd!! The only convention I've ever been to is the Festival Of Fantastic Films in Manchester in 2005 (great fun) and I once blagged my way into a Star Trek fan meet upstairs in a rock pub I was already in, by holding up a Benson and Hedges packet and saying it was a bar of gold-pressed latinum, but other than that I've been strictly-convention free, for financial reasons as much as anything else.
I didn't realise, or had forgotten (it's been 17 odd years since I read the book) that Io was an Earth colony. That would explain why Rimmer had never met any aliens. I never thought he as anything but human either, but thought maybe he was a native Saturnian human of some kind - although again, that's never fully explained in any of the episodes, either, hence more confusion.
I can well imagine the future being envisaged as the type of place where that could happen, though: "I'm fae Broxburn, where you fae?" "Io, near Saturn." "Oh aye, ma best pal's fae there, he moved doon a year ago...." In the 23rd, 24th or 25th century, anything's possible.
Oh, and I've never had a nerd-off, but I did recently attend a gig by the reformed Magazine in my home town of Londonium (I'm not actually Scottish, I just live there) where a "burn off" was held betwixt myself and two others in the pub afterwards, to see who had the hugest retro sidies. My mate Rob won.
Quote: Badvoc @ March 19 2009, 1:08 PM GMTOh, and I've never had a nerd-off, but I did recently attend a gig by the reformed Magazine in my home town of Londonium (I'm not actually Scottish, I just live there) where a "burn off" was held betwixt myself and two others in the pub afterwards, to see who had the hugest retro sidies. My mate Rob won.
A "burn off" sounds like one of the few contests where I might stand a chance!
How were Magazine? Was it the original boys in the band?
It was the full original lineup apart from John McGeoch, who died a few years back. Guitar was played by Nokko, from Devoto's other band Luxuria, who looked worryingly like Jason Orange in KILLER NET (must be a Manc thing going on)
They were superb from start to finish, not too loud, not too quiet, really clear sound, excellent set list (they even did 'The Book') and looked really dapper fr their ages. Devoto seems to have pulled the singer of the support band, an all-female, Sally Bowles-haired Japanese goth group called Ipso Facto, so for a man of 57 who looks like the Kinder Surprise Egg, he isn't doing too badly. Gets my vote anyway. Still can't work out how they were ever mistaken for a punk band though- utter prog from start to finish.
Back to the Dwarf...surely if there's going to be any sort of altercation between boardmembers of the type Glaikit suggests, then in keeping with the spirit of things it should be an 'Unrumble?' Prepare for a bar-room tidy.
Quote: Badvoc @ March 19 2009, 1:57 PM GMTBack to the Dwarf...surely if there's going to be any sort of altercation between boardmembers of the type Glaikit suggests, then in keeping with the spirit of things it should be an 'Unrumble?' Prepare for a bar-room tidy.
I'll fetch the 'uncloth'.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ February 21 2009, 2:23 PM GMTMore news:
http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/news/2009/02/20/back-to-earth-the-trilogy/
Are they standing outside Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre in that photo? Maybe they're just taking the piss with their publicity shots. The next one will be in Sherwood Forest then one in a junkyard.
Quote: Aaron @ March 14 2009, 12:52 AM GMTPre-order the new Back To Earth double-DVD set now, available for £12.99 at Play.com.
No, shan't. I shall just wait for my brother to buy it me for my birthday, same as all the other Red Dwarf DVDs.
Quote: Afinkawan @ March 19 2009, 4:41 PM GMTAre they standing outside Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre in that photo?
No.
Quote: Afinkawan @ March 19 2009, 4:41 PM GMTAre they standing outside Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre in that photo?
No, they're on Coronation Street.
For all your RD news though check out www.Ganymede.tv
It's very good!
New Pic:
Same car from the Coronation Street pictures. Worrying.
Nice to seem them together again though.
Quote: Nil Putters @ March 19 2009, 10:41 PM GMTSame car from the Coronation Street pictures. Worrying.
Nah, having thought about it, it'll be quite a nice little visual gag. Breaking out the land transport and it's this crappy little car.