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Moonlight of the Red Dwarf variety

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Going back over old Red Dwarf posts and man, I forgot how much…the actual show sort-of-but-not-quite shipped Rimmer/Lister. Or kind of? (I mean, there was a kiss, fake though it was.)

Honestly, of all the situations I expected to find myself in this month, “suddenly hardcore shipping the two main characters of a comedy TV show you’ve loved for ages but never considered that way (while the world is in the middle of one of the worst crisises in decades)” is… not one of them. Ah well. What I do really miss is being In Fandom, I guess. Having a sort of fandom central hub (LiveJournal and then Tumblr used to serve this function) where you could just run in and shout “I LOVE THIS THING” and get a chorus back of “WE ALSO LOVE THIS THING.” I suppose Twitter is sort of the fandom central hub now but Twitter just doesn’t work as a platfom for me because you can’t have long conversations.

Anyway, it also so happens that Red Dwarf continuity looks like this:

except even more nonsensical, so I’d be really bad at being a Proper Fan of it. (I still haven’t actually watched Back to Earth since… heck, probably since it first came out. What the smeg was that?)

Throw into that the fact that I guess I’m sort of too old for Shipping now anyway, and… well, I’ll just be here on the sidelines, reblogging all the lovely Promised Land meta and fanart and jazz to secret side social media accounts and so forth.

But, man Promised Land told such a beautiful story. I’m an absolute sucker for “characters who are two halves of the same whole whether they like it or not” relationships, and I never realised there was one right under my nose for going on a decade. Whaddya know.

I think when Rimmer says to Lister at the end, “There’s a moon here, Listy, that wouldn’t mind some sunlight,” what he’s really saying is “We’re about to die. Please be with me,” and ouch, my heart.

I really do love this thing.

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tomdemongod:

It’s 4am and I want to write an essay on why Rimmer is gay with so much internalised homophobia he will literally; manifest as a kinky gay stereotype made from the ‘worst of him’ , make homophobic remarks to literally himself from an alternative universe and idolise the ‘perfect women’ as stereotypes from porn and media instead of women he feels attracted to (as there is none. He is a homosexual).

Red Dwarf: The Promised Land

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I’ve been bingewatching some of the earlier Red Dwarfs in preparation for this one, so once it got started I kept thinking “Oh man, the cast look so old now” but that works! We’ve followed these characters on a lifelong journey and it shows on their faces.

Oh hey and now the showrunners have a budget! Red Dwarf with truly impressive CGI was almost jarring to see, but I got used to it pretty quick and it didn’t have any effect on my enjoyment of the story as a whole.

The jokes were great! The clear effort that went into everything was great! But my favourite thing of all was how all the characters got moments where they demonstrated who they really were as people. (“I am home,” oh my gosh) This movie might have cemented Lister as one of my favourite fictional characters ever. He’s just got such an innate goodness to him, and he absolutely deserved to be Space Cat Jesus for a bit. And oh Rimmer. Thought you were diamond light and ended up being moonlight. What a scene that was. WHAT A MOVIE THIS WAS.

An absolute rollercoaster ride of first laughs and then tears. Some people are saying this might be the last ever real Red Dwarf outing and I’d be happy with that since it’d be going out on a high. I think I am emotionally compromised. (Don’t give me that Star Trek crap, it’s too early in the morning.)

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