When Red Dwarf meets Adventure Time….
“Adventure Time,
Come on grab your friends, we’ll go to very distant lands,
With Cat the Felis Sapien, Rimmer the Hologram, Kryten the Mech and Dave the Human,
The fun will never end,
It’s Adventure Time”
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milucalex-deactivated20200601:
Was reading the Aramis page on the BBC Musketeers wiki and:
In an attempt to protect the King and Queen’s lives, Aramis covered his entire body over a thrown grenade.
Rimmer actually did that twice, firstly in Emohawk: Polymorph II and again at the end of TPL and he did it without a second’s thought and all to protect Lister, Cat and Kryten.
Lister was right when he said Rimmer was Aramis after all.
Oh hey I was watching “Polymorph” yesterday and there’s this bit!
RIMMER: (Pointing at the screen) That’s me, there. Those are my brothers: John, Frank, and Howard. God, we were close. “The Four Musketeers,“ we used to call ourselves. Well, “The Three Musketeers,” actually – they always let me be the Queen of Spain. Marvellous. I mean, yes, I was the butt of the occasional practical joke, but I mean, er, nothing sinister. Just the usual boyhood pranks, you know: apple-pied beds, and black-eyed telescope … and, one time, they even hid a small land mine in my sand pit. They took it from my father’s gun cabinet. I mean, how were they supposed to know it was going to go off? Marvellous guys.
I’m really digging how that scene has extra resonance now, over thirty years after it was written.
Moonlight of the Red Dwarf variety
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.
milucalex-deactivated20200601:
Nothing will beat the Blue kiss but we got Lister admitting he needs Rimmer which is even more meaningful than saying he likes the guy. He doesn’t always want Rimmer around, he doesn’t always like having him there but he knows full well he couldn’t do this without him, that he needs Rimmer by his side even when he’s driving him crazy.
And then we had Rimmer’s soft smile when he “sacrificed” himself to protect Red Dwarf from the bomb. He knew it wouldn’t hurt him to get it as far away from Red Dwarf as he could, he DIDN’T know if he’d be turned back on but he saved Lister and that’s all that matters. And then he gave up being a superhero because Lister wanted him to save Kryten and he couldn’t let Lister down now. He couldn’t stand the thought of Lister losing a friend.
The point of this is… yeah I’m back in Rimmer/Lister shipping hell.
I’m furious at how much I started shipping this after The Promised Land. That damn smegging moonlight metaphor.
