aHem can we just talk about how in “The End” when Rimmer and Lister first meet Cat, Rimmer instantly goes into protect mode?!
Like excuuuse me, 1) Rimmer is an absolute coward and 2) He apparently ‘hates’ Lister.
So why the smeg did he decide to run at Cat at full speed? Surely, if he really hated Lister, he would’ve just let Cat at him? Or even if he was a teensy weensy bit brave, jumped in front of him instead of running at him like a soldier with a bayonet? I mean obviously I get the joke that he runs through him and blah but let’s just forget that and actually think about it: he tried to protect Lister.
It has a short interview with Craig to promote the “TPL” DVD / BluRay but the twist is that it’s all questions sent in by fans, so there are a couple of interesting answers.
– He says “there are negotiations going on now that would mean we could possibly do two more 90 minute features”.
– His favourite part of “TPL” is unsurprising – “I really enjoyed what I think I’ll be referring to as the moonlight scene in the future”.
– In response to “Would you rather have to kiss a Psiren or Chris Barrie again?” he replies “Chris Barrie, definitely. The sweetest kisser. That kiss went on for so long, I had to break it off eventually and ask him to calm it down”.
There’s also a caption over a pic of the kiss: “A million slashfic writers get inspired all over again”.
Yep, the cat is most definitely out of the bag and I don’t mean Danny. :p
While browsing the Red Dwarf wiki I found this little tidbit on the page for “Siliconia”:
Oh, I never noticed that, ow my heart. Here’s the scene in question from “Siliconia”-
RIMMER: I like being a mechanoid. I don’t have to become an officer anymore, compete with my brothers. Envy, ambition, that acid ball of resentment I carried around with me the whole time, it’s gone.
LISTER: We have to get your neuroses back!
RIMMER: But sir, I don’t want them back.
LISTER: Then what makes you you?
RIMMER: I don’t want to be me. I want to be a mechanoid, programmed to serve. Sometimes when I was young I’d sit for hours staring at our fish tank feeling envious.
CAT: You wanted to be a fish tank?!
RIMMER: I wanted to be a fish. They had food, a small rock to swim in and out of, they didn’t have a care in the world.
CAT: That’s cos I wasn’t there!
RIMMER: Those little fish, they’d never know what it was like to fail and disappoint. They’d just swim around in circles, not a thought in their heads. And it’s the thinking that causes all the pain.
And way, way back, thirty years ago, during the very first episode of the show-
LISTER: Not until you pass your engineer’s exam. And you won’t do that because you’ll just go in there and flunk again.
RIMMER: Lister, last time I only failed by the narrowest of narrow margins.
LISTER: You what? You walked in there, wrote, “I am a fish,” four hundred times, did a funny little dance, and fainted.
RIMMER: That’s a total lie!
LISTER: No, it’s not! Petersen told me.
RIMMER: (Mocking LISTER) “No, it’s not! Petersen told me.” Lister, if you must know, what I did was, I wrote a discourse on power circuits which was simply too radical, too unconventional, too mould- breaking for the examiners to accept.
LISTER: Yeah. You said you were a fish.
The Siliconia speech might not even have been an intended nod to continuity, but dang… Rimmer is only happy when he’s a fish.
