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The Return of Red Dwarf
Posted: Fri 29 Aug, 2008 20.30
by Ronnie Rowlands
No, this isn't the millionth fan rumour. Robert Llewellyn has confirmed in an American TV interview that a one-hour direct-to-DVD Red Dwarf special is to be filmed this year and released in 2009, with a future series in mind after that.
Does anyone think it will get anywhere, or is the whole series just too tired and old and end up failing as badly as 'Blackadder Back and Forth' in terms of quality compared to the original series? I'm rather cynical about it. What does everyone else think?
Re: The Return of Red Dwarf
Posted: Fri 29 Aug, 2008 20.32
by Sput
It was good until the BBC group think got in the way and sanitised it down to the mediocrity of things like My Family and other such dire awfulness.
Re: The Return of Red Dwarf
Posted: Fri 29 Aug, 2008 20.58
by Nini
Ooh, groupthink, them's using your noodle to equate Orwell's dystopia to BBC's comedy unit.
I predict a immense amount of fail, it's been 10 years and it's hard to believe in that time that the same edge will still be there, the edge was greatly dulled by the last series if the fan's opinions are to be believed. No, the humour will change and the writing won't meet up but not by a technical standard but by sheer expectations of it having to equal or better what preceded it. Which it never can do.
Re: The Return of Red Dwarf
Posted: Fri 29 Aug, 2008 21.12
by Sput
Nini wrote:Ooh, groupthink, them's using your noodle to equate Orwell's dystopia to BBC's comedy unit.
I predict a immense amount of fail, it's been 10 years and it's hard to believe in that time that the same edge will still be there, the edge was greatly dulled by the last series if the fan's opinions are to be believed. No, the humour will change and the writing won't meet up but not by a technical standard but by sheer expectations of it having to equal or better what preceded it. Which it never can do.
That's what I mean. It became the BBC formula: unfunny woman, stupid man.
Re: The Return of Red Dwarf
Posted: Fri 29 Aug, 2008 21.15
by Nini
Yknow, that's actually a brilliant abridged version of my post there, well done.
Re: The Return of Red Dwarf
Posted: Fri 29 Aug, 2008 21.28
by Sput
Nini wrote:Yknow, that's actually a brilliant abridged version of my post there, well done.
And you gave a verbose version of mine! Is it my fault that we're both so brilliantly in sync?i
Re: The Return of Red Dwarf
Posted: Fri 29 Aug, 2008 22.17
by Nini
I could think of worse people to be in sync with...
OK, maybe not.
Re: The Return of Red Dwarf
Posted: Sat 30 Aug, 2008 01.50
by cdd
Ugh, stupid clubcards.
Loyalty cards are a big problem for me. I am absolutely sick of being asked "Do you have a nectar/club/premierplus/sex&drugs card?"
Usually I respond no, but one in ten times I get a platitudinous "oh you really should get one why don't you have one?"
At which point I go in for the kill and tell them the real reason why I don't want any loyalty cards, which goes on for quite some time and bores them nearly to death.
Re: The Return of Red Dwarf
Posted: Sun 31 Aug, 2008 00.07
by Gluben
nodnirG kraM wrote:Ronnie Rowlands wrote:end up failing as badly as 'Blackadder Back and Forth'
Just lazy writing that let that one down really .. probably pool-writing. Such as the line "Elizabeth ... the .. first??" which, given that she threatened homocide for the quip "Is that right?", would almost certainly have insisted "Elizabeth the first?? Elizabeth the only and don't you forget it.". And the absurd and abrupt conclusion to the story. Such a classic five-minutes-before-deadline way of ending - oh why not have Baldrick's life flash before his eyes - that's an easy way to end it.
I did like the ClubCard gag though.
Partly bad because it had to incorporate the sponsors, and also because it had to be family-friendly. It's too late now, but I think that if it had had all the people return, a bigger budget, and more time, it could've worked as a great spin-off movie.
Re: The Return of Red Dwarf
Posted: Sun 31 Aug, 2008 12.09
by Ronnie Rowlands
I thought that the rush to include all characters and the general 'epic' feel about it was what ruined it...
Rik Mayall was brilliant in it though.