I hate the long red dwarf. Aside from the shocking CGI, it looks like a willy. It's not unique. Dont get me STARTED on the walking blue midget, nightmare fuel.
WTF! It looks massively worse, how is it even a debate. I never laughed at the original effects and models which were actually very good for the budget if not exactly Spielberg, but the CGI is incredibly unrealistic and frankly silly. I've just watched the entire BBC run with my 10 yo old daughter, and as soon as it came series 6-7 she kept laughing and saying, why does it look so unrealistic now?
Being around in the '80s and early '90's this was played everywhere, especially the last 30 seconds or so. It was used in commercials, film previews, the TV series Cosmos and corporate promotions. After hearing it I tried for decades --- yes decades --- to find the name of this piece. (Honestly I thought I'd never find it.) Only after an exhaustive search for all the music used in Cosmos did I find it. And now when I play it for others my age do they say, 'yes, that IS familiar'.
To me, this was honestly my favourite scene in the entire Series 8 despite how juvenile the writing was. =) The music and dancing made this scene all the more enjoyable!
I might be wrong about this, but if I recall Norman ad-lib'd all his intro scenes at the start of each episode, but Hattie's were scripted, and didn't have the same impact as Normans, so they dropped them.
Easily one of the best lines ever from this fantastic series: "So let me get this straight: you want to fly on a magic carpet to see the King of the Potato People to plead for your freedom, and you're telling me you're completely sane?"
Such a shame Norman Lovett's Holly didn't make it into the later series, as his performance was a cornerstone of the show. His deadpan, jaded delivery was perfect and effortlessly hilarious, hinting that even computers get fed up after millions of years alone in deep space. I'm almost certain his character would have evolved to become even better in subsequent series, as the other characters did. I believe Norman decided to leave the show as he lived in Scotland at the time, and considered the commute to the London studio to be not worth his while, which is fair enough really.
Dear Hull, its not sand. But it was always there, perfect gent. Wow all that Victorian might, can't shift 10m of sand, thats really fascinating Cerebros.
This would have been a good opportunity to bridge a gap with S2. Lister holds onto hope for the 5 year mark when he will go back and be with Kochanski and 5 years come and go...And nothing happens. Lister slowly realities that the timeline he was told about was changed by the events of Stasis leak and completely loses hope. And that's where his depression in timeslides starts us off at.
I would live to see an episode where the Dwarfers come upon an asteroud where the cast of Androids make more episodes of their show But due to being all alone for millions of years, they gave nothing but make more episodes with increasingly insane plot points I can imagine literal mountains of vhs tapes
Bruh, they replaced the legendary original Gordon who was perfect with Steve Merchant!?!? T-T This one is really bad and slightly cringy compared to the original, imo.
