#red dwarf xii

[pluralzalpha]

RED DWARF CHALLENGE

DAY 18

Five favourite Dave-era episodes

1 - Mechocracy (XII-4)

2 - Officer Rimmer (XI-4)

3 - Krysis (XI-5)

4 - The Beginning (X-6)

5 - The Promised Land (XIII)

(Honourable mentions: Fathers and Suns, Entangled, Twentica, Cured)

[wizard-beast]

no way did i just watch niceys version of hitler flirt with lister for way too long what even is this show 😭😭😭😭

[tongue---tied]

Can’t believe Kryten’s has just canonically said ‘MILFs’ what an icon. Can’t wait for that to turn up in red dwarf out of context video

[pluralzalpha]

Everyone acts like dimension jumping/skipping is a whole new thing in this episode which is why I'm convinced even the opening scenes take place in an alternative reality to the rest of the series.

skipper is such a funny episode because i just feel like i'm being gaslit the whole time. everyone ignoring the massive ace rimmer shaped elephant in the room. it's incredible

[angels-in-overcoats]

Another gem from my script for ranking every episode of Red Dwarf

[betterdeadthansmeg]

I don't understand Rimmer at all. A universe with at least eight Listers sounds delightful.

[raisinghellonstarbug]

This should have been the legit main universe version...

however

did they take the long way round with this perhaps?

hmmmm

[spotforme]

i honestly think about that "no don't will it! you're good at willing it!" on the daily because it's just so fucking domestic i- they know eachother so well i'm unwell

[deadgit]

Fic rec! Some quality Rimmer angst, deeply and inescapably lonely.

[castingrunes]

since Red Dwarf is leaving BBC iplayer today here's some links to the episodes I've been able to find on Internet Archive

I-VIII https://archive.org/details/bbc-red-dwarf

BTE-XII https://archive.org/details/RedDwarf1988

No TPL unfortunately, there did used to be a playlist that included all of the episodes but it's been copyright claimed and taken down

There's also a pretty comprehensive compilation of extras that I've been having a lot of fun looking through

https://archive.org/details/red-dwarf-extras

[pluralzalpha]

RIMMER IN (ALMOST) EVERY EPISODE

Series XII Episode 4 - "Mechocracy"

"Tonight we look at the two contenders, statesman and war hero, Arnold J. Rimmer, and toilet droid Kryten 2X4B 523P."

[queenlucythevaliant]

the stories are true

i. Caspian’s nurse told him a story about a dwarf and a talking badger who were best friends.

ii. As Dwarf and Badger returned from a long walk through the wood, Dwarf noticed that a button has fallen from his jacket. Dwarf and Badger retraced their steps in search of the missing button, and together they found five buttons, none of which were Dwarf’s. Dwarf grew angry (as Red Dwarves are wont to do), and eventually returned home in a rage, only to discover the missing button sitting on his threshold. In apology to Badger for the afternoon wasted (and for his temper), Dwarf sewed all six buttons they had found that day onto his jacket and gave it to Badger for a gift.

iii. Caspian did not understand what a talking badger would do with a dwarf’s jacket, but such mysteries of life were best left to grown-ups, like his nurse.

iv. She told him other stories too: centaurs that had conversations with the stars. Giants that built and guarded bridges. A naiad who made a basket of reeds so perfect that it could hold the wind. They were light, almost frivolous sorts of stories: the kind that make good sense to a child.

v. When Nurse left, there were no more stories. Caspian invented his own sometimes, and whispered them to himself while he played with his toys. When his aunt caught him at it, she struck him.

vi. Doctor Cornelius's stories were not like the ones Nurse had told. They were solemn, grand tales that sounded almost like they might have really happened. In his stories, there were two kings and two queens who ruled Narnia together.

vii. Caspian imagined King Peter like a high tower, all straight lines and immovable might. He knew better now than to tell the stories where he might be overheard, but at night he whispered them to himself as he sank into sleep. King Peter, who was like a tower, went off to fight the Giants in the north. Queen Lucy and King Edmund sailed over the sea on a ship to another country. The water was blue like the sky, and it glittered. Queen Susan kept a light burning at home.

viii. Part of Caspian was afraid of not telling the stories. They were like strangers’ hands reaching out to him in darkness. He was afraid of not reaching back, of letting those strangers fall away into the pitch black night.

ix. On the castle’s highest tower, Doctor Cornelius threw back his hood and declared himself the blood of Old Narnia. The stories are true, he said.

x. All of them? Caspian wanted to ask. What about the naiad's magic basket? If dwarves were real, then why shouldn't the old Kings and Queens be real too? And if King Peter was real—if his stone-heavy feet had really trod on Narnian earth— then why shouldn't every fanciful thing he'd ever heard be just as true too? It made Caspian giddy to think.

xi. The night Caspian’s cousin was born, he fled the court with Queen Susan’s horn hanging from his saddle. It made him think of lights in windows as he rode away from the only home he’d ever known.

xii. When he woke, he found himself gazing into the faces of Dwarf and Badger from his nurse’s stories. They were arguing over what to do with him, but Caspian thought, absurdly, are you missing any buttons today?

xiii. They went about the next day, issuing invitations to the Great Council on Dancing Lawn, and Caspian put out his hand to greet centaurs and fauns, talking Mice and talking Bears. Each one of them reached back. No wonder Caspian woke the next morning half-convinced he'd been dreaming.

xiv. King Peter was real too, and there was King Edmund at his elbow. Caspian greeted them, inclining his head and saying in a voice that only trembled a very little, "Your Majesty is very welcome," and it felt like carving his name on the bones of time.

xv. And soon he knew that King Peter really was a tower, facing Miraz with the kind of stalwart might that Caspian had been imagining for years. Queen Susan was a light in the window: her horn had called them all home.

xvi. And Aslan. Aslan. Wonder of all wonders, he was real too.

xvii. Caspian said farewell to Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, and it felt like reaching out across the planes to a world he would never see, except for a few minutes— but that wouldn't be for many years yet.

xviii. In the end, Queen Lucy and King Edmund sailed over the sea on a ship to another country. King Caspian was with them.

[tongue---tied]

Not the cat saying bring back bullying in regards to people expressing themselves through dress, like Cat, what do you do every day?

[janamelie]

*Since there are only 12 options, I had to group two series together. These two seemed the best choice given their similarities.

[zarophod]

i’m rewatching Red Dwarf seasons X-XII and omg i forgot how married old Rimmer and Lister are i love it

[bargarean]

the promised land is sadly omitted because of the 12 answer limit. SAD! oh well. there are other cat religions