There was a little tension there between exposition and suspense, unfortunately. Kryten had pronounced Lister dead, ja, and Cat, too, in OOT, so by Cat's not-deadness he would have known that there had been a paradox-reversal. And as you say, Rimmer wouldn't have just taken a dead body; Kryten assumed (with good reason) that Lister would not abandon them, and hence, an altercation. Jealousbitch!Kryten, as he was by then, therefore assumed Rimmer had incapacitated or killed Lister as he tried to keep Rimmer from doing another Rimmerworld and cutting out, and Cat had little love for Rimmer (100% successful trip!) to overcome. They didn't have centuries to mull, but they did have the trip to find the pod. Then, when they found the pod empty and Rimmer wandering the planet alone, suspicions confirmed. That was how I saw it develop, at least. Kat? Hmm, now I have a thought of adding an interlude of Kryten scuttling back to Starbug to try to figure out why the psi-scan had lead them astray. Blasted stupid cheap damn stupid Martian power packs. *whacks it* "Oh, dear, it had said there were no human life-forms on the planet!"
And they also know that they cannot destroy his hard light body with anything short of a nuclear blast, so this whole lets kill him seems rather ridiculous.
SMAC (and LH) hard-light Rimmer could be 'killed' with a gunshot...
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Date: 2006-07-20 04:44 pm (UTC)There was a little tension there between exposition and suspense, unfortunately. Kryten had pronounced Lister dead, ja, and Cat, too, in OOT, so by Cat's not-deadness he would have known that there had been a paradox-reversal. And as you say, Rimmer wouldn't have just taken a dead body; Kryten assumed (with good reason) that Lister would not abandon them, and hence, an altercation. Jealousbitch!Kryten, as he was by then, therefore assumed Rimmer had incapacitated or killed Lister as he tried to keep Rimmer from doing another Rimmerworld and cutting out, and Cat had little love for Rimmer (100% successful trip!) to overcome. They didn't have centuries to mull, but they did have the trip to find the pod. Then, when they found the pod empty and Rimmer wandering the planet alone, suspicions confirmed. That was how I saw it develop, at least. Kat?
Hmm, now I have a thought of adding an interlude of Kryten scuttling back to Starbug to try to figure out why the psi-scan had lead them astray. Blasted stupid cheap damn stupid Martian power packs. *whacks it* "Oh, dear, it had said there were no human life-forms on the planet!"
And they also know that they cannot destroy his hard light body with anything short of a nuclear blast, so this whole lets kill him seems rather ridiculous.
SMAC (and LH) hard-light Rimmer could be 'killed' with a gunshot...