Assessing the fandom.

[laurenthemself]

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[nessaancalime.livejournal.com]

Obs, sorry, I meant VIII. Lister was matured, Rimmer back to start, but Listers changes changed how they related to each other.

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, no doubt. There's also a change in circumstance there, too, though; no longer is Rimmer the authority (by however small a margin). Instead, it's Rimmer and Lister at the same (subterranean) level, and Rimmer was grateful for the comradeship (once he was over getting peeved at Lister for, as he saw, landing him there in the first place).

[nessaancalime.livejournal.com]

Again it works for the series, but there is not hiding that the actors are extremely much more comfortable around each other than they used to be, and therefore the characters seems to be much less at odds.
If they had gotten along that well from the start, it would have been a different series. Also for the reason that it is clearly stated that this to some extent forced the writers to change the series to be a more ensemble thing.

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Ja - it has been said many times by many folk that Rob and Doug blurred the line between actor and character, so the show is what it is party because of the actors. I wish they had followed holo!Rimmer and Lister with the C/C dynamic in VIII, though! Ach.