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lordvalerymimes.livejournal.com2014-08-28 10:57 am
General Red Dwarf Questions
Is it kosher to ask for a little help with questions about the series in regards to fic writing? Or is that just seen as cheating?
Since I haven't had years to watch the show and fully marinate myself in the loveliness that is Red Dwarf, I still find myself a bit stuck from time to time when I try to get the technical details right when writing about the show. I've read a lot of the behind the scenes information on the official website which has helped a lot, but not as much as having every episode memorized nearly word-for-word would. :)
In my current fic (the super long one... well long for ME anyway), it takes place on Starbug and I'm finding myself confused about the location of the medibay. Clearly they used the same set to represent both Lister's bunk area and the medibay, but I've never been quite sure whether we're supposed to think they literally are the same room being repurposed for two things, or if we were supposed to just ignore the fact that it was the same set and pretend it was two separate rooms. The fic takes place during series VI which I believe is before they expanded Starbug and it suddenly became a much larger ship than it had before (that was in series VII, right?). I believe that the Red Dwarf wiki states that the one room doubled for both uses, but I just want to be sure I have my facts straight.
Due to personal reasons my Red Dwarf watching has been hampered lately so I don't have a lot of time to re-watch episodes looking for little details and throwaway bits of dialogue that would probably clear things up. :-\
Since I haven't had years to watch the show and fully marinate myself in the loveliness that is Red Dwarf, I still find myself a bit stuck from time to time when I try to get the technical details right when writing about the show. I've read a lot of the behind the scenes information on the official website which has helped a lot, but not as much as having every episode memorized nearly word-for-word would. :)
In my current fic (the super long one... well long for ME anyway), it takes place on Starbug and I'm finding myself confused about the location of the medibay. Clearly they used the same set to represent both Lister's bunk area and the medibay, but I've never been quite sure whether we're supposed to think they literally are the same room being repurposed for two things, or if we were supposed to just ignore the fact that it was the same set and pretend it was two separate rooms. The fic takes place during series VI which I believe is before they expanded Starbug and it suddenly became a much larger ship than it had before (that was in series VII, right?). I believe that the Red Dwarf wiki states that the one room doubled for both uses, but I just want to be sure I have my facts straight.
Due to personal reasons my Red Dwarf watching has been hampered lately so I don't have a lot of time to re-watch episodes looking for little details and throwaway bits of dialogue that would probably clear things up. :-\