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Just a bit from Craig, thanking Corrie Street for giving him the time off (yah!), and talking about the costumes and reiterating that there will be a live audience: http://entertainment.stv.tv/tv/269176-craig-charles-thanks-coronation-street-for-time-off-to-film-red-dwarf/.
"Everyone is back on board and they are building the sets now at Shepperton." Don't know where that is, but at least we have a location now!
"Everyone is back on board and they are building the sets now at Shepperton." Don't know where that is, but at least we have a location now!
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Date: 2011-09-07 06:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-07 11:07 am (UTC)I am too damn excited for the new series. I've been a fan since at least 94 when I saw Marooned on PBS when I turned to the channel to watch Dr. Who. Hey, it was the old Tom Bakker episodes of Dr. Who. :-)
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Date: 2011-09-07 12:09 pm (UTC)For 17 years I have remembered 2 things: Lister's reaction to Kryten's Polaroid; and never heat gazpacho.
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Date: 2011-09-07 10:22 pm (UTC)never heat gazpacho.
Yes and 25 of Nov is gazpacho soup day.
I hate my PBS station right now because they never did run the BtE special. So, I had to buy it to see it. I'm sure that's what I'll have to do with the new ones, too. *Shakes fist at IPTV.*
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Date: 2011-09-07 11:28 pm (UTC)I remember when My PBS station was running Brittas on Saturdays and I was cutting hair in my salon and I had to turn my client to face the TV so I could watch it. I finally just didn't schedule clients when it was on.
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Date: 2011-09-08 12:50 am (UTC)I wrote my first story in 1994 (DS9 - Bashir/Garak). Sometime close to then is when I found RD, because I was living at home for a year after college and I know I was at home when I first saw it. I did a brief stint in XF fandom; a friend of mine did the vids for it, though.
I only ever saw the Doctor Who fan club (locally, the CIA) on the pledge drives, but I have found a few references online that apparently the RD groups would answer phones on Sunday nights during pledges. I don't recall those; maybe we're too DW-based, here.
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Date: 2011-09-07 11:31 pm (UTC)I had an earlier slash moment, watching "Demons and Angels" in the living room with my family. I remember Low Rimmer sashaying down those steps and threatening Lister. I was embarrassed and thrilled at the same time - I think I was in my mid-teens. :)
I was thrilled by the kiss, but it's a shame they showed so little of it in the show itself. I suppose it would have stopped being funny and started being hot - which obviously wasn't the effect they were going for.
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Date: 2011-09-08 12:05 am (UTC)Seriously, When I saw that, I spit my Coke at the screen and say "holy fuck, they just read my mind." I thought the ten seconds of it they showed was smokin' hot.
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Date: 2011-09-14 06:55 am (UTC)Chris Barrie: Most underutilized little pot of sexiness in UK comedy EVER. ;-)
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Date: 2011-09-14 11:04 am (UTC)YES!
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Date: 2011-09-08 12:54 am (UTC)I had the same reaction you did to Low R/L, except to "Blue". :) It was the first time I'd seen two guys kiss, and it didn't go on NEARLY long enough. Knowing now that they filmed a good 20 seconds and cut it off before it really got going, ticks me off. It barely got to funny before it cut to Lister waking up. The shock value was just picking up and the scene changed. I've always felt cheated...so now I have the extended kiss and watch repeatedly.
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Date: 2011-09-08 01:06 am (UTC)Yes, what I've always wondered is how the audience reacted to the rest of that kiss. (I know it wasn't live; I mean the audience they showed it to for the laugh track.)
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Date: 2011-09-07 02:35 pm (UTC)Really want to try and get to the filming in January....
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Date: 2011-09-07 11:30 pm (UTC)I was downsized two years ago and Wally World was the only place hiring. I needed a job so here I am.
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Date: 2011-09-08 12:43 am (UTC)I completely understand.
I'd do just about anything to get the hell away from my life right now. I am feeling like Rimmer tied up on that pole infront of his self-loathing beast. right now.
It was cold and to this day I contract bronchitis too readily.
I am the same way, though. If I am not careful, my normal winter cold I get about October turns into bronchitis by January and I have it until April.
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Date: 2011-09-08 12:58 am (UTC)This is a rather scary thing to say, as I'm currently torturing Rimmer rather violently in exactly that scene. Well, and the scenes I'm writing after the fact.
I'm currently fighting a cold that's dragged on throughout most of August and it's annoying the hell out of me. Thankfully, I've only had bronchitis once but my colds drag on. for. months. Not even the new holistic doctor can seem to smack them down.
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Date: 2011-09-08 01:03 am (UTC)But I've been out in Birmingham at 3am, and don't recall many insects swarming around. Of course, that was in early March and I was jet-lagged, and most of the surrounding area seemed to be paved over. I don't recall much green in Birmingham. Why was I out at 3am? Going from the con hotel back to our hotel. Some lovely English blokes wanted to hear our lovely American accents. My friend and I were in heaven :)
Waaah, I wanna go back! That was 1999! I remember an episode of Red Dwarf was tv, but I've no idea now which episode it was. I'm betting "Back in the Red part 3" or "Cassandra". They debuted the time I was in England.
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Date: 2011-09-08 04:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-08 04:59 am (UTC)Really? I know it's your take, but I don't know that I see him as our Ace, but I don't see him as our Rimmer, either. Is that a way to explain the weird mish-mosh of both of them, but neither of them, in the Rimmer for S8? We saw what a git Rimmer was pre-accident and he didn't improve with age (thank Io for that). This Rimmer...isn't. I guess it was the writer's trying to make him more likeable, but honestly, my fav bit is when he's used the sexual magnetism virus. That's my bastard ;-) Rimmer wasn't meant to be likeable (though, how could you not??).
S8 was better for me than S7 in some regards, but the turn to pure comedy set me off a bit. The dinosaur really threw me out, too (sorry, Pete). The lavender prison suits made up for a lot. Seriously, who assigns prisoners, especially male prisoners, lavender jumpsuits?? Plus, we got nearly full-on naked Rimmer and Lister, so who am I to complain, really?
Apparently, I'm still bitter that they brought Kochanski on to "replace" Rimmer in S7 and that taints my view of S8 as well. Rimmer/Chris (now, now, rein in the slashy brains) leaving in S7 almost completely turned me off the show. Thank goodness I stuck around for "Blue", or else my entire outlook on life would have been drastically different. My God, no slash?! The horror!
Speaking of, I'm supposed to be trying to figure out if the boys can do anything while Rimmer's still a hologram. Or if I want to mess with it for this story. Or if I just want them to stay frustrated until the end of time...or until they meet Legion in about ten months. Smeg.
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Date: 2011-09-08 11:18 am (UTC)Brilliant never thought of that.
I don't think that he was our Rimmer quite yet. I actually like to think that our Rimmer came back saved Resurrected Rimmer and convinced him to take his place. (hence why BtE we have Hard Light Rimmer back.)
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Date: 2011-09-14 11:07 am (UTC)That was quite an epic one. I enjoyed it. Very very good story.