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[kronette.livejournal.com]

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!

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[janamelie.livejournal.com]

I don't camp either. Especially not in Britain in January. *brrr*

[kronette.livejournal.com]

I've never camped, and I never will. I tell people I'm an environmentalist who hates the outdoors. I hate bugs. I hate bugs of all kinds. I will not pee in the woods. I hate snakes. I wouldn't know poison ivy if it bit me. Did I mention I hate bugs?

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.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Oh, Season 8. *heartmarks in eyes* Rimmer was totally Arn-Ace come back to stay with his family, IMO. ;-)

[kronette.livejournal.com]

Rimmer was totally Arn-Ace come back to stay with his family

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.

[bayliss.livejournal.com]

Rimmer was totally Arn-Ace come back to stay with his family, IMO. ;-)
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.)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Oh, metalkatt and I wrote a whole long story on our premise. And had a lot of fun doing it. ;-)

[bayliss.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I just read that recently, too.

That was quite an epic one. I enjoyed it. Very very good story.