Article about 'how to save RD' - including L/R!

[kronette.livejournal.com]

Picked this up on my Google alerts. The blog Toplessrobot wrote 8 ways Red Dwarf can be saved, and #4 is "Focus on the Lister/Rimmer dynamic (with clip from 'Marooned'), and #3 "Get Rid of Kochanski". A teeny part of me agrees with #1 "Let it die", but I'm too selfish; I want to see the boys again.

The dynamic between Lister and Rimmer was the heart of the show, for me. It wasn't there in BtE and it changed too much in S8 for me.

I don't think the show can get the visibility in the US (#7) that Doctor Who has at the moment; BtE didn't do it any favors in that regard. If it ends up being a proper series based around the characters, and the writers don't try to shoehorn in an overall thread like they did with BtE, I think it could work. *fingers crossed*

Comments

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

I admit part of me is worried the new series might be below par, but that's outweighed by the desire to see the boys together again in a proper series, *with* a studio audience to lift the mood.

I don't get the "they're too old" argument, considering how good they all still look. I think that mainly comes from men who grew up with the show, identify with the characters and subconsciously don't want to be reminded of their own aging.

Re Kochanski, I don't mind her, but she works better as an unattainable goal than as a major character (see the ending of BTE). That's onscreen - I actually think the best version of her is in Doug Naylor's "Last Human".