Red Dwarf Slash

I KNOW RIGHT? I told a friend who wasn't too wild about the idea, that I want him to show up as someone who stepped in for Ace when the previous Ace/Wildfire couldn't - as a grown man, not a child who needs a parent, obviously. Sweep in, introduction, awkward, awkward, at least partial resolution, jet off into the wild blue yonder again. Rimmer!angst, roll credits. :-D

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I want McGruder in the story, too. But what has surprised me was Bobby Llewellyn had had two audioboo's up and he took them down. :( I think it might have been because there was a picture of him in the new Kryten mask. *oops*

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http://www.ganymede.tv/atspeed/2012/01/a-bibbly-bobbly-boo#comment

There's a pic of it here though, plus detailed descriptions of the boos. :)

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I listened to them this morning before they disappeared. They were quite fascinating.

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"Your name's too hard to spell; too many fucking L's."

YES, THANK YOU CRAIG. SWEET JESUS, THIS. Save the Welsh! Give them some vowels, for godsake! ;-)

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Craig does have a point, doesn't he? ;)

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Save the Welsh! Give them some vowels, for godsake! ;-)
And he's not even WELSH!

:-)

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I didn't think he was. But why the surname, then?

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I don't have a clue. Maybe far along somewhere in his family tree there is Welsh. *shrugs*

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He's probably as Welsh as Chris is Scottish, right?

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Chris is Northern Irish, I thought.

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I believe so, but I don't think his surname is (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._Barrie)...

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It's not his real last name, though. His real one is "Brown". :-)

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Seriously? That'd be an unfortunate name at this point in cultural history.

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Yup, his full name is Christopher Jonathan Brown.

It's not a horrible last name at least it's easy to spell. :-)

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Well now I have to know how you learned that. It's the reporter in me. :-)

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I found out from a friend, then I also saw it on Wikipedia. Also If you look on a website for the Village he lives in (Cookham, BTW. )You can find a picture of One Aleks Brown. Who on another website is listed as Mrs. Chris Barrie. He chose Barrie because of Equity reasons... When he joined there was another Actor already using the name Chris Brown.

I swear I am not stalking the man. I was researching for the RPF story I am writing.

Edited Date: 2012-01-17 12:28 am (UTC)

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Clever enough. :-)

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*nods* :)

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Am I the only person on LJ who isn't particularly interested in "Sherlock"? It feels that way at the moment. ;)

I would also like to see Michael McGruder in the show. Please note this doesn't mean that I haven't. Or that I have. I'm not confirming or denying anything. :)

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I saw the first season of Sherlock and liked it well enough; I just have too much to keep up with at the moment and am trying desperately to NOT take on new stuff right now in an effort to clear my brain to write some stuff again. ARGH.

I would also like to see Michael McGruder in the show. Please note this doesn't mean that I haven't. Or that I have. I'm not confirming or denying anything.

Well, thanks. Or not. Notice I'm not crediting or blaming you with anything, there. :-P~

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I thought if I avoided the topic people might read things into it. I can't win really.

I honestly wasn't trying to rub it in. :)

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I believe my response is what your people would call taking the piss. On a list about uphill gardeners, no less. (Watch me work that slang ... horribly and badly ... LOLOL)

I finally have an activity for MY iPad now - I bought access to the rest of Bobby's book chapters online. Oh boy oh boy! (Doesn't he also have an audiobook somewhere that Chris reads for him? I thought I read that once somewhere.)

Craig's problem is he needs the rubber-tipped stylus I bought for my iPad. Makes life so much easier, all for $13 at the Walmart. ;-)

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"Uphill gardener" is about the only one on that list I've never heard. Must be pretty obscure.

I thought you were taking the piss. I just didn't want to seem as though I'm teasing people on purpose. ;)

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I just have too much to keep up with at the moment and am trying desperately to NOT take on new stuff right now in an effort to clear my brain to write some stuff again. ARGH.

I was saying the same thing to myself... but cracked, today, and watched the first ep of series 2 and now want more. *sigh* Still, I know it'll be some time before I get more, so I really need to get off my ass and do some writing.

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I would also like to see Michael McGruder in the show. Please note this doesn't mean that I haven't. Or that I have. I'm not confirming or denying anything. :)

INteresting.... *strokes beard*

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Oooooh could be! ^__^

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Braintease.

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http://t.co/u3SdaTGU

Here's the audioboo Robert recorded today with Craig trying out his new I-Pad. Robert's going to be interviewing other members of the cast as well. :)

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Robert has one up with his Man in the Rubber mask Audioboo with Craig listening to himself on his ipad later. It was so funny cause Craig called him a "sad, middle aged, middle class twat." Then he plays some of the radio program while making fun of the way Robert dances. It's funny.

You do have to pay five pounds which something like seven something US but with that you get all 12 of his Man in the Rubber mask chapters currently up and You'll end up with all his new Chapters too. *nods*

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Yes, it's an unmissable offer really. I'm probably going to go for it. I'm old-fashioned, though - I like a book I can actually hold. But I suppose if enough of us buy the audiobook it might get published eventually.

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It was worth it just to hear how him and Chris would pass in the hall and make weird sounds at each other as greetings.

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I bought the book too, but it's taking forever to get here. (I also bought the book about the background story of Spitting Image; waiting eagerly on both.)

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One of the countless extras on the "Bodysnatcher Collection" is an audio clip of Rob and Doug talking about how they basically saved the show after a poorly received first series and then got screwed over. The RD relevance is that Doug blames Rob's reaction to that - refusing to write for several months in between Series 1 and 2 - for some of what he sees as weaknesses in the early shows.

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Are you referring to SI in the first bit, then Rob not writing for RD, and weak early RD episodes?

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Sorry, that wasn't very clear. Yes, I'm referring to the poorly received first series of "Spitting Image". After coming in as writers on the next few series of SI and turning it into a ratings hit (this is their version of the story, obviously), Rob and Doug had been promised they could be producers.

This promise was withdrawn and Rob felt so cheated and pissed off by that that (according to Doug) he wanted a few months to get his head together. This was the summer between the initial abortive attempt to film Series 1 (called off because of the electricians' strike) and the remount the next year. (Not Series 1 and 2, that was my mistake.)

Doug feels that both of them "didn't spend that summer as wisely as we might have done" and could have spent more time polishing Series 1. They actually did write "Me2" almost a year later, which ended up replacing "Bodysnatcher". Doug feels "Me2" was significantly better because they now knew the actors' strengths and could play to them. He thinks if they'd had more time they could have replaced "Waiting For God" which they both hate. He wasn't exactly blaming Rob, more explaining.

I should have saved this for the post I'm currently writing about the "Bodysnatcher Collection". ;)

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And believe me, I look forward to that post. :-D

I can't say I blame the guys, if they were promised something. I doubt I would have slagged off quite as spectacularly as you say Rob did, but it depends - maybe.

(Have you listened to all of Bobby's audiobook? It's really informative and a lot of fun; I'm surprised.)

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