odd/interesting/odd about Holly

[kronette.livejournal.com]

Holly calls them "Dave" and "Arnold," doesn't he? Not "Lister" and "Rimmer," at least not Rimmer. Female Holly in Bodyswap says "All right, Dave." In the pilot, it was 'Everybody's dead, Dave." In "Future Echoes," it's all "Arnold."

So it's just the crew that called each other by their last names, or Holly's informal now that they're the only ones left alive? Just something I've wondered.

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[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I just want to know what insight Holly had to realize while Rimmer would make Lister crazy and keep him mentally active, he would also not be so bad as to drive Lister to holicide.

My guess is that since everybody calls him Holly and it sounds like a first name, his programming/learning is to do the same to them to mitigate the whole "Agent Smith" feel of him hovering and controlling much of their lives.