You know what annoys me about S8?

[kronette.livejournal.com]

Well, aside from "Krytie TV". It's the fact that Hollister had Rimmer enter the psychotropic testing without his knowledge. The other four had to sign consent forms, acknowledge that they understood what was going to happen to them and agreed to be placed in the AR environment. Rimmer was just told to lick an envelope that was posted to himself.

I know Rimmer represented himself at his trial, but it never should have come to that, or his entire case thrown out on the basis of entrapment. Nothing he said or did in the AR environment should have been allowed as evidence, which means that Hollister would have had to prove another way that Rimmer was using confidential files for his personal gain. And if Rimmer had a shred of self-preservation (and we know he has it in spades), he might have been able to keep it to himself or at least slide by without being overt. I don't know; that one part has always bugged me.

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[saylee.livejournal.com]

Ugh, yes. Yet another thing that bugs me about S8. If they had at least acknowledged that it was completely bogus, via Rimmer complaining about it, it would be better. And of course, why would Cat, Kochanski and Kryten go to jail for a crime only Rimmer and Lister committed, and for that matter, why would Kochanski be put on trial at all? IIRC, Hollister says at first that they kidnapped her, doesn't he?

[kronette.livejournal.com]

I don't know, and I just rewatched it yesterday. Why doesn't Rimmer protest? Whyis KK so stupid as to not request her own lawyer? Because Doug needed them all in jail to get the series to work, though that doesn't even make sense. He split the crew up anyway, so Kryten and KK were off in the women's ward, Cat was nearly forgotten, and it was all about Lister, Rimmer and the captain.

The original charges as I found them listed in a script online: David Lister, you are formally charged with stealing and crashing a Starbug. You are also charged with having no pilot's license, and smuggling two stowaways on board, along with Navigation Officer Kristine Kochanski. Anything you say now, or do not say now, may be used at a board of enquiry against you. Do you require any form of aid?

However, as they went through the AR, Hollister and SaneHolly found them not guilty of all those charges, but then said that they'd obviously seen the crew confidential files, which was a serious charge and they were all guilty. Except they weren't - only Lister and Rimmer deliberately looked at the files (Lister 6 years previous when the crew was wiped out). And how can InsaneHolly be brought up on charges? He's the damn computer! Because he let Dave originally see the files, which enabled Lister to copy them to disk, which let Rimmer get them? Complete and utter horseshit.

*rageface* If we didn't love our show so much, it wouldn't annoy us so much, right?