Series X Best And Worst Scenes

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

To mark the second anniversary of the first airing of Red Dwarf X (I know, where the hell have two years gone?), G&T have just published an article about the high and low points of that series.  It's worth a read so I'm linking it to here.

(Please note that due to computer setting issues (don't ask) I can't post links in actual entries, so the link is in the first comment.)

This has reminded me how much I enjoyed Series X and made me even more impatient for XI, assuming it happens.  *Sigh*

Comments

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

Really? I'm not keen on Chris's delivery of "Shakespeare is OVER!" but I do like most of the rest of the scene, replete as it is with slashy undertones.

Why don't you like the "Stain! Speck! Smear! Smeg!" scene? I take it as lighthearted teasing and find it amusing.

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, I dislike it for some of the reasons I'm seeing people state for disliking the Shakespeare scene; I thought it was exaggeratedly acted (by Robert), too obvious, too OTT and too unsubtle. I guess after VII I tend to be a bit too critical of exaggeratedly cleaning-obsessed Kryten, maybe?

The "Shakespeare is OVER" delivery was one of my biggest laughs of the ep, TBH. I rarely laugh out loud, and I did for that one. I think it's that, for me, that represented another one of Rimmer's bizarre neuroses, and I had so much fun imagining what it might be. It was so unexpected. I love it.

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

I suppose, also, that I love unexpectedly angry!Rimmer. The reaction was so extreme, and that's one of my favorite things about Rimmer; how he projects his emotions on entirely irrelevant things. He's the only person who could be genuinely enraged at Shakespeare. I love it.

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

I see. When you put it like that it makes more sense. :)

[lordvalerymimes.livejournal.com]

The Shakespeare is OVER scene made me laugh too for much the same reasons. It reminded me of one of my absolute favorite Rimmer moments: in DNA when he starts going on about how the ship is probably aliens trying to return Glen Miller, and then he yells over the intercom for them to, "Go away! We don't want him! You kidnapped him, you can keep the smegger!"

It's just the most random and inane thing to get upset and start ranting about. Glen Miller? Really? Only Rimmer.

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

YES. Exactly. :) :)

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

You know, that's a good observation. Rimmer does have previous in this area. :)

[(Anonymous)]

sorry i'm coming on anon, but i can't remember my l username. anyway i agree with this as fitting with Rimmer's overreactions to certain things :) another one i think of (and absolutely love) is the Quagaars outburst in Waiting for God. his outrage is hilarious!