Backwards

Feb. 24th, 2006 09:22 am
[identity profile] roadstergal.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] reddwarfslash
I just got ahold of Backwards and read it last night. And now...

I'm having a plotbunny involving Rimmer and a spikey hooked Cat penis. Yeeks.

I really have to say, after reading it, I wonder about what Grant and Naylor each brought to the series. One of my main problems with VII is that many of the episodes seem to be... not-tightly-written; things go by quickly and aren't tied together well (the latter half of Epideme particularly), and that's exactly what Backwards had - that tight tie-together of events (that I think was best, TV-series-wise, in Gunmen, although Tikka was good in that department, too). It's very well written. I was actually laughing out loud at parts of it while I was sitting in bed reading it.

And it's really goddam dark, thematically. Man.

Date: 2006-02-24 07:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tekiclutch.livejournal.com
I'm having a plotbunny involving Rimmer and a spikey hooked Cat penis. Yeeks.

I think I actually recall something like that being done before. @_@

Date: 2006-02-24 07:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tekiclutch.livejournal.com
Correct~! It's all in the interpretation.

Date: 2006-02-24 07:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kahvi.livejournal.com
Backwards is good, but I prefer Last Human. I think you'll see why when you read it, even if you end up not agreeing. :)

Date: 2006-02-24 08:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xaxres.livejournal.com
Backwards is really dark. I was rather upset by the time I got to the end of it, in the way that i get when I read things that make me sad.

Date: 2006-02-25 12:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xaxres.livejournal.com
Oh yeah. I think I whimpered while I was reading that. I got funny looks. Which is probably why I don't read in public anymore. Noone seems to appreciate my reactions to what I'm reading.

Date: 2006-02-25 01:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kahvi.livejournal.com
That's what annoyed me the most about the book. I just didn't see the point in killing them, especially Rimmer in that way.

Date: 2006-02-24 10:30 pm (UTC)
laurenthemself: Rainbow rose with words 'love as thou wilt' below in white lettering (Default)
From: [personal profile] laurenthemself
See, I just enjoyed writing awkward backwards Cat/Lister.

Date: 2006-02-24 11:27 pm (UTC)
laurenthemself: Rainbow rose with words 'love as thou wilt' below in white lettering (Default)
From: [personal profile] laurenthemself
I like the part where you think it's well written!

Date: 2006-02-25 01:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kahvi.livejournal.com
Oh! I liked that! *is as surprised as Cat and Lister* Maybe it's that I... Um... Sort of have a thing for first-time/innocent sex. Ahem.

And I learned a new word - undetumescing. So good all round then. :)

Date: 2006-02-25 12:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 8abbott-of-odd0.livejournal.com
Oooo, Backwards fic, fun. I haven't read The Last Human yet but Backwards is so far my favourite of the series, it was the point where I began to take Red Dwarf seriously and Rimmer became my favourite character.

You have to cringe at what the agoniods were planning to do with metal cocktail umbrellas.

Date: 2006-02-25 07:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 8abbott-of-odd0.livejournal.com
That part was fantastic XD and so very Rimmer like.

One of the bits I really liked was Holly's onion conundrum and the prologue, midlogue and epilogue of course :)

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