ext_45940 ([identity profile] roadstergal.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] reddwarfslash2006-02-24 09:22 am

Backwards

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.

[identity profile] 8abbott-of-odd0.livejournal.com 2006-02-25 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] 8abbott-of-odd0.livejournal.com 2006-02-25 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
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 :)