Backwards

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

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.

Comments

[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. @_@

[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. :)

[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.

[laurenthemself]

See, I just enjoyed writing awkward backwards Cat/Lister.

[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.