Thoughts on Jim & Bexley

[felineranger.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about this a bit recently and wondered something. What do other people imagine happening to the twins in the future in show/book canon? We know Bexley dies in one reality from Future Echoes but other than that it's very open-ended, and actually kinda depressing. In any reality where the twins are born on Red Dwarf after the accident, surely a time will come when Lister and Cat have died, Rimmer and Kryten have burned out, and they'll be left alone. Even more so than Lister. What would they do? Go into stasis in the hopes of getting back to Earth? Find a planet with a GELF population and make the best of it?
Even at the end of Last Human, Kochanski tells Lister that they're about to make the first of many children. But what's going to happen to those children? Are they going to encourage them to breed incestuously to restart the human race? If they have a daughter are they going to encourage her to have sex with McGruder, the only other human man left, in order to widen the gene pool a bit?

It seems like whatever happens, Lister having kids ultimately puts those kids in a pretty shite position. Any thoughts?

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[janamelie.livejournal.com]

Oh, if only Kelly was around... ;)

Regarding Jim and Bexley, of course they're currently with Deb and Arlene as far as we know. (I realise this is highly unlikely, but personally I'd love to meet the "Parallel Universe" crew again. Craig's son Jack could possibly play both twins with the help of a split screen.)

Actually it's the same problem whether or not we assume that they come back to the universe of their birth at some stage. I suppose there are ways to get around it. Stasis, deep sleep, AU versions of the crew, time travel, wormholes etc.

As for the "LH" situation, I always wondered about that too. Does the fact that McGruder's had his aging gene removed mean he's basically immortal? That could be one way of assuring some human contact for these theoretical kids, grandkids etc of Lister and Kochanski who isn't a relative of some kind. Which is exactly why you wouldn't want that spoiled by using him as a sperm donor, even if that's all he does and no actual sex is involved. Ewww. :/

I suppose if Doug ever wrote a sequel he'd probably get himself out of this genetic cul-de-sac by having them meet more humans somehow. Please. It's all getting too incestuous. :o

For those who don't know, he did actually say at the last DJ that both he and Rob want to write more RD novels. The implication was separately though.