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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[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Canon is not my forte on this matter, because I've wondered the same thing many times; both Nat and I have. We came up with a story in which the crew find a planetoid of peaceful simulants who've fashioned a pretty approximate human community society, and elect to raise the boys there, when they're about six years old (oh yeah, they were able to stay in this dimension and grow normally, too - it's an AU).

As canon goes, it seems the only time anyone sets out to make a kid is Kochanski 2.0, with Lister (and in Doug's book, if you call that an alternate canon). While I appreciate this works out for Lister since he fathers himself, I have to admit the whole idea of being the last human, or the last two humans, and wanting to purposely make a baby just for the experience, or to keep you company ... is pretty fucking selfish. If there's a very good chance you will never find anyone else that kid could grow up and spend his/her life with - friend or lover - think of the life you're dooming them to. Not just after you die, but before - nobody should have to spend their entire life only with their parents and a couple of their parents' friends.