Ficlet - Gone. R/L ambiguity, R/K oddity.
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I finally got my dad to agree to watch Red Dwarf. I chose Tikka To Ride as the one that would probably appeal to him the most. As I was watching the flashback to Out Of Time, I started to wonder what would have happened if Rimmer had been just a second faster... and I wrote this on the plane on the way home.
Not a happy fic; character death, shower sex that just isn't right, angst. Spoilers through Out Of Time.
The one brave thing he's ever done in his life, and he did it too late.
Not a happy fic; character death, shower sex that just isn't right, angst. Spoilers through Out Of Time.
The one brave thing he's ever done in his life, and he did it too late.
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Date: 2006-03-13 01:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-13 05:47 pm (UTC)I'm a big TS Eliot fan, and looking at it again, I think I had this (http://www.blight.com/~sparkle/poems/hollow.html) running around in my subconscious.
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Date: 2006-03-13 08:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-13 05:50 pm (UTC)And poor Kryten is always trying to do the right thing.
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Date: 2006-03-13 02:35 pm (UTC)Very good job on this one!
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Date: 2006-03-13 05:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-14 01:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-14 03:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-15 01:03 am (UTC)Heh, funny what fictional characters can do to us, eh?
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Date: 2006-03-15 01:30 am (UTC)Ja, this story in particular was an extreme case of Character Getting Into My Head.
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Date: 2006-03-15 01:09 am (UTC)Like a computer program set in motion by a long-dead hacker, they follow Red Dwarf.
I liked this analogy.
The whole sequence starting from Rimmer taking Lister's seat and ending with the indeed not-right (yet still right in some odd, awkward way, because what else could have happened) shower-sex is very, very good, and seriously packed a punch.
With no other living beings around against whom to judge the passage of time, Rimmer's hologram no longer ages
*smiles sadly*
And Starbug tears across the broad gaps between galaxies.
Beautiful.
*sob*
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Date: 2006-03-15 01:35 am (UTC)And Rimmer would just be utterly lost. He understands the need, but whether accurately or not, he would not believe he could work through it properly, or set off on his own initiative as both a literal and figurative moving on.
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Date: 2006-03-15 01:36 am (UTC)