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I was watching the Red Dwarf Cast commentry's today, backwards I might add though i'm not sure why--started with season 7 and worked my way backwards. Missed season 4 since i don't currently have it and have gotten to season two. Anyway, I was noticing that the actors, dispite that fact that there are only three constant and three changable, seem to have formed groups. Uhm...whats that american word? Klicks? cliques? whatever. I noticed that Whats-his-name who plays Kryten and the bloke who plays Cat (benifit of the doubt on my memory here people, it's 1am and i've been watching RD cast commentries backwards since about 4pm yesturday) seem to be good friends, whereas Chris Barrie barely even says a word when Craig Charles isn't there. It was mainly the Chris Barrie, Craig Charles thing I was noticing since Craig Charles wasn't in the season 5 commentry--it's my favourite season with most of my favourite episodes and I was looking forward to finding out what the two had to say about them =P only to have Craig Charles not there and Chris Barrie barely said a word for the entire thing. I found the implied relationships interesting.

I also highly recommend watching the cast commentrys on a laptop, or likewise, with headphones. That's how i've been doing it (my sister stole my PS2 so I couldn't watch them on the TV) and I really must say, ^_______^ Gosh there's nothing like having Chris Barrie purring right into your ear =P

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Bummer, Craig is not commenting on season 5? Was looking forward to that. Well, at least he make waves in the documentary ;-)
Funny you say this. In the documentary on season 4, Craig talks about how he and Chris weren't getting along very well then, implicit that they are getting along much better now. How he kept making remarks winding Chris up. He said something about it being a matter of not really having the respect for each other that they had now. Also something about them feeling a bit trapped in the whole thing - seeing a future spent with Red Dwarf conventions forever ::G::
But in a way, it is usually the people you have something with that can wind you up. In second season one of the writers were commenting on how well the Rimmer/Lister thing worked now because of the chemistry between Chris and Craig. So I guess it would be going up and down a bit when you have to work together so much and have a connection, for better or worse.
Could very well be that Robert and Danny had more of a rapport with each other, and they are both very talkative types. Despite the kind of occupation Chris has, he always struck me as being more reserved and introvert than the others, so with those two going off at 100 miles an hour, he would probably withdraw a bit (one of the things that makes me see a connection between him and Rimmers personality). Maybe that is why Craig is winding him up a bit on purpose to get a reaction out of him :-)

BTW, despite the discussion earlier, I can not remember to ever have seen an RPS Dwarf story. Even if I don't read them, I usually register that they exist. Do they exist?
I guess in a way the actors are taking it so far out that there is nothing left to write about ::BG::

and poor Chris was doing his best by doing Craig impersonations too!

I always kind of got the impression from what they say about each other that Craig and Chris have quite a brotherly relationship in that kind of 'I love you and everything but sometimes you really drive me up the wall' sort of way. I think I remember reading an interview with Craig once where he said he thought he was probably closest to Robert out of the whole cast.

The series 5 commentary was fantastic and everything but it was definitely a little more subdued than the others. I get the feeling that Craig is the bubbly one in the group who gets everyone else to be that little bit more upbeat and giggly. They seemed a bit lost at moments without him there. (Although Chris did a lovely job of filling in for him!)