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Summary: The worlds premier Sci-Fi comdey programme is here!!!
Review: ...and its about time. Join the continuing adventures of the crew of the Red Dwarf; Dave Lister (the ship screwball and slacker and the last human being alive), "Holly" (the ships computer), Arnold J. Rimmer(a holographic representation of Lister's deceased bunkmate), and "Cat" ( a humanoid who has 'evolved' from Lister's cat while he was in stasis for 3 million years) as they meet "Kryten", an android who will join the ship as a regular crewmember in season 3, survive a stasis leak, and travel to an alternate universe!!
Seasons 1 and 2 are available Feb 25th 2003, and two seasons will be released every ensuing February until all eight seasons have been released. This is the funniest television program ever made in my opinion, and I am sure you will enjoy it!!!
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Summary: Red Dwarf's influence on scifi should not be underestimated
Review: After watching the first season of Red Dwarf, I wasn't expecting very much from the second season. I figured it'd be more of the same...cheap sets, the slob and the neat freak, and some crazy cross between James Brown and a feline bouncing around on screen.
I was right...it's all that and more. But I was wrong to think it would be boring. The show actually takes the time to explore the characters and really get into their heads. In season 2, the show hits its stride.
David Lister (Craig Charles) is still Lister, but he's more subdued. Someone finally realized that watching a slob be a slob is funny in small doses. Which is good, because Lister got on my nerves after awhile. More screen time is given to Arnold Judas Rimmer (Chris Barrie), the real star of the show. It's easy to figure out why Lister is a pig, but the uptight Rimmer is much more intriguing. We delve into his neuroses as well as his past. And Cat (Danny John-Jules) exists primarily as Lister's foil. His quieter screen presence helps let the show be funny rather than distracting.
It is in this season that we first meet Kryten the android (David Ross), a manservant who isn't too good at determining the liveliness of his hosts. We learn about Lister's love life, the death of Rimmer's father (a touching scene that's played straight even though everyone's long dead anyway), watch the blokes play in a virtual reality game, mess with time travel, and enter a parallel universe where women rule.
I can't harp on this point enough: a lot of other science fiction shows ripped off Red Dwarf. Lister gets pregnant by a female, just like Charles Tucker in "Unexpected" on Star Trek: Enterprise. The holographic game is just like the movie eXistenz, right down to the "are we still in the game" twist. And don't even get me started on the time travel plot.
Red Dwarf isn't afraid to mess with its characters something serious. Lister feels bad for Rimmer's lack of a love life, so he transplants a few months of his own romance into the hologram's memory. What a mind-screw that is! Speaking of messing with their minds, Holly at one point decides to play the meanest practical joke in history. Only Red Dwarf has the courage to pull off entire episodes that are fake or inconclusive.
Indeed, Red Dwarf often ends without any solid conclusion. Characters wander off into the bowels of the city (where the heck DID that android go?) and storylines are dropped, only to be picked up in later episodes. Having been exposed the first two seasons of Red Dwarf for the first time ever, I'm looking forward to the show's evolution.
It may be wacky, it may sometimes not make sense, but Red Dwarf's influence on science fiction should not be underestimated. All that, and it's really funny too.
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Summary: The Adventures Continue Beyond the Ship
Review: For budget reasons, the first season was limited to events on the ship. Now that the Red Dwarf model is built, money can be spent on other things like planet shots and adding color to the ship's set. The plots are still like a sitcom, but the scripts are a little more developed this time. There will be radical changes in the next season so don't get used to this as it is. This DVD has one of the best commentaries I've ever heard. I love hearing the actors comment on the show. This set also has the best extras, included on a second DVD. It has some of the same type of things the first one had like smeg-ups (bloopers), deleted scenes, and photos. It has the complete Tongue-Tied performance. The A-Z Documentary is interesting and has some great moments. I'm not sure why the Daleks appear, but you do hear comments from various actors and well-known people - Patrick Stewart, Stephen Hawking. The "Smeghead" segment is great!!! ...especially when a young fan is heard asking what "smeg" means. The word remains undefined although most of us can probably guess the meaning. The A-Z Documentary and Alternative Personalities offers some insight into what to expect in the future seasons.
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Summary: Red Dwarf - A defining moment for comedy as we know it!
Review: Red Dwarf first appeared in America on WPBT in Miami, FL. They were the first to bring it over. I lived in Fort Lauderdale at the time and was quite young. I remember seeing this and finding it strange, funny, and unlike any other British or American show. Strange as this sounds, it turned myself and this other boy, who I didn't get along with, and vice versa, to becoming friends because we had this silly show in common. We are still friends after almost 14 years. Onto the DVD's. They are great! Time, effort, and thought were clearly put into the lay-out and especially the menu system. Very detailed are the menu's. The commentary over each episode has educated me on many things I did not previously know. The cast relives and surprising at times... says a line over the show - they still know after all this time. The only disappointing aspect of this DVD set... is that it isn't the Remastered episodes, but the Original format. I was rather fond of how they brought series one and two to meet the standards of the later series'. Probably, knowing movie companies tactics, they will later on release a Remastered DVD set of series one and two. Bottom line is, if you are a fan as I am, this is must for your collection. Worth the money - you will enjoy it and send a clear message to bring us the DVD sets for series 3-8. Pitty we can't get FOX to do that with the Dr.WHO 1996 Movie.
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Summary: Red Dwarf - A defining moment for comedy as we know it!
Review: Red Dwarf first appeared in America on WPBT in Miami, FL. They were the first to bring it over. I lived in Fort Lauderdale at the time and was quite young. I remember seeing this and finding it strange, funny, and unlike any other British or American show. Strange as this sounds, it turned myself and this other boy, who I didn't get along with, and vice versa, to becoming friends because we had this silly show in common. We are still friends after almost 14 years. Onto the DVD's. They are great! Time, effort, and thought were clearly put into the lay-out and especially the menu system. Very detailed are the menu's. The commentary over each episode has educated me on many things I did not previously know. The cast relives and surprising at times... says a line over the show - they still know after all this time. The only disappointing aspect of this DVD set... is that it isn't the Remastered episodes, but the Original format. I was rather fond of how they brought series one and two to meet the standards of the later series'. Probably, knowing movie companies tactics, they will later on release a Remastered DVD set of series one and two. Bottom line is, if you are a fan as I am, this is must for your collection. Worth the money - you will enjoy it and send a clear message to bring us the DVD sets for series 3-8. Pitty we can't get FOX to do that with the Dr.WHO 1996 Movie.
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Summary: If you dont like Red Dwarf, your a goit
Review: Red Dwarf is a great comedy series that is a toss up between a sci fi comedy, or a comedy sci fi. For me, it's a comedy set in space, sci fi sounds to geeky to describe this hillarious and long running series.
season 2 is even funnier then season 1. and has some hillarious and all time great comedy moments. if you cant enjoy Red Dwarf, you must be a smeg head.
these seasons keep getting funnier then the last.
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Summary: Maaaavelous
Review: The Show: Ok, I have to be honest, I dont think i quite like series 2 as much as the first. Some of the sets were inexplicably changed (drive room) which drove me bonkers. The episodes are funny enough, but they seem to lack the pointed sarcasm and thoughtfulness of series one. However, there are a few awesome episodes. Mainly, in my opinion, Stasis Leak, Thanks For The Memory, and Kryten. The most important thing is that the crew got off the ship once in a while. Even if it was to visit an alternate universe version of it (Parallel Universe). The tongue-tied song is still classic.
The DVD: The sound and picture are fabulous. Similar to the series 1 DVD set. Where the DVD really shines though is in extras. Namely the Red Dwarf A-Z. Awesome. The commentaries and featurettes keep getting better. Fantastic DVD all-around for fans and newbs alike.
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Summary: fansmeggintastic
Review: this is one of my top ten favorite show of all time, its like #3. this one has great classis episodes including "Kryten", "Better Than Life", "Queeg", "Stasis Leak" and the other ones. the cast includes in this season we see Kryten, an android that is stranded on a moon in the Nova 5, the gang pick him up, then he leaves on a spacebike. later in the beginning of season 3 he becomes a cast member till the end of the show in season 8. a good old fasioned classic comedy/space show. smegaroony
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Summary: fansmeggintastic
Review: this is one of my top ten favorite show of all time, its like #3. this one has great classis episodes including "Kryten", "Better Than Life", "Queeg", "Stasis Leak" and the other ones. the cast includes in this season we see Kryten, an android that is stranded on a moon in the Nova 5, the gang pick him up, then he leaves on a spacebike. later in the beginning of season 3 he becomes a cast member till the end of the show in season 8. a good old fasioned classic comedy/space show. smegaroony
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