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Summary: There! There; in the shadows! - Again.
Review: "There! There; in the shadows!," my original review (of the Byte One VHS), was written on January 31, 2001, under the reviewer name: vampire22. Now, exactly three years later, with the long awaited DVD release of the series, I have good cause to dig it back up. What can I say? Those boys from the circus may argue the point, but for my money, Red Dwarf is the greatest show on Earth. That said, "Polymorph" is the zenith of the series. Perhaps a bit more crude than the other episodes, but jam packed with gut-wrenching, torrents of humor. I'm not kidding when I tell you that I laughed so hard that I fell onto the floor and almost passed out from oxygen deprivation. Scene after seen will leave you breathless: Lister sleeping with Rimmer's mom and giving him attitude about it (right; pistons in an ocean-liner), Cat being seduced (too stupid to realize there are no women on the ship) and turning into a bum, the acronym for Rimmer's passive resistance movement (let's just say it's also a female body part), and so forth. By far the best moment of all happened when Rimmer walked in on Kryten trying to help Lister out of his shrinking boxer shorts. I don't care if you have never watched the show before, after this tape (unless you're a prude) you will not be able to stop until you've seen them all - and even then you'll want to own them so you can watch them over and over and over. I do! The other shows in season three are great, but none will ever compare to "Polymorph." You need no more justification to by the new disk set - but you get it anyway. Like the first two seasons on DVD, all the little extras, that make geeks like us jump for joy, are included. Enjoy!
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Summary: There! There; in the shadows! - Again.
Review: "There! There; in the shadows!," my original review (of the Byte One VHS), was written on January 31, 2001, under the reviewer name: vampire22. Now, exactly three years later, with the long awaited DVD release of the series, I have good cause to dig it back up. What can I say? Those boys from the circus may argue the point, but for my money, Red Dwarf is the greatest show on Earth. That said, "Polymorph" is the zenith of the series. Perhaps a bit more crude than the other episodes, but jam packed with gut-wrenching, torrents of humor. I'm not kidding when I tell you that I laughed so hard that I fell onto the floor and almost passed out from oxygen deprivation. Scene after seen will leave you breathless: Lister sleeping with Rimmer's mom and giving him attitude about it (right; pistons in an ocean-liner), Cat being seduced (too stupid to realize there are no women on the ship) and turning into a bum, the acronym for Rimmer's passive resistance movement (let's just say it's also a female body part), and so forth. By far the best moment of all happened when Rimmer walked in on Kryten trying to help Lister out of his shrinking boxer shorts. I don't care if you have never watched the show before, after this tape (unless you're a prude) you will not be able to stop until you've seen them all - and even then you'll want to own them so you can watch them over and over and over. I do! The other shows in season three are great, but none will ever compare to "Polymorph." You need no more justification to by the new disk set - but you get it anyway. Like the first two seasons on DVD, all the little extras, that make geeks like us jump for joy, are included. Enjoy!
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Summary: I'll have to dissent a bit
Review: Athough the Series 3 pack has yet to be released, these episodes are available on VHS. All I can say is that the show gets funnier and funnier, topped, I think, by the new "Kryten." Kryten rounds out the cast and could probably have starred in his own series! His comedic blurbs are made all the more hilarious by his sometimes misunderstanding of the human psyche. If you like or love Red Dwarf, this is a "must have!"
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Summary: Red Dward - Series 3
Review: Athough the Series 3 pack has yet to be released, these episodes are available on VHS. All I can say is that the show gets funnier and funnier, topped, I think, by the new "Kryten." Kryten rounds out the cast and could probably have starred in his own series! His comedic blurbs are made all the more hilarious by his sometimes misunderstanding of the human psyche. If you like or love Red Dwarf, this is a "must have!"
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Summary: One of the most consistently good Red Dwarf series.
Review: I have seen all 8 series to date and the high comedic point of Red Dwarf is probably Red Dwarf III, in my opinion, with the most hilarious episode ever, 'Polymorph'. Not a minute of comic potential is wasted. The Cat has one of his finest comic moments, incredulous as Lister attempts to serve him a three course meal from a range of sterilised surgical equipment. The juxtaposition between Rimmer's new-found reasonableness ('Just because it's an armour-plated alien killing machine that salivates unspeakable slobber doesn't mean it's a bad person.' 'Now call it extreme if you like but I propose we hit it hard, and hit it fast, with a major and I mean major, leaflet campaign') and Lister's total lack of fear is brilliant.
'Marooned', to borrow a phrase from Craig Brown about Peter Cook, might have been seen as the equal of Pinter or Beckett, perhaps their superior, if it wasn't quite so funny. Rimmer's face, immobile as he watches Lister pick up his guitar, followed by the shot of Rimmer through the guitar-shaped hole in his priceless trunk, is brilliant.
'Backwards' is one of the few episodes partly based on Earth, this time. However, it raises many unanswered questions. The crew seem to conform to the same backwards laws of causality as everyone else (i.e. Lister starts off with broken ribs that become healed.) However, are the inhabitants of the planet experiencing life just as the crew do- backwards? If so, this means that the consequences of an action happen before the action itself does. This removes free will. Even if the crew have the illusion that they have free will, their decisions will still ultimately end up with Lister's broken ribs being 'unbroken'.
Bodyswap is the episode I remember most of the other three, an excellent example of the antagonism between Rimmer and Lister.
If I was making a top ten list of Red Dwarf episodes, Polymorph and Marooned would certainly be there and I would definitely consider Backwards and Bodyswap.
Big changes in the look of RD have generally happened after every two series, although smaller changes have still happened between each series. Episodes such as 'Polymorph', which seems to be partly a pastiche on Alien, saw RD embrace popular sci-fi as much as high sci-fi concepts. The mood and atmosphere of the show would become increasingly accomplished, particularly from series 5 onwards.
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Summary: I'll have to dissent a bit
Review: In my opinion the change from the seasons 1 + 2 was not a good thing. Each season thereafter the series became more bloated and stale, and while seasons 3 and 4 still had life in them, they don't compare well. The cheesiness of the sets had nothing to do with the humor of the show, it was all based on dialogue anyway. Kyrten was a good character thereafter, no question, but basically he just replaced Hol in the four-way ensemble (five is a bit much for interplay, so Holly became a minor figure). By the third season the relationship between Lister and Rimmer had pretty much been beat to death, and that was the key to the show. That doesn't mean there aren't high points in future shows, several are very good and there are bits in all them that are priceless (cat taking a potty break on the backward planet). But all of the shows in the first two seasons were razor sharp. When undiscovered gems get popular, there's always an edge that gets lost, and this is no exception.
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Summary: If you dont like Red Dwarf season 3, your a smeg headed 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 3 is even funnier then season 1 & 2. 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 previous.
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Summary: Red Dwarf Resurrection
Review: The Show: Series 3 is one of the all-out funniest Red Dwarf series, without becoming too dumb. Every episode in this series is a classic. I remember seeing Backwards for the first time back in 1996 and not being able to stop laughing. It still cracks me up today. Marooned injects some real character development for Rimmer and Lister, and still manages to be hilarious. Polymorph needs no introduction. Timeslides is possibly my favorite though. The sets are all-new, and COLOR if you can imagine, and two of the episodes even have location shoots.
The DVD: Fan-smegging tastic. Quality has not dropped. The sound and video are just plain awesome, well, at least compared to seeing it on broadcast television. The extras just keep getting better every series. As always, commentaries are great, as are the outtakes. Watching the Backwards episode forwards...well its an interesting idea lol. If not just to hear what the pub owner says (one of the greatest RD in-jokes).
Buy this DVD!
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