Haven’t watched it since I was a kid, solid nostalgia vibes. Any other smegheads on hexagon bear website?

  • CarbonScored [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Yeah, I still enjoy them. They were a silly, fun take on sci-fi that I think sadly ended up today with a poorly deserved rap as being lowest-denominator repetitive humour. However, I think a lot of the early series probably wouldn’t land for people who were born after ~2000, while the later series have intermittently weaker writing and rely a lot more on references to the early series.

    I still rewatch it all the time, as do my family, it’s a fantastic funny show that comments on the human condition, and the first episode still gives me fuckin’ chills. But - its reliance on contemporary culture probably makes it a show that is “of its time”.

    EDIT - Plus quotes coming back to my head now:

    “No silicon heaven? But where do all the calculators go?”

    “No, human eyes don’t have a zoom function.” “But how do you bring a small object into focus?” “Just… move your head closer.”

    “Relax the tax people aren’t gonna catch you now.” “What do you mean? Just because we’re three million years into deep space and the human species is extinct?! That means nothing to these people!”

    And every other line of Quarantine, obviously. What I wouldn’t give to experience that episode anew again.

    • someone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      EDIT - Plus quotes coming back to my head now:

      “I’d like to discuss my penis.”

      And every other line of Quarantine, obviously. What I wouldn’t give to experience that episode anew again.

      My goodness yes. Or “Marooned”, which I think is my favourite in the whole series. The look on Rimmer’s face when Lister eats the dog food lives rent-free in my head.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      I felt the newer seasons were mostly solid, but one of them felt like it rehashed a lot of the humor; the episodes I liked most from the newer ones were the ones where they dabbled with the existing lore like what they revealed of Rimmer’s family and when he met the hologram of his brother. I like it when shows make significant lore advancements.

    • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      Everytime I rewatch Red Dwarf, I consistently lose it at Lister’s various plans during Polymorph. I don’t know, something in the earnest rage of “strap a warhead to me, I’ll nut the smegger to oblivion” just conjures an uncontrollable laugh outta me.