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Red Dwarf Smegs Up Its Comeback
Red Dwarf To Return Again?
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Alessar
09/15/09

In reply to The io9 Guide To 2009's Fall DVD Releases
Props for featuring Ultraman. I rented the entire original series from Netflix (old DVD set) and I was surprised how much fun I had. I actually had watched the English dub on TV as a wee tot, and for the DVDs I watched with Japanese audio and subtitles. Since the dub was a pretty faithful translation, the stories were familiar. And as an adult I know that in the episode where Ultraman fights what looks like Godzilla, it actually IS the Godzilla suit (so ... I guess it's a cameo? :)
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Allen_Richards
09/13/09

In reply to The io9 Guide To 2009's Fall DVD Releases
I've mentioned on here a few weeks ago that I'd be willing to add more straight sci-fi to my Netflix Horror, Exploit, and Cult cinema new release lists if you guys were going to use them, but never go an answer. I'll throw the idea out there again just in case.

As it stands, I've carried those list out to Nov. As titles are added to the NF database, I'll add them. just click to see what's doin': [www.netflix.com]
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Bill-Lee
09/13/09

In reply to October
The footage not shown on TV will probably include the bare breasts, bare breasts, and umm bare breasts.
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disatess
09/13/09

In reply to The io9 Guide To 2009's Fall DVD Releases
wheres Ultra -seven dvd set .
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Roklimber
09/13/09

In reply to October
I have a feeling that the BSG: The Plan DVD will not sell very well.
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frankenstoen
09/13/09

@Roklimber: I won't be buying it - I really loved BSG up until the final episode - but I hated that final hour so much, it has poisoned my love for the series. I watched that finale three times, and with each watching my disgust kept growing. Now I can't stand to watch the series, or listen to the soundtrack, or even think about it. I can't explain it - as much as I loathe the Special Editions of the Star Wars films and as disappointed as I am with the Star Wars prequels I just feel a thousand times more let down by Ronald D. Moore than I ever was by George Lucas. That final hour of BSG negated everything that happened in the entire series.
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Roklimber
09/13/09

In reply to The io9 Guide To 2009's Fall DVD Releases
Hah.... UltraMan... I used to watch that when I was a kid.
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Hamslicer
09/14/09

@Roklimber: Try "INFRA-MAN", the movie that all berserk robot/kung-fu action films were influenced by.
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bluehinter
04/14/09

In reply to Red Dwarf Smegs Up Its Comeback
I just sat down and forced myself to rewatch seasons 7 & 8 in preparation for this special, so in that light, this was nowhere near as bad as it could have been.

I do agree that it's not Red Dwarf without a live laugh-track (even though season 7 was filmed on a closed set, they still showed it to an audience prior to transmission and got their laugh-track from that) and the weird Blade Runner shit needed to go, or at the very least, have a more logical explanation.

Also, the happiness squid ending makes no sense if you think about it.

One, nothing could grow that huge or survive 9 years without eating something. And two, none of them were actually happy during the hallucination, with the possible exception of Lister at the very end when he realized he could see Kochanski again.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
04/14/09

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*twitch* I IS CONFLICTED! Well, I'm gonna watch it anyway.
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snowcrash
04/01/09

In reply to Red Dwarf To Return Again?
Red Dwarf is very unique. I still watch the repeats and they are pure genius scripts, INCREDIBLY FUNNY.

Strangely I find them more funny now, than when I first watched them. We had no idea they were written so well.

Certainly have stood the test of time.

Can't believe they've not made a film yet.

Funny though, like star trek, it's the repeats that make it work and get a new audience.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
04/01/09

@snowcrash: There's a metric fuckload of stuff that if you watch it repeatedly things are just that much more funny. Especially if you consider how Rob Grant and Doug Naylor didn't give a rat's ass about continuity.
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NefariousNewt
04/01/09

In reply to Red Dwarf To Return Again?
Next up: Battlestar Galactica/Red Dwarf crossover. Turns out the Bob Dylan tunes was really emanating from Red Dwarf's comm system.
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ManchuCandidate
04/01/09

@NefariousNewt:

Starbuck is Kochanski?
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crashedpc - Haifisch
04/01/09

@ManchuCandidate: I approve this new casting choice.
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NefariousNewt
04/01/09

@ManchuCandidate: And Kryten was an early model Cylon.
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twDarkflame
04/01/09

@NefariousNewt: It turns out Battlestar was just Better-the-Live infected with a virus. (The virus being the head charecters).
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ManchuCandidate
04/01/09

@twDarkflame:

That would have been a smegging major head frak.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
04/01/09

@ManchuCandidate: I think I'm going to pretend this is the true ending.
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strider_mt2k
04/01/09

In reply to Red Dwarf To Return Again?
Smeg!

(Just wanted to get it out of the way.)
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ManchuCandidate
04/01/09

In reply to Red Dwarf To Return Again?
Just one suggestion.

Keep it in the UK. Don't let any Hollywood types get their useless hands on it so they can fuck everything up by insisting on love interests or stop using the word "Smeg" or something just as stupid.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
04/01/09

@ManchuCandidate: I don't understand this combination of "Not using Smeg" and "Red Dwarf" in the same sentence.
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NefariousNewt
04/01/09

@ManchuCandidate: Amen. Hollywood, killer of good British satire since the dawn of movies.
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reddingofish
04/01/09

@ManchuCandidate: Why not. I could see Nick Cage as Lister and Tom Cruise as Rimmer, Christian Bale as Cat, Jim Cary as Kriten and Scarlett Johanson as Holly. Of course it wouldn't be a comedy anymore.
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NefariousNewt
04/01/09

@reddingofish: Jim Carrey? You really want it butchered, don't you?
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crashedpc - Haifisch
04/01/09

@reddingofish: Don't you DARE associate Red Dwarf and Nic Cage!

Once again:

"THE NANOBOTS!!! THEY'RE IN MY EYES!!! AAAAGHGHGHGHGHG NANOBOTS"
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crashedpc - Haifisch
04/01/09

In reply to Red Dwarf To Return Again?
And hopefully if things work out, Chris Barrie won't run off and disappear for like two seasons again.
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Ruthless, If you let me
04/01/09

@crashedpc is for 6: You got a star now. Nice.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
04/01/09

@BullLifter: *frantic hand flapping* OMIGOD IT MUST BE TYPOE APRIL FOOL?
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
04/01/09

@crashedpc: Yay crash! well deserved.
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nygenxer
01/27/09

In reply to Red Dwarf's Return Gets Spoiled
I've got a double polaroid!
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crashedpc - Haifisch
01/27/09

@nygenxer:

*rotates both around*

*eyes widen*
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I'm Waitin' for Dolemite
01/27/09

In reply to Red Dwarf's Return Gets Spoiled
"Spoiler warnings for everyone past this point. Seriously!"

kinda defeats the purpose of the spoiler warning when the highlighted comment to the right is

"*shrieks* Red Dwarf is back!

*shrieks* Wuh? Back to Earth?"

Not that this is at all the fault of crashedpc
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crashedpc - Haifisch
01/27/09

@I'm Waitin' for Dolemite: Ain't my fault my comment is the one with the most replies at the moment!
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I'm Waitin' for Dolemite
01/27/09

@crashedpc: As indeed I say, yes. There is really no way around this comment preview feature.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
01/27/09

@I'm Waitin' for Dolemite: Let's get Dolemite and his kung fu call girls and fix that.
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