Yet Another Crazy Fangirl Blog

There's a sequel to Ghostwatch in the form of a short story called '31/10'. The writer, Stephen Volk has a free PDF of it on his website. Sadly, the '31/10' story doesn't mention if Craig was alright or not. Pondering about this resulted a Ghostwatch/Red Dwarf RPF idea that the real reason why there wasn't a Red Dwarf movie was because Mr. Pipes terrorized the cast and crew. It also explains why it takes ten years to make a new series because they had to recover from the trauma of being attacked by a ghost.

Don't worry about it. There are some tropes I have a bit of a hard time understanding. XD

I would like to understand, but they don't explain anything, just list them like we all should know already. is there an explanation?

An expy is a character that is a copy based on a preexisting character. Yogi Bear was based on Ed Norton, a character from 'The Honeymooners' played by Art Carney and Mickey Mouse was based on Felix the Cat.

What the authors based on. I'm pretty bad at explaining things sometimes. XD

The Red Dwarf Episode 'Trojan' really missed a hilarious opportunity to show that while Howard is more successful than Arnold, it isn't all that's cracked up to be. With his crew mutinying because he's such a tyrannical smeg-head. It would also have been nice to acknowledge that Arnold does have good reasons to hate his brother, since Howard did bully him in their childhood years and didn't even apologize for that.

Indeed. They kinda whitewashed Howard despite him not just being a bully as a child which I can forgive, children are never responsible, their parents were at fault then, but staying a bully as an adult.

I have to admit that I much prefer the deleted Rimmerworld scene where it turns out that even Rimmer's brothers didn't escape their psychological trauma. Although I think it would be way more interesting if they were forced to retire in disgrace because the 'Win At All Cost' mentality they learned from their father resulted in horrific scandals.

That would be best, yes.

I would've loved it if there was a Trojan AU where the Dwarfers meet up with Howard and Arnold finds out what his brother did to lose his officer's rank. It would horrify Rimmer and show him that trying to become a Space Corps Officer to please your parents isn't worth it.

Don't worry about it. There are some tropes I have a bit of a hard time understanding. XD

I would like to understand, but they don't explain anything, just list them like we all should know already. is there an explanation?

An expy is a character that is a copy based on a preexisting character. Yogi Bear was based on Ed Norton, a character from 'The Honeymooners' played by Art Carney and Mickey Mouse was based on Felix the Cat.

The Red Dwarf Episode 'Trojan' really missed a hilarious opportunity to show that while Howard is more successful than Arnold, it isn't all that's cracked up to be. With his crew mutinying because he's such a tyrannical smeg-head. It would also have been nice to acknowledge that Arnold does have good reasons to hate his brother, since Howard did bully him in their childhood years and didn't even apologize for that.

Indeed. They kinda whitewashed Howard despite him not just being a bully as a child which I can forgive, children are never responsible, their parents were at fault then, but staying a bully as an adult.

I have to admit that I much prefer the deleted Rimmerworld scene where it turns out that even Rimmer's brothers didn't escape their psychological trauma. Although I think it would be way more interesting if they were forced to retire in disgrace because the 'Win At All Cost' mentality they learned from their father resulted in horrific scandals.

Don't worry about it. There are some tropes I have a bit of a hard time understanding. XD

They came across as a little too much as jerkasses for my liking. I've read some of the original Golden Age comics featuring them, so it colors my view on their adapations. Still, despite my feelings, it did suck when the show killed most of them off. Patrick Adams should've been given more to do.

It was like one of two episodes, what should they have to do, make them main cast? I didn't take offense on that. I was appreciative though about Obsidian gay story, how he was suspended from the team for his homosexuality but that's what saved him lmao, fuck those assholes. But Legends making whole arc "freak circuses are actually good bc they give normal people tolerance to minorities" is what actually offended me in later season.

Good point. The JSA shouldn't hijack the Legends from their own show. Luckily, there are other media portrayals of the Justice Society that I've enjoyed. They were really cool in the Black Adam Movie. I love the idea of the Fonz playing Al Pratt. What happened to Todd sucked, but at least there was a silver lining to his misfortune as he got to live a long life.

They came across as a little too much as jerkasses for my liking. I've read some of the original Golden Age comics featuring them, so it colors my view on their adapations. Still, despite my feelings, it did suck when the show killed most of them off. Patrick Adams should've been given more to do.

Even if I think hard I don’t understand nano plot. For nanobots they have too sophisticated intelligence. One thing to repair things and other to recreate the whole crew, load them with their memories (how? they grew something with wich they were taking personality discs? why no one noticed? they couldn’t’ve done them all at once) and even exclude someone in the process. All this while overdoing things and then shrinking it in normal size. The whole shenanigan was the acid trip from wonderland. I’m not telling they couldn’t do it but I’m telling they’re too damn good for just a plot device. They should be at least an episode’s villain. Todhunter is so young for a first officer because he knew that Hollister is Dennis the donut boy :) Everybody on that ship is a fraud…

The JMC sent Todhunter as a First Officer to keep an eye on Dennis the Donut Boy and prevent any potential catastrophes from happening. All it would take is a single scandal and the JMC would go down quicker than a lead balloon. As Season One of Red Dwarf showed, poor Todhunter utterly failed in his Secret Mission. XD

If Todhunter is a slightly different Arnold Rimmer from another dimension, then it puts his scenes with the TV Canon Series Lister and Rimmer in the Episode 'The End' in a weirdly hilarious light.

World of Darkness is really bad at forcing you to play the game as they intended it to be. You want to play a game where vampires aren't doomed to degrade into evil or one where the rest of the Changing Breeds share the spotlight with the Werewolves? Then you're a filthy heretic!

Yeah, I don't like that. It obviously affects actual games too but that's why I do not want to know "the canon", so I have at least perceive what's happening in actual play as their own decisions. So yeah I don't wanna know.

I came up with my own NobleDark version of the World of Darkness so my favorite Canon Characters like Jan Pieterzoon, Theo Bell and Jonas Albrecht actually get a chance to be genuine good guys.

World of Darkness is really bad at forcing you to play the game as they intended it to be. You want to play a game where vampires aren't doomed to degrade into evil or one where the rest of the Changing Breeds share the spotlight with the Werewolves? Then you're a filthy heretic!

Even if I think hard I don’t understand nano plot. For nanobots they have too sophisticated intelligence. One thing to repair things and other to recreate the whole crew, load them with their memories (how? they grew something with wich they were taking personality discs? why no one noticed? they couldn’t’ve done them all at once) and even exclude someone in the process. All this while overdoing things and then shrinking it in normal size. The whole shenanigan was the acid trip from wonderland. I’m not telling they couldn’t do it but I’m telling they’re too damn good for just a plot device. They should be at least an episode’s villain. Todhunter is so young for a first officer because he knew that Hollister is Dennis the donut boy :) Everybody on that ship is a fraud…

The JMC sent Todhunter as a First Officer to keep an eye on Dennis the Donut Boy and prevent any potential catastrophes from happening. All it would take is a single scandal and the JMC would go down quicker than a lead balloon. As Season One of Red Dwarf showed, poor Todhunter utterly failed in his Secret Mission. XD

That does sound like a cool idea. A Last Human AU idea popped into my head that Michael could've come from a Universe where he knew his Dad started as a neurotic chicken soup repairman but had to overcome his smegheadness and become a heroic person.

Doug and Rob should've found a way to continue writing for Red Dwarf while also creating new projects, so Rob didn't suffer from creative burnout. (However, I have a sneaking suspicion that even if they didn't break up, none of their other creative projects were ever going to top Red Dwarf.)