Just rewatching this for the umpteenth time and I had, completely forgotten just how brilliant it is.
What I had missed most in the latter series was the complete absence of the Red Dwarf shipboard computer Holly. Played by the inimitable Norman Lovett, this character is such an integral part of the Posse that his loss was immeasurable.
Even 3,000,000 years into deep space the crew learn the inevitable truth, of the hackneyed old cliche about Death and Taxes.
When Earth mail manages to finally catch up with Red Dwarf and Arnold Judas Rimmer received some miserable news from home.
This episode we see yet more indelible evidence of two of the Dwarf Posse, first just how much of an irredeemable and unmitigated slob David Lister really is.
Rimmer is oft pilloried by Lister as a Smeg Head but here we get a disturbing glimpse, into Arnold Judas psyche. And we see he is also a desperately tragic individual.
But what pray could provide such an complete picture of our eponymous space jockeys?
Why non other than an unbelievably addictive computer game than Better than Life, that even the hologram Rimmer can appreciate.
A reviewer here claims that technology has more or less caught up, with the game Better than Life.
Not exactly as even the so called Virtual Reality environment at its best, is still a long way short of the technology involved in the Better than Life world.
What I had missed most in the latter series was the complete absence of the Red Dwarf shipboard computer Holly. Played by the inimitable Norman Lovett, this character is such an integral part of the Posse that his loss was immeasurable.
Even 3,000,000 years into deep space the crew learn the inevitable truth, of the hackneyed old cliche about Death and Taxes.
When Earth mail manages to finally catch up with Red Dwarf and Arnold Judas Rimmer received some miserable news from home.
This episode we see yet more indelible evidence of two of the Dwarf Posse, first just how much of an irredeemable and unmitigated slob David Lister really is.
Rimmer is oft pilloried by Lister as a Smeg Head but here we get a disturbing glimpse, into Arnold Judas psyche. And we see he is also a desperately tragic individual.
But what pray could provide such an complete picture of our eponymous space jockeys?
Why non other than an unbelievably addictive computer game than Better than Life, that even the hologram Rimmer can appreciate.
A reviewer here claims that technology has more or less caught up, with the game Better than Life.
Not exactly as even the so called Virtual Reality environment at its best, is still a long way short of the technology involved in the Better than Life world.
