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October 6, 2024 8:15 AM

Four years of Red Dwarf theories in one video

tldw; Links to the individual videos that went into the compilation:

1. Rimmer’s 31
2. Kryten’s Change
3. Guitar Polymorph
4. 10 quick theories
   • Peterson killed the crew
   • Series 8 was Artificial Reality
   • 169
   • Lister’s X-Rays
   • Rimmer’s mind
   • Diamond Light is redundant
   • Rimmer’s future echo
   • The Inquisitor has droid rot
   • Rimmer was justified in trying to be Machine President
   • Lister is a robotics genius
5. How Arnold became Ace
   
6. Rimmer’s Rank
   
7. What year is it, anyway?
   
8. Where did the prison come from?
   
9. Why Lister never married Kochanski
   
10. Resurrecting Rimmer
    
11. Back to Earth Dream
    
12. George McIntyre
    

Red Dwarf Nerd—as you might expect—has still more videos on his YouTube channel.

posted by ChurchHatesTucker (9 comments total)

oh man, this is going right on my watchlist. Red Dwarf is etched deep into my DNA so definitely looking forward to nerding out on esoteric theories.
posted by parm at 9:43 AM on October 6 [3 favorites]

Damn I thought this was gonna be about this. Not that I'm complaining mind you.
posted by evilDoug at 10:22 AM on October 6

My Red Dwarf activities had previously been limited to whatever was on late-night PBS reruns of the BBC when I was a kid in the early ’90s, so I'd only seen up to Series 6. Recently I (1) heard about the upcoming new series and (2) discovered all the old stuff was on BritBox, so bought a subscription and watched the entire run over the course of a month or so. I'm not sure I've ever troubled to have any fan theories about it, but it was a lot of fun to watch the actors over 32 years.

I certainly didn't expect to get so emotional over

Spoilers

1. original Holly coming back and
2. the stirring sounds of the theme when Red Dwarf itself re-appears.

(I understand how real life could easily mean that we didn't get original Holly for a while, but why did they get rid of Red Dwarf?)

posted by It is regrettable that at 1:03 PM on October 6 [3 favorites]

this may be my favourite tv show ever, so looking forward to checking this out
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 2:08 PM on October 6 [2 favorites]

I only managed to watch the older episodes intermittently but I thought the answer was they were trapped in a video game for years but never managed to get past Level 1 and so they missed the Planet of the Nymphomaniacs.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 5:28 PM on October 6 [2 favorites]

Red Dwarf 8 was the first show I ever watched on the high seas. When that series debuted someone on IRC kindly encoded it to RealVideo, so less than 48 hours after it first aired in the UK (bandwidth was pretty slow back then) I got to watch a postage-stamp sized copy of it on my desktop an ocean away.

Anyone else remember that brief period of time in the late 1990s when there was supposedly a big budget tentpole Red Dwarf movie in production and it was going to have the Daleks in it and that was going to be a backdoor for a Doctor Who revival?
posted by RonButNotStupid at 5:28 AM on October 7 [1 favorite]

Anyone else remember that brief period of time in the late 1990s when there was supposedly a big budget tentpole Red Dwarf movie in production and it was going to have the Daleks in it and that was going to be a backdoor for a Doctor Who revival?

I wasn't a fan back then but I did find the story of the Red Dwarf film and Concept Art
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 9:06 AM on October 7

“Dwarfers”? For real? Because “Smegheads” is right there
posted by notoriety public at 1:50 PM on October 7

Anyone else remember that brief period of time in the late 1990s when there was supposedly a big budget tentpole Red Dwarf movie in production and it was going to have the Daleks in it and that was going to be a backdoor for a Doctor Who revival?

No but they wrote and at least filmed part of a US pilot (I think). You used to hear about it in the early days of the internet.
posted by The_Vegetables at 2:00 PM on October 7