Who's excited for the Red Dwarf journey to continue? And who's sad knowing that the end is coming so soon? Reminder there will be a short break in between seasons while Paula is in Germany. But don't worry! Kat's starting up a new Reaction series to "Over the Garden Wall" which will start releasing next week! Who's ready for some spooky time?
Definitely excited. Obviously we've got the apocalyptically awful tone of Timewave, but I like The Promised Land more than most. Then you can do Blackadder :D (also grats to Paula for winning her first game of Acquire)
Its no spoiler but Krytens nose will be back next series. It was looking thin and odd this season. Please dont tell me i wasn't the only one to spot that. 👃🤣😂
I was in the studio audience for the recording of this episode! I'd been watching Red Dwarf since episode 2 was aired in Australia in the early '90s so the chance to actually see an episode recorded was a life goal that I never thought would happen. Us in the audience were also confused about who Hogey was! The first shot filmed was him walking along the corridor and the other characters seemed to know who he was. We assumed that since we were watching the last episode in the series that Hogey had been introduced in an earlier episode. It wasn't until the series aired months later that it was clear he was just in this episode. Anyway, seeing an episode filmed was fantastic! Some shots had been pre-recorded and they were shown to us on monitors in the studio so that they could record our laugh track and we could understand what was happening in the story (other than the Hogey situation!). There were no VFX shots, of course. I've had some experience in the movie industry (a little film trilogy made in New Zealand around the turn of the century that you might have heard of) but it was still an amazing experience to see how one of my favourite TV shows was made. Seeing the actors and sets in real life, waiting for the inevitable bloopers, the long waits between scenes with the annoying warmup comedian attempting "audience participation", how the multi-camera setup worked and how the scenes were blocked out. Loved every minute of it! I thought this was a once in a lifetime experience but I ended up seeing the recording of another episode in series 12!
Lister can't actually bring up the Gazpacho soup, because he promised Rimmer that he would never mention it again. 😀 That is how I choose to read that moment.
I always assumed this is a different Rimmer. Original, gazpacho Rimmer left to become the next Ace Rimmer in S7. This is the Rimmer rebuilt by the nanobots who was living in S8, who presumably died between S8 and Back To Earth.
@@Vectorspace000 I believe the fact that it's the original Rimmer back somehow (which you're right, this wouldn't make sense with the post-credit scene if it wasn't the S8 Rimmer, would it?) has only been revealed outside the show, not in it. Doug Naylor said it in an interview or something, but there's nothing in the show to suggest it.
You may have noticed that this episode is called 'The Beginning' and the first episode of the show was called 'The End', thats because once again Red Dwarf wasn't sure if it was gonna come back or not (which if it had ended here I would have been fine with, the show could have ended worse). Fortunately they did get another 2 series that were flimed together cause it was easier to get the cast together that way. Crag Charles even quite Coronation Street after about 10 years in order to flim series 11 & 12.
Agree with you! I love how far Rimmer’s character developed! It’s such a catharsis see him accept who he is and how he came up with great plan. It made me emotional ❤
You'll love the Red Dwarf books, the audio ones are narrated by Chris Barrie. They're based on the first few series but being books have no budget constraints, then one other called Last Human which is an original story. Thanks for the awesome uploads!
The original novels based on the first few years of scripts are if possible, even funnier then the show was! The quality dropped once the writing pair went their own ways.
RIP Peter Wragg Sci-fi legend. Hired for Thunderbirds movie, stayed around for 'Captain Scarlet & the Mysterons' & 'Joe 90 before joining BBC visual effects, working on Classic Doctor Who & Red Dwarf amongst others. On his BBC team was Mike Tucker, who smashed Big Ben in New Who.
The 2 hour making of doc for this is fantastic - pretty much everything that could conceivably have gone wrong did, it’s incredible that it not only got finished but is really good too
Hogey's reading of "You killed my brother" definitely has strong similarities to Inigo Montoya; I don't know if anyone else really loves that line too, but my mother, sister and I will often end up quoting that at each other with very little prompting, it's become that ingrained in our heads. Also, super excited for the Blackadder reactions, I can only hope this will spawn an ongoing landslide of reactions to classic British sitcoms on this channel (which will be at least one good thing to come out of last year's strikes)
The whole guspacho soup thing is super complicated... The original version of Rimmer died yelling 'Guspacho soup! The first Hologram Rimmer (version 2) made a second hologram Rimmer (version 3), the two argued until Lister decided to erase one of them, resulting in the revelations as to why. During the Time Slides episode Lister changed history making it so that the interactions required to reach that revelation never happened, somehow leading to this tine line's Rimmer (version 4) still being a hologram but alone on the ship. Then Rimmer changed history to reverse Lister's changes but with the caviat that Rimmer somehow lived through the radiation leak that wiped out the rest of crew, meaning he (now version 5) never died yelling 'Gustacho soup!' And instead died slamming his fists on two crates of exposives yelling 'I am alive!' In the following episode, a new Hologram Rimmer (version 6) is brought into the crew and he continues to be the existing version until he is tasked with replacing Ace Rimmer, meaning logically the ship's records would have modeled this version's mind to remember things the waybthey happened in this new version of the time line, technically he is killed by the Inquisitor, but that version is restored to the timeline by the end of the episode, its not a new Rimmer, so I guess we'll call this restored Rimmer version 6.5, same for the version that died fighting the crew's future selves, so we'll call series 7 Rimmer version 6.55), he then leaves and his fate is ultimately left unknown, either way version 6 (and by extention 6.5 and 6.55 and we'll call the attacking version from the future version 6.555) is a hologramatic recreation of version 5, not the original, so therefore versions 5 & 6 canonically never yelled Guspacio Soup and version 4 isn't confirmed to have still said it, as we have no idea what the circumstances of that version's death were, likely the same as version 1, but its unconfirmed. This leads us to Kryten's nanobots rebuilding Red Dwarf and its crew, creating a new Rimmer (version 7) who has no memory of anything after the moments right before orignial Rimmer's death, this creates a minor problem though, because technically this means they recreated version 5 since in this timeline version 1 never existed, but he has no memory of the events that took place in this version of the time line during the earlier series where he was alive, despite being a recreation of the version who survived the radiation leak, he doesn't remember anything beyond the failing drive plates that caused original Rimmer's death. So we then have a new Rimmer (version 7) who somehow is a recreated version 5 but with only version 1's pre death memories. Rimmer then died solving the crisis at the end of series 8 resulting in a new hologram in Back to Earth, since this hologram remembers the events of series 8, this is specifically a hologratic version of version 7, meaning this Rimmer is now version 8. This means that the current Rimmer's memory of death is the death of version 7 instead of versions 1 or 5, since we never saw how version 7 died, its every bit possible that the banter about Rimmer's last words by the time of this episode could actually be entirely accurate and not merely Lister mocking him AND guspacho soup remains unretconned, since it DID still happen to original Rimmer in the orginal version of the timeline that existed before the Time Slides episode. That technically means there are 8-11 different versions of Rimmer just in this ONE timeline (albeit with versions 1-4 and 6.555 techincally being erased and rewritten) and all before accounting for the various Ace Rimmers from alternate universes
While we all hoped the show would continue beyond Series 10 (and of course, it eventually did), this episode was always intended to wrap up the show as a whole just in case it was the last. There's some great symmetry with the first ever episode of Series 1 ('The End'), and it even ends with the same line, originally spoken by Lister all those years ago: "The slime's coming home"...
I really enjoyed this series, and this episode in particular, as a potential ending to the series, far more than any of the potential ends we had before (S6, S8, BTE) It's a fun random stuff happens Red Dwarf episode, but also gives Rimmer a Major Backstory Revelation, and then ends with Rimmer saying the same line that closed out S1E1; The slime's coming home! And then it turned out not to be the final episode, and that's even better.
After all the years our Arnie finally became the hero . I'm glad Kat & Paula have enjoyed this series as much as I did . They might be older but it's back to the basics with some good jokes and it's as if they've never been away . this did feel like a finale - Four years , can they do it again ? The only way to find out by reacting to Red Dwarf when Paul's returns ,it's been very entertaining watching you discover it , almost by accident because of the strike .
Love this episode, some really funny moments. This script was actually a cut down version of one of the unproduced Red Dwarf Movie scripts (There were many versions since the movie was attempted production since series VIII would would have been around 1999 until around 2005.) I love the ending scene even if some might call it a bit predictable, but it was a good show of cooperation and Rimmer's pedantic nature actually working to distract the enemy into thinking they were completely defenceless.
Oh, this is another one where while you were watching BTE, it killed me not to say "oh, they resolve the corrosive bacteria plotline, but they just throw it away as a Deadpool joke". 😆
I loved the call back to Series 1 Episode 1 "The slime's coming home!" Did you guys notice that? Not only that, this episode is called "The Beginning" whereas Series 1 Episode 1 was called "The End" and the final card was "The Beginning" after Lister's closing line, "Look out Earth! The slime's coming home!"
Peter Wragg was an absolute legend in visual fx, his most prominent work being that of Gerry Anderson productions such as Stingray, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlett & the Mysterons. all worth checking out if you get the chance
It’s hard to describe how exciting it was when Doug announced not ONE but TWO new series, to be made and released back-to-back! Wow! Don’t get in a rush to start waiting in real time for new Dwarf, it’s always a slow wait these days. 🤷
A couple more staples of Brit comedy that I would recommend are Black Books and Coupling. Coupling is made by Steve Moffat, but is not sci fi. Black is also not sci fi, and both are very sit com-ish humor. Even if you don't review them, I recommend checking them out.
I remember watching the episode for the first time on DVD. And every time Hogey the Roguey said "You killed my brother" it sounded to me like "Your keys, my bladder".
Great reactions gals my favourite dwarfers glad u both loved series 10 ur gonna love series 11 and series 12 and series 13 the promised land witch u can watch as a full length or three episodes please watch behind the scenes of series 10 as its great there are also deleted scenes and smeg ups I've been a fan of red dwarf since 1988 i had the videos dvds t shirts a couple of books even had the tongue tied on cd I can't wait to see the new episodes with the boys next year so I look forward to seeing ur reactions to series 11 take care both of you love u gals stay safe keep getting dwarfed Anthony gibbs from south West London England ❤
Hogey was a character that was in the unproduced film script. Some of the idea's from that project started getting recycled into the series in the Dave era. And the behind the scenes stuff for Series X is crazy - well worth a watch.
I would've been happy if this was the final episode. Rimmers parent issues is essentially the central arc of the show, apart from getting back to Earth, which is practically forgotten about. But getting back to Earth and repopulating the human race is barely talked about. This wraps it up a major arc for one of the core characters. But that being said, and as you'll find out. Just because Rimmer doesn't come from success now does not mean he's not reaching for the stars and causing absolute headaches for the other crew. But for the longest time this was the End.
If I remember correctly, this episode ended (sort of) with a nod to the ending of the first episode, series 1 - Lister/Rimmer: "Plot a course for Earth/Red Dwarf. The slime's coming home".
Paula... if you want to catch a RD filming on your layover, Pinewood studios is only about 25 minutes from Heathrow. You could get in 3 or 4 minutes in the crowd for sure. Unless something cruel and unexpected happens like, they've taken a break for lunch when you show up.
No retcon of Gazpacho has occurred neccessarily. Versions of Rimmer actually died thrice. Once in the original Nuclear blast last words Gazpacho Soup, then in S3 Timeslides he somehow changed the past so that he survived the radiation leak. His last on screen words were 'I Am alive' before being blown up, but its possible that after being blown up he said 'Mu...' and it just wasn't shown. Finally between S8 and S9 Rimmer goes from being Alive to being dead. Its never made explicitly clear whether the nano-bot revived Rimmer is recreated as a Hologram for S9 onwards, or whether original Hologram Rimmer returned from being Ace. But it is clear that Nano-Bot revived Rimmer likely did die; and his last words could have been 'Mu..' In a latter episode it is explicitly stated that S12 Rimmer died twice. But that could simply be that Timeslides invalidated the original Gazpacho Soup death as it never technically happened so two deaths. Or that the Post S9 Rimmer is original (S1-7) Rimmer who came back from being Ace to rescue the others and stuck around after; and whilst Nano-bot S8 Rimmer did die he wasn't the same Rimmer; so this version of Rimmer has only died twice. In either scenario its possible that he said 'Mu..' in one of his deaths. I believe Naylor has stated that post S9 Rimmer is both original and nano-bot Rimmer. Its hard to rationalize that, so basically remember its a comedy and forget about continuity.
If you're planning on doing Blackadder though, be very careful. The copyright strikes hit reactions very hard on that show. A show I'd love you both to watch is Blake's 7, which is almost a British twist on Star Trek
@Madpup1uk even season 1 has a few memorable scenes (the Spanish infanta and her interpreter are my favorite characters), it has Brian Blessed all season. Still, it's so different than the rest of the show, I get the recommendation to skip it.
I would love to see Yes Minister reactions. It's a different type of humor than Red Dwarf but I personally prefer it. Maybe because I worked in the civil service. Different country, much lower level, but that show resonated with me.
I wasn't overly keen on the retroactive continuity of this one (is that the term I mean?) but this was still being made with a "it might not come back again" mentality, so it's fair enough. As you both say, if it ended this way, it'd be okay. The post-credits "explanation" for how S8 ended is pretty good IMO.
if you can find it, you should find the usa version of red dwarf where they tried to remake it without the british humour ...its soooooo bad lol but cat is in it :) Also, 3 episodes just started filming for release 2025!!
You just HAVE to do “The Story of Red Dwarf” which is a half hour special from BBC’s Comedy Connections on how Red Dwarf came to be. It’s here on UA-cam! 😉
Hiya GG get DWARFED 👋🏻😹😂 Hey smegheads, what an awesome way to end this series 🤣👍🏻👍🏻 H 🤖😻👨🏾🦱🛰️🚀 Smoke me a kipper, I’ll be back in time for the next series 🐟 🇬🇧🫶🏻🇺🇸
Apart from the title of this being a play on the title of the pilot episode, we also had the last line of each episode being the same, just uttered by different characters.
You need to get hold of the DVDs for the cast commentary. If only for your own private viewing. Some really fun BTS insights plus some of the most epic roasting.
great reaction from both im so glad you still kept on going with rd after 9. So So glad you enjoyed 10 and think will you enjoy 11 and 12 as much :) thank you for your content But im also looking forward to black adder when you do this :)
Kryten: "I say . . . may I just point out that both Paula and Kat look quite upset! . . . . Is there something wrong? Has that cat been causing mischief again?! The little so-and-so!"
First without Main Characters, not without main cast. In Dimension Jump there is a flashback to Rimmer as a child with his mother. So Rimmer appeared but not Chris.
@@AlmightyCRJ Quite right; forgot about that; now trawling my memory to see if there are any others. I think, 'The End' has the George MacIntyre funeral, Lister and Rimmer watch it on the screen, so aren't technically in the scene. Whilst S2's Kryten has a scene on the Nova 5 without the main cast at the time (if that counts). Back in the Red has a scene with Holister and the doctor (but Holister is somewhat main cast in s8). I cant think of any other ones prior to s10.
They could have ended the show there and not make any specials or series after. The very first episode was The End. This was called The Beginning. Kind of full circle moment.
Great reaction as always. A slightly off- topic question: Would you consider doing reactions to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? The BBC TV series that is, not the trainwreck of a movie?
I believe it's OOP, but there are undoubtedly scans floating around the web. IIRC, it's a pretty simple system- rolling 2d6 trying to get under stat+skill, same as was used in the Doctor Who RPG
Who's excited for the Red Dwarf journey to continue? And who's sad knowing that the end is coming so soon?
Reminder there will be a short break in between seasons while Paula is in Germany. But don't worry! Kat's starting up a new Reaction series to "Over the Garden Wall" which will start releasing next week!
Who's ready for some spooky time?
Roooky? Roh-oh!
@@GallifreyGals Are you going to watch the film? _Red Dwarf: The Promised Land_
Definitely excited. Obviously we've got the apocalyptically awful tone of Timewave, but I like The Promised Land more than most.
Then you can do Blackadder :D (also grats to Paula for winning her first game of Acquire)
Its no spoiler but Krytens nose will be back next series. It was looking thin and odd this season. Please dont tell me i wasn't the only one to spot that. 👃🤣😂
Over the Garden Wall hype! :O
I was in the studio audience for the recording of this episode! I'd been watching Red Dwarf since episode 2 was aired in Australia in the early '90s so the chance to actually see an episode recorded was a life goal that I never thought would happen.
Us in the audience were also confused about who Hogey was! The first shot filmed was him walking along the corridor and the other characters seemed to know who he was. We assumed that since we were watching the last episode in the series that Hogey had been introduced in an earlier episode. It wasn't until the series aired months later that it was clear he was just in this episode.
Anyway, seeing an episode filmed was fantastic! Some shots had been pre-recorded and they were shown to us on monitors in the studio so that they could record our laugh track and we could understand what was happening in the story (other than the Hogey situation!). There were no VFX shots, of course.
I've had some experience in the movie industry (a little film trilogy made in New Zealand around the turn of the century that you might have heard of) but it was still an amazing experience to see how one of my favourite TV shows was made. Seeing the actors and sets in real life, waiting for the inevitable bloopers, the long waits between scenes with the annoying warmup comedian attempting "audience participation", how the multi-camera setup worked and how the scenes were blocked out. Loved every minute of it!
I thought this was a once in a lifetime experience but I ended up seeing the recording of another episode in series 12!
Lister can't actually bring up the Gazpacho soup, because he promised Rimmer that he would never mention it again. 😀 That is how I choose to read that moment.
That is honestly a great catch and I'm riding with that as canon in my head!- Kat
Soup-er theory
That's a nice get out.
I always assumed this is a different Rimmer. Original, gazpacho Rimmer left to become the next Ace Rimmer in S7. This is the Rimmer rebuilt by the nanobots who was living in S8, who presumably died between S8 and Back To Earth.
@@Vectorspace000 I believe the fact that it's the original Rimmer back somehow (which you're right, this wouldn't make sense with the post-credit scene if it wasn't the S8 Rimmer, would it?) has only been revealed outside the show, not in it. Doug Naylor said it in an interview or something, but there's nothing in the show to suggest it.
You may have noticed that this episode is called 'The Beginning' and the first episode of the show was called 'The End', thats because once again Red Dwarf wasn't sure if it was gonna come back or not (which if it had ended here I would have been fine with, the show could have ended worse). Fortunately they did get another 2 series that were flimed together cause it was easier to get the cast together that way. Crag Charles even quite Coronation Street after about 10 years in order to flim series 11 & 12.
Peter Wragg created many of the spaceship models for Red Dwarf, including Starbug, so your cool new pins are actually an appropriate tribute to him.
Loved the timing here,
Paula: "Geez Louise, could I say more words wrong?"
Lister: "No, you didn't have the time, you just yelled 'muh'."
For my money, The Beginning is the best episode since 1993. Funny and silly yet epic and emotional too. Love Rimmer’s story in this one.
Agree with you! I love how far Rimmer’s character developed! It’s such a catharsis see him accept who he is and how he came up with great plan. It made me emotional ❤
You'll love the Red Dwarf books, the audio ones are narrated by Chris Barrie. They're based on the first few series but being books have no budget constraints, then one other called Last Human which is an original story.
Thanks for the awesome uploads!
The original novels based on the first few years of scripts are if possible, even funnier then the show was!
The quality dropped once the writing pair went their own ways.
Rimmer showing a backbone is a great character moment for him! " A Fallopian tube is a musical instrument" haha
RIP Peter Wragg Sci-fi legend. Hired for Thunderbirds movie, stayed around for 'Captain Scarlet & the Mysterons' & 'Joe 90 before joining BBC visual effects, working on Classic Doctor Who & Red Dwarf amongst others.
On his BBC team was Mike Tucker, who smashed Big Ben in New Who.
The 2 hour making of doc for this is fantastic - pretty much everything that could conceivably have gone wrong did, it’s incredible that it not only got finished but is really good too
I honestly think the bit about Rimmer’s last words was just a wind up and not meant to be literal or a retcon.
Hogey's reading of "You killed my brother" definitely has strong similarities to Inigo Montoya; I don't know if anyone else really loves that line too, but my mother, sister and I will often end up quoting that at each other with very little prompting, it's become that ingrained in our heads.
Also, super excited for the Blackadder reactions, I can only hope this will spawn an ongoing landslide of reactions to classic British sitcoms on this channel (which will be at least one good thing to come out of last year's strikes)
The whole guspacho soup thing is super complicated...
The original version of Rimmer died yelling 'Guspacho soup!
The first Hologram Rimmer (version 2) made a second hologram Rimmer (version 3), the two argued until Lister decided to erase one of them, resulting in the revelations as to why.
During the Time Slides episode Lister changed history making it so that the interactions required to reach that revelation never happened, somehow leading to this tine line's Rimmer (version 4) still being a hologram but alone on the ship.
Then Rimmer changed history to reverse Lister's changes but with the caviat that Rimmer somehow lived through the radiation leak that wiped out the rest of crew, meaning he (now version 5) never died yelling 'Gustacho soup!' And instead died slamming his fists on two crates of exposives yelling 'I am alive!'
In the following episode, a new Hologram Rimmer (version 6) is brought into the crew and he continues to be the existing version until he is tasked with replacing Ace Rimmer, meaning logically the ship's records would have modeled this version's mind to remember things the waybthey happened in this new version of the time line, technically he is killed by the Inquisitor, but that version is restored to the timeline by the end of the episode, its not a new Rimmer, so I guess we'll call this restored Rimmer version 6.5, same for the version that died fighting the crew's future selves, so we'll call series 7 Rimmer version 6.55), he then leaves and his fate is ultimately left unknown, either way version 6 (and by extention 6.5 and 6.55 and we'll call the attacking version from the future version 6.555) is a hologramatic recreation of version 5, not the original, so therefore versions 5 & 6 canonically never yelled Guspacio Soup and version 4 isn't confirmed to have still said it, as we have no idea what the circumstances of that version's death were, likely the same as version 1, but its unconfirmed.
This leads us to Kryten's nanobots rebuilding Red Dwarf and its crew, creating a new Rimmer (version 7) who has no memory of anything after the moments right before orignial Rimmer's death, this creates a minor problem though, because technically this means they recreated version 5 since in this timeline version 1 never existed, but he has no memory of the events that took place in this version of the time line during the earlier series where he was alive, despite being a recreation of the version who survived the radiation leak, he doesn't remember anything beyond the failing drive plates that caused original Rimmer's death. So we then have a new Rimmer (version 7) who somehow is a recreated version 5 but with only version 1's pre death memories.
Rimmer then died solving the crisis at the end of series 8 resulting in a new hologram in Back to Earth, since this hologram remembers the events of series 8, this is specifically a hologratic version of version 7, meaning this Rimmer is now version 8.
This means that the current Rimmer's memory of death is the death of version 7 instead of versions 1 or 5, since we never saw how version 7 died, its every bit possible that the banter about Rimmer's last words by the time of this episode could actually be entirely accurate and not merely Lister mocking him AND guspacho soup remains unretconned, since it DID still happen to original Rimmer in the orginal version of the timeline that existed before the Time Slides episode.
That technically means there are 8-11 different versions of Rimmer just in this ONE timeline (albeit with versions 1-4 and 6.555 techincally being erased and rewritten) and all before accounting for the various Ace Rimmers from alternate universes
Yes! If you do Blackadder, then might I suggest Galifrey Girls get cunning!
While we all hoped the show would continue beyond Series 10 (and of course, it eventually did), this episode was always intended to wrap up the show as a whole just in case it was the last. There's some great symmetry with the first ever episode of Series 1 ('The End'), and it even ends with the same line, originally spoken by Lister all those years ago: "The slime's coming home"...
I really enjoyed this series, and this episode in particular, as a potential ending to the series, far more than any of the potential ends we had before (S6, S8, BTE) It's a fun random stuff happens Red Dwarf episode, but also gives Rimmer a Major Backstory Revelation, and then ends with Rimmer saying the same line that closed out S1E1; The slime's coming home!
And then it turned out not to be the final episode, and that's even better.
Another quality intro to another quality cat video!
Every now and then Rimmer gets to be heroic.
After all the years our Arnie finally became the hero . I'm glad Kat & Paula have enjoyed this series as much as I did . They might be older but it's back to the basics with some good jokes and it's as if they've never been away . this did feel like a finale - Four years , can they do it again ? The only way to find out by reacting to Red Dwarf when Paul's returns ,it's been very entertaining watching you discover it , almost by accident because of the strike .
"Squareness gun!" - The Doctor
Red dwarf, can't meet won't smeg. Red dwarf on a cooking show in character. Hilarious!!
this is like the most feel good ep ever
Love this episode, some really funny moments. This script was actually a cut down version of one of the unproduced Red Dwarf Movie scripts (There were many versions since the movie was attempted production since series VIII would would have been around 1999 until around 2005.)
I love the ending scene even if some might call it a bit predictable, but it was a good show of cooperation and Rimmer's pedantic nature actually working to distract the enemy into thinking they were completely defenceless.
Oh, this is another one where while you were watching BTE, it killed me not to say "oh, they resolve the corrosive bacteria plotline, but they just throw it away as a Deadpool joke". 😆
By the ending of this episode... I was actually feeling "it" again. So, thanks, Gals.
I loved the call back to Series 1 Episode 1 "The slime's coming home!" Did you guys notice that?
Not only that, this episode is called "The Beginning" whereas Series 1 Episode 1 was called "The End" and the final card was "The Beginning" after Lister's closing line, "Look out Earth! The slime's coming home!"
Peter Wragg was an absolute legend in visual fx, his most prominent work being that of Gerry Anderson productions such as Stingray, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlett & the Mysterons. all worth checking out if you get the chance
I like seeing different characters aboard Red Dwarf, give them some quarters as there’s plenty left over and a four course meal
Watching our favourites get older & older LOL
I have to admit I'm enjoying your reactions more than I do the newer episodes themselves. Glad you're enjoying it
It’s hard to describe how exciting it was when Doug announced not ONE but TWO new series, to be made and released back-to-back! Wow!
Don’t get in a rush to start waiting in real time for new Dwarf, it’s always a slow wait these days. 🤷
There’s a reason the making of for series 10 is so long. The issues BTS were INSANE (but makes for a great doc!)
A couple more staples of Brit comedy that I would recommend are Black Books and Coupling. Coupling is made by Steve Moffat, but is not sci fi. Black is also not sci fi, and both are very sit com-ish humor. Even if you don't review them, I recommend checking them out.
I remember watching the episode for the first time on DVD. And every time Hogey the Roguey said "You killed my brother" it sounded to me like "Your keys, my bladder".
Always love re-watching Red Dwarf with you girls😂😂
Great episode, ladies. Great episode, next. one of my favourites. Hide the toaster it might get broken. See you both next week.
Omg! I’ve got exact same pin! ❤ so cute!
Another great one, Gals! Loved Kat's reaction to Cat's jacket!
POLISH MY SWORD OF SPITE!
The beginning scene with young Rimmer reminded me of a Mr. Bean skit 😁
Great reactions gals my favourite dwarfers glad u both loved series 10 ur gonna love series 11 and series 12 and series 13 the promised land witch u can watch as a full length or three episodes please watch behind the scenes of series 10 as its great there are also deleted scenes and smeg ups I've been a fan of red dwarf since 1988 i had the videos dvds t shirts a couple of books even had the tongue tied on cd I can't wait to see the new episodes with the boys next year so I look forward to seeing ur reactions to series 11 take care both of you love u gals stay safe keep getting dwarfed Anthony gibbs from south West London England ❤
Hogey was a character that was in the unproduced film script.
Some of the idea's from that project started getting recycled into the series in the Dave era.
And the behind the scenes stuff for Series X is crazy - well worth a watch.
So... Hogey is one of the characters from Series IX (the best series that we never got to see...)?
Which makes me hope some day that we’ll see them use their scrapped plan for the villains of that movie The HomoSapienoids
It's the End of the season, and so of course, it's The Beginning
The Simulant Dominator is played by Gary Cady - you'll see him in Doctor Who with Colin Baker in the story "The Mark of The Rani".
Well done gals, this was a very fun series :)
Paula is so effing adorable I love her
You finally have the official answer to how Series 8's cliffhanger was solved 😂😂😂
I would've been happy if this was the final episode.
Rimmers parent issues is essentially the central arc of the show, apart from getting back to Earth, which is practically forgotten about. But getting back to Earth and repopulating the human race is barely talked about.
This wraps it up a major arc for one of the core characters.
But that being said, and as you'll find out. Just because Rimmer doesn't come from success now does not mean he's not reaching for the stars and causing absolute headaches for the other crew.
But for the longest time this was the End.
10:49 Paula did a lil nose twitch that made me think Samantha Stephens in Bewitched, the classic 60s sitcom. :P
If I remember correctly, this episode ended (sort of) with a nod to the ending of the first episode, series 1 - Lister/Rimmer:
"Plot a course for Earth/Red Dwarf. The slime's coming home".
Paula... if you want to catch a RD filming on your layover, Pinewood studios is only about 25 minutes from Heathrow. You could get in 3 or 4 minutes in the crowd for sure. Unless something cruel and unexpected happens like, they've taken a break for lunch when you show up.
No retcon of Gazpacho has occurred neccessarily. Versions of Rimmer actually died thrice. Once in the original Nuclear blast last words Gazpacho Soup, then in S3 Timeslides he somehow changed the past so that he survived the radiation leak. His last on screen words were 'I Am alive' before being blown up, but its possible that after being blown up he said 'Mu...' and it just wasn't shown. Finally between S8 and S9 Rimmer goes from being Alive to being dead. Its never made explicitly clear whether the nano-bot revived Rimmer is recreated as a Hologram for S9 onwards, or whether original Hologram Rimmer returned from being Ace. But it is clear that Nano-Bot revived Rimmer likely did die; and his last words could have been 'Mu..'
In a latter episode it is explicitly stated that S12 Rimmer died twice. But that could simply be that Timeslides invalidated the original Gazpacho Soup death as it never technically happened so two deaths. Or that the Post S9 Rimmer is original (S1-7) Rimmer who came back from being Ace to rescue the others and stuck around after; and whilst Nano-bot S8 Rimmer did die he wasn't the same Rimmer; so this version of Rimmer has only died twice. In either scenario its possible that he said 'Mu..' in one of his deaths.
I believe Naylor has stated that post S9 Rimmer is both original and nano-bot Rimmer. Its hard to rationalize that, so basically remember its a comedy and forget about continuity.
I watched the early making of stuff and they were really great.
Cannot wait for you to start blackadder! ❤
This is my favourite episode of season 10,
I’m glad you liked it.
TWENTICA is next 🤩😂
If you're planning on doing Blackadder though, be very careful. The copyright strikes hit reactions very hard on that show.
A show I'd love you both to watch is Blake's 7, which is almost a British twist on Star Trek
If you're looking for more British comedy after Blackadder, I wanna recommend Yes, Minister :)
though miss season 1 of Blackadder
@Madpup1uk even season 1 has a few memorable scenes (the Spanish infanta and her interpreter are my favorite characters), it has Brian Blessed all season. Still, it's so different than the rest of the show, I get the recommendation to skip it.
blackadder is pretend wit, yes minister is the real thing
I would love to see Yes Minister reactions. It's a different type of humor than Red Dwarf but I personally prefer it. Maybe because I worked in the civil service. Different country, much lower level, but that show resonated with me.
No don’t miss season 1. For some reason I’ve never understood people hate the first season. I thought it was good with some great episodes.
I wasn't overly keen on the retroactive continuity of this one (is that the term I mean?) but this was still being made with a "it might not come back again" mentality, so it's fair enough. As you both say, if it ended this way, it'd be okay. The post-credits "explanation" for how S8 ended is pretty good IMO.
as always love these reactions ladies. Been a fun journey. two seasons and a better film left. Not to mention new ones being filmed.
if you can find it, you should find the usa version of red dwarf where they tried to remake it without the british humour ...its soooooo bad lol but cat is in it :) Also, 3 episodes just started filming for release 2025!!
Hogey is played by the same actor who played the creator in Back to Earth.
Yay! Love this season
Great series :)
gret stuff
You just HAVE to do “The Story of Red Dwarf” which is a half hour special from BBC’s Comedy Connections on how Red Dwarf came to be. It’s here on UA-cam! 😉
There's an excellent 2 part retrospective by Rowan J Coleman
Speaking of Red Dwarf making ofs, is the 3 part documentary “The Next 3 Million Years” on your radar?
That one was narrated by David Tennant
When Dr Who was cancelled Red Dwarf was just beginning and there were a lot of Sci-fi set designers available
Hiya GG get DWARFED 👋🏻😹😂
Hey smegheads, what an awesome way to end this series 🤣👍🏻👍🏻
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Smoke me a kipper, I’ll be back in time for the next series 🐟
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Apart from the title of this being a play on the title of the pilot episode, we also had the last line of each episode being the same, just uttered by different characters.
Rimmer's speech has definite shades of "was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor", to it.
You need to get hold of the DVDs for the cast commentary. If only for your own private viewing. Some really fun BTS insights plus some of the most epic roasting.
great reaction from both im so glad you still kept on going with rd after 9. So So glad you enjoyed 10 and think will you enjoy 11 and 12 as much :) thank you for your content But im also looking forward to black adder when you do this :)
Kryten: "I say . . . may I just point out that both Paula and Kat look quite upset! . . . . Is there something wrong? Has that cat been causing mischief again?! The little so-and-so!"
i've got that dvd, it's fun
Side note: this is the third episode where the Cat refers to Lister by name lol
Good ep and end to the season. I wonder if any of the cast have seen your reactions to the episodes.
technically Dave is a BBC Worldwide digital channel, so it's still BBC - it even all ends up on the iPlayer periodically, including the Dave series.
I hope one day you both can come over the England to conventions. You gals rock and i love watching your reaction to my all time favourite show
Man I really need to get on watching this show 😅
"WHO IS HOGEY?" We will never find out, gals.
DANGIT
this episode was a first. in the entire history of Red Dwarf, they had never had scenes without any of the main cast before
OMG you're right. I didn't even realize.
First without Main Characters, not without main cast. In Dimension Jump there is a flashback to Rimmer as a child with his mother. So Rimmer appeared but not Chris.
No, the introductory scene from Inquisitor has no main characters. Rare as hen's teeth though.
@@AlmightyCRJ Quite right; forgot about that; now trawling my memory to see if there are any others. I think, 'The End' has the George MacIntyre funeral, Lister and Rimmer watch it on the screen, so aren't technically in the scene. Whilst S2's Kryten has a scene on the Nova 5 without the main cast at the time (if that counts). Back in the Red has a scene with Holister and the doctor (but Holister is somewhat main cast in s8). I cant think of any other ones prior to s10.
*I do miss Starbug; but I do like the Blue Midgets, but they were cooler with the remastered leg attachments*
There were Dominators in Doctor Who in the sixties...
He's not the rimmer that died with the soup line he's the one that got restricted then blow up
dont worry rimmer soon gets back to all about him style... times a hundred
And there’s a 3 part special coming next year filming has started or starting very soon
They could have ended the show there and not make any specials or series after. The very first episode was The End.
This was called The Beginning. Kind of full circle moment.
Great reaction as always. A slightly off- topic question:
Would you consider doing reactions to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
The BBC TV series that is, not the trainwreck of a movie?
Why not go OG, and listen to the radio series? It's still the best ever version, IMNSHO. =:o}
Did you guys know there's a Red Dwarf tabletop RPG? I didn't until recently. Sounds fun!
Uhhhhhhhmmmm!!!!!! - Kat
I believe it's OOP, but there are undoubtedly scans floating around the web. IIRC, it's a pretty simple system- rolling 2d6 trying to get under stat+skill, same as was used in the Doctor Who RPG
@@GallifreyGalsI love how your reply here was tagged with a 'Translate to English' 🤣
I hope you get around to watching "Can't Smeg Won't Smeg".
You all still have Series 11 and 12 left. Don't worry ladies.
oh crap.... you have over taken me... and i had a 16 year head start on you
Ask Alexa/siri if she wants some toast
You need to make a reaction video to your reaction video of Backwards.
Alao we do know how he did it there's a deleted scene you can look up what happend after the virus along with why the crew didnt come back.
We're doing Blackadder?
Get in!
If you do Bottom as well, that'll be pretty much my childhood Friday Night viewing schedule.
Moonlight 🥲
Gals from the Dwarf 😂😂😂
Also, you hafta do the DVD quiz and film it and post it here