tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post440389718530290676..comments2024-03-22T19:07:21.790+00:00Comments on The Wertzone: Gratuitous Lists: The Ten Best RED DWARF EpisodesAdam Whiteheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11383677312079611311noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-69487558917044271012018-02-18T01:03:44.522+00:002018-02-18T01:03:44.522+00:00Fish of the day is Trout a la Creme...
Really di...Fish of the day is Trout a la Creme...<br /><br /><br />Really difficult question - even if you just look at S2-6, that's 30 episodes to choose from, and probably at least 20 of them are brilliant...<br /><br />So, so hard.<br /><br />Every one of the ten episodes you chose is great (well, I'm not sure about The End in absolute terms, but bonus points for importance and nostalgia).<br /><br />But in trying to compile a list, I found mine was almost entirely different - so I went the whole hog and made it COMPLETELY different. Obviously, if we're being honest, you can't have a 'correct' top-10 list without Back to Reality, Marooned, Thanks for the Memory and probably Polymorph (which isn't as complete, but is hilarious). [and Meltdown is a personal favourite].<br /><br />But you can still have a list of ten amazingly good other episodes:<br /><br />- Me2. One of two first season episodes (along with the clever Future Echoes) to really nail it, in my opinion. It's depressing and dark and irritating, but it's funny, and it's our first and maybe best dive into the psychology of Rimmer, turning him from an amusing jackass into a fascinating abomination of a man driven by such pitiable and intense self-loathing... "gazpacho soup!"<br /><br />- Queeg. OK, while it does have a few good gags, this is basically an episode based around one joke. But when you watch it for the first time, it may just be the best joke in the history of TV... "basically, I'm fantastic."<br /><br />- Stasis Leak. Episodes like "Thanks for the Memory" and "Me2" showed that early Dwarf could do piercing psychological tragicomedy. Stasis Leak, with its tangled time loops and a completely insane Rimmer, showed that it could also do farce - and make it clever farce at that. "Now from this point on, things get a liiiitle bit confusing...."<br /><br />- White Hole. You've got the white hole scene, the pool with planets, you've got the white hole scene, the talkie toaster scene, you've the white hole scene... "so what is it?"<br /><br />- Holoship. A great sympathetic story for Rimmer, but also a bunch of classic lines. "I've come to regard you as... people I met."<br /><br />- Inquisitor. I like it when Dwarf goes ominous. Some clever SF thinking, psychological exploration, one of the most effective dramatic plots (yes, I do like the time travel episodes...). "A simple yes would have sufficed..."<br /><br />- Legion. So, so many jokes - smart jokes, stupid slapstick jokes, character jokes, SF jokes. "It does mean..."<br /><br />- Out of Time. I love how dark it gets - not just the fantastic ending (which deserved to be the real ending) but right from the beginning, with the totally disorienting 'reality bubbles'. Plus one of the smartest, most SF jokes of the series. "We're still in deep space, only now..."<br /><br /><br />Hmm. That leaves two places. I think I'd be happy with any of Future Echoes, DNA, Justice, Dimension Jump, Terrorform, Psirens, or even for a change of pace maybe Tika to Ride to fill the last two slots...<br /><br />Really though the quality was just astonishingly high for so long...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-6459191106524900402018-02-16T12:32:56.923+00:002018-02-16T12:32:56.923+00:00I AM A FISH
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