Red Dwarf XI

Rick_

The show returns in September on Dave and (although slightly early - they weren't supposed to be released until Friday) the episode titles and synopses have been revealed:-

1. TWENTICA
The Dwarfers find themselves in an alternative version of America where modern technology is prohibited, making Rimmer and Kryten illegal. The Dwarfers infiltrate the tech savvy underground and try to bring down the authoritarian regime.

2. SAMSARA
When the Dwarfers investigate a crashed ship at the bottom of an ocean moon, Lister and Cat become trapped together and Lister's nightmare begins. Meantime Rimmer and Kryten discover the ship is controlled by a dark force.

3. GIVE & TAKE
After an altercation with a deranged droid Lister has his kidneys organ-napped. The only solution is to ask Cat, the most selfish creature in the universe, to give him one of his.

4. OFFICER RIMMER
After a scandalous piece of good fortune Rimmer saves the life of a bio-printed Captain and is promoted, fulfilling his life-long dream of becoming an Officer. He immediately opens an Officer's club, which is out of bounds to the lower orders, and uses the bio-printer to fill it with versions of himself.

5. KRYSIS
Kryten has a mid-life crisis and changes his body cover from Mech Grey to Ferrari Red. The posse try and show him how much he's achieved in life by taking him to visit a mechanoid from his old fleet.

6. CAN OF WORMS
Cat takes time off from being in love with himself to fall head over heels in love with a lady Cat with a big secret.

Rick_

Teaser trailer now up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuGqv1ExuAo

The show returns Thursday 22nd September at 9pm on Dave.

Duggie2012

never really seen the appeal of this...very meh

jack presley

Duggie2012 wrote: »

never really seen the appeal of this...very meh

I don't know has it aged well but at the time it was very clever and a great show.

pixelburp

It was a decent, often funny show that had a nice mix of 'bloke'y idiot humour, smarter character work & genuinely interesting SciFi concepts (at least, that's my abiding memory of it pre-Series 7), but its downward trajectory is very easy to spot; the moment Rob Grant left the partnership the quality plummeted instantly and has never recovered when Grant left at the end of Series 6. Doug Naylor just can't carry the show without his collaborator.

Honestly, I didn't even know an 11th series was on its way and having watched / suffered the 10th, I think I'll stay clear - barring decent reviews or honest recommendations. I would have thought the sensible thing was to just retire the show and let us remember the good times.

Rick_

From the audience attendees who have posted online on the official website and some of the fan sites, they consider the two new series as a return to form with many episodes combining the look and tone of the earlier seasons from the shows golden era of series 3-6. Almost all have said it is a marked improvement over S10 and some episodes are the best ones ever done since S6 with a few episodes able to be slotted into the earlier seasons run and they wouldn't look out of place.

I'm not getting too excited though, I remember being so hyped for S10 and then feeling a bit let down, so I'm just going to be relatively calm and if it's good I can get really happy about it and if not, then I won't feel too bad as I didn't have such huge expectations in the first place! All signs are pointing to it being good though with some great scenes and guest stars you'd never expect.

cdeb

Series 10 wasn't that bad - not classic Dwarf, but some decent moments. But then my expectations were quite low after the Back to Earth mini-series.

Also, controversial opinion time - I really enjoy series 8. (Series 7 is wojus though)

Rick_

7 has grown on me slightly, I didn't like the shift to comedy-drama, the lack of real audience, the film effect picture quality, the loss of Rimmer, but I can watch it now and appreciate some of the actually quite funny bits some episodes have.

8 was OK really when I watched it. I hates the Blue Midget dance sequence, and Pete 1 & 2 aren't great episodes, but it wasn't awful.

9/BTE was crap. Didn't really enjoy any of it.

10 was alright in parts but overall it was underwhelming. You could see what they were trying to do but it failed. I have hopes for 11 and 12 though. Minor, but hopes nonetheless!

pixelburp

Series 8 could have been great, there was lots of potential in seeing Lister, Rimmer coping with the resurrected crew & their respective miserable statuses being restored.

I dunno, I can't get beyond the fact it's still just Naylor writing & his stuff up to this point has been pretty dreadful. More inclined to believe any positive fan feedback being out of hopeful delusion than anything. Mind you, the worst part of 10, honestly, was simply down to the passage of time: there's something faintly depressing in watching the obviously middle-aged cast still playing the same characters, albeit dumpier versions of them. Kinda left me thinking the show should be let pass into history.

Ridley

I do wonder how much people's opinion of VII is skewed by too much change after at the time too long a wait.

But I started watching Red Dwarf with series VII so they are clearly wrong to dislike it.

endacl

Duggie2012 wrote: »

never really seen the appeal of this...very meh

If you were the right age and watched it when it came out you'd get it. StarWars syndrome, if you like? Not brilliant, but struck a chord at the time.

With a dab of favourite band syndrome? The later work could never live up to the promise of the first few albums?

Rick_

Some newly released pics from the upcoming XI:-

pixelburp

First trailer has popped up;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C27xu5dqCLk

Rick_

The first episode is on UKTV's website now to stream (may not work from Ireland and you'll have to find a workaround)

http://uktvplay.uktv.co.uk/shows/red-dwarf/watch-online/?video=5121443193001

It is also on the on demand section on Sky HD and is in HD thankfully, so I'm gonna hold off until tonight to watch it.

CastorTroy

Starts tonight on Dave

skipper_G

I've recently finished watching the show from the very beginning. So it's all fairly fresh in my thoughts. Having watched tonight I loved it, some of the gags were fairly obvious but the delivery was as good as ever. I suspect It won't surpass series 6, the show's peak in many people's eyes. But still was a thoroughly enjoyable episode.

icdg

pad_ehh wrote: »

The first episode is on UKTV's website now to stream (may not work from Ireland and you'll have to find a workaround)

http://uktvplay.uktv.co.uk/shows/red-dwarf/watch-online/?video=5121443193001

It is also on the on demand section on Sky HD and is in HD thankfully, so I'm gonna hold off until tonight to watch it.

Episode 2 is now on Sky On Demand and UKTV Play (which works in Ireland no problem BTW).

Episode 1 is well worth a look if you're a long time Red Dwarf fan. Very much in the s5-6 mode, with only one scene on Red Dwarf itself and an long opening scene on Starbug. And (because often it seemed in the past that Grant Naylor forgot they were making a comedy) it's quite funny too.