Series 2/3 continuity-type question....

Fysh

Having just finished the "Just the shows" box set today, I went back to the first episode from series 3 and, by virtue of playing it at 1/8th of normal speed, I was able to read the introduction text which explained away the changes between series 2 and 3. Now, that's all very well in the context of having it on video/dvd, but....was that the only explanation ever given for the changes? I know the show isn't exactly anal-retentive about continuity, but in other seasons there have been references to previous episodes and so on - so it seemed a bit weird to me that, for TV viewers, the only explanation given was at the beginning of one episode and scrolling past far too quickly to actually read.

steveland?

I reckin it was all kind of a joke... There's some explanations for the changes in the booklet in the series 3 dvd (the booklets in the DVDs are brilliant.. I don't see the point in the Just the Shows dvd cos the extras are amazing on the full sets) but I reckin they were just kinda trying to make it weird...

The scrolling text was just a joke and I think people just assumed the changes were just a little bit of a reshuffle. Like we'd seen Kryten before (although as Paul Ross and not Robert Lywellen) and I don't know if anyone really cared about Listers kids so there's not TOO much of a difference.

Ro: maaan!

steveland? wrote:

I reckin it was all kind of a joke... There's some explanations for the changes in the booklet in the series 3 dvd (the booklets in the DVDs are brilliant.. I don't see the point in the Just the Shows dvd cos the extras are amazing on the full sets) but I reckin they were just kinda trying to make it weird...

The scrolling text was just a joke and I think people just assumed the changes were just a little bit of a reshuffle. Like we'd seen Kryten before (although as Paul Ross and not Robert Lywellen) and I don't know if anyone really cared about Listers kids so there's not TOO much of a difference.

Pretty much. Nobody cared. The amount of things they changed and gave no explanation for over all the series. I'd say they only came up with the idea of the scrolling text thing after the episode/series had been made, just for anyone who really needed an explanation. It's pretty obvious that they wrote that to fit in with the changes they made rather than made the episodes to fit in with what supposedly happened according to the text. Though it would have been pretty cool if they had made an extra episode at the start of series 3 where all the stuff happened.

steveland?

Actually I vaguely remember watching Backwards one time without the scrolling text, so I think it's just somehting they came up with for the videos when they were first released.

You could say the same about the series 7/8 continuity... Like Lister's muscles from the end of series 7 and then he just runs out and goes "Lookat my body" and that's it... it's all back to normal...

It's kinda explained by Red Dwarf shrinking but it was just a bit of a throwaway gag that really annoyed me cos I was thinking the muscles could have been a great gag for a while