John's Roundup - 13/3/04
Stuff of no interest to anyone:
- Prop Store loveliness. Three new items; and all of them great. A JMC Education Prop Book, used as set dressing in VIII, for £65 (which is bloody gorgeous, frankly); Lister's Bunk Sign from Series 4, going for £35 (see a screengrab here), and a Kryten Hand Display; the hand being seen in a deleted section from The Last Day, going for £595 (the display itself is very nicely done). Overall, there are 90 props for sale currently, including loads of great ones - why not splash out? ("Because you'd ruin the prop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111")
- Craig Charles is a bitch. A story first reported on by BITR, we are told that that Craig Charles has been at a dog track, where "A film crew followed him during his evening at the track to find out where he goes and what he does on a night out." Hopefully this won't involve tracking down RD fans houses and beating them up. Actually, what I really liked about that article is the unconnected stuff about shooting Murphy's Law at the same place; we are told that "Filming took place last Wednesday and Thursday and eight scenes were shot for the new drama. They filmed in the stadium car park, the main stadium sign and some of the bookmakers and shot a scene in the stadium's maintenance room, which they disguised as a gun club for the drama." Excellently anal.
- Steve Steen goes Down Under. If you're interested in the article, read it yourself; what I was amused by is that he's linked to Red Dwarf - and after checking TOS's Series V Cast List, he played the incredibly important part of... 'Actor Voice', in Holoship. Well done. (Actually, I shouldn't scoff; he did it very well. I'm just amused that it warranted a mention.) What I found more interesting is that Kate Robbins did the voice of the actress and the lift in the same episode; I didn't know that...
- Kryten Forst Day Cover. And I think that's all that needs to be said about that.
- And finally, a couple of fansite snippets. As I mentioned in the comments to an earlier article, The Red Dwarf Zone is planning a relaunch for April/May, promising "all the old features plus many new ones". This is great; they used to be bloody good with news. And Groovetown has updated for the first time in ages; and Rick says that whilst he doesn't plan to keep the site updated as much as he used to, "I do intend to start adding new content and new features again." Excellent. Meanwhile, check G&T tomorrow for something rather special...
Right, off to do some work on the redesign. Why am I so CRAP AT THE WEB?
Comments
Kate Robbins? Excellent!
Posted by Darrell Jones at March 13, 2004 10:39 PM
"Why am I so CRAP AT THE WEB?"
I'll bet that the problem stems from your voice.
Posted by Plainly Assembled at March 14, 2004 09:21 PM
HINT: Don't post comments pretending to be one of the people who runs the website.
Posted by Ian Symes at March 14, 2004 09:33 PM
I saw the Kryten Hand for real at the London Comic con and it looks good in the display, they also had the Kryten watch for sale in a simular display case, plus lots of other items i couldn't afford....
Posted by Drumjay at March 14, 2004 09:53 PM
HINT: Tell us what the fuck you're talking about when you say "HINT: Don't post comments pretending to be one of the people who runs the website."
Posted by jesley carrion at March 14, 2004 09:59 PM
Someone posted pretending to be me. I deleted it, because I'm hard.
Posted by Ian Symes at March 14, 2004 10:03 PM
Well could you do the brave thing and put what it was in quotation marks or something, to save lives?
Posted by jesley carrion at March 14, 2004 10:07 PM
"Go away."
Nothing terribly dodgy, but it's the principle of the matter. It's not just because it was me; if any of the regulars were impersonated, no matter how inoffensively, it would be out of order.
Posted by Ian Symes at March 14, 2004 10:14 PM
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s1i2473
"Hilarious."
Posted by John Hoare at March 15, 2004 05:19 PM
Irrelevancy:
http://www.angelfire.com/tx/komix/RDVIII.html
"After series VI (which I feel is Red Dwarf at it's worst hour) and the extremely underrated series VII (which is now out on video hurrah!) series VIII saw Red Dwarf back on top form. It felt like a revitalised series full of energy thanks to it's mighty fine special effects and terrific looking sets. The jokes were there and they were fresh. (Unlike the recycled gags of series 6)".
I mean, for fucks sake.
Posted by John Hoare at March 15, 2004 05:34 PM
Nah, to be fair, he does raise an important point.
Series VII & VIII do in fact follow series VI, thus making his review more acurate than anything you read in the 'Daily Star' for instance.....
Posted by Cpt-D at March 15, 2004 11:39 PM
"It will feature guest stars like Jeremy Beadle, David Dickinson and...that person with the stupid voice..."
I clicked on the thing saying "This story is extremely offensive" in your defense, Johnny pal.
Posted by Pimperton Gales at March 16, 2004 01:49 PM
"The annoying cliff hanger ending did spoil it slightly though� go on Doug, tell us what happens to Rimsy, pleaseeeee. Actually he'd better or I'll reveal the storyline before him snigger snigger! One clue - HOOCH! - it obvious really� I think�isn't it?!"
Ummm... what the cunting hell?
Posted by jesley carrion at March 16, 2004 01:52 PM
Doug created the cliffhanger precisely because he didn't know how to end the episode. Same thing happened at the end of series VI.
No doubt series 9 will start like this:
RIMMER (speaking into camcorder): So you see Death approached me with a stupid voice and sandles, I did a thing with him in the bollocks and ran off, so basically I saved my life by ruining his, simply put, the end the smeg it is!!!!1
CAMCORDER BLOWS UP. SMOKE EVERYWHERE. KRYTEN ENTERS WAVING HIS ARMS AROUND A BIT.
KRYTEN (speaking like Mrs Doyle): Well you fucked up another one of our things there Rimmer.
BIG FAT ARSE OF STARBUG INFLATING AND THE WHOLE VESSEL BLASTS OFF, WE SEE IT SHOOTING INTO THE DISTANCE, WELL HOORAY THIS IS SERIES IX FOLKS, MORE GREAT GAGS ABOUND, HOPE YOU LIKED THE NEWLY MODELLED STARBUG WITH THE INFLATABLE ARSE, GREAT HUH, WHAT WITH THE SPACE TIME CONTINUUM AND SO ON.
MUSIC HAPPENS AND IT'S REALLY GOOD THIS TIME
EPISODE STARTS PROPER WITH KRYTEN IRONING OR SOMETHING, SAYING THINGS ABOUT HOW SHIT THE MOVIE WAS AND THEY'RE GLAD IT WASN'T THEIR VERSION OF EVENTS. LISTER SAYS HE AGREES, RIMMER ISN'T SURE, NOR IS THE CAT. HOLLY DOESN'T KNOW EITHER, AND MIGHT NOT FOR AGES BECAUSE SHE IS BUSY WITH A TRAMPS-NEST RECONFIGURATION UNIT SHE BUILT LAST WEEK (DURING THE TEST MATCH WHICH POSTPONED THE FIRST EPISODE) WHICH SHOULD HOPEFULLY ERADICATE GM FROM ALL FIELDS.
Oh, I can't wait, looks like a right cracker.
Posted by Form Letter at March 16, 2004 03:28 PM
> Doug created the cliffhanger precisely because he didn't know how to end the episode. Same thing happened at the end of series VI.
For both of these, alternate endings were shot, but the cliffhangers were deemed better, rightly (VI) or wrongly (VIII). Still, never let the facts get in the way of a pointless attack.
Posted by Ian Symes at March 16, 2004 06:37 PM
It wasn't a pointless attack Ian. I was saying that Doug didn't know how to end the episode - he may well have shot endings but the fact was he disposed of them because he wasn't wanting to commit himself.
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Posted by Ian Symes at May 4, 2004 10:36 PM
"It wasn't a pointless attack Ian. I was saying that Doug didn't know how to end the episode - he may well have shot endings but the fact was he disposed of them because he wasn't wanting to commit himself."
He might have commited himself toa decent ending if his family didn't steam in with thier WRONG opinions on how to end it.
Posted by Cappsy at May 5, 2004 05:27 PM
But it was his final judgement. You can't blame anyone else for their influence on him, unless those are the people with money saying "your product needs to be more like this". And any true artist would try to break free from that kind of influence anyway.
Posted by Form Letter at May 7, 2004 10:01 AM
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