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Red Dwarf XI

Started by Goaty, 29 August, 2016, 09:02:13 AM

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Goaty


Old One Eye

Good news indeed!

To be honest, I haven't felt that it was as funny in the last few series but it always tickles me right in the nostalgia.  It's also nice to have something to look forward to in September. :)
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Richard

Red Dwarf hasn't been funny for about 25 years now.

IndigoPrime

I thought the last series was something of a return to form. I'm not sure anything can match the best of the run, but it was certainly the best post-Grant/Naylor run, and to my mind at least as good as VI. It always baffles me that the BBC let the series slip through its fingers. It might not have been the greatest show in the world by the time VIII hit, but it was still entertaining.

Keef Monkey

Very pleased about this! Back To Earth was very odd and patchy, but X was a good series. Am actually rewatching that just now and it's still very enjoyable. Not every gag is a zinger, but it's consistently entertaining and hugely likeable, and when an episode is great (we just watched ep5 last night and found it particularly solid) it's as close to classic Red Dwarf as I could hope for.

Hopefully they keep it up for these series.

IndigoPrime

Back to Earth was a mess, but the way I look at it now is that it was a low-cost feature-length 'pilot' of sorts —a test to see whether the series was viable and could work on Dave. It did at least hang together better when watched in a single block (rather than hacked into three episodes), but X felt much more like the original run. (It really helped ditching the dead weight and complication of the original crew being resurrected, too.)

von Boom

I'm really hoping this is a good series, back to classic form.

dweezil2

Watched Ep 1 of series 11 on UK TV Play after not watching a series since around series 4 and that was pretty funny stuff, nice little riff on the Borg too!
Looks like the production values have improved significantly since the old days, but not so much that it isn't quintessentially low-fi Red Dwarf!

Look forward to the rest of the seties!

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von Boom

I thought it was very funny. I laughed quite a bit throughout the episode, a couple of times out loud. I'm very hopeful for the rest of this series and the next.

While the show does look a lot better, I kind of miss the crappy sets and effects. But that's just nostalgia rearing its ugly head.

Mardroid

Quote from: dweezil2 on 16 September, 2016, 02:53:26 PM
Watched Ep 1 of series 11 on UK TV Play after not watching a series since around series 4 and that was pretty funny stuff, nice little riff on the Borg too!

Actually, simulants have been around since the Series 4 episode Justice, although the first did have a Borg-like appearance too. (Their appearance does differ from episode to episode though, but I take that to mean there is a variety of different kinds out there, possibly augmenting/repairing themselves over the years in different ways.)

The storyline in this episode was kind of similar to Star Trek: First Contact though, it's true, while still remaining very much it's own thing.

I enjoyed it a lot.

Oh, and not meaning to come across grumpy, with some notable exceptions, the model work, sets and affects in past series of Red Dwarf has  been consistently good.

dweezil2

Quote from: Mardroid on 18 September, 2016, 02:48:33 PM
Quote from: dweezil2 on 16 September, 2016, 02:53:26 PM
Watched Ep 1 of series 11 on UK TV Play after not watching a series since around series 4 and that was pretty funny stuff, nice little riff on the Borg too!



Oh, and not meaning to come across grumpy, with some notable exceptions, the model work, sets and affects in past series of Red Dwarf has  been consistently good.


It's probably the fact it's shot on HD this time rather than the Beebs video 'fuzzavision' that makes it look more glossy.

That episode definitely had a Star Trek Next Gen vibe going on.
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Steve Green

From what I remember, miniatures would have been shot on film, and looked pretty good - when it gets transferred to standard def video, or they started doing composites/green screen/any effects on video is where it started to suffer.

dweezil2

Quote from: Steve Green on 18 September, 2016, 04:35:03 PM
From what I remember, miniatures would have been shot on film, and looked pretty good - when it gets transferred to standard def video, or they started doing composites/green screen/any effects on video is where it started to suffer.

Similar problem that befell ST: The Next Generation before it's sexy HD Blu-ray releases I guess?
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Steve Green

Yep.

All miniatures shot on 35mm, transferred to video for editing and some effects. DS9 has it even worse since they started using more CGI, but only at standard definition.

sheridan

Nice to see that it appears to have a budget|  Nothing beats the first two series for me (the one with the full hull-painting intro).  All series since have had great moments, but as series I've found they never quite held together so well.  Back to Earth was a good proof-of-concept for a return series, though was about twice as long as it should have been.  The most recent series was better than BtE.