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Release Date: 25 February, 2003 Retail Price: $34.98 OUR Price: $31.48 You SAVE: $3.50! Cast: |
Red Dwarf - Series 1 Reviews
If you have the time
I was so excited to watch the Red Dwarf Series. My brother had introduced me to the first few episodes as a child, and I only recently took the time to go any further.
I found the beginning fantastic. Lister (the lowest ranking technician on an immense mining ship, Red Dwarf) becomes locked away in a stasis field for 3,000,000 years to find out that he is the only man alive. His only companions are the ship's computer Holly, Cat, a "dangerously cool" evolution of the cat race, and the Hologram of his superior technician and enemy, Rimmer.
The first and second seasons actually have some direction. Lister wants to go back to Earth and live on Figi. The second episode shows you into the future and further sparks your curiosity. There are some important developments in these first two seasons.
Then seasons 3-6 are purely fillers. The story is going absolutely nowhere, the situations are ridiculously unrelated to the rest of the series. It is a really disappointment. The characters and past parts of the story sometimes just change with no apparent reasoning. It was like the writers couldn't make up their minds. Though most of the humor is wit, stupid, dry sexual inuendos become rampant.
Seasons 7 and 8 do pick up the main story a bit and there are some episodes worth watching. The series ends with season 8 on this HUGE cliffhanger, which doesn't bother me too much because the writer is making a movie to continue the series (for which preparations are taking WAY too long).
Don't get me wrong, the wit is great. Just be prepared for a long ride.
I give Red Dwarf a 3. Pros are the premise and wit. Cons are the lame filler episodes.
Season II much better; skip this one
Corny punchlines, stupid jokes, cheap sets, and large and not infrequent plot holes kinda ruined this for me. Forget season I; you won't miss it. I highly recomend the second season and, well, everything past that. It gets way better later on, despite the replacement of Norman Lovett : ( . And I mean _WAY_ better. Buy them now.
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