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	'''Krystine Kochanski:''' The original Krystine Kochanski was a navigation officer aboard Red Dwarf; another British "lower class" girl who'd made something of herself by applying to Red Dwarf, whom Lister pined after from afar. Later it was retconned that she was an ex-girlfriend Lister wished to somehow gain back, because the writers thought that having him fixated on a girl who he never even asked out was too pathetic. During the events of season 7, a Krystine from a parallel dimension where ''she'' was Red Dwarf's lone survivor accidentally stumbles through a rift in dimensions and is inadvertently trapped on Starbug with the Boyz - much to her disgust. She stuck around for seasons 7 and 8, and then the movie "Back to Earth" established that she ran away to find a way back to her own dimension during the events of "the missing season 9", leaving Lister to think she was dead. This parallel Krystine is much more uppercrust and refined than her counterpart, but the two are treated as all but identical, since strong continuity isn't one of Red Dwarf's strongest points.		'''Krystine Kochanski:''' The original Krystine Kochanski was a navigation officer aboard Red Dwarf; another British "lower class" girl who'd made something of herself by applying to Red Dwarf, whom Lister pined after from afar. Later it was retconned that she was an ex-girlfriend Lister wished to somehow gain back, because the writers thought that having him fixated on a girl who he never even asked out was too pathetic. During the events of season 7, a Krystine from a parallel dimension where ''she'' was Red Dwarf's lone survivor accidentally stumbles through a rift in dimensions and is inadvertently trapped on Starbug with the Boyz - much to her disgust. She stuck around for seasons 7 and 8, and then the movie "Back to Earth" established that she ran away to find a way back to her own dimension during the events of "the missing season 9", leaving Lister to think she was dead. This parallel Krystine is much more uppercrust and refined than her counterpart, but the two are treated as all but identical, since strong continuity isn't one of Red Dwarf's strongest points.

	'''Ace Rimmer:''' A version of Rimmer from an alternate timeline where he actually managed to get over all his neuroses. "Ace" Rimmer is a brave and heroic starship pilot who was given the opportunity to test a ship capable of travelling between dimensions. The first dimension he travelled to was the prime Red Dwarf timeline, where he quickly befriended the crew and earned the resentment and envy of prime Rimmer. A later episode revealed that he became an interdimensional hero, who upon his death would be succeeded by another timelines' Rimmer. This was used to write Rimmer out of the show for Season 7, as the duty now fell on him to become the new Ace (even though he is likely the worst of all possible Rimmers). One of the series' most memorable characters, even if he only appeared in three episodes.		'''Ace Rimmer:''' A version of Rimmer from an alternate timeline where he actually managed to get over all his neuroses. "Ace" Rimmer is a brave and heroic starship pilot who was given the opportunity to test a ship capable of travelling between dimensions. The first dimension he travelled to was the prime Red Dwarf timeline, where he quickly befriended the crew and earned the resentment and envy of prime Rimmer. A later episode revealed that he became an [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXYfnWRp1Q0 interdimensional hero], who upon his death would be succeeded by another timelines' Rimmer. This was used to write Rimmer out of the show for Season 7, as the duty now fell on him to become the new Ace (even though he is likely the worst of all possible Rimmers). One of the series' most memorable characters, even if he only appeared in three episodes.

	==TV vs. Novels==		==TV vs. Novels==

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	==The Plot==		==The Plot==
	In a not-too-distant future, humanity has colonized the solar system, and a megacorp called the Jupiter Mining Corporation runs a fleet of massive sub-light ships which flit around the system, snaffling up asteroids and breaking them down into usable minerals to then sell to the ever-resource hungry consumers of humanity. One such mining ship is the ''Red Dwarf'', and amongst its crew of hundreds of miners and support staff, our protagonist is the lowest of the low; Dave Lister, a genial but unambitious bloke from Liverpool, stuck with the rank of 3rd technician whilst dreaming of the day he can return to Earth and buy a plot of land on Fiji, where he will keep a hobby farm and run a hot-dog & donut diner. This despite the fact most of Fiji has been sunken about a meter beneath sea level by volcanic eruption. Technician 3rd Class is the lowest rank aboard ship, and just about qualifies him for the most pathetic of maintenance tasks, such as restocking the candy vending machines with fun-sized chocolate-covered honeycomb pieces and cleaning the gunk out of soup dispensing tubes from the various auto-chefs scattered around the ship. In Dave's own words this makes him lower down the ship's pecking order than the Scutters - the simple service mechs that infest the ship like rats and consist of a primitive, three-fingered gripping claw on a little four-wheeled body - and the guys who restock the toilet paper. The only person of equally low rank is his immediate superior; Arnold J. Rimmer, Technician 2nd Class and the ship's resident smeghead.		In a not-too-distant future, humanity has colonized the solar system, and a megacorp called the Jupiter Mining Corporation runs a fleet of massive sub-light ships which flit around the system, snaffling up asteroids and breaking them down into usable minerals to then sell to the ever-resource hungry consumers of humanity. One such mining ship is the ''Red Dwarf'', and amongst its crew of hundreds of miners and support staff, our protagonist is the lowest of the low; Dave Lister, a genial but unambitious bloke from Liverpool, stuck with the rank of 3rd technician whilst dreaming of the day he can return to Earth and buy a plot of land on Fiji, where he will keep a hobby farm and run a hot-dog & donut diner. This despite the fact most of Fiji has been sunken about a meter beneath sea level by volcanic eruption ('That's why the sheep are going to have to be quite tall'). Technician 3rd Class is the lowest rank aboard ship, and just about qualifies him for the most pathetic of maintenance tasks, such as restocking the candy vending machines with fun-sized chocolate-covered honeycomb pieces and cleaning the gunk out of soup dispensing tubes from the various auto-chefs scattered around the ship. In Dave's own words this makes him lower down the ship's pecking order than the Scutters - the simple service mechs that infest the ship like rats and consist of a primitive, three-fingered gripping claw on a little four-wheeled body - and the guys who restock the toilet paper. The only person of equally low rank is his immediate superior; Arnold J. Rimmer, Technician 2nd Class and the ship's resident smeghead.

	Aside from a crush on a navigation officer named Kristine Kochanski, whom he pines after from afar, Lister's primary friends are a couple of comparatively low-level roughnecks like himself, and a heavily pregnant pet cat. As our series starts, this illegal pet is discovered by the ship's captain, who demands that Lister give the animal to them to be destroyed, or else he will spend the rest of the Red Dwarf's flight in temporal stasis before being fired once they get back to Earth. Dave chooses the latter... and is greatly confused when time restarts itself and Holly, the ship's controlling AI, greets him with the welcome that the radiation levels are now safe.		Aside from a crush on a navigation officer named Kristine Kochanski, whom he pines after from afar, Lister's primary friends are a couple of comparatively low-level roughnecks like himself, and a heavily pregnant pet cat. As our series starts, this illegal pet is discovered by the ship's captain, who demands that Lister give the animal to them to be destroyed, or else he will spend the rest of the Red Dwarf's flight in temporal stasis before being fired once they get back to Earth. Dave chooses the latter... and is greatly confused when time restarts itself and Holly, the ship's controlling AI, greets him with the welcome that the radiation levels are now safe.
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	'''Holly:''' The ship's Artificial Intelligence, Holly basically runs the ship by himself, but doing it entirely on his own, and having been alone for 3 million years, has left him more than a little daft. He is a regular protagonist in the first two seasons, then undergoes a sex change and becomes a blonde-haired woman for seasons 3-5, during which time her senility seems to advance notably, as she's even dumber than the original Holly. During seasons 6 and 7, Holly is lost when Red Dwarf is stolen, whilst in seasons 10-12, he's been shorted out and doesn't interact with anyone.		'''Holly:''' The ship's Artificial Intelligence, Holly basically runs the ship by himself, but doing it entirely on his own, and having been alone for 3 million years, has left him more than a little daft. He is a regular protagonist in the first two seasons, then undergoes a sex change and becomes a blonde-haired woman for seasons 3-5, during which time her senility seems to advance notably, as she's even dumber than the original Holly. During seasons 6 and 7, Holly is lost when Red Dwarf is stolen, whilst in seasons 10-12, he's been shorted out and doesn't interact with anyone.

	'''Krystine Kochanski:''' The original Krystine Kochanski was a navigation officer aboard Red Dwarf; another British "lower class" girl who'd made something of herself by applying to Red Dwarf, whom Lister pined after from afar. During the events of season 7, a Krystine from a parallel dimension where ''she'' was Red Dwarf's lone survivor accidentally stumbles through a rift in dimensions and is inadvertently trapped on Starbug with the Boyz - much to her disgust. She stuck around for seasons 7 and 8, and then the movie "Back to Earth" established that she ran away to find a way back to her own dimension during the events of "the missing season 9", leaving Lister to think she was dead. This parallel Krystine is much more uppercrust and refined than her counterpart, but the two are treated as all but identical, since strong continuity isn't one of Red Dwarf's strongest points.		'''Krystine Kochanski:''' The original Krystine Kochanski was a navigation officer aboard Red Dwarf; another British "lower class" girl who'd made something of herself by applying to Red Dwarf, whom Lister pined after from afar. Later it was retconned that she was an ex-girlfriend Lister wished to somehow gain back, because the writers thought that having him fixated on a girl who he never even asked out was too pathetic. During the events of season 7, a Krystine from a parallel dimension where ''she'' was Red Dwarf's lone survivor accidentally stumbles through a rift in dimensions and is inadvertently trapped on Starbug with the Boyz - much to her disgust. She stuck around for seasons 7 and 8, and then the movie "Back to Earth" established that she ran away to find a way back to her own dimension during the events of "the missing season 9", leaving Lister to think she was dead. This parallel Krystine is much more uppercrust and refined than her counterpart, but the two are treated as all but identical, since strong continuity isn't one of Red Dwarf's strongest points.

	'''Ace Rimmer:''' A version of Rimmer from an alternate timeline where he actually managed to get over all his neuroses. "Ace" Rimmer is a brave and heroic starship pilot who was given the opportunity to test a ship capable of travelling between dimensions. The first dimension he travelled to was the prime Red Dwarf timeline, where he quickly befriended the crew and earned the resentment and envy of prime Rimmer. A later episode revealed that he became an interdimensional hero, who upon his death would be succeeded by another timelines' Rimmer. This was used to write Rimmer out of the show for Season 7, as the duty now fell on him to become the new Ace (even though he is likely the worst of all possible Rimmers). One of the series' most memorable characters, even if he only appeared in three episodes.		'''Ace Rimmer:''' A version of Rimmer from an alternate timeline where he actually managed to get over all his neuroses. "Ace" Rimmer is a brave and heroic starship pilot who was given the opportunity to test a ship capable of travelling between dimensions. The first dimension he travelled to was the prime Red Dwarf timeline, where he quickly befriended the crew and earned the resentment and envy of prime Rimmer. A later episode revealed that he became an interdimensional hero, who upon his death would be succeeded by another timelines' Rimmer. This was used to write Rimmer out of the show for Season 7, as the duty now fell on him to become the new Ace (even though he is likely the worst of all possible Rimmers). One of the series' most memorable characters, even if he only appeared in three episodes.
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	Because the books can go into details that the TV show couldn't, they showcase a more serious and [[grimdark]] depiction of the Red Dwarf multiverse. For example of the serious: in the show, Lister getting caught out over his cat seemed like a mixture of bad luck and stupidity; in the novels, it's a deliberate plan on Lister's behalf due to his expanded backstory - he got stranded on Mimas (one of Saturn's moons) after getting '''incredibly''' fucking drunk on a birthday pubcrawl in Liverpool and he only joined up with the Red Dwarf to try and get back to Earth for free; then he learned that it would take years before the ship would get there again, and he'd be required to work with Rimmer all that time, so he came up with a plan to get put into stasis so he could skip all that and just finally get home. For an example of the grimdark: Lister's first encounter with Rimmer's hologram recreation isn't until ''after'' the experience of being stuck all alone aboard ship with nobody to talk to or interact with causes him to fall into a deep drunken depression.		Because the books can go into details that the TV show couldn't, they showcase a more serious and [[grimdark]] depiction of the Red Dwarf multiverse. For example of the serious: in the show, Lister getting caught out over his cat seemed like a mixture of bad luck and stupidity; in the novels, it's a deliberate plan on Lister's behalf due to his expanded backstory - he got stranded on Mimas (one of Saturn's moons) after getting '''incredibly''' fucking drunk on a birthday pubcrawl in Liverpool and he only joined up with the Red Dwarf to try and get back to Earth for free; then he learned that it would take years before the ship would get there again, and he'd be required to work with Rimmer all that time, so he came up with a plan to get put into stasis so he could skip all that and just finally get home. For an example of the grimdark: Lister's first encounter with Rimmer's hologram recreation isn't until ''after'' the experience of being stuck all alone aboard ship with nobody to talk to or interact with causes him to fall into a deep drunken depression.

			Of note is the fact in the novels that Lister finally gets back to Earth... [[Grimdark\|Only to discover that mankind turned the entire planet into a colossal garbage dump inhabited by giant cockroaches, and its implied the planet itself has developed a sentience that hates humanity for ruining it]].

	==A Bleak, Hostile Universe==		==A Bleak, Hostile Universe==

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			{{British}}

	'''Red Dwarf''' is one of the best known cult British sci-fi TV shows that aren't [[Doctor Who]], a "science comedy" series that only got green-lit by convincing the BBC it was going to make fun of sci-fi shows, such as the mega-hit [[Star Trek]], but which developed a cult following for its unique blend of pseudo-hard sci-fi, black comedy, slapstick, and enough clever tech and space-related jokes to show the creators A: knew the science they were talking about, and B: were having plenty of fun taking the piss out of it all. It was sort of a live-action Futurama before Futurama was a thing, for any anons that still remember Futurama ''being'' a thing.		'''Red Dwarf''' is one of the best known cult British sci-fi TV shows that aren't [[Doctor Who]], a "science comedy" series that only got green-lit by convincing the BBC it was going to make fun of sci-fi shows, such as the mega-hit [[Star Trek]], but which developed a cult following for its unique blend of pseudo-hard sci-fi, black comedy, slapstick, and enough clever tech and space-related jokes to show the creators A: knew the science they were talking about, and B: were having plenty of fun taking the piss out of it all. It was sort of a live-action Futurama before Futurama was a thing, for any anons that still remember Futurama ''being'' a thing.

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The Plot

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	Aside from a crush on a navigation officer named Kristine Kochanski, whom he pines after from afar, Lister's primary friends are a couple of comparatively low-level roughnecks like himself, and a heavily pregnant pet cat. As our series starts, this illegal pet is discovered by the ship's captain, who demands that Lister give the animal to them to be destroyed, or else he will spend the rest of the Red Dwarf's flight in temporal stasis before being fired once they get back to Earth. Dave chooses the latter... and is greatly confused when time restarts itself and Holly, the ship's controlling AI, greets him with the welcome that the radiation levels are now safe.		Aside from a crush on a navigation officer named Kristine Kochanski, whom he pines after from afar, Lister's primary friends are a couple of comparatively low-level roughnecks like himself, and a heavily pregnant pet cat. As our series starts, this illegal pet is discovered by the ship's captain, who demands that Lister give the animal to them to be destroyed, or else he will spend the rest of the Red Dwarf's flight in temporal stasis before being fired once they get back to Earth. Dave chooses the latter... and is greatly confused when time restarts itself and Holly, the ship's controlling AI, greets him with the welcome that the radiation levels are now safe.

	See, once Lister went into stasis, for some insane reason, Rimmer was given responsibility for performing maintenance on the shielding surrounding the ship's lethally radioactive core. Rimmer, being an even bigger incompetent than Lister (whose primary fault is a lack of ambition), botched the job and ~~causes~~ a massive radiation leak that killed the entire crew and sent Holly, as per safety regulations, rocketing on an unplotted course into deep space until the background radiation levels reached a safe level. It only took a mere '''3 million years''' for this to happen, and by now the Red Dwarf is hopelessly lost somewhere in deep space.		See, once Lister went into stasis, for some insane reason, Rimmer was given responsibility for performing maintenance on the shielding surrounding the ship's lethally radioactive core. Rimmer, being an even bigger incompetent than Lister (whose primary fault is a lack of ambition), botched the job and caused a massive radiation leak that killed the entire crew and sent Holly, as per safety regulations, rocketing on an unplotted course into deep space until the background radiation levels reached a safe level. It only took a mere '''3 million years''' for this to happen, and by now the Red Dwarf is hopelessly lost somewhere in deep space.

	Rather than give in to despair, Lister assembles a small crew of crazies around himself and sets off to try and find Earth again, determined to see what has become of humanity over the eons. No matter what dangers or batshit crazy things he has to get past to do it.		Rather than give in to despair, Lister assembles a small crew of crazies around himself and sets off to try and find Earth again, determined to see what has become of humanity over the eons. No matter what dangers or batshit crazy things he has to get past to do it.

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The Plot

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	Aside from a crush on a navigation officer named Kristine Kochanski, whom he pines after from afar, Lister's primary friends are a couple of comparatively low-level roughnecks like himself, and a heavily pregnant pet cat. As our series starts, this illegal pet is discovered by the ship's captain, who demands that Lister give the animal to them to be destroyed, or else he will spend the rest of the Red Dwarf's flight in temporal stasis before being fired once they get back to Earth. Dave chooses the latter... and is greatly confused when time restarts itself and Holly, the ship's controlling AI, greets him with the welcome that the radiation levels are now safe.		Aside from a crush on a navigation officer named Kristine Kochanski, whom he pines after from afar, Lister's primary friends are a couple of comparatively low-level roughnecks like himself, and a heavily pregnant pet cat. As our series starts, this illegal pet is discovered by the ship's captain, who demands that Lister give the animal to them to be destroyed, or else he will spend the rest of the Red Dwarf's flight in temporal stasis before being fired once they get back to Earth. Dave chooses the latter... and is greatly confused when time restarts itself and Holly, the ship's controlling AI, greets him with the welcome that the radiation levels are now safe.

	See, once Lister went into stasis, for some insane reason, Rimmer was given responsibility for performing maintenance on the shielding surrounding the ship's lethally radioactive core. Rimmer being an even bigger incompetent than Lister, whose primary fault is a lack of ambition, ~~Rimmer~~ botched the job and causes a massive radiation leak that killed the entire crew and sent Holly, as per safety regulations, rocketing on an unplotted course into deep space until the background radiation levels reached a safe level. It only took a mere '''3 million years''' for this to happen, and by now the Red Dwarf is hopelessly lost somewhere in deep space.		See, once Lister went into stasis, for some insane reason, Rimmer was given responsibility for performing maintenance on the shielding surrounding the ship's lethally radioactive core. Rimmer, being an even bigger incompetent than Lister (whose primary fault is a lack of ambition), botched the job and causes a massive radiation leak that killed the entire crew and sent Holly, as per safety regulations, rocketing on an unplotted course into deep space until the background radiation levels reached a safe level. It only took a mere '''3 million years''' for this to happen, and by now the Red Dwarf is hopelessly lost somewhere in deep space.

	Rather than give in to despair, Lister assembles a small crew of crazies around himself and sets off to try and find Earth again, determined to see what has become of humanity over the eons. No matter what dangers or batshit crazy things he has to get past to do it.		Rather than give in to despair, Lister assembles a small crew of crazies around himself and sets off to try and find Earth again, determined to see what has become of humanity over the eons. No matter what dangers or batshit crazy things he has to get past to do it.

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	'''Red Dwarf''' is one of the best known cult British sci-fi TV shows that aren't [[Doctor Who]], a "science comedy" series that only got green-lit by convincing the BBC it was going to make fun of sci-fi shows, such as the mega-hit [[Star Trek]], but which developed a cult following for its unique blend of pseudo-hard sci-fi, black comedy, slapstick, and enough clever tech and space-related jokes to show the creators A: knew the science they were talking about, and B: were having plenty of fun taking the piss out of it all. It was sort of a live-action Futurama before Futurama was a thing, for any anons that still remember Futurama ''being'' a thing.		'''Red Dwarf''' is one of the best known cult British sci-fi TV shows that aren't [[Doctor Who]], a "science comedy" series that only got green-lit by convincing the BBC it was going to make fun of sci-fi shows, such as the mega-hit [[Star Trek]], but which developed a cult following for its unique blend of pseudo-hard sci-fi, black comedy, slapstick, and enough clever tech and space-related jokes to show the creators A: knew the science they were talking about, and B: were having plenty of fun taking the piss out of it all. It was sort of a live-action Futurama before Futurama was a thing, for any anons that still remember Futurama ''being'' a thing.

1d4chan>LiVetoair: /* Okay, but is it any good? */ Making things clearer/more readable.

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	==Okay, but is it any good?==		==Okay, but is it any good?==
	~~In short, yes.~~		Red Dwarf is a cult classic for many reasons, the first of which is that it's one of the most unique sci-fi shows out there. When the show finally finds its legs, it's got some of the most fun, interesting and clever uses of sci-fi tropes and world-building that can be seen in sci-fi television. The comedic nature of the show means it's tonally justified in being goofy and weird, but it still plays by its own internal logic, for the most part, taking its concept and running with it. It's a space comedy, but when it comes to the science fiction elements it doesn't lose out. The show can hold its own, up there with the likes of Star Trek, Farscape and other deep space romps...

	Red Dwarf is a cult classic for many reasons, the first of which is that it's one of the most unique sci-fi shows out there. When the show finally finds its legs, it's got some of the most fun, interesting and clever uses of sci-fi tropes and world-building ~~out there~~. The comedic nature of the show means it's tonally justified in being goofy and weird, but it still plays by its own internal logic, for the most part, taking its concept and running with it. It's a space comedy, but when it comes to the science fiction elements it doesn't lose out. The show can hold its own, up there with the likes of Star Trek, Farscape and other deep space romps...

	...however...		...however...

	The show itself was plagued with difficulties. For one, the BBC has, historically, never been very good at handling its science fiction shows (just look at Dr. Who ~~in the 1980s~~). This meant that the creators and actors felt pretty ostracised by the network and, despite their critical success, they never really received any recognition.		The show itself was plagued with difficulties. For one, the BBC has, historically, never been very good at handling its science fiction shows (just look at vintage Dr. Who). This meant that the creators and actors felt pretty ostracised by the network and, despite their critical and commercial success, they never really received any recognition from the station.

	This, along with a fair share of creative disputes and many, sometimes decade-long, hiatuses, lead to the show changing styles and production elements pretty much season to season. [[skub\|This has lead to great debate within the community over which seasons are considered "good" or even "worthwhile".]]		This, along with a fair share of creative disputes and many, sometimes decade-long, hiatuses, lead to the show changing styles and production elements pretty much season to season. [[skub\|This has lead to great debate within the community over which seasons are considered "good" or even "worthwhile".]]

	For the sake of neutrality, this section will not pass judgement on the quality of each respective season, but instead provide a guide to the ~~general~~ "eras" of the TV show. These Eras are; seasons ~~one and two~~, a Douglas-Adams-style absurdist sitcom; seasons 3-7 which more of a space comedy (~~with~~ season 7 ~~veering~~ into comedy drama); season 8, which is a sitcom again, but with a ~~more concrete~~ plot-line; season 9, a three-part meta-textual blade runner parody (pretty [[skub]]); seasons 10-12, a return to the original space comedy formula of "classic Dwarf"; and season 13, which is not a season, but a feature length TV movie.		For the sake of neutrality, this section will not pass judgement on the quality of each respective season, but instead provide a guide to the "eras" of the TV show. These Eras are; seasons 1&2, a Douglas-Adams-style absurdist sitcom; seasons 3-7 which are more of a space comedy (season 7 veers into comedy-drama, though); season 8, which is a sitcom again, but now with a plot-line; season 9, a three-part meta-textual blade runner parody (actually pretty [[skub]]); seasons 10-12, a return to the original space comedy formula of "classic Dwarf"; and season 13, which is not a season, but a feature length TV movie.

	Now~~, with that fair warning out of the way,~~ go watch ~~Red Dwarf~~!		tl;dr: Yes. Red Dwarf is good. Now go watch it, smegger!

	==/tg/ Relevance==		==/tg/ Relevance==

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Okay, but is it any good?

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	In short, yes.		In short, yes.

	Red Dwarf is ~~undoubtedly~~ one of the most unique sci-fi shows out there. When the show finally finds its legs, it's got some of the most fun, interesting and clever uses of sci-fi tropes and world-building. The comedic nature of the show means it ~~has a tonal excuse to be~~ goofy and weird, but it still plays by its own internal logic, for the most part, taking its concept and running with it.		Red Dwarf is a cult classic for many reasons, the first of which is that it's one of the most unique sci-fi shows out there. When the show finally finds its legs, it's got some of the most fun, interesting and clever uses of sci-fi tropes and world-building out there. The comedic nature of the show means it's tonally justified in being goofy and weird, but it still plays by its own internal logic, for the most part, taking its concept and running with it. It's a space comedy, but when it comes to the science fiction elements it doesn't lose out. The show can hold its own, up there with the likes of Star Trek, Farscape and other deep space romps...

	...however...		...however...