Red Dwarf S1: Confidence and Paranoia Clip

[liz_marcs]

Thanks again to janedavitt for not only pointing me to DVD ripping software, but also for pointing me to Google Video so I could finally upload this.

You might remember my Buffy-verse Guilty Pleasure on S5's 'The Replacement'. This is the S1 Red Dwarf episode I compared it to, 'Confidence and Paranoia.'

Side Note: janedavitt been sharing the Red Dwarf love lately through her LJ. Go and show her some love for spreading the word on this bit of awesome.

I only uploaded a 10-minute clip, but it's the bit that best explains the comparison between Red Dwarf's 'Confidence and Paranoia' and Buffy's 'The Replacement.' I know it skips a few frames in the middle, but it's only so I could fit everything I wanted in a 10-minute time-frame.

It's under the cut. Enjoy!

On another front, RL has me tied up in knots at the moment, so actual think-y posts are short on the ground. Mostly because my brain is fried beyond belief.

Comments

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

I can't get over how young they look in this... and the 'Indling' song is awesome :;g::

Thank you for sharing in the squee! ::hugs::

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

What I can't get over is how much the sets changed from S1. Then again, they billed it as a SciFi series that could be shot in the halls of BBC Manchester. :-)

It's funny (at least to this Yank), just how freakin' huge Red Dwarf was in the U.K. (I think the cast talks about it on either the S1 or S2 DVD commentaries). Yet, here, Red Dwarf was pretty much a cult series that was so cult-y that it was basically a private club for "kwel kids." I remember back in the Usenet days, there were people who were huge fans of British SciFi series (Blake's 7 and Dr. Who), but had never heard of Red Dwarf at all.

It's such a weird mix of comedy and science fiction and Grant/Naylor kept deliberately playing with fire with the way they kept using television SF clichés, that I think it scared a lot of people off.

I think now that the DVDs have been released in the original format (without the annoying "updating" they did to the special effects in the late 1990s), more people are sort of finding it. A lot of PBS stations are no longer showing it (it is kind of old), and there's a few of us hard core fans around who've been talking about this crazy show for years. With Netflix and the DVDs freely available, now more people can sample it than back in the bad ol' days when you only saw it if your locak PBS station was hip.

Personally, I adore the commentary on the episodes myself (And every single episode gets one from the just about the whole cast! Awesome!). I think the earlier episode commentaries are better beause of the sheer honesty of it. Sheesh. The earlier years on that set were hella tense, weren't they? (I love them talking about 'Bodyswap' and how Chris Barrie and Craig Charles almost came to blows because they each thought the other one was making fun of them when they were acting out the parts of swapped Rimmer and Lister.)

The later commentaries aren't as much fun because Danny John-Jules spends too much time whining about the cast's present-day careers.

I only have up until S6, but I do plan to get the remaining two seasons. Eventually.

I've actually watched the whole series from S1 to S8 back-to-back, and much as S8 still bothers me because it explodes the whole concept of the show, there's a lot of good there. You can actually see just how flipping happy Craig Charles and Chris Barrie are to play off of each other again after their "trial separation" in S7. They recaptured a whole lot of their early season chemistry in S8 — which totally makes that last season for me.

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

There might actually be some of S8 I haven't seen as we'd left the UK when it aired so I am looking forward to that in a way, much though I didn't like the concept.

And, yes, the commentaries are great; so unstudied and off the cuff and they're all talking over each other, heh.

Interesting to get the POV of the US on it; thank you! And, yes, it was huge, bigger than Blake's 7 (which I adored; huge fan, bought all the books, had a mad crush on Paul Darrow as I was about 12) I'd say as it was more mainstream in a way.

[timeofchange.livejournal.com]

Red Dwarf clip!

*snggles you*

[jgracio.livejournal.com]

Oxygen is for losers! :D

[mbbthebest.livejournal.com]

appropriate quote, since I ran about out of air from laughing when the clip came at that line. :-P

I love this series.

[mochi-tsuki.livejournal.com]

No, no, no, no, nooooo. Must. Not. Watch. Red Dwarf. Again. There is not enough time for all the things I'm in the middle of watching now and I'm about to start Buffy and you, you evil woman you, post a clip to remind me how much I looooove Red Dwarf. Too cruel. *sniffles*

[debxena.livejournal.com]

"Another great idea from the people who brought you ... Beer Milkshakes!"

Ah, but it's great to see that again. I really need to get my hands on the DVD's :)