A REVIEW OF
RED DWARF VIII:
EPISODE IV: CASSANDRA
EPISODE V: KRYTIE TV
EPISODE VI: PETE I
EPISODE VII: PETE II
AND
EPISODE VIII: ONLY THE GOOD
BY MARIE BIRCH
EPISODE IV: CASSANDRA
And so we start off in the Prison Colony in this
episode of Red Dwarf VIII entitled Cassandra. We work out that
Holly also has the privilege of sharing Rimmer and
Lister's cell room, because Lister needs to know if Holly can work out a way to
get them all out of this hell hole. Holly thinks that, via devoting all of his
run time to looking for a loop hole in the prison regulations, and thinks that
he may have come up with something, so they can serve their entire two year
sentence in just two weeks. Lister seems rather hopeful where this is
concerned, but when Holly suggests that he can only do this by becoming a dog,
Lister is a little bit more sceptical. The dog joke is reminiscent of the dog
joke in Future Echoes: Episode II, Red Dwarf I, via Lister showing the Cat his
slide show of his family, especially the ugly looking bull terrier, which is
the only shot that he has got of his Father, well his leg actually, along with
Hannah, their family pet. The cat is quite scared of the dog, and so he should
be, especially as Lister tells him that the dog is about eighteen feet long!
But Lister isn't really prepared to have a head sex change... He isn’t that
desperate, to get out, of jail, just yet...
THE
REST OF MY REPORT OF RED DWARF VIII WILL BE POSTPONED FOR TIME BEING, AS I HAVE
GOT OTHER PROJECTS TO WORK ON, FOR THE TIME BEING!
SINCERE
APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAUSED.
MARIE
BIRCH
EPISODE V: KRYTIE TV
EPISODE VI: PETE I (ORIGINALLY TITLED:
CAPTAINS' OFFICE)
EPISODE VII: PETE II (ORIGINALLY TITLED:
CAPTAINS' OFFICE)
We have
since worked out, that even though the crew, have been resurrected by the nanobots, a lot of them, in our opinion, do not seem all
there, somehow, and it is quite obvious, that the nanobots,
certainly did not, resurrect their personalities, one hundred per cent, and the
Prisoners who occupy the Prison Colony, are judged to be insane, which is quite
obvious, via another very short technical scene, where three of the Dwarfer's are now, having their meals, in the Prison Colony
Canteen. They are Kryten, Cat and Kochanski
and they are wearing different uniforms, which consists
of yellow inflated jackets, which make them look, like they are on a sailing
boat, but they are not on a sailing boat, obviously! Again, the Prison Canteen, is not a very nice place to be in, and it looks
like a very dark and dingy place, indeed. I have also since worked out, that
there is a lot of The Last Human in Red Dwarf VIII, especially where the Prison
Colony is concerned, which is just as foreboding as the Prison Colony in The
Last Human, where Lister was put in a great big pool and cryogenically frozen,
so he could exist in a landscape of his nightmares, and I did assume, before I
saw Red Dwarf VIII, that was what the scene, where they the Dwarfer's
were all welcomed to the Tank and that the Prison Guards were going to dump the
inmates into a tank and cryogenically freeze them, because the Tank's main
compound looked like a very steamy place, from the little that we saw of it,
via the monitors, but that is not the case, and the Prison Colony, in Red Dwarf
VIII, is a hell-hole in it's own right, anyway, as
you will soon find out, when you watch Red Dwarf VIII! However, the three Dwarfers are in this queue, behind a very big built man
indeed, in fact, the man is the size of a gigantic brick wall, when it actually
comes down to it, and he is not in a very good mood! And so, the three Dwarfer's are in the queue, wating
for their main meal of the day, but for some reason the cat has upset the very
big built man, and he ends up trying to insert the Cat's head into a food
dispenser, which is built like a microwave oven, and it's opening is like a
slit, and the Cat is in a very uncomfortable position indeed! The gigantic man
is being very abusive indeed, but fortunately his ill-treatment of the Cat
doesn't go on for too long, thank goodness, because the gigantic man orders hot
Bovril, which you can see, pouring down the poor Cat's face, in his very
cramped and uncomfortable position, in the food dispenser! And it seems that Kryten has some device, which freezes the prisoners,
including the fat man, which means that the Cat can remove his head from the
food dispenser and the Dwarfer's can escape from the
canteen. but not before Kryten does something with
the device to the man's food, and as a consequence, it seems that the prisoners
have forgotten all about the Dwarfers, just like
that, but we see the man who is now sitting with his friends and it seems that
there is now a live chicken on the table, creating havoc, which was obviously
created by the device! And, finally, the gigantic man, received, a punch on the
face, via one, of his Fellow Prisoners, into the bargain!
EPISODE VIII: ONLY THE GOOD
Marie
Birch
May 1999
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