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HELLO FELLOW RED DWARF & THEATER NERD!!! I HAVE ADDITIONS TO YOUR ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL LIST:
You’re the Top from Anything Goes. It gives season 7 Lister and Kochanski hyping each other up. I FEED on their friendship dynamic because they’re both so good for one another. They need that healthy balance of Kochanski being a productive icon and Lister being... Lister!
Best Worst Mistake from If/Then. Need I say it? Rimster 100%.
Maybe This Time from Cabaret. This is very much Rimmer lamenting about how he’s never had anything good. On how no one ever loved him because he was never good enough and how much that hurt him, but how deep down, he still has a shred of hope that maybe someday, he’ll finally win at something.
King Herod’s Song from Jesus Christ Superstar. This one may be a bit of a random take, but hear me out: season 1 Cat. The absolute disappointment of finding out your God is just some guy. Some standard guy that can't even do cool tricks.
I’m Calm from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. ARNOLD RIMMER CODED ASF. This man being like ‘oh yeah I’m fine I’m chill’ and then screaming and crying two seconds later. Rimmer and Hysterium have the same level of mental stability fr fr (although ik Rimmer is worse off).
Put on a Happy Face from Bye Bye Birdie. Lister singing this to Rimmer to be absolutely insufferable because he wants Rimmer to stop being such a miserable bastard. Then Lister forces him to dance and Rimmer starts smiling and Lister is like 'HA I GOT YOU!'
Nothing from A Chorus Line. This is another stretch one but the whole energy of this song really screams Kryten to me. I think he'd appreciate the idea of trying to feel something that everyone else can only to find that he can't in fact. He'd sing this under the circumstances of trying to learn basic feelings back when he was first found and not being able to find anything in himself.
Something Good from the Sound Of Music. Rimster if ever I did see it! Rimmer singing this while thinking about how despite the fact that his whole life has been a series of mistakes and failures, Lister has been the one good thing in his life. Lister singing back to Rimmer about how even though he's lost everything else, he still has Rimmer. They're still there, loving each other, despite everything that has happened.
But Not for Me from An American in Paris. OHHHH WHEN I TELL YOU THIS IS SO SEASON 8 NANO-RIMMER AND KOCHANSKI DUET!!! Nano-Rimmer singing as Adam about how he's not the right Rimmer for the Lister in this universe because this Lister is still in love with the Rimmer that went off as Ace. Meanwhile, Kochanski as Milo sings for her Dave who's off in the other universe while she's stuck here, doomed to go on without him. They're both stuck with the knowledge that there are others getting happy endings out there, but neither of them will ever get the ending that they wanted.
If You Were Gay from Avenue Q. Rimster but in their canon-typical stupid fashion. Lister being like 'omg hahaha what if you were gay?' and Rimmer taking it insanely personal and being like 'WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT I AM NOT GAY I WILL NEVER BE GAY WHAT EVEN IS GAY HAHAHHA...' while knowing full well he is totally gay.
AAAA THIS WAS SO FUN TO YAP ABOUT :3 THANK YOU FOR MAKING THAT OG POST BECAUSE I HAD A GRAND TIME ADDING ON!!!
Been imagining the Red Dwarf crew being in songs from musicals.
Like for example:
Waving Through a Window from Dear Evan Hansen. Basically sums Rimmer’s loneliness quiet nicely and how ignored he has been his entire life. How there’s a window between him and the rest of the crew and/or the rest of the world. And it gets worse when he becomes a hologram because there’s a barrier between the dead and the living.
There Right There from Legally Blonde is wild ride. As I imagine the Cat, Kryten, Holly and Kochanski all debating whether Rimmer is either Gay or European whilst Lister is standing in the corner waiting for his big dramatic solo at the end.
Your Fault from Into The Woods. The whole Red Dwarf crew just pointing fingers at each other for some absurd reason. Lister as Jack. Rimmer as the Baker. Cat as Little Red Riding Hood. Kryten as Cinderella. Either Kochanski or Holly as the Witch.
Tears to Shed from The Corpse Bride. Rimmer just brooding jealousy and hurt as he feels he can’t compare to an alive Kochanski for Lister. Set between series 8 and BTE. I would like Female Holly and Kryten are consoling him because they’re all electronic life forms. The Cat wouldn’t be involved since he wouldn’t care.
Anything You Can Do from Annie Get Your Gun. Just a whole funny singsong argument of Rimmer and Lister trying to one up each other. As they always do of course.
I have plenty more examples cus I find it fun trying to fit the Red Dwarf crew in any musical song.
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Spoilers for 'Red Dwarf: Last Human"
I have just finished last human for a second time and I am newly remembering how much the ending irritated me. Like, this man who just found out he is a father and saved all your lives, is dead and when you figure out that you have another luck virus serum you don't think that perhaps get that luck to save your friend. Instead they choose to use the luck to have children. Which sure, it is important but that doesn't change the fact that they took A SIP EACH! They didn't both need luck, Lister just needed the luck that he would still be able to have kids. They could have had another sip of luck and found perhaps a spare light bee OR even a way that they could fix the mauled light bee, because that would be incredibly lucky. But no, they use both the sips for kids.
I guess they could have done that afterwards in the story but they didn't tell us that so all we can do is theorise and not have it confirmed whether they did or did not save Rimmer.
I am very upset with how it ended, so know I'm going to reread 'Infinity welcomes careful drivers' for the third time.
This may have been incoherent jibberish but thank you for reading my rant. 😊
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Smegtober Day 30 - Betrayal
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