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Watching Lister's progression from t-boy swag to t-man swag healed something in me

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Successor

(Poster under the cut bcs I put my whole ass into it.)

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Red Dwarf // S07E02: Stoke Me a Clipper

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Rimmer in Marooned: "The only thing I lost when I was twelve were my shoes with a compass in the heel and animal tracks on the sole...I cried for weeks."

I thought at first he meant the compass was part of the pattern, but I googled shoes with compass in the heel...they were real! From the 1960s.

so, did the compass come out....or did you have to take your shoe off and point them north???

Anyway, 12 year old Rimmer sounds so sweet with his animal track shoes.

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Actual real dialogue from Back in the Red (don't check just trust me)

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I like how we canonically know the boys' fursonas

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In Red Dwarf, they rebuilt the sets between seasons 2 and 3, including the sleeping quarters. The change was never mentioned within the text of the show, but the new sets are labelled as "officers quarters" and are slightly bigger, with room for Lister to put a fridge and cooker into the space. So the implication is that at some point between the end of season 2 and the start of season 3, the characters decided to move to the nicer, slightly bigger officers quarters instead of staying in the room they were using when the rest of the crew were alive.

There are several other things implied by this.

Firstly, there's the decontamination. In the season 1 episode Confidence and Paranoia, Lister gets sick because he goes to the officers deck to snoop around when it hasn't been decontaminated. There's a discussion between Lister and Rimmer where it's stated that it was on Rimmer's daily goal list a week ago to decontaminate it. In response, Rimmer announces that it's on tomorrow's daily goal list.

The fact that the end of season 1 and the entirety of season 2 happens between this conversation and the change in sets implies that Rimmer took over a year to get around to doing the task that he put on tomorrow's to do list. Honestly, mood.

There is another possibility. Season 3 reintroduces Kryten and we first see the new sleeping quarters after Kryten has joined the crew. So it's possible that Rimmer never got around to decontaminating the officers deck, and that the reason they were able to move in season 3 was because Kryten was the person who actually finished the job.

The other thing to mention is the fact that Rimmer and Lister are still sharing a room after the move. I can't remember the exact size of the crew, but I think there's a mention in an early episode of there being more than a hundred people on the ship. So there are enough beds free that they could easily have a room to themselves. The fact that Rimmer moves in with himself in Me2 is evidence of this. Rimmer and Lister chose to move quarters between the end of season 2 and the start of season 3, and yet, despite how much they claim to dislike each other, they chose to continue sharing a room.

Obviously the doylist explanation for this is that it's a lot harder to have a sitcom when two of the characters can easily avoid each other the entire time, but from a watsonian perspective, it has some interesting implications about the fact that, despite everything, Lister and Rimmer will continue to share space with each other even when they clearly don't have to.

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Current state of da bunk room. I'm coping with the heat by putting Lister in cute summer outfits. 🔥😭

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real sadists understand that you can torture The Character simply by forcing them to live with themself

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Silly rimmer doodle thingy i drew over for an edit :3

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THE EDIT IS DONE!!!

First ever edit and i’m pretty proud of how it turned out :]

(Also the watermark is for a new tiktok account i’m making for my edits 👍)

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And because tumblr is my favourite i won’t show you guys the sad edit i made first 😇🫶

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I had torturous thoughts of “what ifs” about them whilst making this

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the red dwarf crew has been transported to the wonderful world of chiikawa. there's no going back, they are like this forever now.

(from left to right) rimmer is a deer, lister is a sheep, cat is a cat, kryten is modeled off a meerkat, and kochanski is a horse.

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This is categorically untrue

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had a super long dream where kochanski was a hologram and she and rimmer started dating & got married and lister was extremely livid about it and tried to shut rimmer off with varying degrees of success... eventually they had their wedding though in the most gray break room of all time. one cute thing is that kris gave rimmer an emerald ring so he changed his outfit so that it would match. I'm just sitting here like welp I guess that was a lovely wedding and I can't be mad it worked out for them fhfkfjfgn

...also at one point they were reading together and discovered they were both reading the same horse girl book series and I was like you know what it does make a lot of sense that rimmer would be a horse girl actually. also apparently books in the red dwarf universe have AR (as in augmented reality/pokemon go type) capabilities because kris had to figure out how to turn off the highlighted pages in her book and that was kind of a fun mundane scifi idea