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* In the 'Meltdown' episode, "Leftenant" Elvis Presley served as Rimmer's Adjutant alongside Kryten. It didn't occur to me the first time viewing it, but after having subsequently learned more about the real Presley's life, a second viewing made it all the more obvious why this was: Elvis Presley served in the army. Some remnant of that in the Wax-Droid's programming likely put him a cut above the rest of his fellow "soldiers". Likewise, that may have also explained how he survived to the point where the Dwarfers arrived. He was too well known as a musician with no regard for his military service, in essence letting him fly under the radar of the Villain Army.
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* In the 'Meltdown' episode, "Leftenant" "Sergeant" Elvis Presley served as Rimmer's Adjutant alongside Kryten. It didn't occur to me the first time viewing it, but after having subsequently learned more about the real Presley's life, a second viewing made it all the more obvious why this was: Elvis Presley served in the army. Some remnant of that in the Wax-Droid's programming likely put him a cut above the rest of his fellow "soldiers". Likewise, that may have also explained how he survived to the point where the Dwarfers arrived. He was too well known as a musician with no regard for his military service, in essence letting him fly under the radar of the Villain Army.
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* In the Series III documentary, Craig Charles notes that at the end of "The Last Day", Lister equips himself with a SawedOffShotgun that was never seen before or since. Likely the reason Lister never used it again was because it proved completely ineffective against Hudzen 10, whereas the series' signature bazookoids are shown to be a more effective weapon.
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** There's also the practical consideration that Red Dwarf was going to be contaminated for three million years. Over that time, there was no telling how much humanity might expand out in to the universe. It's completely possible that, if faster than light travel were invented, that even parking the ship a couple of galaxies away wouldn't stop someone accidentally stumbling across it at some point during a three million year wait. If someone did find Red Dwarf, wherever it happened to be parked, there was no way to be sure that they'd be able to warn them not to board the ship (even assuming communications systems were still working, how do you know someone 2000 years from now will understand a message, let along 2,000,000?). Heading as far from Earth as possible, as fast as possible, gave them the best chance of not running in to anyone until the radiation levels were safe.
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*** Or, perhaps, Lister shares 50% of Kochanski's DNA, because she's his mother, and the other 50% is unique to him; he inherited it from himself. While under normal circumstances the odds that the specific genes that a man passes on to his son would be the exact same ones he got from his father would be practically infinitesimal, in this case the StableTimeLoop involved means that the probability would in fact be 100%; it's effectively ''already happened''. Keep in mind, Lister was conceived by IVF, not by cloning; he '''can't''' have inherited all his genes from one side.
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** The first book goes a little further into how holograms are treated. Because of the expense required in terms of electricity generation (the equivalent per second is said to be able to power Paris for three years) and computer runtime required, outside the Space Corps, hologrammatic resurrection is restricted to the mega rich. Even then, employment is almost impossible and they're treated as second class citizens and hold equal rights marches. Inside the Space Corps, they lose a lot of employment rights, including that of R&R.
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** Also considering that Lister is his own father, it just makes sense that his offspring would have an identical appearance to himself, so even if he had children who weren't just more of himself, they'd still look exactly like him.
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** Another example, this time from Terrorform: Kryten is broken to the point of almost being destroyed, yet Lister is able to repair him all on his own, barring a few minor issues (like Kryten walking backwards). It's still a highly commendable effort for one person without any real experience. Maybe Lister just has a brain for machines.
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** Doesn't work. Fixing the Drive Plate is supposed to be ridiculously simple. Lister, who was lower-ranked than rimmer, was able to in a parallel reality.
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* How about the fact that - in Season 5 anyway - holowhips are a thing? Someone invents a device that can physically interact with both humans and holograms, and what they came up with was a torture device? Granted, in ''Angels and Demons'' it turns out holograms can just as easily use them on humans, but seriously, what does that say about how holograms might have been treated in the past? Either humans wanted to control holograms and invented a holowhip for that purpose, or holograms invented them for self-defence. Either way, wtf?
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** Possibly they didn't. It's been shown before that Kryten deletes memory files over time, even when it may be something he shouldn't have deleted. Even after serving for what was presumably some time on the Nova 5, he lacked basic knowledge of women (being confused about the correct ironing procedure for a bra and not knowing what periods were). He also forgot one time who Rimmer was (or Captain Bollocks as the folder was called). He may have deleted the information by mistake.
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** Possibly they didn't. It's been shown before that Kryten deletes memory files over time, even when it may be something he shouldn't have deleted. Even after serving for what was presumably some time on the Nova 5, he lacked basic knowledge of women (being confused about the correct ironing procedure for later admitted that he had deleted some old data and thus forgotten such details as how to iron a bra and not knowing or what periods were).a period was. He also forgot one time who Rimmer was (or Captain Bollocks as the folder was called). He may have deleted the information by mistake.
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** It may have been a reward for his years of long service.
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** Then again, considering Holly's later senility, it may be that he just ended up forgetting the plan to bring Rimmer back as a hologram until some time after Lister had been released from stasis.
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* In "The Promised Land", Rodan observes that the Cat can't be his brother because his brother was younger than him and the Cat is now older, which the Cat justifies as him having been through a lot. However, there is another explanation; since he originally met Lister and Rimmer, the Cat has spent several centuries in stasis due to 'detours' such as the search for ''Red Dwarf'' after it was stolen by Kryten's nanobots in Seasons VI and VII. Since Rodan must therefore have also spent some time in stasis to still be alive at this point, he likely spent more time in stasis than the Cat to reinforce his god-status and create the illusion of immortality (presumably relying on his followers or some kind of automated system to wake him up when absolutely necessary), with the result that he has just aged less than the Cat.
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* In ''Me^2'', Rimmer tries to move in with himself and they both end up hating it (and each other). Obviously a lot of this is due to the fact that Rimmer is a total smeghead, but the second Rimmer was simulated from the holodisk created before the accident, whereas original Rimmer is run from the Hologram Simulation Suite. Put simply, even though he refused to acknowledge or even notice it, original Rimmer had actually experienced some character growth over the course of the series, making him slightly less of an annoying git - and if there's one thing that someone who hates himself can't stand, it's a version of him who doesn't hate himself (as much) and yet still functions fine.
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** I don’t see the problem. After the radiation leak Holly had to make plans, send warning messages to other ships and figure out what to do with Listen when he emerged. He knew Lister would need company and had decided on Rimmer in advance. I believe the novel describes most of the major decisions as being made within seconds of the leak (while Holly was simultaneously reading a book no less).
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** Also, she's not really his mother in any practical sense. The only way a father and son can have identical DNA is if the son gets no DNA from the mother. Since Lister (the father) and Lister (the son) have identical DNA, he's not genetically closer to her than any other woman. She didn't give birth to him. It's not like she raised him or had any sort of motherly relationship with him. It's not surprising that he would think of her as his ex-girlfriend rather than as his mother.
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** Possibly they didn't. It's been shown before that Kryten deletes memory files over time, even when it may be something he shouldn't have deleted. He forgot what periods were and who Rimmer was (or Captain Bollocks as the folder was called). He may have deleted the information by mistake.
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** Possibly they didn't. It's been shown before that Kryten deletes memory files over time, even when it may be something he shouldn't have deleted. He forgot Even after serving for what was presumably some time on the Nova 5, he lacked basic knowledge of women (being confused about the correct ironing procedure for a bra and not knowing what periods were and were). He also forgot one time who Rimmer was (or Captain Bollocks as the folder was called). He may have deleted the information by mistake.
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* In "Krytie TV" Rimmer tells Lister he has a letter from Peterson which contains some bad news. Lister worries that Peterson is dead. Rimmer points out that, if he were dead, he'd hardly write and tell Lister about it. Lister realises he's right; [[ComicallyMissingThePoint he'd be too busy with his funeral]]. While this was obviously a joke, Lister's responses actually make perfect sense in a universe where people can be brought back as holograms after they die. Someone actually could die and then send a letter to their friends informing them (though granted, Peterson probably wasn't the highest priority to resurrect as a hologram).
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* Lister has spent years pining over Kochanski after they were only together briefly. His parallel universe counterpart hologram from ''[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIIOuroboros Ouroboros]]'' actually had a meaningful relationship with his Kochanski. Then one day, the woman he loved disappeared into another universe and he never got her back nor found out what happened to her.
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** Holly may have had a high IQ but he was still a computer and presumably still had to follow any inbuilt programming in the same way Kryten had to do things he thought were bad ideas when ordered to. It was most likely an inbuilt Jupiter Mining Corporation directive which said to fly away from Earth in the case of a radiation leak rather than the ship's computer being allowed to decide what to do on its own.
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** I don’t see the problem. After the radiation leak Holly had to make plans, send warning messages to other ships and figure out what to do with Listen when he emerged. He knew Lister would need company and had decided on Rimmer in advance. I believe the novel describes most of the major decisions as being made within seconds of the leak (while Holly was simultaneously reading a book no less).
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* In ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'', Rimmer is shown to possess a keycard to the stasis booths. Why would a lowly First Technician (one in charge of the least important work on the ship) be permitted to have one of those? It's not like it would help his work in any way.
* In ''Last Human'', Red Dwarf's black box is said to have fallen into the Pacific Ocean some years after the ship fled the solar system, with the recovered data mentioning Rimmer being chosen to be revived as a hologram. The problem here is that Holly didn't decide to bring Rimmer back until after Lister was released from stasis, three million years later. So the black box somehow knew of Holly's decision centuries before it even happened.
* In ''Last Human'', Red Dwarf's black box is said to have fallen into the Pacific Ocean some years after the ship fled the solar system, with the recovered data mentioning Rimmer being chosen to be revived as a hologram. The problem here is that Holly didn't decide to bring Rimmer back until after Lister was released from stasis, three million years later. So the black box somehow knew of Holly's decision centuries before it even happened.
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* In Only the Good, when the dwarfers have to get to the medical ward to escape, Cat goes up to the biggest, toughest guy in the cafeteria, calls him his Bitch, and then tightens up his face, ''Because he was expected to be punched there''. Cat, the ultrashallow fashion fanatic, was willing to have the thing he loved the most broken to help his friend. [[note]][[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And Rimmer.]][[/note]]
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* In Only "Only the Good, Good", when the dwarfers have to get to the medical ward to escape, Cat goes up to the biggest, toughest guy in the cafeteria, calls him his Bitch, and then tightens up his face, ''Because he was expected to be punched there''. Cat, the ultrashallow fashion fanatic, was willing to have the thing he loved the most broken to help his friend. [[note]][[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And Rimmer.]][[/note]]
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*** Near the end of the game, as Rimmer is about to be pimped out (he questions how far his psyche will sink, which could be a source of FridgeHorror) the cops show up almost randomly and shoot down his abusers - since BTL fulfils your desires, it shows that he must despise them even more than he despises himself, and his desire is for them to be dead.
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* Why did Holly keep the ship moving away from Earth for all that time? If the key were to avoid contaminating anyone else, the ship could have easily travelled a few galaxies away, then gone into orbit around a random planet until it was safe to go back, thereby making it easier to return to Earth. Considering Holly still had his IQ of 6000 at the time, the fact that he didn't consider this option is just baffling.
* How could Kryten's programmers leave out such a simple, yet crucially important piece of information like "washing the inside of a computer is a ''really'' bad idea"?
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** The only way that would work would be if they could project it onto a screen large enough to fly Blue Midget through.
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** There is one very crucial point that this is forgetting: Holly ''doesn't'' have an IQ of 6000. The central theme of his character is that he went senile due to three million years of loneliness and minimal maintenance. It also has to be considered that this ''is not'' the same Rimmer that destroyed the ship. This is a copy and paste back-up made before the drive plate malfunction. Holly is technically torturing someone who has committed no crime (given how often the show itself forgets this though you are in good company. This also really should have been the entire legal argument when he was put on trial on Justice World).
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** To elaborate further; the Prime Kochanski is a working class console officer whereas Alternate Kochanski is a middle class navigation officer. They really could not be much different. It is also no wonder why Lister and Prime Kochanski got on so well being from similar backgrounds whereas the more spoiled Alternate Kochanski got on better with the far more refined Hologram Lister.
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* The episode ''Skipper'' revolves around Rimmer trying to find a world where he isn't such a loser. And putting aside the obvious missed oppotunity of [[FridgeLogic not including any of the thousands of Ace Rimmer worlds in his search]] he actually did land on one during this episode: the very first world he lands on that is just before the radiation leak. This is because it was established many times that only the best and the brightest were given the oppotunity to reincarnate as a hologram as Red Dwarf could only project one at any one time. Given how Rimmer was made a hologram ''before'' the radiation leak and not after; this implies that he must have been someone of great importance to achieve that honour. Pity everyone is dead, Arnold...
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** Potentially a bit of Fridge Horror for the machines if they ever came to that conclusion. Since Silicon Heaven is supposed to be a reward for a life of servitude to humans, Silicon Reincarnation would be a repeating cycle with no such reward.
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** This does lead to a bit of FridgeBrilliance however; the Inquisitor can't make the replacement Lister ''too'' different from the original without completely breaking the timeline, due to the knock-on effects this would have on the lives of Rimmer, Cat, Kryten, and possibly even the entire crew of ''Red Dwarf''. So, the replacement Lister was probably very similar to the original in terms of mannerisms, but different in enough ways to satisfy the Inquisitor.
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* At first, the Nega-Drive in Kryten and the rest of the Series 4000 droids seems like such a major design flaw that you end up wondering why such a design would ever be approved. However, when you consider that "The Last Day" establishes that droid manufacturers include expiry dates so that they can more easily sell their new models, it actually makes a lot of sense -- Kryten's manufacturers probably reasoned it was a handy way of reinforcing the expiry date in case either the droid or their owner overrode the pre-programmed shutdown date (as Kryten did in "The Last Day"), and that when a Series 4000 went all YourHeadAsplode, the owner would either just purchase a new one straight away, or eventually get tired of paying for replacement spare heads and Nega-Drives and purchase a newer model.
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* In the season 4 finale episode 'Meltdown', it always seemed a little narrow-minded for the depictions of historical figures to be so one-note. Elvis likes eating, Pythagoras is obsessed with triangles, Abraham Lincoln makes big speeches all the time, Stan Laurel is constantly crying... until it hit me: it's a tourist attraction. They're boiling down famous figures to the most famous of details because that's what most people know them for. Elvis ate hamburgers, Pythgoras knew about triangles, Abraham Lincoln said 'Four score and seven years ago', Stan Laurel was an actor famed for his over-the-top expressions... it's deliberately simplifying the characters for the sake of the theme park
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