History Recap / RedDwarfSeasonVIIICassandra

* RedShirtArmy: This episode introduces the Canaries, who Lister signs everyone up for after somehow mistaking them for an acapella troupe. In reality they're convicts who gets extra privileges...in exchange for being the first ones sent into a potentially dangerous location to see if they die.

[[caption-width-right:1000:"A computer that unerringly predicts the future..." " ...Is a dangerous thing indeed]]".]]

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** Lister is informed his death comes at a hundred and eighty one, trying to take a bra off with his teeth. Lister's impressed, until Kryten and the Cat point out A: at that age, it could easily be his ''own'' bra, and B: the teeth might not necessarily be in his mouth at the time.
** Rimmer is told that he'll die mid coitus with Kochanski by way of Lister with a harpoon gun.
* PlotArmor: The Dwarfers both have and attempt to exploit this. When the titular precognitive computer predicts that everyone in the main cast but Rimmer will survive the destruction of the shipwreck that they're on, they form human plot armour for him by standing around him as they get to their escape ship. He manages to fall down a hole on the way, but it turns out that the computer was lying all along.
* PropheciesAreAlwaysRight: Cassandra has a 100 percent accuracy when it comes to telling the future. Which is why she ended up on the bottom of an ocean in a distant moon in the middle of the desert. But there's nothing preventing her from telling a lie about them.

--> '''Lister:''' It's completely spoilt the surprise!

--> '''Lister:''' [[JustifiedTrope When I'm in the men's toilet, I tend not to look around]], you know what I'm saying? It's like golf, keep my eye on the ball and try not to veer off to the side.

* LeeroyJenkins: Kill Crazy works himself into such a psychotic frenzy that he knocks himself out trying to leave the diving bell. Ironically, this ends up being of benefit to him, as he's the only Canary who isn't a member of the main cast to survive the mission.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: After Rimmer asks how Lister could fail to notice the signs about the Canaries all over the men's bathroom, Lister defensively retorts that when he's in the loo of a men's prison, he doesn't look at anyone else.

* OutWithABang: Lister is informed his death comes at a hundred and eighty one, trying to take a bra off with his teeth. Lister's impressed, until Kryten and the Cat point out A: at that age, it could easily be his ''own'' bra, and B: the teeth might not necessarily be in his mouth at the time.

* OutWithABang: Lister is informed his death comes at ninety-three, trying to take a bra off with his teeth. Lister's impressed, until Kryten and the Cat point out A: at that age, it could easily be his ''own'' bra, and B: the teeth might not necessarily be in his mouth at the time.

* {{Jerkass}}: Rimmer takes a malicious glee at the thought of getting to sleep with Kochanski.

-->'''Lister:''' ...Smeg.

* YouCantFightFate: This episode explores this trope. When Lister and the others are told that Rimmer is gonna die, they buy it. Justified because they have learned the hard way of what happens when you try to change it yourself. Arnold doesn't buy it because he hasn't learned the lesson, and [[PropheticFallacy engineers for someone else to die]], because Cassandra sees only pictures of the futures, instead of passively knowing the future, and had seen someone she believed to be Rimmer die of a heart attack. Thing is, Cassandra already foresaw that the only survivors would be Lister, Kryten, Kochanski, and the Cat, not Arnold. Since the four were already immortal for the duration of their stay, they try and shield Arnold from harm while trying to get to the diving bell they arrived in, only for Arnold and Kochanski to get trapped. Arnold learns what his death was going to be and he seems okay with it. [[ILied Only it was a lie]] because Cassandra tried and make it happen just to spite Lister because she has always known when she dies; Lister kills her. [[ScrewDestiny Lister originally refuses and tries to walk out]]. [[SelfFullfillingProphecy But]] he had left a chewing gum on the wall, [[DisasterDominoes which fell down a lamp, which leaned down on the button to start a fan, which sent the gum flying into a glass of Scotch that toppled over on impact, onto Cassandra's power cables]]. Guess what.

* DumbassHasAPoint: Surprisingly, Rimmer has a plan to get out of dying. It seems to work. [[spoiler:For a time.]]
* ExactWords: After being told that Rimmer was going to die of a heart attack, Arnold asks if anyone ever referred to ''him'' as Rimmer.

* PropheciesAreAlwaysRight: Cassandra has a 100 percent accuracy when it comes to telling the future. Which is why she ended up on the bottom of an ocean in a distant moon in the middle of the desert. [[spoiler:But there's nothing preventing her from telling a lie about them]].

* BrutalHonesty: Cassandra really doesn't hold back on how she tells the future to whoever she meets.

* YouCantChangeTheFuture: This episode explores this trope. When Lister and the others are told that Rimmer is gonna die, they buy it. Justified because they have learned the hard way of what happens when you try to change it yourself. Arnold doesn't buy it because he hasn't learned the lesson, and [[PropheticFallacy engineers for someone else to die]], because Cassandra sees only pictures of the futures, instead of passively knowing the future, and had seen someone she believed to be Rimmer die of a heart attack. Thing is, Cassandra already foresaw that the only survivors would be Lister, Kryten, Kochanski, and the Cat, not Arnold. Since the four were already immortal for the duration of their stay, they try and shield Arnold from harm while trying to get to the diving bell they arrived in, only for Arnold and Kochanski to get trapped. Arnold learns what his death was going to be and he seems okay with it. [[ILied Only it was a lie]] because Cassandra tried and make it happen just to spite Lister because she has always known when she dies; Lister kills her. [[ScrewDestiny Lister originally refuses and tries to walk out]]. [[SelfFullfillingProphecy But]] he had left a chewing gum on the wall, [[DisasterDominoes which fell down a lamp, which leaned down on the button to start a fan, which sent the gum flying into a glass of Scotch that toppled over on impact, onto Cassandra's power cables]]. Guess what.

* GotVolunteered: When Lister signed up for the Canaries, he forged Rimmer's signature as well. And Kochanski. And the Cat. And Kryten. He thought he was doing them all a favor.

After accidentally signing up himself and his friends for the Canaries, the suicide squadron of convicts, Lister finds himself confronting a sunken ship and the mysterious fortune-telling AI "Cassandra" housed within it.