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* RedDwarf's character Kochanski, as played by Scottish brunette Clare Grogan, only appeared in flashbacks and hallucinations for the first six series, as she was the long-dead girlfriend of Lister (and anyway, Grogan was too busy with other projects to feature regularly). When Chris Barrie (Rimmer) was too busy to be a regular character in RedDwarf Series 7, his character was written out, and Kochanski was brought into the show to replace him. Since four years had passed and Grogan had no interest in playing her anymore, so English blonde Chloe Annett was recruited instead. Her appearance, personality and accent were so different that the show handwaved it by having her come from a parallel universe where she was raised in a middle class English family rather than a poorer family from Glasgow. Now, this is relevant because, especially in Series 8, the show continued to make flashbacks, only now they featured Annett rather than Grogan. This naturally made the 'parallel universe' story fall flat, and fans really had to suspend their disbelief (not that RedDwarf was ever focused on being consistent).
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* RedDwarf\'s character Kochanski, as played by Scottish brunette Clare Grogan, only appeared in flashbacks and hallucinations for the first six series, as she was the long-dead girlfriend of Lister (and anyway, Grogan was too busy with other projects to feature regularly). When Chris Barrie (Rimmer) was too busy to be a regular character in RedDwarf Series 7, his character was written out, and Kochanski was brought into the show to replace him. Since four years had passed and Grogan had no interest in playing her anymore, so English blonde Chloe Annett was recruited instead. Her appearance, personality and accent were so different that the show handwaved it by having her come from a parallel universe where she was raised in a middle class English family rather than a poorer family from Glasgow. Now, this is relevant because, especially in Series 8, the show continued to make flashbacks, only now they featured Annett rather than Grogan. This naturally made the \'parallel universe\' story fall flat, and fans really had to suspend their disbelief (not that RedDwarf was ever focused on being consistent).
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2) It's not especially clear that the parallel universe thing was meant to explain why she looked different, rather than simply why she wasn't dead; Lister recognises her straight away, suggesting that, in-universe, she just looks like Kochanski. The aforementioned flashback is arguably meant to be the point where the universes diverge.
3) While Grogan is Scottish and Annett isn't, the first (and only) reference to Kochanski's Glaswegian background is the season 7 episode
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2) It\'s not especially clear that the parallel universe thing was meant to explain why she looked different, rather than simply why she wasn\'t dead; Lister recognises her straight away, suggesting that, in-universe, she just looks like Kochanski. The aforementioned flashback is arguably meant to be the point where the universes diverge.

3) While Grogan is Scottish and Annett isn\'t, the first (and only) reference to Kochanski\'s Glaswegian background is the season 7 episode \"Duct Soup\", where Annett claims in her cut-glass accent that she was \"brought up in the trendiest part of Glasgow\". Which is ridiculous, but again doesn\'t suggest they were using the parallel universe thing to claim this Kochanski was English. I\'m not sure where the idea Claire Grogan Kochanski was from a poorer background comes from at all.

4) In her initial appearance, at least, Chloe Annett Kochanski [[https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/reddwarf/images/1/1b/Kochanski_frankenstein.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140618174247 isn\'t blonde]].
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