Red Dwarf`s back :)

      Weather, snow, people, one nice sun deck bar in 2600 meters, quite pleasant local policemen and even the long way there went quite fast so the week in France was perfect. The movie isn`t very objective, we`ve been on the hill before 10 every day and had more than enough time to ski as well. Now I`m back to writing even though there`s July weather out there which is quite difficult to watch just through the window.

      After so many announcements in last ten years about shooting a brand new whole movie there have finally three new episodes of cult british sitcom Red Dwarf arrived on a british private TV channel, which has a fitting name: Dave. It happened on the Easter weekend and without too much waiting in three days all three episodes of "Back to Earth" were available for download. They are difficult to judge because they just have to be compared to the rest of the BBC legandary TV series. But even with a critical view, at the end everyone has to be happy at least because of seeing those four characters (just the crew, Holly and everyone else except Kochanski`s short appearence are missing) back in action.


      From what else I was missing was more lighness in the first episode, which was with small invention sticking too much to copying and recycling the old jokes probably in order not to disappoint the fans. The episode seemed as well as without a point (revealed in 3rd episode but not so important to cover whole episode) to be heading to and after some fighting on the board of Red Dwarf ended with a dimension jump of those four to the Earth of beginning of 21st century. The jokes weren`t very surprising but still it was nice to watch something new after such a long time. I was a bit missing as well the often critised laugh track on the background during the gags that give the sitcom a different atmosphere. Now I`m sure it`s better with it although I wouldn`t be so sure where to put it in the first episode...

      The second episode was better and was offering a lot of opportunities for funny situations while comparing the future world and living in the spaceship to daily life of year 2009 (Isn't that when all the banks went belly up and money became useless). It continued with searching for the Red Dwarf creator on the Earth with many funny situations including Rimmer`s one new Spacecode directive (Spacecode superchimps before made active decency in zero gravity will lose all banana privileges).

      The final third episode remained on the same level and made up a good ending which was the series missing for whole ten years. I still think one hour isn`t that much to fill after such a long time so it could have been done much better but it has to be considered that it wasn`t whole Grant Naylor working on new episodes and that it`s actually just a "good bye" instead of regular continuation. So. Although after the first new episode it seemed that we will see just a jerky sad funeral, at the end it turned out that Doug Naylor was able to produce an hour of worthy material that I liked and that the sitcom deserved to be completed, thx:)