h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

yeah, i think they said they're making the film so that non-listers will still be able to understand it... though fortunately all the original cast are gonna be in it... even that was in the air for a while apparently....

Can I just say that the ending of Series VIII was absolutely God-awful? I wouldn't like to have to pick up where that left of for either the film or a new series.

On the subject of "will there be a new series?" as far as I know, and according to the official web pages of Craig Charles and Rob Llewellyn, at the moment the BBC definitely wants another series.

I thought it was all dependent on how well the film goes... if its good then they'll make more... at least that's what i heard....

There was going to be a different ending to VIII but it was reshot because it was 'too dark'. Ace Rimmer nearly made a lifesaving return, before someone had the idea for a sequence involving the Grim Reaper. As no-one could be hired to play the embodiment of death, Ed Bye stepped in.

too dark??? and so we ended up with that pile of stupidity????

sorry, got carried away a bit... but it was a god-awful ending....

actually, we had a drink induced discussion about the inquisitor ep last night. when lister kills him at the end, and all the timelines restore themself, whats to prevent a previous event resulting in lister not being born...

we went on to decide that therefore the inquisitor wouldnt have died, so he would have been born and so on...

Any other ideas???

It's quite simple. The Inquisitor was a self-repairing simulant who survived to the end of time. He decided to go back.......thus creating a new timeline in which, while he going to the end of time is totally oblivious to his presence. He dies, killed by Lister, while he, totally oblivious to the fact that he's dead goes on to hte end of time so he can come back and be killed. Simple.

Or, Inquisitor A is at the end of time. He goes back. Inquisitor B is still on his journey to the end of time. When he gets there he becomes Inquisitor A. When he gets back he goes on and dies. The new Inquisitor B goes on to become Inquisitor A.........and so on and so forth

ah! fair enough... that was another argument (as far as i remember!) but all of us were too drunk to put it like that!!

a yehs, the pished dishcushioonnn

it was a good laugh... mind you, they usually are aren't they!

uuuuhhhhhhhhhhh huuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,,,,,hehehehehehehe!!!


glug glug glug

hehe... you've had them too I notice!

snapsh fingersh
vodka jellie appears form the direkshion of the shwimming pool
chomp chomp

thos stygg's very string apparently!!! hehe... you drunken enough to figure out the ramblings???

burp!!!!!!
*snap*
*jelly rane.....hehehehehehe*

god, it took me long enough to figure out what I wrote!!!

hehe... I'm off to make some jelly (non-vodka'd) now!! getting my practice in b4 wed night....!

Not Exactly. It should be accessible to non Red Dwarf fans to help bring them into fandom, but that can still be done with references to past experiences, connected plots etc. Although, as someone said above, it might be a disaster, and flop after half an hour, since all the episode plots are made to fit into this (not including series VIII, which is more or less continuous). I think a film could work because so many of the episodes are stand alone, with very little previous knowledge of the series required to enjoy them.

Sorry for rambling.

Also, Favourite Cat Line:

CAT: Face it, they're gone, buddy. But look on the bright side. They're gone, buddy!
(Backwards).

Another Cat line (well, few lines) from the Xtended version of Duct Soup, talking about how the world revolves around him:

Cat: Take food. Until I bite into it, it has no taste. Even when I know what I'm gonna say, it never bores me!

Lister: You and you alone...

Cat: And here's the clincher: all of the interesting things that ever happenned to me, happenned when I was in the room! Coincidence? Get outta here..!

The last episode of series eight was ORIGANALLY going to be called "Earth". And the plot would have been: The crew find a time drive and travel back to earth before the human race died, but something went wrong (suprise, suprise!) and the bug was carriring round the would at super speeds, knocking doen various imprtant buildings, eg. The eiffel tower and the Empire State Building. Then as they zre about to destroy the Taj Mahal. Lister gains control of the craft and steers around the Taj saying. "Destroying that would be sacralige, man!" But, due to lack of money, they had to go with the virus etc... And for more info on the film see "http://www.reddwarf.co.uk" amd "http://www.llew.co.uk" (The official site and Robert Llewelyn's (who plays Kryten) site.

P.S. Sorry about all the spelling and grammer mistakes, I wrote it in a hurry.