Red Dwarf: Series VI
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Actor: Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Hattie Hayridge, Robert LlewellynBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 180 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: E2115
Studio: BBC Worldwide
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- In season VI, the Red Dwarf is lost and Lister can't remember where he parked it! Chasing their mother ship leads them through simulant hunting zones, hostile GELF space and even a Wild West reality in the International Emmy Award winning episode, "Gunmen of the Apocalypse."Running Time: 180 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION Rating: NR Age: 794051211521 UPC: 7
DVD Reviews of Red Dwarf: Series VI
DVD Review: Not terribly bad, but the worst is yet to come.
Summary: 3 Stars
I consider Red Dwarf 6 to be the final year of the show as it originally had been conceived. A 4 year hiatus brought about by a false accusation and trial that accused lead actor Craig Charles of rape. (He was found not guilty, of course. Just because one stars in a show that can be crude doesn't mean the actor's just as crude. Good grief.) That and the break-up between Rob Grant and Doug Naylor; the former believing that Dwarf had run its course. (more on that later.)
Anyway. Following the superlative Red Dwarf 5, I expected Red Dwarf 6 to be even even better, when I originally saw it back in 1993. Boy, was I wrong. And subsequent viewing, in a wonderfully cleaned up format that looks sensational, much has not improved. But even then, each episode still has some moments, and even this paltry season has 2 total classics.
To generalize the season (though I will review the individual episodes below), this season takes the repetition of jokes to a new level. And the original use of the joke wasn't always funny either. Many jokes lack the usual Red Dwarf wit, or any wit at all. Worse, the Cat is now utterly devoid of the qualities seen in seasons 1-3. Except for the fashion sense, though to make up for it they introduced the use of the Cat's olfactory system and how great it is. The new jokes regarding this wore thin all too quickly as well. But all was not atrocious. Not for this season...
Regarding the episodes themselves:
"Psirens" starts out as classic Dwarf material, sans Holly (the character written out as Kryten had been given more dialogue over the years), though it's the most sexually explicit episode made to date. Not exactly tasteless, it is more than the sum of its parts and works on multiple levels. (though some fans would nitpick the contiunity problem with Kochanski...) The season had great promise, thanks to "Psirens". So far, the season is off to a great start...
Next is the sci-fi heavy "Legion". I loved the sci-fi concepts. Even the transition of Rimmer's "light bee" from 'soft light' to 'hard light' (nice idea) was cool. besides, Chris Barry looks much nicer in blue than in red. :-) But I digress. "Legion" is absolutely wonderful as a character concept and how they made the story believable; there's a lot that works and especially when one considers the fate of the crew at the hands of Legion. Great stuff. My problem with it, and you know I'm going to find something, is the use of mindless physical humor; the sort I'd see on any typical American sitcom. Big mistake. It's obvious from the start that the food splatter scene was made solely for Rimmer's "benefit", and it's so poorly conceived and acted out that you know it would happen and, as such, would not be funny. And, yes, it was not funny. Then comes the later scene that tries to out-do "The Three Stooges" by trying to knock out the un-knockoutable Rimmer by bashing his head into a wall and hitting him with a steel beanm; that was beyond cringing. However, the story overall works and is surprisingly enjoyable. Definitely more hits than misses, but by this point something seemed wrong, especially with the re-use of jokes.
Next down (it ain't up) is "Gunmen of the Apocolypse". it starts out nice when a group of rogue GELFs wants to destroy the crew. Keep an eye out (literally) for the Vindaloovians, they are hilarious. The GELFs ultimately introduce a virus that threatens to destroy the ship. Kryten attempts to program a cure and fails; forcing the crew to improvise the VR machine to 'get into Kryten' and save Kryten, and the ship, in the process. The plot ideas are okay but the production is a bore and lacking in substance. While there's a great scene where the crew try to outfox the GELFs who plant the virus after they are discovered to be human and therefore sentenced to summary execution, this one did not appeal to me.
Then comes a sure sign of series decay: "Emohawk: Polymorph 2". First off, this is a sequel. BLAMMO. A sequel usually means that somebody's out of creative ideas and has to rely on the past. While sometimes this concept can introduce something new and good, this episode is one of those more noteworthy EXCEPTIONS to that rule. It is not funny. It is not original. It is not intelligent. It is not entertaining. It IS, however, dumb. It IS the sort of cack you'd find on American TV. It IS a sequel, devoid of any ideas whatsoever. It DOES rely on more GELFs because, as we all know, they're not alone in space anymore and the series had to be kept going somehow. Not to spoil anything, but the Cat and Rimmer are attacked by the Emohawk, only to become caricatures seen in previous episodes. This one's an utter joke, don't bother to watch it. The Emohawk might just pop out of the TV and rid you of your intelligence. Oh, and can someone tell me how the escape craft Starbug has both an escape pod AND "three decks of the Engineering level"? Between season 5 and now, the ship's grown huge! And one other thing to consider - will we see yet another Polymorph-type episode for series 9, if and when it is made?
Of course, the season oddly enough perks up with "Rimmerworld". While there is a little plot problem in that Rimmerworld's inhabitants are made with Rimmer's DNA. Since a hologram is made of light, there is no DNA whatsoever! How could Rimmer do this? Where'd he conjure up the DNA from? Do we want to know? There's a lot of warped humor to be enjoyed on this one, however. It's a step up, but not as good as "Prirens".
But then we come to the end. And this one shows that what they lost in humor during the year, they picked up on concept and fear. "Out of Time". Funny when it needs to be, there is a sense of grit and doom that had never been seen in a Dwarf episode before (apart from select moments in the equally superlative "Psirens") and it's refreshingly different. The sci-fi concept used is riveting, and there's even an awesome cliffhanger to boot. (While it's half-obvious what the original resolution would have been, it was summarily dumped by those who eventually wrote and produced season 7 - which makes "Emohawk" look like the best Dwarf episode ever by comparison!!!)
I wanted to give this set 4 stars due to the competence and sheer brilliance of "Out of Time" (this one alone makes the purchase worth it), the above average but not great (B-) quality of "Legion" and "Rimmerworld", and the surprisingly hilarious and generally well done "Psirens", but the remaining episodes drag this season down to a new low (C-). A new low that it, only thrice in its final years, rised back up from. (and two those times were in the 8th and, to date, final season - which ALSO ended on a cliffhanger, back in 1998!)
This one's the end of the show as we know it. Doug Naylor, 4 years after series 6, does the show on his own. What is to come is atrocious despite having the guts to make the attempt to try something a little more epic in scope, but that is another story for another time.
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