A Day Late; or, Dec. 12 meme answer

For notalwaysweak, who asked: "Your least favourite thing about Red Dwarf canon and why."

I don't know if you mean within the universe itself, or how it's handled in the writing or what, but I'll just interpret it as Dealer's Choice. While there are things I like in Series 8, particular elements of characterization or world-building, I have to say that overall the tone of it felt the most out of synch with the rest of the serieses. The whole season was a wacky-gag-a-minute with no introspection, and each episode felt kind of like a dirty Carol Burnett variety show episode, but not as good. The reason Carol's show worked is they were playing different characters in every skit, so they were just going for the gags; you can't do that with established characters in a running storyline. (Plus there are questionable things like the whole sex virus storyline, where the first time you see it, it's hilarious, and then you start thinking about what's wrong with it ... and it's not so hilarious anymore.)