I can start the next reaction post in RDS on Friday if you like. ;)
I don't really have anything to add to the Rimmer EMP comments, except that it could just be down to the change in Chris's acting over the years. Sometimes in X / XI he seems quite chilled and benevolent, other times such as the Mine-opoly game, he's suddenly back to Series 1 Rimmer. I did see someone on TOS - note, I said TOS - criticise his acting these days as "shouty and hammy" which seems very harsh to me. It's natural that Rimmer would evolve over - we assume - almost three decades with Lister.
Regarding the situation with Lister and Cat, I actually think this is almost comparable to the "Quarantine" situation. Yes, it's only been an hour or two as opposed to several days, but there are various differences to aggravate the situation - it's pitch dark, they're in a strange environment which has already attacked them twice and there's no Kryten to act as a buffer between them. Plus Lister is almost certainly remembering the "Quarantine" situation and panicking in case something similar happens again.
But yes, there is a difference between Cat and Lister which is shown up quite starkly in "Epideme" and "Nanarchy" when Lister is first dying and then adjusting to life with one arm and all Cat thinks of is himself. You can see in Craig's acting there that Lister is realising that Cat by his very nature will always put himself first and it's not a pleasant realisation.
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I don't really have anything to add to the Rimmer EMP comments, except that it could just be down to the change in Chris's acting over the years. Sometimes in X / XI he seems quite chilled and benevolent, other times such as the Mine-opoly game, he's suddenly back to Series 1 Rimmer. I did see someone on TOS - note, I said TOS - criticise his acting these days as "shouty and hammy" which seems very harsh to me. It's natural that Rimmer would evolve over - we assume - almost three decades with Lister.
Regarding the situation with Lister and Cat, I actually think this is almost comparable to the "Quarantine" situation. Yes, it's only been an hour or two as opposed to several days, but there are various differences to aggravate the situation - it's pitch dark, they're in a strange environment which has already attacked them twice and there's no Kryten to act as a buffer between them. Plus Lister is almost certainly remembering the "Quarantine" situation and panicking in case something similar happens again.
But yes, there is a difference between Cat and Lister which is shown up quite starkly in "Epideme" and "Nanarchy" when Lister is first dying and then adjusting to life with one arm and all Cat thinks of is himself. You can see in Craig's acting there that Lister is realising that Cat by his very nature will always put himself first and it's not a pleasant realisation.