From: gavinclayton@dslDONTpipexSPAMcomME   
      
   On Tue, 29 May 2007 16:58:24 -0700, Starbugaboo   
    wrote:   
      
   >Even if there was a large cash influx I don't think it has a chance of   
   >being done right.   
      
   Yeah. It just can't happen now, nor should it happen. "Man shall not   
   maketh any more Red Dwarf, it would be an abomination."   
      
   For all the reasons noted:   
      
   - Rob and Doug had magic when they wrote together, but certainly   
   didn't retain that magic when apart, and probably wouldn't if they got   
   back together. They, like everyone else in the equation, have aged and   
   become different people.   
      
   - The cast are too old. They've all filled out, the way middle-aged   
   men do. One is a mechanoid whose increased girth can't be explained.   
   One *died* when he was slim and 30. One is supposed to be 25-30. One   
   is supposed to think he's the most attractive entity in the universe,   
   which becomes a weirder delusion with each year DJJ ages. And one is a   
   computerised face who has no reason to age at all.   
      
   - It's been 9 years since the last series. The show is officially part   
   of the past.   
      
   - Sci-fi comedy so rarely works. Unique factors that made it work in   
   1987 cannot be replicated.   
      
      
   Who would *want* a film or new series now? We would only watch it to   
   see how much of a disaster it turns out to be. Nevertheless, I have   
   ideas for a Red Dwarf movie. I wouldn't bother writing a script   
   treatment or anything -- I'm lazy, and what would be the point? But I   
   have an idea based around that unfinished series 7 episode about the   
   Cat having to find a mate. The themes of the film would be about   
   growing old and useless, and overcoming feelings of inadequacy to win   
   your potential partner, by contrasting the ungraceful aging Cat with   
   his potential mate (how about a sexy Thandie Newton, hmm?), and how it   
   parallels Lister and Kochanski. Basically what that series 7 script   
   was probably trying to do, if it hadn't been, you know, series 7.   
      
   But anyway. We'd sooner see Red Dwarf the Next Generation: The   
   Adventures of Jim & Bexley, or Celebrity Fit Club with Captain   
   Hollister.   
      
   (Oh man, I only just realised that "Hollister" has "Lister" in it...)   
      
   Gavin   
      
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