From: euclid@NOSPAMTHANKSshaw.ca   
      
   On Wed, 30 May 2007 11:26:40 -0700, Starbugaboo   
    wrote:   
      
   >Gavin wrote:   
   >>   
   >> - 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.   
   >   
   >Exactly! While anything computer generated like Holly and Rimmer could   
   >be lamely explained away as a computerized way of giving them the   
   >appearance of aging, Kryten aging makes no sense, the Cat just becomes   
   >creepy, and while Lister as a young guy with no ambitions and a crush on   
   >a dead woman from his past is funny a middle-aged man with those   
   >conditions is simply pathetic.   
      
   I don't think Kryten aging would be that big of a deal to cover up.  I   
   mean Robert's face is almost entirely covered in foam (or whatever)   
   anyway, so I don't think his thinning hair or increased facial   
   wrinkles are going to be the noticeable on Kryten.   
      
   I don't agree that the aging of Lister or the Cat becomes pathetic or   
   creepy at all.  Their characters can evolve into something new and   
   provide different types of comedy.   
      
   Maybe the Cat wakes up one morning and decides all the preening just   
   isn't worth it anymore and shows up in a pair of sweatpants.   
      
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