From: euclid@NOSPAMTHANKSshaw.ca   
      
   On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:38:50 -0700, Starbugaboo   
    wrote:   
      
   >Steve B wrote:   
      
      
      
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >Okay but then it's not the same Red Dwarf at all. If the Cat isn't vein,   
   >I'm not sure what his purpose would be comedy-wise... that was what made   
   >him funny. I don't think older actors would work... you'd have to know   
   >what came before to understand and be amused by their character's   
   >progression and a new audience wouldn't get it.   
      
   I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one.  My arguement is   
   that characters evole and have done so over the course of the entire   
   show.  Why shouldn't a 10 year break have some kind of effect on the   
   characters?   
      
   Kryten didn't start off in S3 like he ended up in S8.  He changed over   
   time.  Same with Lister.  In the early episodes, he still had the   
   attitude of the lowest ranked guy on the ship, but a few years later,   
   he's the leader.   
      
   Same kind of chages could happen with age.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)