From: Imsexy@WavyG.org   
      
   Steve B made me LOL when I read the following hilarious schtick:   
      
   >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.   
      
   Hey, they could just play their future selves from the "Out of Time"   
   episode.   
      
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