From: reddwarfer2@tiscali.co.uk   
      
   "Gavin"  wrote in message   
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   > Of course not. There's only 5 of you here, and none of you had even   
   > heard of it. Anyway. My purchase went exactly the opposite as last   
   > Monday, when Woolies had copies on the shelf but weren't selling any.   
   > This Monday there were none on the shelf, but they had some behind the   
   > counter! Same girl on the till too (and I formally take back the   
   > comment about her being dim-witted. She was very helpful. However, I'm   
   > now afraid to go into that Woolies again, for fear of her recognising   
   > me as "that annoying fat geek who kept going on about a Red Dwarf   
   > DVD".   
      
   Somehow I doubt it.   
   I bet she gets weirder things than you free with her breakfast cereal :)   
      
   >   
   >   
   > Anyway.   
   >   
   >   
   > "Re- Dwarf"   
   > The 20-minute documentary about the Re-Mastered episodes was actually   
   > very interesting, offering almost forgivable explanations for what   
   > they did. Most of it was geared towards selling the episodes to Japan   
   > and other countries, because the BBC told Grant Naylor Productions   
   > that the first few series looked so bad they were unsellable. The   
   > sound remastering finally allowed them to sell the episodes with   
   > isolated audio so that foreign territories could redub them. The   
   > removed scenes and lines were cut because they contained UK-centric   
   > humour that wouldn't play well in other countries (though I can't   
   > recall many of the cuts, so I don't know if that explanation rings   
   > true).   
      
   The general UK-centric humour of RD is surely what sells it   
   to other countries though I can imagine specific lines/jokes   
   were removed because people abroad simply wouldn't know what   
   they were on about.   
   'Captain Paxo' was one I believe.   
      
   There's an explanation for why the heads overlaid onto the   
   > George MacIntyre funeral are so pixellated and crappy. Nobody wants to   
   > take the blame for the skutters that appear in the "14b" scene in The   
   > End, though Doug eventually admits that was his idea. Also, you get to   
   > see the real reference model for the CG ship (which they planned to   
   > use, but it was so big that they couldn't afford a motion control   
   > studio large enough to film it), and a test shot for the movie that   
   > they recently made with the real model. And Doug's explanation for why   
   > it's pencil-shaped.   
      
   Those skutterrs really were awful....   
      
   > Some things don't sound true. Doug says that the Re-Mastered episodes   
   > were never intended to replace the originals in the UK, and the   
   > originals would continue to exist. I would argue that Doug *expected*   
   > them to replace the originals in the UK, until the fan backlash. All   
   > he says about fan opinion is: "At least it gave them something new to   
   > argue about."   
      
   Not exactly a good way to describe your fans, is it?   
   The fans after all, are the reason he's in a bloody job.   
      
   Didn't he actually post here once, or was that never fully established?   
      
      
      
      
   > Does anyone know what the new Father Ted DVD boxset is like? I've not   
   > seen any reviews.   
      
   That would be an ecumenical matter.   
   --   
   Col   
      
   That's your excuse for everything isn't it, being dead!   
      
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