If there really were a cure on Delta VII, why did everyone flame it to get rid of the Epideme virus instead of just using the cure there?
Mostly because the virus was LYING to the crew.
But wasn`t that a real display the Epideme showed Lister. If not, how did he make it himself?
How did the Epideme virus learn how to speak at all, let alone in a language the UT could translate. How did the Epideme virus learn how to increase Starbug's speed?
It learned to speak, and to increase Starbug's speed, because it was an INTELEGENT virus that retaied all the knowledge of it's victoms. (Too bad for it that it's latest victom was going to be Lister... ^_^)
So now the Cat grew up all by himself? What happened to his mom, dad, and the Cat Priest we learned about in Waiting For God?
When they had the ice block in Starbug it reminded me of a similar scene in The Thing. (The original movie, not the remake.)
When wondering about the ice cube and if Carolyne is still alive, Kochanski says, "She must be." Excuse me? Why must she? What evidence besides a possibly faulty scanner reading is there for this statement? SRTS?
Loved the voice of Epideme. Just perfect for a nasty villain. ;-)
They missed a great argument about how Epideme 'eating' Dave is different from Dave eating the chicken. Dave & the chicken couldn't have an argument about about why it's wrong to eat the chicken.
Not too smart, telling a guy with an intelligent virus in his system what they're planning to do. It knew Dave had had chicken the night before, but could only have learned that by reading his mind, so of course the virus would leave enough of itself in his system to survive because it knew what they were planning. (And probably why it went into the right arm as well. Mean little bug-ger. ;-)
Okay, so why did Kochanski cut off the arm? BILC! (OK, maybe some didn't think it looked cool.) The only reason for the charade of cutting off the arm was to make the viewers think she had cut off her own arm instead. There was no real reason for the laser bone saw. All she did was ruin her jacket for no good reason.
Kryten says that Epideme was a originally a product intended to compete with the nicotine patch. Usually, commercial products are given a name that will help them sell better. So why did the manufacturers give this product a name that sounds like Epidemic? Really tough Truth In Advertising laws?
Logically it hould have had some kind of friendly sounding name or a name that tells you what it does, like SmokeNoMore or Lung Savers.
If Epideme was the best name they came up with, what were some of the rejects? (Dead Nuns & Orphans? Puppy In A Blender? Lister's Socks?)
Lister says that deep sleep can mess with your memory, but Kryten says no, but in Psirens Kryten had to remind Lister who he was after waking from deep sleep.
Maybe he means short-term memory while Kryten is referring to long-term memory.
Or perhaps it wasn't deep space that messed with Lister's memory in Psirens, but the cold sleep? I'm sure that (although I don't see the point) one dosen't have to be in deep space to be in cold sleep, so the two aren't necessarily related.
Who said anything about deep space?
I don't remember the exact dialogue, (anyone have a copy of the script) but Carmine is frozen in a block of ice, and Lister makes a comment about how this may affect her memories and Kryten says no.
In Psirens Lister comes out of some kind of cryogenic/stasis pod and can't remember who he is.
It seems to me that if one affects memory the other might also. (Especially since Carmine would have been frozen for 3 million years while Lister was only out for 200 years.)
Oh, Lister isn't even that specific. Doesn't he just refer to ice being the amnesia-giver?
The corpse reanimated by a virus idea is very similar to the Blake's 7 episode Killer. Even the corpses looked the same.
They just keep finding these old ships floating around.
Epideme would probably be an excellent episode if the virus itself didn’t make me feel like I was physically ill.
Didn't bother me. I know it's all fake.