Terrorform

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Red Dwarf: Red Dwarf V: Terrorform
By Keith Alan Morgan on Tuesday, August 24, 1999 - 12:47 am:

Didn't Holly have a similar conversation with Rimmer about spiders in Polymorph?

Holly mentions that Lister wouldn't like it if he found a tarantula crawling over his naked clammy body, but Lister wasn't naked and whenever we see him sleeping he, at the very least, is wearing his underwear.

Kryten's hand types out 'There's no time to explain. Follow me.' (I think, the reception wasn't that good tonight.) However Lister is in a robe and underwear when this is typed, but when we see him on the planet he dressed normaly.

Loved some of the colors Kryten's display listed as conditions. Mauve, taupe, magenta, heliotrope, tangerine, probably a few more I can't remember.

The hooded hordes with their glowing eyes seem to be a spoof of the Jawas from Star Wars.


By Chris Thomas on Tuesday, August 24, 1999 - 6:14 am:

The summary mentions Rimmer as the only living being on the psi-moon - don't people have to be dead first before they become holograms?


By Keith Alan Morgan on Tuesday, August 24, 1999 - 7:15 am:

The summary says Rimmer has become the only living being on the psi-moon. (Although even that description has problems.) Because the psi-moon makes thoughts reality Rimmer is given a solid form on the moon, possibly with a psychically generated heart and other 'living' items. Of course, I assume it did this after reacting to Rimmer's mind which would still make the summary wrong.

Apparently psi-moons are not programmed to react to mechanoids, or mechanoids don't have the necessary qualities to activate psi-moons, since it only reacted to Rimmer's mind, not Kryten's.


By Chris Thomas on Tuesday, August 24, 1999 - 8:19 am:

Which is interesting, given DNA indicated Kryten's brain was pat organic. Rimmer's is just based on a personality disc, assembled with photons.


By KAM on Tuesday, August 24, 1999 - 10:58 pm:

Although holograms are based on real people, while mechanoids are programmed to do jobs. So a hologram's fantasy life would be more complex while a mechanoid's would be more simple.


By Ratbat on Thursday, August 03, 2000 - 6:55 am:

Also, if we're talking psychological problems and nueroses, I think it's less a matter of mechanoids versus holograms and more one of Kryten versus Rimmer.


By Chris Thomas on Thursday, August 03, 2000 - 5:55 pm:

I thought we were looking at why the psi-moon doesn't respond to Kryten's influence, only Rimmer's?


By Ratbat on Sunday, August 06, 2000 - 6:33 am:

Yeah, exactly. If it's designed to feed off bizarre internal mental states and things, Kryten might have some, but Rimmer's influence would just knock that silly.

(If you're looking into the sun then someone shines a torch into your face, you not worried that the torch is damaging your eyes.)

Come to that, now that I think about it, for most of the time he was there with Rimmer, Kryten was broken and unconscious, which could have had something to do with it.


By Dan Garrett on Monday, April 09, 2001 - 5:57 pm:

Is that the Stargate SG-1 theme playing when Rimmer's good charactersitcs come to life and start fighting the jawas?


By Douglas Nicol on Thursday, November 25, 2004 - 3:52 pm:

This was a bit of a shock. When listening to the commentary in the Series DVD, Francine Walker-Lee who played one of the ladies who 'oiled' Rimmer had passed away shortly after the episode finished filming.


By Tim McCree (Tim_m) on Friday, January 17, 2020 - 5:22 am:

Since all life that the Dwarfers encountered was somehow connected to Earth, I wonder how this moon was created?


By Judi Jeffreys, Granada in NorthWest (Jjeffreys_mod) on Friday, August 07, 2020 - 5:06 am:

Why does Kryten randomly know what a Psi-moon is?


By Tim McCree (Tim_m) on Friday, August 07, 2020 - 5:30 am:

Perhaps he was aware of research into such things in his time.


By Judi Jeffreys, Granada in NorthWest (Jjeffreys_mod) on Friday, August 07, 2020 - 9:12 am:

the whole Psi-moon concept is more paranormal than sci-fi. Just MO...


By Tim McCree (Tim_m) on Saturday, August 08, 2020 - 5:35 am:

Perhaps it was a science experiment that went wrong.


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