Great episode, I kept thinking about "The Inquisitor" when I saw VGR's "Year of Hell I&II"!

This episode scared me. The Inquisitor is going to come for me because i've wasted my life watching Red dwarf and drinking beer and being like...LISTER! I'm doomed!

Just wondering: the replacement Lister and Kryten... if they had arrived at the same point in time (Red Dwarf 3 million years away from home, lost, cats evolve into sentient creatures etc) surely they have wasted their lives as well and the Inquisitor has just as much justification in erasing them as well? Is it destiny or in the genes? If this kept on happening, surely the Inquisitor realises the futility of his quest?

The Inquisitor appears to Thomas Allman, pronounces him unworthy and erases him, but on Red Dwarf he gives the Dwarfers a trial. Why the difference?

Rimmer's gone back to his green outfit in the normal timeline. He only wears his new red one in the altered timeline.

Obviously it's meant as an insult, but Rimmer's wrong when he says the comic is the only thing Lister's ever read without lift up flaps. Lister read the Cat books in Waiting For God, Rimmer's diary in Stasis Leak and a page from Lolita in Marooned.

Since Lister is Nitpicking Virgil's Ænid, does that make him a member of the Nitpicker's Guild?

When Lister says "Beware of Trojans, they're complete smegheads." Did anyone else think that you might describe used Trojan condoms the same way?

Why does the Inquisitor believe it is fair to have someone judge their own life? I would have demanded an impartial judge.

Why here & why now? The Inquisitor really doesn't pick his time and space destinations very well, does he?
Did anyone else find it laughable that he said Rimmer, a hologram, had been granted life? In truth Rimmer is just a recording of the real Rimmer, who is already dead. He should have judged Rimmer when he was still alive 3 million years earlier.
Why is Kryten considered to have been given life? He's a mechanoid, not a living creature. Okay he was converted to a human being in DNA, but that's when the Inquisitor should have judged him, not now since he was converted back.

Missed opportunity: Holly judging Holly. "Hey there, dudette." "What's this? I don't look like that anymore."

Since the alternate Kryten doesn't look like Kryten, then erasing Kryten must have erased the molds that Kryten was poured in.

Lister says to the alternate Lister that they were both shot out of the same barrel. That's an interesting statement considering what we learn in the Series VII episode Ouroboros.

The Smeg-Ups tape has a series of bloopers of Kryten trying to say a complex line involving the past-present-future and possibly never text. Unfortunately after all the trouble of trying to film it, it never made it in to the finished episode.

Good thing the Inquisitor's weapon blew up the alternate Lister instead of freezing him in time or Lister never would have been able to use his hand.

Kryten & Lister had chains on their wrists and ankles, but when Kryten figures out how to use the gauntlet, the wrist chains seem to be missing.

Good thing the Inquisitor decided to play games with Lister instead of just killing him. If he had blasted Lister instead of Youthing him..., end of series.

Why does Kryten, a mechanoid with a computer memory, need to ask Lister what he said? Couldn't he just replay that memory?

Apparently the Inquisitor, while trying to replace worthless people with worthy people, tried very hard to maintain the timestream.
If these worthy people had done anything seriously different with their lives the future would change. They might marry different people, they might have, or avoid, an affair that could reult in pregnancy, etc., etc. And yet when the Inquisitor is erased from history, restoring time to the way it was before he started meddling, nothing seems to be different. Which means that the replacements didn't do anything different than the originals, they just felt they had led a worthwhile life.

The reason Kryten can be converted in DNA is because his brain is part organic, so maybe that is why is deemed to have life. Like Data in NextGen, Kryten appears to have sentience and Data is classified as having life.
As for some of the Inquisitor's motives... he got the end of his life or some such, found there was no Silicon Heaven and then went on the judging rampage. So let's face it... he might just have the odd screw loose.

I think he's got a few even screws loose as well.

Keith, the reason for being judged by yourself I think is because the You melded with the Inquisitor knows all your excuses and isn't fooled by any of them for a second.

Yes, but look what happened: Kryten and Lister had high standards they failed to meet, but the Cat and Rimmer had shallow and low standards, so they were deemed to have led a worthwhile life. Think of all the authors and artists and musicians, etc., etc., who have high standards and would therefore cease to exist because of this judging.

The You who is judging yourself may know your excuses, but they may also be unforgiving when it comes failure or percieved failure. (Or consider Rimmer in Justice. He blamed himself for the death of the crew of Red Dwarf when he had nothing to do with it.)

When asked if he has a trick up his sleeve, Kryte says, "No sir. No sleeves.", but in the Series VIII episode Krytie TV, Kryten removes the black 'suit', meaning that he does have sleeves.

Maybe he doesn't call them sleeves? A birthday suit doesn't have sleeves either...

Thomas Allman's walls have also appeared many times in Dr Who & Blake's 7. (& many other BBC sci-fi shows?)

This episode seems to be the last time we see Rimmer's green uniform. (Apart from the Rimmer song.)

Kryten's traveling back in time causes a time loop, as he doesn't get the chance to get the time gauntlet until his future self travels back to help him & Lister.

Wouldn't a more worthwile Lister never have ended up on Red Dawrf? Or did he become an officer?

The alterative Kryten dissapears long before the explosion goes off, & he's quite a distance from it. (I helps if you slow down the action to see this clearly.)

Star Bug's Engine seems to be on tick-over when Lister & Kryten try to break the chains, which would be long time with just that hammer, don't they have a chisel or saw?

Couldn't Lister get Kryten to hang The Inquisitor by the rope? so then Lister would have never put The Inquisitor's life in danger. But The Inquisitor wouldn't have used the Time Gauntlet, &/or could have seen through this logic?

Is there still the bodies of the alternative Lister & Kryten still hanging about? Lister still has his potential replacement's hand, so is the rest of him still in existance?

Re: "Wouldn't a more worthwile Lister never have ended up on Red Dwarf? Or did he become an officer?"
Depends on your definition of worthwhile - maybe he didn't do all his worthwhile stuff until he was on Red Dwarf and now he's out saving the universe and doing good deeds.

The Alt-Lister's hand should have disappeared once the Inquisitor was erased from existence.

Sometimes the timelines take a little bit to sort themselves out. Give this episode another 30 seconds and the crew would be heading out on Starbug as they were before the Inquisitor arrived.

Probably happened a few moments after we left.

I always think Palpatine would have happily used mace windu’s chopped off hand as a puppet just like Lister does in this episode with alt lister.

Not quite the same thing.