I disagree. The best quote was "Enough of the Star Trek ••••. It's too early in the morning."
There are many comments on other boards about how the replacement found Kryten. I assume Kryten has/had a homing beacon. My question, however, is what took the replacement so long? Kryten was standed in a crashed space craft for centuries. Why didn't the replacement find Kryten before Red Dwarf did? For that matter, why didn't any other craft find Kryten before the human race (apparently) went extinct?
Maybe Kryton was out of range, and he could only find him once the Red Dwarf picked him up and headed back to Earth.
Alright, that scene with the replacement is certainly a parody of some movie, but I don't know which. I'm guessing (though I haven't seen either movie) that its from Terminator or Robocop. Can anyone enlighten me?
I liked the name of the DivaDroid representative, Jim Reaper. A nice subtle name.
Lister says that Kryten is built like Action Man, with plastic underpants and a tradmark, but when the video demonstrates Hudsen's abilities, Hudsen puts the brick down, we hear a zipper, Hudsen raises his hands and we hear a karate chop, then Hudsen shows us the broken brick. The implication is that Hudsen broke the brick with his... um, 'trademark'.
Hudsen looks a little like Jean Claude van Damme.
When Hudsen is examining the crew for viable targets, I believe his scan shows the names of the characters, despite no one mentioning them. (I think, can anyone confirm this?)
Lister is identified as Homo sapiens Barely Human. First off, Homo sapiens is Human. H. sapiens sapiens, H. sapiens fossilis, H. sapiens neanderthalensis, are all Human. Secondly in Holoship, I believe Lister is identified as an "old-style Human". Makes one wonder what happened to the Human race after Lister went into stasis.
When Lister says Kryten is built like Action Man, Cat asks how he writes his name in the snow.
Where on Red Dwarf does it snow? How would the Cat know about this 'skill' on a ship without weather?
Does Red Dwarf have a Snow-Cone machine?
Well, remeber that the android was insane. Plus, it's from Lister's (and Kryten's) future. Perhaps mankind has evolved into a different species. So that homo sapiens is regared the way we regard homo habilis.
Also, I believe Rimmer was an old style hologram. Not Lister being an Old type human.
Maybe he means Lister is technically human, but only barely so.
Actually the implication is pretty obvious. Hudson detects species, and then sees if they match his list of humanity (which would consist of one presumably). Lister scans as human, but his space bum life style has left him in such bad shape that he is only technically registered as human, as Johnny said.
Saw Holoship again, I remembered wrong. Lister was described as "a human being, or a close approximation of one.", not an old-style human.
Rimmer has changed his ideas on Religion, in Waiting For God he doesn't think much of the Cat People's beliefs, but says he wouldn't knock his parents for being 7th Day Advent Hopists.
The wall of the corridor where Kryten picks up his suit has Smoke Alarms stuck to the wall.
Hudzen seems to be based on the Krugen from Highlander & the Terminator. It's suprising that Kryten stayed sane for 3000000 years with only Androids (& maybe some other programmes) to watch.
The difference is that Rimmer doesn't think much of the Cat, while his parents are his parents, and to quote Mrs. Claven from Cheers, "Nature demands a bond."
Holly has to knock up a special mix so Kryten can get drunk, yet in Tikka to Ride, Kryten appears to be drinking a standard bottle of spirits.
Kytren also says here he cannot eat but haven't we seen him eat in other episodes?
When Kryten is packing his things up we only see one spare head and one spare hand. Shouldn't there be another two spare heads, as seen in DNA?
Re: "Where on Red Dwarf does it snow? How would the Cat know about this 'skill' on a ship without weather?"
They did land on a snow-covered planet in Marooned so maybe they encountered others prior to this episode.
As for Kryten's "trademark", what about his groinal attachments?
And Hudzen, if anything, reminded me of Robocop.
Hudzen didn't remind me of Robocop... Lister as "Man Plus" in DNA... Now that reminded me of Robocop...
Both were reminiscent of Robocop but, as you say, Lister more so in DNA.
If anyone can get me a decent vidcap of the Hudzen robot I'd be REALLY happy!
Try
http://www.divadroid.com/reddwarf/hudzen10/index.html
Not a great pic, but it does also show a video sequence.
http://members.nbci.com/bay47/frame.htm
Better than the previous one, but a little dark.
or you could go to this Red Dwarf links page & check other sites.
http://www.reddwarf.nildram.co.uk/
That second one was perfect. Thanks.
It's suprising that Kryten stayed sane for 3000000 years with only Androids (& maybe some other programmes) to watch.
Stayed sane? We are talking about the android who didn't notice that his humans (on the Nova Five were dead for eons?
Dammit, TWS, he's a mechanoid, not a doctor!
When will Hudsen's replacement mechanoid turn up ? (Maniacial Laughter !!!!!)
Coming to Red Dwarf IX ?
I doubt it.
We are talking about the android who didn't notice that his humans (on the Nova Five were dead for eons?
Rimmer: Our one contact with intelligent life in three million years, and he turns out to be the android version of Norman Bates.
We know that fresh fruit is rare on the Dwarf before the retcon of the botanical garden.
When they get that strawberry out in Demons & Angels, it always makes me think how wasteful Lister and Kryten were by chucking all those fresh strawberries in the bin in The Last Day.
They seem to go from casual disregard for fresh strawberries to quiet reverence very quickly.
Well, given that only Lister and the Cat require food, perhaps they felt they were overstocked.
I would agree about Jim on a real baby with the surname Reaper.
The amount of parents with the surnames Bond and Kent who name their sons James and Clark deserve to be dealt with personally by the simulants.
Hudsen is the Inspector Javert of androids.
He spends thousands of years looking for Kryten. Talk about determination.
Never mind that the company that created them both is no doubt long since gone.
He spends thousands of years looking for Kryten. Talk about determination.
Well, he's an android, compelled to follow his program, without the benefit of Lister's efforts to give Kryten more self determination. What else was he going to do?
Good point.
I wonder what they did with Hudsen, after he was deactivated. Scavenge him for parts? Shove him out an airlock?
the homing program must be strong - it continued even after Hudsen's sanity chip went bye-bye
They know how to build things that last.
Punny names on real life human babies – the parents should be be dealt with by the simulants, or failing that, Caligula from Meltdown.
Jim Reaper was played by Robert Llewellyn, sans the Kryten make-up.