I hate season ending cliffhangers. I did hear a rumor about them writing scripts for a series IX, though. Time will tell.
Chameleonic virus made me think that this would be like Polymorph and when the captain was surprised to see Talia I thought she was the virus.
What is a 'pack of three'?
So was that really Death or just someone with a macabre sense of humor?
I liked Rimmer's last line and action.

I liked Rimmer's way of cheating death also but afterwards, I wanted more.

One nit I noticed: In the first sequence with Rimmer attending to the Captain in his cabin, there is one shot of Rimmer alone (when he has his mouth wide open in shock). He is surrounded by that particular "halo" that happens sometimes in special effects shots when the person isn't really there. Did they really have to make a chroma-key (sp?) effect of him standing in front of a wall?

Points to ponder:

If Kryten originally came from a ship full of women, why doesn't he know anything about female biology?

Did the Cat really think that his original way of getting into the hospital would have left him able to help his companions?

Kryten not knowing anything about women was explained in series VII. In Tikka To Ride Kryten erased some nonessential information from his memory, and in Duct Soup, I think, it was revealed that some of that information was about women.
I suppose being on ship with Lister, the last known living human, would lead him to the conclusion that all of his knowledge about women was no longer necessary since Lister is a man. I guess Kryten was planning to use the extra memory to store important things like curry recipes and beer drinking songs. Ooh, ooh, ooh! Grunt, grunt!

Keith - a "pack of three" is a pack of condoms.

Great episode. Tony Slattery was great as the vending machine.

Is it true this is the last of the RD tv show and that it will be continued with the movie and then tv movies only?

Why didn`t they put Baxter`s booze where Bob comes to give Lister his food(in P. part 1)?

Why doesn't this episode have a plot summary yet?

For that matter, why don't Krytie TV and Pete 1 & 2 have real plot summaries?

In Season One, especially The End, I don't recall the crew having to put money in the food dispensers. I always thought they operated on some sort of credit system where a person would punch a code for their account, then the food they wanted, and it appropriate amount would be deducted. But here Rimmer deceives the dispenser by pulling out the currency he puts in? Did the captain change the way they operate?

Rimmer & Lister try to figure out what to do about the illegal booze. Did they forget that Kryten's note could be considered a confession?

Which they could have dismissed as someone setting them up, if no hard evidence was to be found.

About the food dispensers:

In Back in the Read, Part 1, the Captain says that Red Dwarf was made to its original design specs. This probably included having to pay for the food dispensers.

Yes but in Series I the crew didn't appear to have to put money in the dispensers... as I mentioned above "I always thought they operated on some sort of credit system where a person would punch a code for their account, then the food they wanted, and the appropriate amount would be deducted" - so why the change here to having to insert money, if it was the original design specs?

- so why the change here to having to insert money, if it was the original design specs?

It's never established how old da big Red really
is, it could have been originally built with money slots in the machines.
After all, the mission RD was on in "The end"
wasn't it's first mission, since Lister had been on board for a while, and a comet crashed into it at some point before the fist series.
Later, they prolly upgraded the dispencing machines. But in the original specs, the machines were coin operated.
Credits where in use, as seen in "Queeg" where the computer told Listy that he had run out of credit when he tried to get food.

There's a difference between credits and coins - credits could be automatically deducted from a balance in the computer.
And if Red Dwarf is going back to its absolute original design specs, doesn't that mean any modifications whatsoever that had been made at the time of The End are now null and void?

A year & still no plot summary?

In Future Echoes Rimmer says to Lister, "You can't konk Death over the head."

Maybe not, but apparently you can knee Death in the groin. ;-)

Happy Nitcentral Birthday, then! (Well, I`d have to wish you one, we were like Darmok and Jelad with the Frank Conspiracy!)

If Talia came from the Hermes, how could the nanobots have resurrected her, as the Captain says?

Maybe they jumped ship somehow?

Guys, if you remember, the characters talked about design specs being redone on the ship after budget cuts being imposed on the Space Corps. That's why Red Dwarf was like it was in Season 1. For all intent and purposes it had been changed and refitted for money reasons.

What was the name of that piece of music that was playing at the end as rimmer's piece of paper burned up.

I know that it was in "Platoon", but that's it.

That was actually very helpful. Thank you.

Adagio for Strings I think is what it was.

Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber.

There's a few pieces with similiar names, but the artists name helps put it apart.

And it ends with Rimmer kicking Death in the gonads!