A mailpod reaches the spaceship after 3 million years ("normal for second class mail"), & in it a letter from Rimmer's mum that his dad (John Albineri) has died, a letter from the outland rerenue that he owes 18.000 Pounds in taxes, & a videogame called Better than Life, that allows its players to really enter the game via ciberspace. & even though Rimmer & his father never got along & rimmer of course knew he was dead (after all he is an after life hologram & has himself died 3 million years ago, the letter deeply depresses him - so he decides to get into the game with Lister (Craig Charles) & Cat (Danny John-Jules), after all, here everything is better than life. But while the others soon have their (rather simple) wishes fulfilled - Cat is dating Marilyn Monroe (Debbie Ash), & for Lister there's nothing greater than caviar Vindaloo anyways - Rimmer's career as an admiral is spoilt when his father tells him how disappointed he is & his love affair with his secret (real life) love McGruder (Judy Hawkins) becomes a living hell when they all of a sudden have 7 children & mortgage to pay ... It seems, that Rimmer has an automatic inhibitor that won't allow anything good happen to him, & soon enugh he drags the others with him into his misery.

& then the taxman (Ron Pember) comes after him, too ...

Partly this is an interesting & even funny character study of Rimmer, but partly the episode is just a succession of jokes - & not even good ones - about what can happen in cyberspace. In all thought he positive aspects outweigh the negative ones, if only just.

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