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It all starts out as the funniest Red Dwarf episode for
quite some time: Because the other crewmembers - Lister (Craig Charles),
Cat (Danny John-Jules) & Kochanski (Chloe Annett) - prefer to go to
the artificial reality suite & spend a couple of hours in Jane
Austin World to celebrating his anniversary, neurotic robot Kryten
(Robert Llewellyn) goes there as well & takes out the girls from Pride
and Prejudice (Vicky Ogden, Alina Proctor, Catherine Harvey, Sophia
Thierens, Rebecca Katz, Julia Lloyd) one by one, first using guerrilla
tactics, & when that is not fast enough, a tank.
Then he serves his crewmates lobster, but when Lister asks for ketchup
to go with it, he gets so angry that his head explodes. When his crewmates
try to screw a sparehead onto his neck, it immediately explodes too among
contact ... & the one after that, & so on.
Finally the Red Dwarfers run out of spareheads, & this is where the
episode ceases to be funny: Suddenly they pay a visit to a simulant ship -
which was by no means set up in the story - & obtain a new head ...
but have to realize that the simuland (Don Henderson) while selling them
the head, had stolen the Kryten body from their ship.
It all ends in a few chases, Kryten meets his drug addicted brother,
learns that he was immediately constructed to be a joke, Lister comforts
him, & Kryten's no-good brother Able finally does a heroic deed when
he blows up the Simulant ship, sacrificing his own life ...
My question though is: Why did scriptwriters Doug Naylor & Robert
Llewellyn sacrifice the really funny set-up for a conventional sci-fi plot
that is littered with cheesy stuff ?
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