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On their further pursuit of their mothership Red Dwarf, the skeleton crew of
the Red Dwarf - the last human Lister (Craig Charles), the (solid) after-death hologram
Rimmer (Chris Barrie), the robot Kryten (Robert Llewellyn), the cat evolved to
human form Cat (Danny John-Jules) - in their shuttle Starbug happen to find a
time machine on an abandoned spaceship ... which does them little good, since
the machine can transport them in time everywhere they want, but not in space,
so whatever time they go to, they remain marooned in süpace ... but then they
meet their future selves, who have perfected the drive of the Starbuck so it
can take them in time and space everywhere they want to go, & they
have taken full advantage of it, but now their drive has somehow malfunctioned
& they ask the present Starbug for a few spareparts from their timemachine
... but boy, have thwey turned into snotty & fat boasters /(except for
Lister, who has turned into a brain in a jar) who associate with the likes of
Louis XV & the Hitlers ("perfect hosts, as long as you don't mention
politics") on a social level, their excuse being, that the world's tyrants
& dictators do normally have the best of everything, & if you are
timetravelling, you should look for the best ... They have become so pompous
in fact, that the present day Red Dwarf crew refuses to help them, disgusted by
their own future ... & before long present- & future-Starbug are
engaged in mortal sombat, with Lister, Cat & Kryten (the present day
versions) dieing one after another, before Rimmer has an idea ... if he
destroys the time machine, nothing of all that might have happened ... to be
continued ! But wait a little, if the present Starbug crew is dead, how come
the future Starbug crew, who never existed, can kill them ... Despite
throwing the logic of time travel out of the window (like so many other
sci-fi-films & series, it has to be said), a rather entertaining episode
due to the idea that timetravelling turned our heroes into assholes. At the
same time though, the plot of this episode lacks narrative stringency as the
whole set-up of the story (where the Starbug crosses an unreality minefield
is all of a sudden thrown out of the window, 6 the time-travel narrative thread
is introduced halfway through the episode rather clumsily. Somehow it looks as
if this episode was written in a hurry & filmed without re-reads &
re-writes ... which, according to all those involved, was absolutely true, as
the script was finished so late that there wasn't even time for rehearsals
& the actors had to read their lines from teleprompters.
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