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Red Dwarf - Waiting for God
episode 1.4
UK 1988
produced by Ed Bye, Paul Jackson (executive) for Grant Naylor/BBC
directed by Ed Bye
starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Norman Lovett, Noel Coleman, John Lenahan (voice)
written by Rob Grant, Doug Naylor
TV-series Red Dwarf
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Deep space, aboard spaceship Red Dwarf, a few million years in our
future: After-death hologram Rimmer (Chris Barrie) gets way too excited
about some pod the ship's computer Holly (Norman Lovett) has picked up
floating through space. He soon becomes so self-absorbed in his conviction
that it is of alien origin that he totally fails to realize it's one of
Red Dwarf's own garbage pods (& Holly doesn't tell him because
"it's a laugh").
Meanwhile the last human Lister (Craig Charles) gets his hands on the
bible of catkind - cats that have evolved to humanoid form due to
radiation exclusively on Red Dwarf - & realizes that he (because he
smuggled his pet cat aboard the ship 3 million years ago) is what the cats
consider God. But in the last 3 million years, the cats have fought holy
wars & left the Red Dwarf in arks following his laundry sheets they
thought to be starmaps (& crashed into meteors pretty soon) & now
the only cats aboard are Cat (Danny John-Jules), & a cat priest (Noel
Coleman) Lister has found in one of the cargo decks ... but the priest has
lost his faith, & now Lister - after all the wrong the cats have done
to each other during the last few million years - sees a chance to redeem
himself & finds a way to give the priest his faith back ... just
before the priest dies ...
A rather ambiguous episode: While the scenes of Lister giving the cat
priest his faith back are cheesy at best (& not the good kind of
cheesy), the scenes of Rimmer getting all excited about the garbage pod
with nobody telling him what he is getting all excited about are genuine
fun (& could/should have been milked way more) ... & the Talky
Toaster (John Lenahan) with an identity crisis is just priceless.
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