Smug Mode.

[gateslacker]

I am really on the ball today. This week is technically supposed to be my "spring break". Of course, I cannot take the whole week off from studying but I can take today as I had too many errands and whatnot to run anyway. Afterwards, I decided it was high time I clean up my totally trashed vehicle. I do believe that it has been 6 months since I have cleaned it out! It was a job and the car wash machine/vacuum cleaner ate my money twice. It looks sooooo much better. I won't be embarrassed letting someone in now. Since I was in clean mode, I came home and removed all the winter looking "stuff" and replaced it with the spring "stuff." I really need to do some spring cleaning but I am afraid that will just have to wait.

Though I am way late to the ballgame, I am totally smitten with Red Dwarf. So much so that, for a change of scenery and sounds, I replaced my desktop theme with RD sounds and made a wallpaper. (Of course you know I have to be ga ga if I replaced my Stargate theme and background!!! Sacrilege!!!)

Anyway, I am really impressed with the DVD's. Never have I seen DVD sets so full of extras, not to mention every episode has cast commentary!! It could take me months to get through it all. Wheeeeeeeeee. But, is this whole easter egg thing really necessary? I will have to cheat of course. Though I had heard somewhere that series seven and eight weren't quite as good, I have to say that I liked both. Of them all series seven is the most different and had some angst interwoven throughout all the comedy but I actually enjoyed that change, really. After watching several series and getting to know the characters, you actually yearn for more character development and character driven moments, even in blatantly comedic shows. Plus, you know how I am about whumping and angst...LOL! I don't feel the comedy suffered for it as I had a great many falling out of my chair with laughter moments. I also noticed how a difference was felt when an episode wasn't filmed before an audience. It made the episodes seem quiet and actually altered the pace in my mind, which had become accustomed to hearing, and accounting for, the laughter. I have discovered that slashers are everywhere. But, this is one show where I can see why some folks might see a slash pairing, especially after watching "Blue". Mind you, I wouldn't exactly go there, but I can certainly see where those ideas come from.

Well, it's off to aerobics........

Comments

[ruralstar.livejournal.com]

My but you are full of energy! We need to have a good yammer to catch up :) Glad you got all the cleaning and whatnot done. I wish I could swap some winter for spring stuff but it's too early here.

Jen liked Red Dwarf but I don't think she saw the whole series. As for Slash-oy, yeah it's everywhere!

Ruralstar

[merlindra.livejournal.com]

Hate to tell you but I don't think it was filmed in front of a live audience if memory serves, the BBC had a habit of adding "canned laughter". Even if some were live, the laughing is still canned, listen closely all the laughings the same.
There was Angst???? Really? Naaaa,

Did you enjoy Rimmer world?
OO and the one where Rimmer gets the Holo virius is possibly my favorite episode

[gateslacker.livejournal.com]

Well, I have been watching some of the special features and commentaries and they talk about how having the audience there helped them step up their game a bit, how they had to adjust the timing so as not to say their next lines over the laughter, and how guest stars were frequently very nervous and all. I am sure the entire thing wasn't filmed or that some was added later. It's just noticeable in season seven, mostly because I think they went back and did some things they wanted to in the first place, like adding some deleted scenes back in as opposed to just compiling the deleted scenes in the bonus features.

There was Angst???? Really?

Well, as angsty as RD can get...LOL! Who didn't wouldn't feel some "angst" when they cut off Lister's right arm and it takes both he and Kryten to play his guitar. I kept waiting for the Rimmer song in the one where Rimmer creates his own world so when I finally hear it in Blue, I was ROFLMAO!!!I have several favorites but Polymorph stands out for me because it is when I knew that I had been taken in and I had to buy all the series on DVD!

[gateslacker.livejournal.com]

This week is definitely spring like here so I hope we have turned the corner. We DO need to have a good yammer, that's for sure!

[de23.livejournal.com]

Sorry I missed aerobics -- kevin's got after school stuff on Mondays and S had a make-up violin lesson (which I got the time wrong for so we missed it anyway). Hope you had fun!

[merlindra.livejournal.com]

I stand correct, damn, why did I never make it to the studio!
Have you got to season 8 yet? If you have you've over taken me, I saw all of 7 but kinda lost interest when 8 came along.

[gateslacker.livejournal.com]

Watching it makes me relatively certain that it would have been a riot to be in the studio!

I have watched series 8 and it returns a bit to the previous format, but with an entirely new twist.

Rimmy and Listy together in a prison cell...Rimmer getting hold of the sexual magnetism virus.....Krytie TV....Poor Captain Hollister.

That is one advantage about watching shows on DVD. With huge hiatus periods, it is easy to lose interest. Out of sight, out of mind and all that jazz.....

[gateslacker.livejournal.com]

Sorry you couldn't come! I had a good time though we did some ab work that liked ta killed me! Though walking is good for you, you don't get that ab work in.

Perhaps next time, maybe.....