Review: Red Dwarf: Timeslides and The Last Day

Series 3, Episode 5 - Timeslides

 "I'm fed up of playing Durex volleyball!"

Another interesting speculative fiction episode that again looks at Lister and Rimmer as well as both of their backgrounds.
          Lister is endlessly bored with his life. Kryten finds that some of the developing fluid has mutated, and so the images developed in it become portals to the time of that photo. After experimenting with some old photos and an image of Adolf Hitler, Lister goes back to one of his old photos and makes his past self invent something called the Tension Sheet, making him immensely rich. Rimmer is left alone on the ship, and so goes back to try and make himself invent the sheet, but the sheet is instead invented by the original inventor, who shared a dorm with the young Rimmer.
           This is a great episode that while a little inconsistent with the laws of time travel, is still entertaining and funny.

Series 3, Episode 6 - The Last Day
"No Silicon Heaven? But where would all the calculators go?"

Aaaaand after almost an entire series, we finally get some character development for Kryten. And it works as a great finale.
          Kryten gets Lister breakfast, and Lister tells him that he doesn't need to serve anyone. Kryten then throws the breakfast in the bin, but Lister eats it anyway. The post arrives and the single letter shows that Kryten is out of date and that its new model is on the way. The gang team up to make Kryten feel loved, and then gang together against the replacement when he arrives. The replacement, however, is a super-strong and insane, meaning that it wants to kill them all. Kryten eventually uses his newfound ability to lie to trick the robot into thinking that there is no Silicon Heaven, which is a concept built into robots to stop them from going insane.
          This is a funny episode with interesting character development for Kryten especially, who has been neglected for most of this series. I'll do my series overview tommorrow on Tuesday.

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