Entangled Review

Smegging brilliant, I really enjoyed that episode of Red Dwarf, the feel of it was perfect. You could maybe criticise it for borrowing for previous episodes, mainly ‘Emohawk’ and ‘Quarantine’, but it wouldn’t be the first time Red Dwarf has done this and they were different enough that I didn’t give a shit.
 

I wonder if Kochanski was meant to be in this episode, as we now know the last two episodes were meant to have her in them, but had to be rewritten due to the cost of the location shoots. Doug Naylor has now said that she isn’t going to feature in them, but is that just a red herring. It’s is just that the scene on E.R.R.A space station and with the coincidence thing, it felt the monkey reveal should have been her. I know Kochanski isn’t the most popular character on the show, but I am all for it as long as her character is well written and it isn’t just period jokes like in series VIII.

 

 

A few good points:

• The opening gag, the best one yet. The whole scene was great from Lister’s ‘There is something on little monitor two, weird small, really massive, what is it?’ to Rimmer lecturing about the new health and safety rules. Maybe you could say it was a bit Brittas, but Gordon Brittas has always had a slight bit of alternate reality Rimmer about him.

 

'Eeeexcellent!'

• Cat, again was great, Danny John-Jules really has his mojo back, the scene where it is revealed that Lister lost Rimmer in a poker match, he just stole that scene completely.

'Does not help, does not clean, will have sex with anything.'

• Kryten drying the spoons
• The scene with the BEGGS was brilliant, Kryten translating was great, especially ‘So you return with my winnings hahaha.’
• Kryten’s long dialogue about the E.R.R.A. station and how it specialised in wrongness, with it ending in ‘Did it work?’ ‘No it didn’t.'
• Professor E always being wrong and therefore fancying Rimmer, simply gag but great.
• Great final gag, ‘Have you got a pen?’ Wonderfully delivered by Craig Charles.
• Soft light Rimmer, really really nice to see.

I am going to stop now, I don’t just want to go through the entire episode in a typically disjointed fashion

  

A few bad point (There wasn’t anything major that annoyed me, so just a couple of nit picking bits):

• Kryten has weird yellowing of round the eyes of and lips, I didn’t know droids could get jaundice.I didn’t like the fact that Irene wore her glasses upside down, was a bit much.
• The E.R.R.A. stuff and about everything being wrong was a great concept, I think this could have been used for an entire episode. 
• How did Lister talked to the BEGGs in the first place, they didn't reveal they spoke English until the entire crew went down to the moon.

Really that is it, this episode up there with the best of VII and beats anything from VIII, well the only one really worth comparing it too is ‘Cassandra’. I have never really made a list of my favourite episodes of Red Dwarf. I am going to have to do that when this season finishes.

 

8.5/10