{"id":1031,"date":"2008-09-20T15:52:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T20:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2008-09-20T15:52:14","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T20:52:14","slug":"small-rouge-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2008\/09\/20\/small-rouge-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the small rouge one"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I get down to the news, and bear in mind that I don’t go posting Youtube links hither and yon, I’ll say just this: Don’t blink. Don’t even blink. They are fast, faster than you can believe. Don’t move, don’t look away, and don’t blink.<\/a><\/p>\n

Good luck. \ud83d\ude06 <\/p>\n

\"IOK, the real news: the comeback of Red Dwarf, with the complete original cast, is outlined here<\/a> on the official site: two hours worth of new Dwarf, though only one hour is new story, while the other hour is making-of and clip show stuff.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong: I’m grateful at the thought of Red Dwarf returning, with the cast back in their usual roles (and Craig Charles between cocaine-fueled mid-life crises). This has the potential to be the coolest comeback since…Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica, I guess. I can honestly say I’m more intrigued by new Red Dwarf than I am about a classic Trek “origin story” on the big screen.<\/p>\n

But I’d rather we got four half-hours of new story<\/strong><\/em>, rather than this completely strange, self-congratulatory exercise that’s being outlined by Grant Naylor Productions. The fact that the news release mentions a DVD as being a foregone conclusion seems to point this up a bit. I’ll be happy if this goes over well enough to merit more TV Dwarf…but only if the second movement of this comeback has more story and less televised self-back-patting.<\/p>\n

But what a great strategy – wait for the year that’s thin on Doctor Who and Torchwood, the year that Galactica ends, and do a real live legit continuation of Red Dwarf. What with me playing old video games and watching Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica all the time, I thought maybe this was 1978-79 all over again. But Red Dwarf and Doctor Who on the air at the same time? It’s 1988-89!<\/p>\n

Now the only thing that still needs to happen is for Atari to go under. Again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before I get down to the news, and bear in mind that I don’t go posting Youtube links hither and yon, I’ll say just this: Don’t blink. Don’t even blink. They are fast, faster than you can believe. Don’t move, don’t look away, and don’t blink. Good luck. \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-stuff","category-television-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}