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Sooooo the new Red Dwarf: Back to Earth…..

Perhaps I had built it up for myself too much, or perhaps I was younger when I watched the original series, or perhaps I missed the point entirely, but after watching the 3rd part on Sunday evening I can only say I was disappointed.

Each part of the episode just felt like an extended trailer for the most part and I was constantly waiting for it to get going, at which point the credits rolled.

All the ingredients were there, the original cast (Minus Holly/Hilly ) and a classic script parodying yet another popular film (Bladerunner), so where did it all go wrong?

1. Previous episodes were filmed in front of a studio audience, this unfortunately was not, most likely due to the amount of CGI that was used, lets face it the audience wouldn’t know what was going on.

2. Why is Rimmer a hologram again and where are the rest of the crew? Not that I was a big fan of when they were brought back in the first place.

3. Damn adverts, seriously this was a fatal flaw, the whole episode was too short as it was and Dave adding in their adverts seriously annoyed me.

4. CGI.  One of the things that I really enjoyed from the early episodes was how the whole thing was done on a small budget and how amazing a little creativity could pull off some amazing results.

Now I would love them to go and make another couple of series, but if this is a taster of what’s to come I don’t think I’d enjoy them particularly well.  So Doug if your listening go back to the basics of 3 men and an android struggling to survive in deep space with nothing to entertain them over than a couple of games of Junior Angler.