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Sparkling Dialogue

John Hoare / Series VIII / 07-10-05 @ 02:13 / 7 Comments

RIMMER: You've got a scar? When did you get that?
LISTER: Those complimentary pens that the hospital guys were giving out – you know "most accidents happen in the home, so be careful" ones? I accidentally stabbed myself in the head with one.
RIMMER: Where were you?
LISTER: I wasn't at home, so I didn't feel stupid or anything.

I like this a lot.

Comments

This is indeed 'sparkling' by VIII standards.

By performingmonkey on 07-10-05 @ 03:55

Agreed. 'snot bad. Shame about the rest of the episode.

By Pete Martin on 07-10-05 @ 09:55

Wow, I actually have no memory of which episode that came from.

By Seb on 07-10-05 @ 12:10

It's Only the Good, isn't it? I seem to remember there being an extremely large amount of extraneous information before the plot finally kicked in.

By Pete Martin on 07-10-05 @ 18:23

That's probably why I don't remember it; I didn't see the episode all the way through on original broadcast, and never got it on tape. To this day, I think I've only ever seen it once.

By Seb on 07-10-05 @ 21:51

Yeah, Only The Good is a weird one. You're halfway through the episode before things actually start to happen.

It's one of the better VIII eps, though. Everything feels like its coming together for a bit - everything seems a lot more... *fun*, in some way. Pity the last five minutes fucks everything up.

By John Hoare on 07-10-05 @ 22:18

If the start of series IX had been good and wrapped everything up brilliantly, this could (COULD) have turned into an OK two-parter. Sadly, we'll never know. Even if there was another series or special, there's just no way it could follow straight on from VIII (from one scene to another the cast age ten years...). There'd have to be a bullshit explanation from Lister in the opening scene telling us in three sentences how things got back to a status quo (and how Krissie had that unfortunate accident...mwahaha).

By performingmonkey on 08-10-05 @ 03:10

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