Except that it doesn't work in canon. Series 8 featured a fully-restored (actually, slightly LARGER) and fully-crewed *Red Dwarf* (and with Rimmer as a human, not a hologram) - and ended with the ship falling apart and the main cast in eminent danger.
Naylor resolved NONE of this in BTE. Instead, Rimmer & Lister hang out in what almost seems like a fan recreation of the series 1/2 sleeping quarters, Rimmer is a hologram again, and there's no mention of Kochanski, the nanobots, or the restored crew. Wikipedia's entry for BTE says the series occurs nine years *after* the events of the series 8 finale, "Only the Good..."; This works chronologically, since the cast has obviously aged, but not in canon. The fact that it was Chris Barrie, not one of the production staff, who referred to the upcoming episodes as Series 10 makes me hope that BTE isn't going to be considered canon. (I'm not really sure why this bugs me so much, but...it does.) M-D "All hands on deck - Swirly Thing Alert!" -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
