There are some shows that have a huge cut following no matter what genre they are apart of by they a comedy or a science fiction show there's just something about them that people love. With the same thing also being true for the show that i'm going to be talking about today which is also a show that I haven't really talked about in a while and i'm not going to lie that's not going to change anytime soon and so then join me as I review the episode that saw the boys from the dwarf return to a weekly TV series with the episode in question being called simply just "Trojan" enjoy.
The plot of the episode is when Red Dwarf picks up a distress call from Rimmer's seemingly more successful brother Rimmer , Kryten , Lister and Cat have to save him and his simulant companion. Now then inter,s of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with this episodes plot being rather enjoyable and easy to follow along with in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is Robot Wars and Takeshi's Castle host Craig Charles as Dave Lister and The Brittas Empire star Chris Barrie as Arnold Rimmer. Also starring in this episode is Danny John-Jules as Cat , Robert Llewellyn as Kryten , Mark Dexter as Howard Rimmer , Susan Earl as Sim Crawford , Lucy Newman-Williams as All Droid Jayne and the Phone Droid Voice , Bryan Bounds as All Droid Bob and the Phone Droid Voice , Laurence Bouvard as the Phone Droid Voice and Rupert Degas as the Phone Droid Voice.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. Which isn't all that shocking as the four main leads have been playing their respective characters for decades at this point and so they would know what performance would best suit there characters at any given time what was shocking however was the fact that the guest cast for this episode also turned in some really solid performances as well with the guest cast more then holding their own when acting opposite the returning cast members which couldn't have been an easy thing to do and yet they do it wonderfully in this episode.
I will admit that I loved seeing Rimmer interact with his brother as it gave us a chance to see just how smug this character can be. Which was something that I really liked as that's very true to Rimmer's character at least this version of Rimmer and to see him and the crew just pulling of this entire charade just impress someone who is ultimately the exact same level as Rimmer just makes there whole interactions even more hysterical as it then becomes a case of one trying to outdo the other without letting on to the other person that that's what it is that there trying to do which is just genius screenwriting.
With this episode we also saw the return of the show being filmed infront of a live studio audience which is something that really does make all the difference. As this is the kind of show that is made to be performed infront of a live studio audience and while it does limit what kind of camera moves that you can do it also lets you know what jokes are working and which ones aren't which luckily for this show series alot of it's jokes do work and you can tell that the cast love performing infront of an audience as well and I really do hope that for any future series or special that they keep the live audience just to make it feel alot more like Red Dwarf and alot less like any other science fiction comedy show out there.
This episode saw the team take a more back to basics approach with making the show whilst also including something that they didn't include in any of the previous series. With this new series only retaining the four main lead characters and no other recurring character from the previous series and also introducing subplots to the series with this episodes subplot really being really enjoyable but I would have liked if the Lister subplot tied into the main plot in someway just to make things a little bit more coherent but as it is the shows first subplot wasn't that bad and as was really entertaining as it led to one of the biggest laughs of the episode for me.
I will admit that I didn't like this episodes surprise villain as it's something that wasn't really built up all that well at all. While we are given a reason as to why this episodes villain is the way that they are this episodes villain is taken out far to easily and really isn't all that creepy of a villain which is a shame because the idea behind this villain and what there end goal is is a really good idea it's just that the character doesn't have alot of dialog before there big reveal and so we don't really get the chance to know if something is up with this character and s when the big reveal does happen it comes out of nowhere.
Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever this episodes running time even was I do know that for a fact this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly twenty nine minuets. Which from what I remember is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for this show and to this episodes credit it does have more then enough there interms of either plot or story to cover that large amount of running time I do wish that the episode was a tad bit longer as I was having such a good time with this episode but on the flip side of that if this episode was longer then it would be stretching a thin story even thinner but I will admit tho that this episode really does have some good pacing to it.
So now then as this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talked about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With this episode having alot of painfully funny laugh out loud moments with this episode having far to many funny moments to even count and it really does help that alot of this episodes jokes are really well written and comes across as being very character driven as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this episode was a great return to the boys from the dwarf as it is an episode that is just filled to the brim with painfully moments which will make alot of people laugh out loud and laugh hard as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Red Dwarf fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful Google Images since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on freaking Google Images are all really fairly freaking high in freaking quality and as well as being really very fairly freaking high in definition.