Corrected entry: Lister says that, as long as his "ouroboros" cycle continues, the human race can never become extinct. But this is not true: someday Lister will die. The baby he fathered will not replace him, because he sent it back in time, where it starts its lifespan at the same time as him (and thus dies at the same time as him). The cycle is self-reinforcing, but not self-perpetuating. Thus, when Lister dies, the human race will indeed be extinct. (00:28:15)
Phixius
7th Sep 2004
Red Dwarf (1988)
5th Mar 2007
Red Dwarf (1988)
Corrected entry: The Dimension Jump drive isn't a Time Machine, but it sends Ace Rimmer three million years into the future.
31st Mar 2007
Red Dwarf (1988)
Quarantine - S5-E4
Corrected entry: At The End of the episode, the Cat sees Rimmer and says 'look out' before Rimmer has appeared around the corner. (00:26:25)
27th Mar 2007
Red Dwarf (1988)
Corrected entry: Holly reads Lister's palm print dispite Lister still wearing his gloves. (00:14:45)
11th Feb 2007
Red Dwarf (1988)
Corrected entry: Rimmer says to keep page sixty one of "Lolita", but Lister pulls out the left-side page and pockets it. As odd-numbered pages in books are on the right side, meaning he must have kept page sixty. You can see the front cover quite is the right way up so the book would not have been upside down. (00:17:05)
30th Jan 2007
Red Dwarf (1988)
Corrected entry: After Lister uses the Holly Hop Drive, Holly says 'There's nothing out there, just space'. When they switch on the monitor, the duplicate Red Dwarf is orbiting a moon. (00:08:40)
27th Nov 2006
Red Dwarf (1988)
Corrected entry: Cassandra is a computer that can predict the future with 100% accuracy, so why then does she try to change the future (by lying to Rimmer about him sleeping with Kochanski so Lister will kill him) when she knows that she won't be successful?
25th Jan 2004
Red Dwarf (1988)
Timeslides - S3-E5
Corrected entry: We learn in "Ouroboros" in series 7 that Lister is his own father, and Kochanski is his mother. However, if this is so, when Lister fixed time so he never joined the Space Corps, that would mean he never met Kochanski, so his father never met his mother, so he should never have been born, and even if he was, his life should have taken a radically different path from that it did.
6th Jan 2004
Red Dwarf (1988)
Corrected entry: Throughout this episode writing is backwards. Why, in a backwards universe, would writing be backwards? Surely it would be the correct way around, just that the people in this universe would read it backwards.
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Correction: He doesn't say the human race can never become extinct, he says, "you and I goin' 'round and 'round in time"... "we're sort of a holdin' pattern on the human race." He only means they're helping it survive just that much longer.
Phixius ★