Corrected entry: When the meteor hits the ship, everyone is thrown about except for the skutter, who does not move at all. (00:04:10)
Captain Defenestrator
30th Jan 2007
Red Dwarf (1988)
6th Jan 2009
Red Dwarf (1988)
Corrected entry: From series 4 onwards, Rimmer is held in place by a "light bee" which is solid. But, at several points in series 1 and 2, he is able to walk through solid objects, which his light bee would be unable to do.
Correction: In "Thanks For The Memory", Rimmer uses a projection cage to visit the surface of a nearby world, showing that he didn't have a light bee at that point. The addition of the light bee is clearly an upgrade made at some point after that time, making it entirely reasonable that he could be seen to walk through solid objects in the early seasons.
7th Jul 2008
Red Dwarf (1988)
Corrected entry: When Ace's spaceship crashes into Starbug in "Dimension Jump," the two craft are roughly the same size. But in "Stoke Me A Clipper," he is able to comfortably park inside Starbug.
Correction: The run-in with the future selves and being killed by them at The End of season 6 caused reality to destabilize and changes to the ship. (At one point, one of the cargo decks is said to have increased capacity 44%.) Making it big enough to land Ace's dimension ship inside could be one of those changes.
27th May 2007
Red Dwarf (1988)
Corrected entry: As Cassandra can see the future, she would have known that her revenge plan against Lister would fail. (00:23:35)
Correction: True, however, if you knew when, where, how, and who was going to kill you, wouldn't you at least TRY to do something to stop it?
5th Mar 2007
Red Dwarf (1988)
Corrected entry: Rimmer is riding a motorcycle just before the battle. As he is a hologram this would be impossible.
Correction: The motorcycle is a hologram, which is why Holly's face appears in the headlight.
25th Jan 2004
Red Dwarf (1988)
Corrected entry: Ace states that Kryten is not waterproof, yet he must have got wet in the episode Backwards in series 3, as the ship crashes underwater, and soon after Kryten and Rimmer are in a lifeboat sailing for shore. How did they get our of the sunken ship without getting wet? He also drinks water in the "Backwards" episode, and again in series 6, in the episode "Legion". (00:19:20)
Correction: Kryten is likely at least "water-resistant," otherwise he could never get even slightly wet. We never actually saw them leave Starbug in "Backwards," he may have put on a scuba suit. As for drinking water, those systems may be waterproofed to allow for coolant intake without his entire body being waterproofed.
1st Dec 2003
Red Dwarf (1988)
Corrected entry: Kryten remarks that he and Able are both "2X4C" models, when Kryten is actually a "2X4B" model.
Correction: Kryten is referred to at various points as a "Series III," a "2000 Series," and a "2X4B Model." Likely these various references are to different parts of him, (Processor, Hard Drive, etc.) so it's possible for him to contain both a 2X4B and a 2X4C model part and simply refer to himself as that particular model in some situations.
27th Aug 2003
Red Dwarf (1988)
Corrected entry: There is a contradiction of when the radiation leak that wiped out the crew took place. In the episode "Stasis Leak" Lister says it was three weeks after 2nd March. However in the episode "Me Squared", Lister says it was six months after Gazpacho Soup Day, which was the 25th November.
Correction: The calendar has been shifted around a bit since the present day to accomidate the month of Geldof and a space-faring society.
21st Nov 2005
Red Dwarf (1988)
Corrected entry: If the timeline has been restored at The End of the episode, Lister shouldn't be able to hold up the detached hand - it shouldn't EXIST anymore.
Correction: We've seen from previous episodes that when the timeline is altered, there's a brief "sorting out" period while causality adjusts. The other Lister's hand hadn't disappeared just yet, but would soon.
In fact recent Quantum Theory suggests that time has a way of 're-adjusting' itself. Hence the 'Grandfather' paradox being impossible because time would have a way of preventing this from happening in the first place. Or if it does other things happen after to the timeline so that things sort themselves out.
Quantum Theory suggests no such thing. All evidence in science is that the arrow of time is always to the future.
31st Jan 2006
Red Dwarf (1988)
Corrected entry: If Rimmer is a hologram, why does his head make an impression on the pillow when he lies down? The pillow isn't a hologram. Rimmer doesn't ask for it to be turned on and its there when he's not in the room.
Correction: Rimmer's blankets and pillow are hologrammatic as well, since a hologram sleeps in them. They may just be left on full time for simplicity's sake.
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Correction: Skutters perform operations outside the ship as well. They probably have magnetized wheels or some sort of stabilizers to keep them from being knocked into space.
Captain Defenestrator