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🚜 Bob Semple was right.
That's the flaw in Red Dwarf, isn't it? that we're supposed to despise this guy but he's actually incredibly funny
I think it says about as much about us as it does Arnold Judas Rimmer (BSc, SSc.) that "he's saying what we're all thinking."
I'm not upset by it, it's just more telling than I'd like.
I did like the couple of early episodes where they pursued the idea that he isn't a bad person, he's just horribly broken... but of course sitcom dictates require that the status quo be restored at the end of each episode, so the idea that he might develop as a character was an awful tease. [edit: I'm thinking about this now, the way they restored the status quo was by having Lister be a shit, which is itself interesting as a character beat but still comes off as a contrivance.] (I don't consider Rimmer's character shift in later seasons to be development so much as laziness.)
fiiiine, I don't favorite things, but I'm favoriting this...