Red Dwarf – The First Three Million Years Ep 2 thoughts
· I love that when they brought Howard Burden in to design the costumes for series 3 he didn’t watch a single episode from series 1 or 2 but instead just based the new costumes on the series 3 script. That explains a lot!
· Finally getting a look at the back of Lister’s painted short-sleeved black shirt from series 11 and 12! I don’t believe this was ever shown on screen? (please correct me if I’m wrong!). It’s got little drawings of the Cat and Kryten as floating heads to match the Rimmer and Lister drawings on the front!
· I absolutely love the fact that Howard had basically no money at the beginning to make all of the Cat’s fabulous costumes and that to make the yellow and black coat from Terrorform they just took the old zebra print coat and coloured in the white bits with yellow felt pen!
· Howard and Danny both saying that the Cat made their careers. In all of the years that I’ve watched the show, I’ve never really given much thought to the person who actually makes the Cat costumes – I just look at them, think ‘well, that’s amazing’, then move on. But of course getting the opportunity to design such incredible outfits would be a dream come true for a costume designer, and it must (as Rimmer would say) look so good on the old CV!
· Robert talking about how long it took to get him into the Kryten costume (five hours!) and how the others had it easy in comparison, especially Chris who only had to put his H on. And then Chris talking about putting the H on as if it’s the trickiest thing ever – “We have a hard time getting that H straight”
· Craig sweating out of his ear holes in his mechanoid costume – ewwwwww
· And then Craig talking about wearing the costume – ‘Having done it, I’ve gotta take my hat off to him. But then again, he’s had three books out of this – Man in the Rubber Mask – he’s made a fortune out of it – get on with it!”
· Chris talking about Low Rimmer – describing him as ‘extraordinary’. And then describing the costume: ‘It was such an uncomfortable outfit. I’m sure there were pins sticking into me and all sorts of things. Motivated me to be, you know, Low Rimmer. Because the outfit inspired that kind of evil, you know.”
· Craig pretending for years to anyone who asked that he ate real dog food in Marooned when it was actually just tuna with a bit of jelly on it!
· Great episode, loved the focus on the costumes. Can’t wait for the last episode!
