Red Dwarf: Back to Earth - Part Three

The first half of part three was very much like part 2, and looked to be going in the direction I believed it would yesterday. I thoroughly expected to see Doug Naylor staring down the camera after the break.

If Twitter is anything to go on I don't appear to be the only person who thinks they guessed the end game yesterday, but still quite impressed with myself:

Based on the first two parts if I had to write the rest I'd link it to the Back to Reality storyline. It could be a suicide inducing group hallucination brought on by the squid from last night.

Bang on.

The last 15 minutes were a lot better than the first 75. The reveal allowed the integrity of the original storyline to remain reasonably untouched, other than of course the (thus far) fictitious ninth and tenth runs. I quite like the idea that they could eventually be made to fill the gap between RD8 and this short run, although let's face it, it's not likely.

Was it amazing? No. I'd have preferred far less of the meta stuff in exchange for some expansion on how they came to be where they were at the outset. Had the final 15 minutes been more of the same I'd probably be slating the whole project here, but they really saved it. The die hard purists will continue to slate it, but if anyone asks me, I'll tell them I enjoyed it overall.

Goodbye again Red Dwarf. Hope to see you again some day.