do you ever just remember that Rimmer is actually dead and that the person we put up with is actually just a mechsnism? just some fancy tecnology that mimics the real Rimmer's behaviours, the real one is dead and so is his brain. his counciousness wasn't saved anywhere, just his patterns. do you ever just think that the computer might have interperted something wrong while he was alive and that that machine's interpertation is the only thing we really see. do you ever think that all the hard light holograms might feel the weight of the bee pressing down on their organs, not enough to cause a fuss over, just enough to feel a tighness in their chest that's always there to remind that they are artificial, they have a part that doesn't belong, a little pain to make them remember they can never really be again. do you ever think that no emotion Rimmer expresses is actually felt but instead every reaction to every situation is already written on a code that the bee keeps playing, just a program repeating the pre-selected actions determined by an outside observer. or is it just me?
ROUND ONE - GLaDOS (Portal) VS Arnold Rimmer (Red Dwarf)
!!! PROPAGANDA BELOW !!!
GLaDOS: "So mot only is she running your character through a series of puzzles with the intention of killing her at the end, but in the second game she spends the Entire. Time. Verbally and emotionally abusing you, including body shaming and bullying you for being an orphan.
If it's any consolation, she does have to exist as a potato for the second and third acts of Portal 2."
ARNOLD: "OHHH BOY do i have things to say about this man. Okay so his entire character and his interactions with the rest of the crew are based around him being a complete and utter jerkface. He's rude, insulting, annoying and anally retentive. BUT. he is SO pathetic little sopping wet meow meow. Bro DIES IN THE FIRST EPISODE!! AND GETS REVIVED AS A HOLOGRAM!!! HE CAN'T TOUCH ANNNYYYTHING FOR 5 AND A HALF ENTIRE SEASONS. He had a HORRIBLE childhood he is autistic and gay and asexual and EXTREMELY repressed. He's the best hes the worst i hate him i love him i want to throw his lightbee against a wall i want to give him a big hug. He deserves to win because he's THE sci-fi sitcom jerk of All Time."
More than once Lister and Rimmer have been jarred from a deep sleep, jumping out of bed because of a loud racket, thinking it was some sort of attack. It wasn't. It was Cat messing around in the middle of the night and knocking stuff off counters.
The fact it's taken me this long to figure out there must've been serious discourse about Lister and Rimmer when the show was going. They have an entire ship to sleep in and 'hate eachother' and yet they sleep in the same room. Their ship fandom must have lost it when the kiss happened. Lister's infatuated with a woman that he can never have while Rimmer's sitting there like 'I'm right here, man'.