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Old 02-26-2021, 10:36 AM   #43
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Default Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week: Insubstantiality

Again, heavy spoilers incoming!

IIRC, Rimmer actually has a few decent stealth/spy moments and... well... Rimmer being Rimmer, if he wasn't mostly or wholly insubstantial, then they wouldn't he wouldn't have had a hope of succeeding. ;)

I'll add that the show is comedy driven, and wasn't the kind to sweat inconsistencies. So they sometimes ignored that Rimmer - an AI replicating a deceased member of the crew, represented with a holographic "body" - was always dependent on something "running" him. Whatever ran him also supplied his senses, and in some cases, let him do odd things like "drink". It wasn't that he physically ingested liquids, but that the program could simulate him being "drunk".
  1. In early seasons, on the actual Red Dwarf ship, the ship's computer and holo-emmiters are how Rimmer existed.
  2. If Rimmer wanted to go down to a planet, one time he employed a "holo cage", which just let him be there, not walk around.
  3. The Light Bee was introduced later, when they were no longer regularly on their main ship, but stuck on a scout ship chasing Red Dwarf.
  4. It also gets confusing because of certain, story-specific situations, where Rimmer was - for "reasons" - not insubstantial.
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