Back in the Red Opening Edit

Changelog:

Cut - Entire opening prison scene. 5 minutes approx right off the bat. There's really no reason for this to be here except to show off to that they're doing Rimmer/Lister bunkroom scenes again. It really just gets in the way.

Cut - Compressed the opening shots of Starbug approaching Red Dwarf.

Cut - Unnecessary Holly fluff. Contributes nothing and isn't funny enough to justify interrupting what is supposed to be a fast, exciting scene.

Cut - "Brown Alert". We've seen similar, better jokes in the past.

Cut - Cat saying he doesn't always get through stop signs in one sitting. Hahahahahah. Get it? Because he's literally retarded now.

Cut - Unnecessary extra joke simile from Kryten about how long they've got left because they literally just had one in the previous line, and it was a lot better.

Cut - Kryten line about Kochanski having a teddy bear and "hurdling towards 30". As if we could believe any of these people are under 30.

Change - Matched Holly's motion to the shaking of the monitor on his one funny line so they're not constantly moving in different different directions.

Cut - The following 30 seconds of scene-slowing unnecessary Holly lines.

Cut - The entire rat segment. Red Dwarf isn't a cartoon, let's not.

Comment - "Red Dwarf isn't a cartoon, let's not" is probably going to show up a lot in this changelog.

Cut - Cat doesn't know you need engines to fly. One could argue this isn't really unreasonable for him, but it that still wouldn't make it funny.

Cut - The shot of Starbug's front segment grinding across the hangar bay in a completely stationary position without tumbling. That always bothered me.

Comment - Man, that whole sequence feels really nice and tight now. I can actually buy the sense of urgency it's supposed to have. I like it.

Cut - Removed short segment added in the Extended where Lister is annoyed that he can't snog an unconscious woman without her consent. They immediately bail Starbug now like in the broadcast version.

Comment - We're pretty much exactly 3 minutes in as they first meet the crew, opening montage included. That's 11 and a half minutes into the extended version. Even though most of it is the prison scene, we've cut almost 3/4ths of the opening third of the episode and you'd never miss it. Expect the major cuts to slow for a while and then get common again when we hit the material from BtR Part 3.