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Hi,

Thought there might be a few folk interested in our latest episode with a certain Series 4000 service mechanoid (after our chat last year with Doug Naylor seemed to go down well).

We talk about all sorts - he was such a great guest. Quite a bit about his books and publishing… obviously, we’re a writing podcast. But also some Red Dwarf chat in there too.

You can check it out here.

Thanks!

A Jungian Reading of the Four Main Characters in Red Dwarf

I propose that the central quartet of Red Dwarf can be productively read as a single psyche mapped onto Jungian functions, forced into a long-term process of integration.

• Dave Lister represents the conscious Self (and, in the novels, is ultimately revealed to occupy an even higher ontological position).
• Arnold Rimmer corresponds to the shadow and neurotic complex — the persistent, self-sabotaging, status-oriented material of the personal unconscious.
• Kryten functions as the rational / thinking function: orderly, ethical within his programming, and continually attempting to impose coherent structure.
• The Cat embodies pure ego and instinctual self-image — immediate, aesthetic, and largely unreflective.

The premise of the series — four distinct psychological components sealed together in a confined environment with no possibility of permanent escape — creates the conditions for integration. The prolonged physical and narrative proximity acts as a binding force (metaphorically gravitational or electromagnetic), compelling the previously fragmented parts into closer relationship. Over the course of the television series and the novels, the characters demonstrably move from mutual antagonism toward greater coherence and mutual reliance.

This reading is consistent with the Hermetic principle “as above, so below”: the same pattern of differentiation followed by reintegration appears both at the level of the individual psyche and in the literal situation of the crew.

I have not encountered this specific four-function mapping elsewhere in discussion of the series. It accounts for both the comic surface and the surprisingly persistent underlying structure of character development across the years.

I’ve made a small Red Dwarf fan extension called Holly Overhead. It’s inspired by the X-Clacks-Overhead header that Terry Pratchett fans use as a tribute. When a website sends X-Holly-Overhead, the Red Dwarf icon in the extension bar turns red a popup shows the site’s message and a rotating Holly quote. If the header isn’t there, the icon stays grey.

It’s currently going through approval for Firefox, tentatively approved now. I haven’t submitted it to the Chrome Web Store yet, but eventually will. It’s cross supported on both, on Codeberg for review / forking.

If you run a website and want to add the Easter egg, send this as a response header on the main page:

X-Holly-Overhead: Everybody's dead, Dave

For NGINX, add this to your server block:

add_header X-Holly-Overhead "Everybody's dead, Dave" always;

For Apache with mod_headers:

Header always set X-Holly-Overhead "Everybody's dead, Dave"

You can also choose the quotes shown in the popup with a second header. It accepts up to 100 quotes, each up to 300 characters, and you can include an episode or source label:

X-Holly-Overhead-Quotes: [{"text":"There weren't any black holes.","episode":"Marooned"},{"text":"Ship systems nominal.","episode":"Site original"}]

Send both headers with the main HTML page response, not just an image, stylesheet, or API response. The extension checks the headers locally; it doesn’t send them anywhere.

It’s just a little nod to Red Dwarf, Rob Grant, Hattie Hayridge, and the fans who keep these small tributes alive. Holly may even have approved.

Did a bit of RD artwork.

My best friend died nearly a year ago. We used to sit up to stupid times of the night getting stoned watching red dwarf and Dr who. We always joked that he was rimmer and I was cat. At Farnborough megacon Chris barrie was kind enough to sign marks favourite rubber duck. I just want to say thank you Mr Barrie. I know Mark looked down with a tear in his eye seeing you do that. Thank you so much for helping me through a hard time

allowing me to perform virtually any household task imaginable

I just finished watching Below on Netflix and couldn’t help but notice the plot similarities to despair squid. Does anyone think the writers might have been influenced by Red Dwarf?

Tutoring and spotted this in an old exam question

The next Gianni Infantino?

I’ve had a mash up of Tongue tied and Baby Doll by Jamie Miller going round in my head all day 🤪. I think it’s after seeing lots of people on TikTok doing the dance routine to Baby Doll. I’m just reminded of the boys from the dwarf doing that cross over side step move 🤣

Logically, it makes no sense for Jake Bullet to still be a mechanoid.

We even see the next set of players getting ready, and the one playing Kryten is a human, and when we later see a snippet of their game, Kryten is a mechanoid.

It's the character that is a mechanoid, not the player.

Jake Bullet should've been the double-polaroid wielding human presenter of Scrapheap Challenge, but instead we get this for-some-reason chromed-up mechanoid.

Why?

Because Jake Bullet is a figment of Kryten's imagination, so he just sees himself.

It's a clue, isn't it? It's a blatant clue!

Blimey, if you didn't get that, you must've been watching like puddin's!

New upload from the BBC archive about the state of sci-fi in 1993. Contains a lot about Red Dwarf, including interviews with Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. Thought you guys might find it interesting!

Smegging smeg it's amazing. Chris Barrie's Lister is so amazingly spot on.

Netflix or Amazon need to do an animated series.

Been watching Dwarf from scratch and as an American, I was wondering: Who is Gordon Bennet that Holly refs a few times?