yuval152 said:
Eclpsedragon said:
I've never heard of it.
What's it about?
I second that, so many threads about it but I can't understand what is it about.
Eclpsedragon said:
I've never heard of it.
What's it about?
Okay, here's the deal. Quick rundown here. They're in space on this mining ship, right, and this one guy called Dave Lister gets put into a stasis cell as punishment because he brought a pregnant cat on board the ship without permission. Now, while he's in stasis there's an engine leak or somesuch, and the entire crew gets wiped out. Not only that, but the entire craft is left horribly irradiated, only becoming safe thousands of years later. At that point the ships AI Holly, who has gone fairly senile, lets Dave out of his stasis cell to whom the time seems like nothing.
Dave is joined by the holographical projection of his dead bunkmate, Arnold Rimmer, who is a smeghead (translation: arsehole/dickhead/tosser/prick etc. etc.). They are then joined by the Cat, a humanoid lifeform descended from the pregnant cat that Dave smuggled on board thousands of years ago (it survived because it was sealed away in the cast, lead-lined cargo areas at the time). A few series in, they are joined by the mechanoid Kryten.
Basically, imagine a bunch of pretty clueless idiots poking around a post-apocalyptic galaxy, generally getting into trouble with weird technology and lifeforms left behind by humanity, which seems to have been all but wiped out in the mean time.
Also it's funny. Really funny. Well, we think it is.