Product Details

• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Language: English, Esperanto
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: BBC Warner
• VHS Release Date: July 19, 2000
• Run Time: 89 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004WG9P
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #432,712 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not enough Rimmer!, August 31, 2000

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Elizabeth (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Dwarf VII - Byte Two [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Here's where the absence of Chris Barrie is strongly felt. The tension between Kochanski and Kryten is no replacement for the intense relationship of Lister and Rimmer that served as the basis for Red Dwarf for six subsequent seasons.

Duct Soup is a good, not great, episode, examining Kryten's insecurities about his relationship with Lister now that Kochanski has arrived. The crew spend the night crawling around Starbug's service ducts. I love the Cat's insensitivity concerning Lister's claustrophobia.

Blue is fantastic. Blue is worth the price of this tape alone. Lister is missing Rimmer, and missing him badly. Chris Barrie appears in one of the funniest Red Dwarf scenes EVER. Complete with the Arnold Rimmer munchkin song.

Beyond a Joke is pretty boring. It has a moment of gold when Kryten hunts down the five Bartlett sisters from Pride and Prejudice using a blowpipe and swinging logs. The rest of the episode is pretty insipid, including a truly irritating 4000 mechanoid named Abel.

Please join me in a moment of silence as we honor the genius of Red Dwarf. Although there are four tapes in the collection following this one, we do not see the true brilliance that sparked Red Dwarf again.

4.0 out of 5 stars No Rimmer, but plenty of laughs still., June 10, 2002

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hamilcar barca (nowheres in particular) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Dwarf VII - Byte Two [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Rimmer is only featured in one episode on this tape, and I think that it hurts the overall feel of the show. Rimmer has always been my favorite character, and his absence does cause this tape to get less time in my VCR than most of the other tapes. However, the one episode on here with Rimmer ("Blue") is a classic.
"Duct Soup" - Kryten shuts down the generator on Starbug because he thinks Lister and Kochanski are going to take a bath together. The crew than has to crawl through the ships' ducts to turn it back on, but Lister is claustrophobic and the expedition ends in disaster with them falling back in to the same room they started in. I don't want to spoil the whole plot, but they don't die, so everything works out alright. Not a very funny episode except for the part where Kryten daydream's his sendoff as Lister and Kochanski kick him off the ship ("But Kryten is spelled with a K!")
"Blue" - The only Rimmer episode on this tape is the true standout. Lister actually starts to miss Rimmer, so Kryten develops the "Rimmer Experience" to cure him of his depression. This has some really funny Rimmer moments in it, especially the little skits during the Rimmer Experiance ride ("Thank god you're here, Ace, I thought I was gonna wet me kecks!")
"Beyond a Joke" - Not much happens in this episode. Main idea behind this one is to further explain Kryten's jealousy of Kochanski. Kryten does blow up some annoying Jane Austen characters with a tank, though.

2.0 out of 5 stars Going to pot., June 8, 2002

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Illumination "G.Smith" (Beds, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Dwarf VII - Byte Two [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Red Dwarf went from strength to strength. Series 5 was amazing, Series 6 was even better. Then came Series 7. It started out with a strong episode, Tikka to Ride, and the two episodes which followed (Stoke Me a Clipper and Oroboros) were highly enjoyable. But after that things just fell apart. The loss of Rimmer is heavily felt, Kochanski is just irritating throughout this series, the tone of the episodes feels self-satisfied, the characters are just crude parodies of their former selves and the humour is very thin on the ground.

Red Dwarf 7 Byte 2? The three episodes here are Duct Soup, Blue and Beyond a Joke. There are a few good moments, such as Kryten on the rampage in Jane Austin artificial reality. But that, and throwing in GELFs, rogue simulants and mechanoids, can't make up for deadbeat scripts. Thankfully Red Dwarf escaped the mire with the far superior Series 8.