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Red Dwarf VIII - Byte Two: Cassandra [VHS]

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You know, before I got this particular installment of Red Dwarf, I had to go to the UK Amazon site to get a decent review! The only other review I saw on the US site, was written up by someone who had no idea what they were talking about. Otherwise, it is great! If you are a Dwarfer, then don't hesitate to buy this one!

Three episodes of the comedy/sci-fi series. The first, 'Cassandra', was when series 8 really came of age, and proved the show was back to its glory days. Lister and company find the titular computer, who can predict the future. This leads to hilarious comedy, drama and even food for thought. In 'Krytie TV', Kryten, having been classified as a woman for not being endowed with, erm, certain male characteristics, is now joining in girls' skipping teams and painting his foot red with nail varnish. When they find out he uses the female showers, the male prisoners sabotage him and force him to film them. In 'Pete', the discovery of a virus which can eat potato skins leads to disaster, and a time-wand regresses a short-sighted inmate's pet sparrow into a Tyrannosaurus Rex. A must-buy if you're a fan.

This is probably the owrst installment of a great show. It still has some laughs in it, but it has gotten so goofy and away from the original idea of the show that it is hard for me to watch sometimes. The ting that really turned me off was when they joined the "Canaries." I could take all of their other changes, but this is just too goofy. It's like they ran out of ideas for the few characters they had and needed a bunch of new, sickening characters to make up for it. This tape has 1 good episode and 2 pretty bad ones.
"Cassandra" - The best episode of series 8. Lister signs the group up for the "canaries" which is a group of prisoners who go on suicide missions. They encounter a computer called Cassandra that can see the future. This episode has an interesting, mysterious atmosphere to it that I enjoy.
"Krytie TV" - Kryten gets assigned to the womens section of the prison because he doesn't have a package. He is corrupted by a group of horny male prisoners into filming the women while in the shower. He gets busted by Lister and Rimmer eventually and fixed. Not really very funny, and pretty disgusting at times (i.e. the fish on the lamp).
"Pete, Part I" - Rimmer and Lister sabotage some sort of bizarre prisoner/inmate basketball game and assigned to potato-peeling duty. Lister uses little creatures that chew off the skin of the potatoes, but also end up chewing off he and Rimmer (and the Captains!) hair and clothes.

This seris by BBC video is very funny it will have you laughing from start to finis. The chartors are a dead hologram named Rimmer, a slobe named Lester,and a cat-human named Cat.