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Date   : Fri Nov 28 00:32:00 1997
From   : Earl Green of fidonet#1:139/510
To     : All
Subject: Red Dwarf 7 in Wisconsin!

Holy smeggin' cow!

Wisconsin Public Television has a Christmas treat for we Red Dwarf fans
here in Packerland.

From the Monday immediately before Christmas (December 22nd) through
Christmas Day, every night at 11:00pm, WPT will be showing two Season
Seven Red Dwarf episodes.  For those like me who have yet to even see so
much as a single publicity photo from the latest season, this is a great
opportunity to rev up the VCR and get some pristine recordings!

The schedule is posted in the "text-only" December schedule at
http://www.wpt.org - and until then, they're showing season six eps every
Thursday night at 11:00pm.  Hopefully they'll reboot to season one in
January!  Wow, I actually live somewhere where Red Dwarf is shown!

BTW, my thoughts regarding the "Red Dwarf Special Edition"...thus begins a
trend I've been hoping not to see.  Yes, it might be fun to see the first
episode redone with digital effects and so forth, but I'd just as soon
they didn't revise the entire series.  I have been dreading this constant
revisionist obsession that I noticed way back when there was talk of any
future re-runs of Babylon 5 containing new footage to cover the original
actress who played Sheridan's wife, and then of course the Star Wars
thing.

But how much is too much?  At this rate, we may wind up with a brilliant
young future director, perhaps on a hypothetical par with Hitchcock or
Spielberg, doing only one great film and spending the rest of his life
revising that one great film ad nauseum.  I never had any problem with
Star Wars as it was before this year, nor did I somehow fail to comprehend
that Sheridan's wife was Beth Toussaint one year and Melissa Gilbert the
next.  I mean, where is this headed?  Why don't we colorize some William
Hartnell episodes of Doctor Who, and digitally paint out the original
TARDIS control room so it looks like the one Paul McGann was seen in?  Why
not do new digital effects for all 79 of the old Star Trek episodes?  And
hey, let's paint Joel Hodgson out of the old Mystery Science Theater
episodes and put a computer-animated Mike Nelson in his place!  IMNSHO,
this obsession with revising the old is wasting time, when they could just
be applying that same technology to making something new instead.  There's
something to be said for saying "Okay, we're finished with this.  Now on
to something new."

That's all from me for now.  I'm finished with this.  Now on to something
new.

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