This episode sees the crew of the Red Dwarf finding an escape pod from a ship that crashed long ago; its two crew members are woken from stasis and one of them tries to warn of something but are cut off. When the pod is brought aboard the two people are now dead; turned to dust. Hoping they might salvage something useful the crew head to their ship which is deep underwater on an ocean moon. The crew are long dead but the positions of their skeletons suggests that some were murdered and others were involved in an orgy! Strange things soon start to happen; Cat takes some coins from a charity box to feed a one-armed bandit and promptly wins the jackpot. Lister returns the coins to the box and immediately suffers an accident; Cat goes to help him and suddenly a knife falls from the room and impales his foot
it would appear that no good deed goes unpunished. We later learn that this is due to the ship's Karma Drive; a device designed to reward good deeds and punish bad deeds; unfortunately it has been reversed by the two people from the escape pod for reasons that are explained in a series of flashbacks.
After a good opening episode season eleven continues to impress if anything this episode is even better than the first. The story was imaginative in a classic Red dwarf manner and packed with laughs. The way good behaviour was punished and bad rewarded was done in a funny way and it wasn't too obvious that this was what was happening rather than just bad luck. This meant that the revelation of the karma drive was still interesting. The way the skeletons were positioned was pretty funny and the fact that they were only skeletons meant it wasn't too rude although some parents might think it is a bit much for younger children. The cast do a fine job; I particularly liked the scenes between Craig Charles and Danny John-Jules as Lister and Cat; it made an enjoyable change from Lister and Rimmer not that their early scene wasn't also funny. Overall another funny episode.
After a good opening episode season eleven continues to impress if anything this episode is even better than the first. The story was imaginative in a classic Red dwarf manner and packed with laughs. The way good behaviour was punished and bad rewarded was done in a funny way and it wasn't too obvious that this was what was happening rather than just bad luck. This meant that the revelation of the karma drive was still interesting. The way the skeletons were positioned was pretty funny and the fact that they were only skeletons meant it wasn't too rude although some parents might think it is a bit much for younger children. The cast do a fine job; I particularly liked the scenes between Craig Charles and Danny John-Jules as Lister and Cat; it made an enjoyable change from Lister and Rimmer not that their early scene wasn't also funny. Overall another funny episode.
