http://genre-commentary.com/taxonomy/term/87/feed The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. http://genre-commentary.com/node/87 <p>There's a time and place for crazy plots. Take, for example, the <em>Red Dwarf</em> episode "White Hole" (4.4). Here the crew must rescue themselves from a time-spewing "white hole" by closing it up with a planet. Perfectly mundane sci fi so far -- but wait: this planet must be knocked into the white hole according to the principles of a game of pool, as if a solar system and a pool table were equivalent physical entities, or as Lister (Craig Charles) explains to Rimmer (Chris Barrie):</p> <p><a href="http://genre-commentary.com/node/87">read more</a></p> http://genre-commentary.com/node/87#comment bbc blake&#039;s 7 doctor who internally consistent plots red dwarf Fri, 08 Sep 2006 21:23:09 -0700 Arwen Spicer 87 at http://genre-commentary.com