sci-fi Archives – Caricatures Ireland by Allan Cavanagh

RIP Rob Grant

26/02/2026 by Allan

Companion film Sophie Thatcher Iris Red Dwarf Kryten Lying Scene. Kryten from Red Dwarf and Iris from Companion movie sitting at a table looking at a banana. Kryten is saying 'Now you try: "It's a small off duty Czechusslovakian traffic warden"

Rob Grant has passed away. I can’t begin to tell you the impact the Grant/Naylor writing partnership had on my youthful self, but if you’re of a similar age you probably already know.

How THE EVƎNT should have ended, and possibly never got started.

19/11/2010 by Allan

Talk about a plot hole. The EVENT’s extra-terrestrial/futurekind/Others can teleport planes and passengers out of the sky to reappear hundreds of miles away but they haven’t so far attempted to teleport their own kind out of their captivity. Riiiight. This has quickly descended into frustrating nonsense, and feels as if it was rushed into production … Read more