Salkafar

Yes, and? They don't form long-chain molecules.

The problem is that only carbon and silicon form the long-chain molecules needed for complex life.

Thunderfoot really deserves his name.

The download link is hidden, it says. Why?

If Apollyon is an agent of the Creators, it's quite possible that he's afraid of Sho. Or rather of the Guyver. It occurs to me that he might be able to imitate the abilities of the Zoalords, but not the Guyver... and the Guyver is the one thing that drove the Creators away after millions of years of work. It's scary. Imagine if something you made suddenly turned on you. Like Pinocchio going after Gepetto with a knife. Brrr.

But the guys are a lot older now, is what I mean.

It was an attempt at changing the dynamic. How much further could they take Rimmer-the-prat before the formula wore out? He had to grow into something more, and the idea that the innate Rimmerness was the mere seed of something so much greater is appealing. Also, there is a very Red Dwarf irony in giving Lister what he wanted for so long - Kochanski - and then of course there is the reality of the situation: she is not the ideal love princess of Lister's dreams, but just another person with her own issues. Ah, but the problem was that the crew is supposed to be made up out of losers. Lister, arguably the ultimate irresponsible unrealistic slobby manchild, Rimmer, the hyper-neurotic emotional mass of frustrated ambition without talent; the Cat, the genetic dregs of his species; Holly, the formerly brilliant but now thoroughly senile computer; and Kryten, the corrupted and possibly insane service android. Kochanski doesn't fit in. She's too normal and well-adjusted. Can they please finally meet the Cats? That would be interesting. If the elegant, creative and physically superior Cat is essentially the Cat equivalent of a cripple with Down syndrome, what are the normal specimens of his species like? They already met the Gelfs, but what of the mechanoids? There was talk in the novels of large mechanoid civilizations who pay top dollar for human relics. I would prefer if humanity hasn't died out, but ascended to a higher level of being. Which was suggested in the first episode anyway. But perhaps Red Dwarf has had its day. It was a completely different time when it all began. Hello, you guys, when it began, the Berlin Wall was still standing! This is a different world. As I write it, I am reminded of Doctor Who. When that started... well, when that started, JFK had just been murdered, of course.

"Katchinsky", Ryuki? You wound me. I do wonder how this is gonna happen. It's been... how long since the last regular series? 13 years? Is this gonna be 'Out of time' from the other side or something? .... Hmmm, not much known yet. Boy I hope this won't suck. Doctor Who is kind of letting me down so far this year.

Damn. Never occurred to me that it doesn't need to be a person wearing armor, or an android... it could be something remote-controlled. I still want to keep open the possibility that Apollyon is a robot sent by the Advents. Of course he would be as powerful as Archanfel - since Earth still exists, it was a given he would have to face the Prime Zoalord.

No sign of life? Tens of billions of years??!

It's a symbiont... or rather, the Guyver is a parasite that's forced to behave as a symbiont. So... 'symbiosis'? If a symbiont inhabits the body of the host, this is known as 'endosymbiosis'. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endosymbiont I've seen it translated as 'a transcendent life form', but this may refer to 'beyond the norm'. Fusion, perhaps?

Hmmmm... An area that's 800 miles square... forty by twenty miles.... Considering the shape of the island, it would have to be at least eighty miles long to have that surface area, making the mountain about ten miles tall. I just don't think so. Could it be 800 acres?

Thanks, you guys. 1 - Are we ever gonna get a final date on just when the Advents landed on Earth? Only single-celled organisms, but including eukaryotes, suggests a date between two and one billion years ago. But if they only left about a hundred thousand years ago, that means they stayed here at least hundreds of millions of years! What kind of war lasts that long?! 2 - Oh boy, indeed. Stuck on the isle with... lessee, the only predator I actually saw was the werewolf. I suppose he could be dangerous. But if he's a sort of proto-Zoanoid, he might be reasonable enough in human form. Then there's Pan and the fairy, who seemed friendly... I just hope the mermaids won't try to drag Tetsuro to a watery grave. Did we see any predatory dinosaurs? 3 - The island doesn't seem very large. Two to three miles, I think... On the other hand, it looks like they can seen the curvature of the Earth from where they are standing..! If the island is as small as it seems to be, how can those animals survive for so long out there? We saw a herd of brachiosaurs... they'd deforestate an island that small much more quickly than it could possibly replenish itself. Hmmm. Do the animals also sleep when Archanfel does?

And yet, Kronos is more appropriate, since ancient Greek didn't have a soft 'c'. In English that doesn't really make a difference, but in, for instance, Dutch, it does.

Soooo... it's the 24th. Any news at all?

Excellent.

Hmmm... lemme try... Archanfel - Supreme Zoalord Hamilcar Barcas - First of the Chosen Waferdanos - Forest King Shin - Light's Master Von Purg'stall - Lightning Lord Yentsui - Opener of the Gates Carleon - The Triune Warrior Kurumegnik - Duplicitous Crafter Jabir - The Alchemist Kabral - The Dragonlord Galenos - The Silent Zoalord Guyot - Indestructible Rebel Imakarum Mirabilis - The Last Zoalord

It can't be the gravity, otherwise werewolves would transform at least once a day and possibly twice. In folk-lore, the moon has little to do with the actual transformation - werewolves usually were people who had made a deal with the Devil and used a special implement - a cloak made of a wolf pelt or a belt made of wolf skin - they put on and were changed. The werewolf transformation being contingent on the phase of the moon is a Hollywood invention. I am starting to seriously hate werewolf wannabes. It seems its vampires, mermaids and werewolves on a cycle.

Superior.

Girlgole and Elegina, methinks.

Pretty sure I saw multiple Arks in one of the more recent recaps.

Guyot always struck me as the 'Snidely Whiplash' type. Tying Mizuki to the rails as Sho is running to save her...

In that case... Murakami might want to transform Mizuki and Tetsuro into his 'Artemis' and 'Hermes' (Athena wasn't born yet at the time of the Titanomachia - come to think of it, neither were Hermes and Artemis). But if Murakami wants allies, he could to better than the Segawa siblings. And he already possesses several Zoa-Crystals...

It's only a sketch, I should do a better one. It looks especially sad compared to that painted piece.

Sketch...