Remember the first-ever Red Dwarf wank from a while ago?

Well, Norman Lovett is, unsurprisingly, still not happy about Back to Earth and his absence there within.

Only this time it's some of the fans he's having a go at -

( None of you understaaaaaand!! )

And of course somebody has to bump the original wank thread to add to the general nastiness, because the most logical course of action here is to continue talking about it and feeding into the whole mess. Who wants to bet they put yet another 5 pages onto it?

ETA: More fans getting in on the mudslinging. Fun times, folks, fun times.

Ugh. My poor happy little fandom. D:


ETA II: A small related funny - Some fan starts a new thread asking the messageboard admin about "Norman-gate" to... what's the exact opposite of thunderous applause?

This is still fairly contained at the moment, but I anticipate much wankiness shall blossom as time passes...

As I'm sure most geeks and people with televisions living in the UK know, UK satellite channel Dave recently aired 3 new episodes of sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf, which has not seen the light of day since about oh 1999 or 2000 if I'm not mistaken.

Fans cheer, all is happy in Red Dwarf town

Except in the corner inhabited by former "Holly" actor Norman Lovett, who is apparently rather pissed off about not being invited to the tea party. Blogs were posted trashing the new specials and his former coworkers, and subsequently deleted (anybody who has screencaps of these shall receive internet cookies) on his myspace page and several comments are passed around between Norman and his myspace pals, including this gem on Martin Curran's page in response to Curran's asking as to what happened to his disappearing blogs:

Apr 9 2009 4:12 PM

I put up info that I didn't mean to because it's for my autobiog which I'm working on at the moment. I can let you know that I will not be working with RD/GrantNaylor again as I have been treated appallingly by them over the years and there comes a time when it has to end.
Cheers, Norman

And of course the fans have to get in on the action on the official website forum, trotting out such insults as "miserable, bitter, old bastard" and that he's always been a "moaning git", and surprisingly few of them coming to defend someone they apparently liked just a week or two ago. Speculation that this is all just hype to sell his new upcoming bare-all book is mentioned.

It's a tiny wank as of yet but if speculation that Dave will be ordering a full new series of Red Dwarf bears out, and when that book hits the shelves, I suspect a delightful three-ring circus act on behalf of the happy little Red Dwarf fandom. I shall be making popcorn if anybody wants any.

ETA: The forum thread (including a previous wanky thread) has supposed excerpts copied from his deleted blogs, if anybody's interested, ( including these fun little messages: )