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# It was better than the TV series...
...but that's not saying a lot
(I helped save b3ta! BubaMan 3 conspiracy nuts walk into a bar... Coincidence?, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:24, archived)
# You what?
You're having a laugh?
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:26, archived)
# Utterly spoiled by BBC budget
I preferred the books & the radio shows
(I helped save b3ta! BubaMan 3 conspiracy nuts walk into a bar... Coincidence?, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:28, archived)
# Erm
I think the writing transends the budget.
The TV series was well ahead of its time in certain aspects. DNA was constantly having to argue the case that the guide scenes weren't done by computer.
It's a sad day when comedy is rated by it's special effects.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:58, archived)
# at least the tv series had an Arthur Dent that worked
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:32, archived)
# I did like Alan Rickman's Marvin, though
and Trillion was less fucking annoying.
(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:38, archived)
# I'd have preferred Jack Dee
Just not enough malice in his tone.
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:41, archived)
# that's an interesting thought
but surely he's not meant to be surly and grumpy - just depressed?
(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:43, archived)
# No, he's definitely quite a bit hateful
Now the world has gone to bed
Darkness won't engulf my head
I can see by infra-red
How I hate the night

Now I lay me down to sleep
Try to count electric sheep
Sweet dream wishes you can keep
How I hate the night
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:47, archived)
# Life... loathe it, or ignore it, you can't like it
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:48, archived)
# he would have been superb
(at least in comparison)
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:47, archived)
# I like to think of the movie as a loving tribute
Rather than worry about it being canon.

Biographer and Adams expert MJ Simpson gave it a scathing review
and other dedicated h2 fans gave him such a hard time he threw the
toys out of the pram and said he wouldn't write another word about
him. People forget that none of it was ever meant to be "canonical",
that's how DNA approached it (radio, books, TV, computer game)

So the film wasn't great but Adams co-wrote it, it doesn't really matter.
Except for the whole Humma Kavula angle which made me wince.
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:54, archived)
# that was the bit that DA did write
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 21:06, archived)
# He shouldn't have sold the rights to Disney I guess, all those years hence.
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 21:09, archived)
# DING DING DING!
I wanted to kill Trillian
Or at least lock her in a room for all eternity with Bonnie Langford
(I helped save b3ta! BubaMan 3 conspiracy nuts walk into a bar... Coincidence?, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:42, archived)
# True...and Peter Jones was a better book...
(I helped save b3ta! BubaMan 3 conspiracy nuts walk into a bar... Coincidence?, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:45, archived)
# what?
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:37, archived)