• hperrin@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy deserves a good adaptation, rather than that trash movie and that too short BBC series.

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      4 months ago

      I would love that, I dont think the movie is terrible, its just that everything after Ford and Arthur get thrown out the airlock isnt as funny or absurd as the books. The main issue is the first 2ish books are unadaptable because there is no central conflict (or arleast the main cast dosent care or know there was supposed to be one).

      Zaphod is the only person with motivation to do anything other than to continue existing, and he is unaware (or dosen’t care) he is being hunted until they meet those suprisingly progessive law enforcment officers on Magrathea and when he visits the guides publishing offices.

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        4 months ago

        The BBC series does up to them being on >!prehistoric hairdresser and middle management earth!< Iirc

        Which I’m pretty sure is the third book. But I haven’t read it in a loooooong time.

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          Wha… really? I’ve seen the BBC HHGTTG, but I’ve never even heard they did the sequels!

          Book 2 was Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and book 3 was Life, the Universe, and Everything.

          Two books followed… So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish and Mostly Harmless constituted Books 4 & 5, but were detached from the main characters and plot.