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The Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy Returns With the Original Cast (arstechnica.com)
Jonathan M. Gitlin reports via Ars Technica: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy deserves a special place in the geek pantheon. It's the story of hapless BBC radio editor Arthur Dent, his best friend Ford Prefect, and the adventures that result when Prefect saves Dent when the Earth is unexpectedly destroyed to make way for a galactic bypass. Written by the late, great Douglas Adams, THGTTG first appeared as a radio series in the UK back in 1978. On Thursday -- exactly 40 years to the day from that first broadcast -- it made its return home with the start of Hexagonal Phase, a radio dramatization of the sixth and final book of an increasingly misnamed trilogy.
Although Adams died suddenly and unexpectedly in 2001, the universe he gave birth to lived on. Beginning in 2004, the original radio cast was reunited to dramatize the third, fourth, and fifth books. In 2005, a film adaptation was released, and then in 2009 came a final novel in the "trilogy," And Another Thing..., written by the novelist Eoin Colfer. It's this story that the BBC is now dramatizing, again using many of the original cast, along with newcomers like Jim Broadbent, Lenny Henry, and Stephen Hawking. Yes, that Stephen Hawking.
Although Adams died suddenly and unexpectedly in 2001, the universe he gave birth to lived on. Beginning in 2004, the original radio cast was reunited to dramatize the third, fourth, and fifth books. In 2005, a film adaptation was released, and then in 2009 came a final novel in the "trilogy," And Another Thing..., written by the novelist Eoin Colfer. It's this story that the BBC is now dramatizing, again using many of the original cast, along with newcomers like Jim Broadbent, Lenny Henry, and Stephen Hawking. Yes, that Stephen Hawking.
but Trillian was the object of many fantasies!
There was one Matrix movie, three Star Wars films, and FIVE Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books. NOT. SIX. Fuck that E-oin Culpepper or whoever, and the shit he wrote. No, like, seriously. Fuck that shit. (I actually tried to read it, but when you start out with, "throw away the entirety of the previous books," you might as well just write a different story.) I don't give a good god damn if Adams' widow "AUTHORIZED">/I> the novel, HE did not, and I'm confident WOULD not, and I'm sure you'd all agree, especially if you'd read the fifth book, and witness the effort Douglas Adams went to to TIE the story up in a neat little bow, for some asshole to come along and try to rip-off and capitalize on an INFINITELY better writer's work, his blood, his sweat, and his tears... no, fuck 100% of that shit. Any book(s) E-oin Codswallup shit out and tried to attach to the series is nothing more than shit-smelling fan-fiction, it's NOT CANON, and never can or will be. It is the Star Trek, the Animated Series of HHGTTG, and is more of an insult than that atrocious, god-fucking-awful filthy, pus-dripping abortion that was the "movie" they made of it. Why do lesser people have to take something great someone made before, and wipe their ASSES with it? This shit is just straight-up sad. Fucking sad.
The BBC couldn't wait two more years?
The BBC couldn't wait two more years?
It blew a hole through the space time continuum and dropped through like a stone through a wet paper bag.
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I was going to wait till the summer to install it, but I succumbed and installed it last week. It takes a little getting used to, old habits are hard to reform, and it's not quite finished (what software ever is), and much of the software that's out to run on it is Beta.
But...
I think it's brilliant. I've fallen completely in love with it. And the promise of what's to come once people start developing in Cocoa is awesome...
A few weeks later he was dead.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
"And Another Thing..." is awful. There are no original ideas in it at all, it's just a rehash characters from the previous books.
You should never allow another author to play in your universe, Dune and Harry Potter alone are proof of that.
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I hate wet paper bags.
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
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The BBC couldn't wait two more years?
It was broadcast from 18.30 to 19.00, a slot on BBC Radio 4 that is used Monday - Friday for comedy, similar, shows. March 8 2020 is a Sunday, the 18.15-19.00 Sunday evening schedules Pick of the Week. Yes: 42 years would have been better, but the arithmetic of the calendar was against them.
Fucking whitewashing.
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Stephen Moore retired and apparently could not be persuaded to do the series. Jim Broadbent is doing it instead - have just finished listening to the episode and...well, he's good as ever. But he's not Stephen Moore.
...how does one start now, legally.
This is how I heard it. I remember paying about a quarter of what they're asking now. I keep the mp3s I ripped on my phone; when I've been hospitalized, they keep me company. Youtube is an alternative.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Unexpectedly destroyed? Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz makes it quite clear that all the planning charts and demolition orders were on display for fifty Earth years.
They only work when they're dry; take it off, already...
The Series 3 ep 1 "update" of The Guide's voice (necessary, since Peter Jones was permanently offline) was done about as well as it can be. Really first rate. No Darren Stevens action there.
The transition to Hawking wasn't as Smith, but I appreciate hearing him in the role.
"Smith"? "Smooth", damnable spellfsck!
Arthur Dent a BBC radio editor? Since when?
I’m not sure what the “point” of having Hawking in the role is other than it’s fun. He uses an outdated synthesis chip to read out the things he types. Are we to believe that he types out his lines and hits “play”? Or that they are simply fed into his (or a similar) device from a pre-typed script?
Stephen’s “voice” is distinctive only in that it uses antiquated technology. I assume he has come to enjoy it (it is distinctive in that few other people with speech synthesis devices are as famous as he) but I’m sure Intel could whip up a version that uses his own voice samples (recorded before his disease progressed). Maybe he just loved the game Berserk (I’d love to hear him say “Catch the Humanoid”).
Trivia: The theme music played between episodes of that show is "Journey Of The Sorcerer" by The Eagles.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Buy the CD's from somewhere (Amazon) or there are available on Audible, though one feels that the quality offered by Audible won't remotely do them justice. Personally I did at one point have a recording from Radio 4 FM onto a compact cassette tape, but I threw those in the bin years ago when I purchased the CD's. Though my copy of the stuff after the secondary phase is a capture via Freeview of Radio 4. Last night's which I felt had far too much explaining going on is a get_iplayer download :-)
As wrong as continuing Lord of the Rings after Tolkien.
or continuing Star Trek after Roddenberry.
or continuing Twilight.
oh, and you have no problem with a monocephalic duobrachial cast to play Zaphod Beeblebrox ?!!
I bet most of the actors playing aliens are all from Earth! Infuriating!
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In two more years the BBC should rebroadcast the entire series from the beginning.
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the rest of the cast doesn't matter - the only one who does is Peter Jones, the book itself. Unfortunately he died in 2000 but was taken over by William Franklin who sounds just like him.
When I play Startopia, it's always a fuzzy feeling because of the voice over, done by Franklin.
Unfortunately he died in 2006 so they've got Hawking to be the book, but he doesn't sound anything like rural Shropshire.