So very special

Tuesday means Special School!  I wouldn't mention it, but I forgot on Friday and we got like 12 visitors.  It would seem I need to keep pimping.

stsquad wasn't sure about today's last panel, but I thought I'd leave it to see what other people thought.  It makes sense to me.  What does everybody else think?

Don't Panic

Just been to see the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Without spoiling anything, I think I can say that it is everything I hoped it would be, right down to a couple of throwaway lines that made me very happy indeed.  "Purists" may be annoyed at certain alterations - events were relocated, motivations were tucked, certain details were embellished or left out entirely - but most of the revisions are entirely natural and indeed necessary mutations in order to get the beast to work in a 110-minute chunk.  A lot of the original story was, as it were, made up as Adams went along; coming to the first chapter with a lot of the ideas he had later on meant he was able to make the whole thing flow a lot more smoothly.  And anyway, to those purists I would ask whether they are being pure to the book, the radio play or the TV series.

I was slightly sad that the movie didn't open to the familiar strains of the Journey of the Sorcerer^[1], but the opening sequence was both fantastic and hilarious, and very much set the tone for the rest of the movie.  Watch for a number of cameos from the old series, including the original Arthur and Marvin (or a very good facsimile).

Also:  Best.  Hyperdrive.  Ever.

[1] Yes, I had to look it up.