Take one, pass it on

[kingandy]

Don't panic.  Courtesy pax_draconis et al.

It does look quite good, albeit different.  I very much doubt that they'll have kept the same theme tune (which will be a crime of some degree), I am not fantastically keen on an American Ford Prefect (and I miss the blazer), and I very strongly disapprove of the weedy voice they've given the Vogon Prostetnic, but overall it looks remarkably hopeful.

I just hope it has proper cutaway Book sequences, it is an important narative device that lends a lot to the tone of the beast.

Comments

[ubernils.livejournal.com]

Dude, Marvin's awesome. The Heart of Gold is awesome. Deep Thought is awesome. Zaphod is interesting, but you can't poo-poo the reworking of the two-headed, three-armed bit until you've seen it in context, because what I've read suggests that there are narrative reasons for not going with the more familiar TV-cemeted side-by-side arrangement.

Crap, man, I'm surprised you're not complaining about Ford being black.

[damiennightbane.livejournal.com]

The fact that they're making Ford the token black guy takes a back seat to the fact that they're mutilating things that were rather clearly described in the book.

[kingandy]

They could make it all go away by hanging a lantern on it.

FORD: What if I told you I was not in fact from Guildford as I have always claimed, but instead from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse? That I was, in fact, an alien?
ARTHUR: Well, that would certainly explain the accent.

[myki.livejournal.com]

Indeedy, Ford in the book at least was described as having red hair. Actually I'm quite fond of the TV series "astrophysics postgrad at a redbrick uni in the home counties" look for Ford. It's a shame that guy couldn't act.

[ubernils.livejournal.com]

You can't swing a dead cat by the tail without hitting some form of the HGTTG story, and none of them are alike. The TV show changes the book changes the computer game changes the radio play...it goes on and on. HGTTG is a purist's nightmare. Seriously.

[kingandy]

That doesn't directly contradict anything in the text. Or, come to that, the original radio show. (Of course, Trillian was played with a US accent for the TV version, but then she never claimed to come from Guildford.)

Anyway, I'm not screaming blue murder and baying for blood, just noting that it shows definite promise despite certain changes to the established mythos.

[kingandy]

Actually, I can see Felix Dexter filling the role quite nicely.