Just saw BBC series, HHGTTG..................

[KevinPage]

I'm about to read the book before seeing the movie, but I rented the DVD of the 6 episode TV series of the adapation to the BBC radio series and enjoyed it.

Granted the production values were waaaaaay beyond cheesey and there was no "epic" scope to the events, but I thoroughly enjoyed the humor and fashion in which it was done.

Hopefully the movie, (which I'll see next week) doesn't focus on that freaky and weird looking P e e Wee Herman- esque host of the Millaway Restuarant as much.

For some reason I didn't get the point of that whole long and drawn out scene and the nonsense with Disaster area.

And towels weren't as big of a focus as I thought they were, only 1 mention in the TV series.

 

[barnum42]

For some reason I didn't get the point of that whole long and drawn out scene and the nonsense with Disaster area.

It's because they did not have the budget to make the ship an Hagamemnon battle ship. The guide has this to say on them:

"The Hagamemnons of Asysyphus 3 have the most impatient chromosomes of any lifeform in the galaxy. Whereas most races are content to evolve slowly and carefully over thousands of generations, discarding a prehensile toe here, nervously hazarding another nostril there, the Hagamemnons would do for Charles Darwin what a squadron of Arcturan stunt apples would have done for Sir Isaac Newton. Their genetic structure, based on the quadruple striated octohelix, is so chronically unstable that, far from passing their basic shape onto their children, they will quite frequently evolve several times over lunch. But they do this with such reckless abandon that if, sitting at table, they are unable to reach a coffee-spoon, they are liable, without a moment's consideration, to mutate into something with far longer arms, but which is probably quite incapable of drinking the coffee. This, not unnaturally, produces a terrible sense of personal insecurity and a jealous resentment of all stable lifeforms, or filthy rotten stinking same-lings, as they call them. They justify this by claiming that, as they have personally experienced what it is like to be virtually everybody else they can think of, they're in a very good position to appreciate all their worst points. This appreciation is usually military in nature, and is carried out with unmitigated savagery from the gunrooms of their horribly beweaponed chameleoid death flotilla. Experience has shown that the most effective way of dealing with any Hagamemnon you may meet is to run away. Terribly fast."

They featured in the original radio series. I can't recall which version is in the novel of Restaurant.

As for the production values, bear in mind it was made over twenty five years ago, on a BBC budget that would not pay for a thirty second commercial.:lol:

 

[DisneyPhD]

It is the old radio shows and the BBC shows that I am more sentimentaly atached too. While I read the books, it was the radio shows that we listened to on every road trip (and we took alot back in the days) and so I could quote most of it line for line. The BBC shows were almost like the radio shows, but on T.V. They even had the same actors. That is why I will have to be felxible in seeing the new movie. I have myself in a rut of what it should be like.

We can't see it until we get back since we are going to WDW and Vero Beach tmw and we don't want to take the kids with us. (if I get a sitter at WDW and pay $100 for a stranger to wacth my kids it wouldn't be so I could see a movie, something I could do at home. ) So I guess we will have to see it sometime next week, (or after, I don't get around to movies much, but for this I will make the effort, at least to keep up with you guys and know what I am talking about!)

 

[KevinPage]

Joe,

I hope you were able to cut and paste all that and not type it freehand (ouch)

 

[barnum42]

Joe,

I hope you were able to cut and paste all that and not type it freehand (ouch)

I Googled to check the spelling of "Hagamemnon" and was presented with the whole quote

 

[KevinPage]

I Googled to check the spelling of "Hagamemnon" and was presented with the whole quote

Ah, okay, so you're just a lazy descedant of a simian. One would figure, being the test subject of mice and all. :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Number_6]

Hopefully the movie, (which I'll see next week) doesn't focus on that freaky and weird looking P e e Wee Herman- esque host of the Millaway Restuarant as much.

For some reason I didn't get the point of that whole long and drawn out scene and the nonsense with Disaster area.

These things don't actually show up until the second book, so they are not featured in the new movie. And since the new movie does drift somewhat from even the books(by Douglas Adams' own decision because he wanted every new experiencing of the story to be different from the last) if they do a sequel, then it will be a different method of arrival for them to the Restaurant.