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Go stick your head in a pig
Jun. 10th, 2006 08:14 pmOkay, the first order of business is to mention that Weird Al has a new song available for download (the link is on his web page). It isn't one of his best, but it has some clever lines, and hey, new Al is better than no Al, right?
Also, I have now listened to the original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series, which was a lot of fun. This was the original format, and the one that many say is the best. I guess I still prefer the books, partially because they're the original way in which I (and probably most American fans) first discovered the whole phenomenon, but also because Douglas Adams explained some things a lot better for the written version, notably how Ford and Arthur ended up in and subsequently left the prehistoric past, and the purpose of Zarniwoop's artificial universe. On the other hand, the voices for the radio show were great (although I honestly imagined Gargravarr sounding a little more pathetic), and I liked some of the bits that wouldn't have worked so well in print, like the out-of-tune robots singing the "Share and Enjoy" song.
For the most part, the radio series and the first two books tell the same story, but in a slightly different order, and with some more major differences. The planet Brontitall was left out of the books entirely, although some of its attributes were transferred to Frogstar World B. Trillian, who plays a fairly significant role in Life, the Universe, and Everything and Mostly Harmless, is actually written out of the radio play surprisingly early on. And the Secondary Phase of the radio show ends with a cliffhanger that's never resolved. I've heard that the BBC did make another series after Adams' death, but it just followed the later books, and dismissed the differences between the earlier books and the original radio show as Zaphod's dream. Kind of lazy, I think, but maybe they thought it would be disrespectful to come up with a conclusion (or as close as the Hitchhiker's series ever gets to a conclusion, anyway) that Adams hadn't written himself.
Finally, to ask an unrelated question, why do so many people that I talk to on the phone or through drive-thru speakers call me "ma'am"? Do I really sound that much like a girl?
Also, I have now listened to the original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series, which was a lot of fun. This was the original format, and the one that many say is the best. I guess I still prefer the books, partially because they're the original way in which I (and probably most American fans) first discovered the whole phenomenon, but also because Douglas Adams explained some things a lot better for the written version, notably how Ford and Arthur ended up in and subsequently left the prehistoric past, and the purpose of Zarniwoop's artificial universe. On the other hand, the voices for the radio show were great (although I honestly imagined Gargravarr sounding a little more pathetic), and I liked some of the bits that wouldn't have worked so well in print, like the out-of-tune robots singing the "Share and Enjoy" song.
For the most part, the radio series and the first two books tell the same story, but in a slightly different order, and with some more major differences. The planet Brontitall was left out of the books entirely, although some of its attributes were transferred to Frogstar World B. Trillian, who plays a fairly significant role in Life, the Universe, and Everything and Mostly Harmless, is actually written out of the radio play surprisingly early on. And the Secondary Phase of the radio show ends with a cliffhanger that's never resolved. I've heard that the BBC did make another series after Adams' death, but it just followed the later books, and dismissed the differences between the earlier books and the original radio show as Zaphod's dream. Kind of lazy, I think, but maybe they thought it would be disrespectful to come up with a conclusion (or as close as the Hitchhiker's series ever gets to a conclusion, anyway) that Adams hadn't written himself.
Finally, to ask an unrelated question, why do so many people that I talk to on the phone or through drive-thru speakers call me "ma'am"? Do I really sound that much like a girl?
