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[–] hperrin 46 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy deserves a good adaptation, rather than that trash movie and that too short BBC series.

[–] Blue_Morpho 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The BBC series was brilliant.

[–] hperrin 17 points 2 months ago

Agreed, just too short.

[–] Bahnd 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would love that, I dont think the movie is terrible, its just that everything after Ford and Arthur get thrown out the airlock isnt as funny or absurd as the books. The main issue is the first 2ish books are unadaptable because there is no central conflict (or arleast the main cast dosent care or know there was supposed to be one).

Zaphod is the only person with motivation to do anything other than to continue existing, and he is unaware (or dosen't care) he is being hunted until they meet those suprisingly progessive law enforcment officers on Magrathea and when he visits the guides publishing offices.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Zaphod's 2 heads were the biggest let down of the movie.

[–] EleventhHour 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And it should be of the first three books, not just the first book.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The BBC series does up to them being on >!prehistoric hairdresser and middle management earth!< Iirc

Which I'm pretty sure is the third book. But I haven't read it in a loooooong time.

[–] EleventhHour 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Wha… really? I’ve seen the BBC HHGTTG, but I’ve never even heard they did the sequels!

Book 2 was Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and book 3 was Life, the Universe, and Everything.

Two books followed… So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish and Mostly Harmless constituted Books 4 & 5, but were detached from the main characters and plot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ah, ok. The [Show](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(TV_series) does the first two books. Not the third.

Because I remember them going to the restaurant and then meeting the hairdressers and telephone sanitizers and the mess they get the main characters into, but forgot about the Krikket/wikket people.