On 4/29/05, Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 29, 2005, at 7:28 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote: > > /is not actually surpised. HHGTG didn't have a really > > straightforward, movie suitable plot. > > In the shape it took for radio or the book, possibly not; but it > managed to make the transition to television more or less in one piece. > Adjusting things for linearity in the story utterly ruins a lot of what > makes the story funny -- like he very improbable coincidence that > Arthur would be rescued by Tricia McMillan.
Well, I've never been blessed by the Beeb's TV production. Was it any good (since it sounds like you've seen it.)? > Oh shit, that cued a memory that I think I'm already trying to repress. > There's a romantic subplot as well. Ow. Ow. My brain hurts now. Sorry. > It was the unforeseeable way things fit together that really made the > story so damned clever. (Well, that and Adams's careful honing of > language, most of which was changed in the script by someone with the > same notions of subtlety as a hammer-wielding three-year-old.) > Arranging events in conventional storytelling order breaks the > spontaneity, and while brevity is the soul of wit, its heart is the > unexpected. Did they at least retain the awesome philosphical/metaphysical/mathematical humor bits? > > 'Cmmb the shag'?Oh la di dah, aren't we the fancy one! In *my* day we > > didnae have shag! We had woven poison ivy to cover our floors, and we > > liked it! The rashes kept us warm when we ran out of dung to burn. > > Ahh, hae ano'er potaato an shet yer gob, granddad. Bah- youngsters these days, ain't no respect to'em a t'all... Whole dadgum societies going to perdition... where's ma birch stick? .... > -- > Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books ~Maru _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
