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posted by [identity profile] duriyah.livejournal.com at 03:58pm on 06/05/2005
I pretty much agree with your review. The beginning was good, although I thought the dolphin sequence was a bit long. I let out a squeal of glee when I heard "Journey of the Sourcerer". It's been too many years since I heard that song!

Yes, I agree that the pacing was off...the Vogon stuff was too long.

Wasn't there something in the book about Ford being emotional because he might die and he was far from his home planet? I'll have to go and check. That might explain his hugging.

I also found Zaphod annoying. But I also found him annoying in the TV series. I'm thinking that his character just doesn't translate easily to live action. And yes, I caught the Bush parody.

I missed having the bit about the jump to hyperspace being upleasantly like being drunk. They should have kept that.

I was also incessently quoting, though I did try to keep it under my breath. It would have been fun to see it with other fans who all quoted.
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drunk in hyperspace

posted by [identity profile] rfunk.livejournal.com at 04:04pm on 06/05/2005
It took me years to get the "unpleasantly like being drunk" joke, and once I did I never really thought it worked well, so that's one I didn't miss.

It was almost criminal, however, to omit the "beware of the leopard" bit.
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posted by [identity profile] duriyah.livejournal.com at 04:35pm on 06/05/2005
It took me years to get the "unpleasantly like being drunk" joke too, which I think is why, once I got it, I thought it was so funny.

Yes, I missed the beware of the leapard line, too. They would start a joke, and then leave out the last few lines. Argh! And then Trillian was about to be eaten by a Bugbladder Beast. If she'd only had a towel! It bothered me that they didn't do the whole long towel bit.
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towels

posted by [identity profile] rfunk.livejournal.com at 04:53pm on 06/05/2005
The omission of the guide entry on towels bothered me a bit too, particularly because they actually emphasized the towel more than any previous incarnation. The result was that it looked like a quirk of Ford's to be lampooned rather than accepted hitchhiker knowledge.

If Trillian had a towel she wouldn't have needed rescuing (so much for a degree in maths and another in astrophysics), removing all urgency from doing the Vogon forms.

At least the Vogons were afraid of Ford's towel.
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Re: towels

posted by [identity profile] chronarchy.livejournal.com at 02:21pm on 10/05/2005
Yes. It really grated on me that everyone had their towel, and towels were obviously important, and people even brought them to the theatre, but there was no towel entry!
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