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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Re: drunk in hyperspace

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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