The funny thing I haven't seen people really talk about is that Rick and Morty is, for better or for worse, 100% a modernization of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Everything people don't like about it is what they wouldn't like about Douglas Adams if he were new
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Replying to @MiggyMystic
You're kind of in denial if you don't see that stuff in Adams I mean you know he was BFFs with Dawkins
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MiggyMystic
The thing that might have stopped Adams from going bad is that he seemed to realize later in his career that his nihilistic comedy side was at odds with his environmentalist and humanist sides. Might have. I hope it would have.
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I agree. I was always struck by what seemed to me as a kid to be a pretty radical shift in intent the HHGG series takes with the introduction of Fenchurch.
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Replying to @9BillionTigers @Stephen_GM and
And another radical shift when Fenchurch disappears.
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Replying to @johnnylemuria @9BillionTigers and
Corresponding roughly to when Adams met his second wife irl and when he separated from her
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Replying to @arthur_affect @9BillionTigers and
I figured it was something like that.
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Replying to @johnnylemuria @9BillionTigers and
And then he did, in fact, get back together with her, which is why he wanted to write a sixth book (The Salmon of Doubt) to finish out the series on a positive note But then he died
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Replying to @arthur_affect @johnnylemuria and
It sounds like The Salmon of Doubt would've been a crossover linking HHGG with the Dirk Gently books too, which would've been interesting, since that's where Adams' humanist side really started coming out
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The incomplete manuscript they published after his death is a Dirk Gently story where it's pretty clear to the audience that Dirk's mystery client is Ford Prefect
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Replying to @arthur_affect @johnnylemuria and
I need to read the Dirk Gently books. The TV show was okay, and I could see where there was adaptation issues as per the HHGTTG adaptations.
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Replying to @Teknogrot @arthur_affect and
There were two series. The 2nd one wasn't all that faithful, but I thought it was an incredible show.
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