"HHGG isn't about 'Nothing matters, so be an asshole', it's about 'Nothing matters, so let's have fun adventures'" Uhhh... no? HHGG is really snarky about the idea of fun adventures, there are repeated jokes about how everything cool has been turned into corporate tourist traps
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Ford is an extremely jaded cynical asshole and the whole society of hitchhikers he's part of is the same way It's Adams transplanting the bitter cynicism of being a backpacker in Europe to a science fiction setting
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But it was written in a British voice, so it sounded so much nicer about it.
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I think this is a lot of it. It's hard to imagine Rick and Morty being as comically unfazed and confused as Ford and Arthur are when the world gets blown up
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I don't see how it could be viewed any other way. One of them has a more American comic sensibility, where the anger is closer to the surface while HHGG is wry Brit all the way in the face of rampant, wanton destruction, but they're coming from very much the same place.
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"You know HHGG was the original edgelord nihilistic science fiction thing right" I think you've kinda missed some of the subtlety. It's a little more complicated than "lol, everyone dies".
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And now I come to think about it ... you're bastardly right! Darn you Arthur! Darn you all the way to heck and back!
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The original concept was that the earth ended for a different reason in each episode
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Maybe it's time for another revivalhttps://twitter.com/localnotail/status/1114267231410688000?s=20 …
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Because when people remember reading it long ago they read it as Monty Python in space, just a bunch of absurd stories reflecting contemporary society with lots of gallows humor
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So it's like those memes we see from right-wingers in the US and Britain, nostalgic for days when the country was great that always turn out to be "when I was a kid". Except that it's, um, people like me who needed to check their nostalgia and context, this time.
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