The Doctor Who influence is obvious so there's definitely going to be some Adams energy from Baker era which I think is what's being identified. To Roisin's point I think the closer analogue to HHG2G on US TV is The Good Place.
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The good place is the purest absurdist fiction I love it.
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yeah got a bit into it's own lore in recent seasons but i mostly like it! the idea of things being impossibly big yet somehow incredibly banal while contemplating existence without falling into self destructive despair is more on brand for HHG2G than R+M.
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Replying to @garfieldcatman @arthur_affect
i liked good place but i stopped after a few episodes of s3 it felt a bit lost. but it is enjoyable, and the genral tone, is ‘be nice’ and more things in general need to be ‘be nice’
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I think if you read HHGG as having a message of "be nice" you are really reading back into it The tone of the original series isn't nice at all
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Like just as a summary of the difference here, The Good Place takes the destruction of Earth and all life on it as its worst case scenario that all our heroes struggle to stop HHGG starts with this event and milks humor from how nobody but Arthur cares
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GraemePeacock
You'll note that the film has this softened ending (loosely based on SLaTfatF) where the Earth Mk II is actually created and undoes everyone's death In the original series this specifically doesn't happen, the mice decide to just make something up and cancel the project
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I think Arther Chu yelling at me over this take haven't actually watched HHGTTG and just know the memes
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Replying to @GraemePeacock
Lol you're right, I've never read HHGG in my life, I totally don't basically have it memorized from rereading it over and over since I was ten
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hey top fact, same, and also i have watched R&M multipul times (spoiler its not that amazing) when you said (more or less) that in a reply to me, it just makes you sound all highfalutin, and basically kinda cements for me, that your exactly the person we said R&M is loved by.
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