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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Jan 2020

      "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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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Jan 2020

      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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    3. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 29 Jan 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      Yeah, I think you're right on all the substantive points, which is why I can't figure out why I still feel like there's something missing. They're clearly interpretations of a similar ideal, but perhaps, not identical ones.

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    4. Leonard C Suskin‏ @Czhorat 29 Jan 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect

      I think that what we like about HHGttG is at least party craft? The tone remains consistent and light throughout, even when crazy stuff is happening. It's legitimately funny. It's a very pleasant and not difficult read. Adams is FUN enough that you don't notice the bleakness

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Jan 2020
      Replying to @Czhorat @mssilverstein

      The grossout sight gags from R&M as an Adult Swim cartoon certainly give it a different tone Although I think people are also kind of remembering HHGG as more innocent than it actually was because rose-colored glasses

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    6. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 29 Jan 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Czhorat

      Yeah, but I think that's a significant one! Horror/trauma is a different reaction to cynicism than absurd indifference.

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Jan 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @Czhorat

      That's exactly what got me thinking about it though The first big thing in HHGG is Arthur having to deal with this profoundly detailed experience of the trauma of the Earth being destroyed and no one else giving a shit, even Ford

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    8. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 29 Jan 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Czhorat

      Yeah, very much. But I think that's also a pretty key distinction: HHG has that kind of nihilism, where nothing really matters and everyone just moves on to the next thing. This is horrible, but kind of reinforces that you're right to be mad about it.

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    9. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 29 Jan 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect @Czhorat

      Even if you can't change anything. All the suffering in the world happens, not exactly by accident, but because of indifferent and shallow people making rushed decisions while thinking about something else. R&M gets closer to a kind of belief that everyone really does hate you.

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Jan 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @Czhorat

      Which is a lot more like the darkness of Adams' attitude in Mostly Harmless, with the reveal that the Vogons have created a pan-dimensional conspiracy to ensure the Earth is destroyed and stays destroyed, long after the original purpose for doing so was gone

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Jan 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @Czhorat

      That's brought up in the text of the first book, though, Slartibartfast tells Arthur paranoia is a normal and expected reaction to the nature of the universe and makes no difference either way

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        2. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 29 Jan 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Czhorat

          Yeah, but it's still a shrug; Arthur's desire to find someone to be personally offended at is constantly thwarted because nobody cares.

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Jan 2020
          Replying to @mssilverstein @Czhorat

          Is that really so different from R&M though? A big theme of the show is that the show has no "bad guy", and the ones that present themselves end up folding really fast (the Galactic Federation comes and goes in the space of the S2 finale and S3 premiere)

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Jan 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @Czhorat

          (If you were actually keeping track, the actual reason for the Vogons' destruction order against the Earth was a conspiracy from Gag Halfrunt and the other psychiatrists to keep the Question from ever being discovered so the full Meaning of Life can never be known)

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        3. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 29 Jan 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Czhorat

          I think the distinction is partially that HHG takes aim most squarely at things like pride and dignity, as meaningless constructs, whereas R&M sees hope and kindness as equally mockable.

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