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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Czhorat
It may be that HHG is Rick and Morty without Rick and Morty.
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And so, HHG is a mock-heroic about Arthur, who is both unlikeable but also entirely ordinary and familiar.
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