(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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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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Replying to @mssilverstein @Czhorat
Mostly Harmless is the one book that gets closest to what I think of as R&M's genuinely bleakest moment, the episode where Morty saves the "Fart" gas being and then finds out he has to kill it because it intends to destroy all solid life forms and it was all for nothing
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It has that same sick feeling where you find out Tricia's act of kindness, to try to give the Grebulons some kind of purpose in life by creating an astrological system for them to follow, dooms her own Earth (because they were all being manipulated by the Vogons)
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That one was interesting because it was Adams coming into his aggressive New Atheist phase Where he gives what he thinks is the best possible argument for astrology to the Kate Schecter character ("The stars and planets don't matter, they're just a tool to explore your desires")
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But then he has the consequences of this be disastrous This well-meaning telling people what they want to hear isn't a game, giving people bullshit to validate how they feel without looking at it objectively is extremely dangerous
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Czhorat
Yeah; I mean, overall, the series really does get steadily bleaker and more aggressive, but I'm not sure that the version people mostly remember and talk about extends past Milliway's.
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Or the endpoint of the old TV movie, that ends with them crash-landing on Earth with a bunch of cast-off chumps from another planet and trying (and failing) to get the ultimate question from scrabble tiles.
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I thought that was another joke that those cast-off chumps (the middle-managers, telephone sanitizers, car salesmen, and other middling folk between blue-color workers and leaders) were our ancestors. Then the original civilization died of a disease spread by dirty telephones..
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..on one hand, it's the kind of nihilistic joke Arthur is talking about, but on another, there's almost a point about everyone in society mattering, and cutting out the perceived "useless middle" is suicide.
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It's a mixed message The Golgafrinchans driving the original true humans ("cavemen") into extinction is definitely a bad thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Czhorat
Yeah - though of course, it's all pointless anyway because the Vogons will come along and destroy it.
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It's not a happy ending, but it has a similar feel to Life of Brian ending with the group of crucified people singing "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"
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