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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
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @Czhorat

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

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

      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

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    4. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 29 Jan 2020
      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.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    5. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 29 Jan 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect @Czhorat

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

      That is, in fact, the original intended ending of HHGG as a franchise, it's the series finale of the original radio show

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Jan 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @Czhorat

      A lot of people's memories of the franchise have a lot of stuff mixed in from the later books Life the Universe and Everything is where you get the idea our characters are out to "save the world" at all (the book spends a lot of time lampshading how ill-suited they are for it)

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

      Yeah. Though overall, I think a lot of memories start to peter out by that point, and a few minor points end up mentally retconned into the first two books without actually happening there, or carrying their baggage.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    9. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 29 Jan 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect @Czhorat

      Also, with LTUAE, I never got as attached because I didn't know how to play cricket, and could only vaguely follow the joke about the Starship Bistromath

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Jan 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @Czhorat

      The backstory of LTUAE is a hilariously mean spirited dig at Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor (after Davison had done a guest spot on the HHGG TV series as the Dish of the Day)

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

      Making fun of the ridiculous provinciality of having the Doctor be a cricket enthusiast who went around in a cricket outfit all the time - an extremely race- and class-specific thing *for an Englishman from Earth*, much less an alien

      1:02 PM - 29 Jan 2020
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Jan 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @Czhorat

          Turning cricket into a galactic memory of terror and desolation that only Earth humans turned into a stupid game, one that everyone is vaguely confused and disgusted at Arthur for caring about

          2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
        3. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 29 Jan 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Czhorat

          Yeah, it's very clever and funny, and I read it without having any context for it to land.

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