A gentle greetings to my readers as
today we try something a tad more cultured as compared to last week
of jiggly girl anime. Dear lord that was painful to sit through.
No, this week I took it upon myself to give us something a bit more
stimulating, looking into our fellows across the pond. I have
noticed thus far of my many recommendations to view this or listen to
that, I have not been disappointed. This week shall consist of BBC
Mini-Series. Commonly this is a feature via Television that is
comprised of 6 episodes ranging roughly between 2 and a half hours to
about 4. Today we look at that radio show, that became a series of
books into a mini-series and then finally film. So grab your towel,
pack your electronic thumb and don't panic. This is The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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| Hmm forgot a line or did one of them break wind? |
Brought to use by the Sci-Fi/Comedy
stylings of the late Douglas Adams tells the tale of a unsuspecting
ape descendant who no longer pick fleas of his guests. His name is
Arthur Dent (Simon Jones of BBC2 Playhouse, The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy, Reds, Brideshead Revisited, The Meaning of Life,
Brazil, Black-Adder II, Shrinks and Twelve Monkeys) and
someone is trying drive a by-pass through his home. His friend of
long standing, Ford Prefect (David Dixon of Escort Girls,
Heydays Hotel, The Tempest, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
Circles of Deceit: Dark Secret, Original Sin, Holding On and The
Bill) who is in fact from a small planetoid in the region of Betelgeuse and not from Gilford after all feels compelled to drag
Arthur away from the impeding bulldozing for a drink and
conversation.
Squaring away with the contractors on
waiting until they return, Ford begins to tell Arthur of an impeding
doom for Earth itself. A construction fleet of starships drop out
of orbit, explain very nicely that the Earth is scheduled to be
demolished for a new hyperspace bypass and it should only take a few
minutes of their time. Arthur and Ford hitch a lift on board one of
the ships via transmat beam as Ford explains he actually does
research for a guide book allowing you to see all the marvels of the
universe for no more than 40 Allterian dollars a day.
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| False advertisement. A fun plastic pal to be with, indeed. |
Due an extremely painful embark on
Vogon poetry, our heroes bluff their way through it only to be
chucked into space via airlock without as so much as a by your leave.
Possibly 20 seconds worth of air remaining, our twosome is scooped
up by another vessel with an improbability of 2 to the power of
260199:1-0 that it is scarcely worth mentioning...unless you are
rescued by Zaphod Beeblebrox (Mark Wing-Davey of The Third Part
of King Henry VI, Richard III, A Winter Harvest, Big Deal, A Sort of
Innocence, Resurrected, One Against the Wind and Final Fantasy XII)
Ford's semi-cousin from 4 of his mothers and former galatic president
and Trillian (Sandra Dickinson of Cover, Philip Marlowe,
Private Eye, Triangle, The Lonely Lady, Supergirl, The Clairvoyant,
The Two Ronnies, Eisenhower & Lutz, Blato and Space Truckers)
an astrophysicist that Arthur once met at a party and failed to get
anywhere with.
Life playing silly buggers with our
cast of outcasts they traipse about the universe searching for the
imponderables of life, the universe and everything. They are
hunted, shot at, ridiculed and in general have quite the adventure in
spite of Marvin the paranoid and manically depressed android (Stephen
Moore of Play for Today, Rough Cut, Diversion, The Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy, Where the Boys Are, The Last Place on Earth, The
Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4, Small World and Thompson).
Originally a 12 part radio play written
by Douglas Adams while writing for Doctor Who at the time, the actual
voice cast joins the mini-series with the exception of Jeffrey
McGiven was replaced by David Dixon. A last minute replacement
playing the Dish of the Day at the Restaurant at the End of the
Universe was Peter Davison of Doctor Who fame suggested by his now
ex-wife Sandra Dickinson.
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| I'm not getting you down, am I? |
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