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• Sep 28, 2004 9:38:58 AM CDT

  So far...

  by samuelk

  the new Hitchhiker's Guide series is off to a good start. It's nice hearing most of the familiar voices again.
  
  I like how they wrote in the new voice for the book (since Peter Jones passed away).

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  Content the new Hitchhiker's Guide series is off to a good start. It's nice hearing most of the familiar voices again. I like how they wrote in the new voice for the book (since Peter Jones passed away).

• Sep 28, 2004 10:29:48 AM CDT

  Adams is in this actually

  by barney hood

  They managed to work in Douglas Adams as a character from his own reading of the scripts in his home studio prior to his death.
  
  Also I just discovered Spongebob Squarepants this week - it is great! How could I not have known about it...now i'll be watching them all every night until I get to that depressing stage where I appear to have seen them all, but am holding out just incase I stumble across some gem I had somehow missed...
  
  ...anyway.

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  Content They managed to work in Douglas Adams as a character from his own reading of the scripts in his home studio prior to his death. Also I just discovered Spongebob Squarepants this week - it is great! How could I not have known about it...now i'll be watching them all every night until I get to that depressing stage where I appear to have seen them all, but am holding out just incase I stumble across some gem I had somehow missed... ...anyway.

• Sep 28, 2004 11:37:46 AM CDT

  The problem with this new radio play...

  by latauro

  Despite the website saying it continues on from the Secondary Phase (the second series), it actually makes like it never happened and picks up directly from the Primary Phase (first series). The problem with adapting the books for radio is that the radio series -- which came first, before all other incarnations -- went in a very different direction to the books. Or, rather, the books went in a very different direction to the series. Anyone who hasn't heard the original episodes of Hitch-Hiker's has not experienced it the way it was meant to be experienced... order those CD sets now!

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  Content Despite the website saying it continues on from the Secondary Phase (the second series), it actually makes like it never happened and picks up directly from the Primary Phase (first series). The problem with adapting the books for radio is that the radio series -- which came first, before all other incarnations -- went in a very different direction to the books. Or, rather, the books went in a very different direction to the series. Anyone who hasn't heard the original episodes of Hitch-Hiker's has not experienced it the way it was meant to be experienced... order those CD sets now!

• Sep 28, 2004 12:08:15 PM CDT

  Goosebumps...

  by renonevada2000

  I listened to the first ep last night and I have to admit that I had goosebumps. Last spring when I finished reading "Salmon Of Doubt" I felt I was closing the door on DNA, as it were, with no new Adams' goodness forthcoming. Now, between the new radio series and the film this coming April, it seems like we're in a bit of a renaisance. I hope that Douglas was wrong about the afterlife and is looking down on all this with a smile.

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  Content I listened to the first ep last night and I have to admit that I had goosebumps. Last spring when I finished reading "Salmon Of Doubt" I felt I was closing the door on DNA, as it were, with no new Adams' goodness forthcoming. Now, between the new radio series and the film this coming April, it seems like we're in a bit of a renaisance. I hope that Douglas was wrong about the afterlife and is looking down on all this with a smile.

• Sep 28, 2004 3:38:14 PM CDT

  Ack! Are these up on bit torrent yet?

  by tall_boy

  oh baby, I gots to check me suprnova more often. Just listening now they're using the old school intro music, horray!

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  Content oh baby, I gots to check me suprnova more often. Just listening now they're using the old school intro music, horray!

• Sep 28, 2004 3:56:49 PM CDT

  Christ, this new radio series IS funny!

  by charlie & tex

  We have listened to the first two episodes of the new series and we have been laughing our arses off - the second one aired about a couple of hours ago and we were crying with laughter at some of it - that's some mean feat when you consider that the pair of us are miserable bastards most of the time. One other thing, we hope that you guys in the US are enjoying Shaun Of The Dead, raise a beer when you see the Twin Zombies in it - that's us! So long & thanks for all the fish...

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  Content We have listened to the first two episodes of the new series and we have been laughing our arses off - the second one aired about a couple of hours ago and we were crying with laughter at some of it - that's some mean feat when you consider that the pair of us are miserable bastards most of the time. One other thing, we hope that you guys in the US are enjoying Shaun Of The Dead, raise a beer when you see the Twin Zombies in it - that's us! So long & thanks for all the fish...

• Sep 28, 2004 4:25:55 PM CDT

  Oh joyus day, it is on bit torrent

  by tall_boy

  http://66.90.75.92/suprnova//torrents/2658/h2g2-3.1-mp3.torrent

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• Sep 28, 2004 4:27:15 PM CDT

  Well I was going to complain about the diff between the ending o

  by tall_boy

  -screw it, I enjoyed this too much. That and Hitchhiker's has pretty sketcy internal continuity anyway. Good first episode, can't wait to hear/DL/ whatever get my hands on ep. 2

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  Content -screw it, I enjoyed this too much. That and Hitchhiker's has pretty sketcy internal continuity anyway. Good first episode, can't wait to hear/DL/ whatever get my hands on ep. 2

• Sep 29, 2004 3:31:17 AM CDT

  explanation for the radio play continuity glitch -

  by tall_boy

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/scenes3.shtml "People are asking how we have 'solved' the problem of the second original radio serial finishing in a different place to The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe novel, the TV series, and Life The Universe And Everything. The thing is that for Douglas this wasn't a problem! He had a sort of re-ordering when he did the TV adaptation and the novelisations.
  
  At first I thought it might put us in a awkward position, but when I started work I listened again - in awe - to the first two radio series - and realised that in Series Two the first of the established characters that appears is Zaphod Beeblebrox. He has stolen away on a freighter bound for the planet where the Hitchhikers Guide headquarters is. So the listener enters the series via Zaphod's perception of things; it's very much from his point of view.
  
  Now remember that Trillian never appears in Radio Series Two at all, and although Zaphod would insist he's had this adventure, she could not be expected to remember it, and things begin not to add up - unless you are in a Universe created by Douglas.
  
  Suppose the Series Two we have experienced is a reality filtered by Zaphod's imagination, including his visit to a kind of virtual reality universe created by a character called Zarniwoop in a Hitchhiker building office. Then it can be reasonably suggested there's no reason to think we are getting the same version of reality we got in Series One - especially filtered through a Pan-Galactic Gargleblaster or six!
  
  So everything in Series Two - including the climax where Arthur supposedly steals the Heart of Gold, leaving Zaphod and Ford Prefect stranded with the Man in the Shack, who's actually The Supreme Being - all of this could be in Zaphod's imagination!" Meh. Maybe not the BEST explanation (it was all a dream!) but it does fit. kinda. now where's me episode 2 online, dammit?!

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  Content http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/scenes3.shtml "People are asking how we have 'solved' the problem of the second original radio serial finishing in a different place to The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe novel, the TV series, and Life The Universe And Everything. The thing is that for Douglas this wasn't a problem! He had a sort of re-ordering when he did the TV adaptation and the novelisations. At first I thought it might put us in a awkward position, but when I started work I listened again - in awe - to the first two radio series - and realised that in Series Two the first of the established characters that appears is Zaphod Beeblebrox. He has stolen away on a freighter bound for the planet where the Hitchhikers Guide headquarters is. So the listener enters the series via Zaphod's perception of things; it's very much from his point of view. Now remember that Trillian never appears in Radio Series Two at all, and although Zaphod would insist he's had this adventure, she could not be expected to remember it, and things begin not to add up - unless you are in a Universe created by Douglas. Suppose the Series Two we have experienced is a reality filtered by Zaphod's imagination, including his visit to a kind of virtual reality universe created by a character called Zarniwoop in a Hitchhiker building office. Then it can be reasonably suggested there's no reason to think we are getting the same version of reality we got in Series One - especially filtered through a Pan-Galactic Gargleblaster or six! So everything in Series Two - including the climax where Arthur supposedly steals the Heart of Gold, leaving Zaphod and Ford Prefect stranded with the Man in the Shack, who's actually The Supreme Being - all of this could be in Zaphod's imagination!" Meh. Maybe not the BEST explanation (it was all a dream!) but it does fit. kinda. now where's me episode 2 online, dammit?!

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