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evil jimi - Feb 09, 2005 1:46:52 am PST #8973 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
evil jimi - Feb 09, 2005 1:52:18 am PST #8974 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
d'oh! Should've just edited, instead of deleting the double post.
True, although I have to take issue with your FOTR point - the idea of spending 45 minutes with that twathammer and his poxy doggerel sends shivers down my spine.
Fair enough. Don't know that I would've wanted to spend too long with a screen version of Tom myself. However, it would've been reasonable to have a reduced version of him in, so the hobbits' wraith knives/swords could be explained properly.
As for HHGttG: I can't see it being a particularly good version.
Jim - Feb 09, 2005 2:10:14 am PST #8975 of 10001
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Oh, yeah, having the Old Forest and the Barrows would have rocked, just no Bombadillotry.
§ ita § - Feb 09, 2005 3:37:33 am PST #8976 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Our FotR spoiler rules were such that Tom Bombadil's omission was a spoiler, though.
So this is consistent. Because that's about what happens in the movie, not about the books which have been out and read for donkey's years.
Kalshane - Feb 09, 2005 5:27:13 am PST #8977 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I'm not thrilled about the change to Zaphod myself, particularly if it's the nose thing but I'm trying to keep in mind that Adams wrote the original draft of the screenplay and he liked to make every version of the HHGttG different from the others. The book is not the radio play is not the mini-series is not the video game is not, apparently, the movie. That said, I still would have prefered a more faithful adaptation in the book, particularly in this case.
On the other hand, firmly in the "So glad Tom Bombadil wasn't in the movies" camp.
JohnSweden - Feb 09, 2005 5:36:15 am PST #8978 of 10001
I can't even.
firmly in the "So glad Tom Bombadil wasn't in the movies" camp
So, so wrong. Eldest needed to be in there, just for the barrow-wight sequence. You don't do the whole thing, but a couple of heydol-derrydols would have done a world of good.
Steph L. - Feb 09, 2005 6:24:14 am PST #8979 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
My co-worker told me yesterday that PBS is no longer running Dr. Who, but will be running HHGttG instead. Is this true? (On my PBS station, Dr. Who was always on Saturday nights, so I assume that HHGttG will just go in that spot. Now THAT, I might watch.)
askye - Feb 09, 2005 6:31:58 am PST #8980 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I wish my PBS station would run Dr. Who. Or anything cool. They have a 2 hour block of Are You being served on the weekends and then a couple of other shows that have been run to death.
The other PBS affiliate also shows Are you being served and As time goes by and Keeping up appearances, but at least they throw in Coupling.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 09, 2005 6:36:30 am PST #8981 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Now THAT, I might watch.
It's also on DVD, fyi.
Jessica - Feb 09, 2005 6:37:48 am PST #8982 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The HGTTG series is only 6 eps long, so I can't imagine it replacing Dr Who, at least not for more than a month. (The TV show wasn't as good as the books or the radio show, but still worth watching.)