Comments on: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy http://www.filmforensics.com/autopsy/2005/05/06/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/ Film Forensic Investigations & Autopsies Our Specialty Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:54:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Annav http://www.filmforensics.com/autopsy/2005/05/06/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/comment-page-1/#comment-2275 Annav Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:58:29 +0000 http://www.filmforensics.com/autopsy/2005/05/06/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/#comment-2275 My brother had a hitchhiker's guide moment the other day. Hunter threw a football no one could catch it. Cody walked by at the right moment and got hit on the lip by the tip of the football. My brother had a hitchhiker’s guide moment the other day. Hunter threw a football no one could catch it. Cody walked by at the right moment and got hit on the lip by the tip of the football.

]]> By: shellshear http://www.filmforensics.com/autopsy/2005/05/06/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/comment-page-1/#comment-563 shellshear Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:12:45 +0000 http://www.filmforensics.com/autopsy/2005/05/06/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/#comment-563 So true! I forgot about Asimov - the tying of the Robots and the Foundation series together was tedious to the point of unreadability. And Piers Anthony is a classic example of fantasy obsessive youth followed by obsessive and boring middle age. So true! I forgot about Asimov – the tying of the Robots and the Foundation series together was tedious to the point of unreadability. And Piers Anthony is a classic example of fantasy obsessive youth followed by obsessive and boring middle age.

]]> By: Vlogmid the Necromancer http://www.filmforensics.com/autopsy/2005/05/06/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/comment-page-1/#comment-562 Vlogmid the Necromancer Thu, 22 Dec 2005 05:58:42 +0000 http://www.filmforensics.com/autopsy/2005/05/06/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/#comment-562 Your 'Wild Youth' and 'Obsessive Middle Age' phases seem very common in Science Fiction writers. Asimov is the type specimen in my opinion, who in his later years seemed driven by a compeltely inexplicable desire to tie his entire ouevre together. Fantasy writers, on the other hand, seem to go through the 'Obsessive Youth' phase followed by the 'Obsessive AND Boring Middle Age' phase... Your ‘Wild Youth’ and ‘Obsessive Middle Age’ phases seem very common in Science Fiction writers. Asimov is the type specimen in my opinion, who in his later years seemed driven by a compeltely inexplicable desire to tie his entire ouevre together. Fantasy writers, on the other hand, seem to go through the ‘Obsessive Youth’ phase followed by the ‘Obsessive AND Boring Middle Age’ phase…

]]> By: shellshear http://www.filmforensics.com/autopsy/2005/05/06/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/comment-page-1/#comment-457 shellshear Fri, 06 May 2005 00:31:06 +0000 http://www.filmforensics.com/autopsy/2005/05/06/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/#comment-457 It is true that the escape from the brain-sawing machine wasn't very good. It might have been good to have the babelfish pop out of his ear and flop away across the floor at this point - to heighten the tension - and, perhaps, for the person-who-insults-everyone to wander in, turn the machine off, insult Arthur, turn it back on again, and wander out. Perhaps Arthur could have saved himself by use of his towel - flicking it to hit the off switch, or some release lever, or wrapping it around one of the things attacking him, and pulling it away with his feet. It is true that the escape from the brain-sawing machine wasn’t very good. It might have been good to have the babelfish pop out of his ear and flop away across the floor at this point – to heighten the tension – and, perhaps, for the person-who-insults-everyone to wander in, turn the machine off, insult Arthur, turn it back on again, and wander out.

Perhaps Arthur could have saved himself by use of his towel – flicking it to hit the off switch, or some release lever, or wrapping it around one of the things attacking him, and pulling it away with his feet.

]]> By: David C http://www.filmforensics.com/autopsy/2005/05/06/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/comment-page-1/#comment-456 David C Fri, 06 May 2005 00:03:05 +0000 http://www.filmforensics.com/autopsy/2005/05/06/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/#comment-456 Interesting stuff, as usual. Kyla's main complaint about the movie was that Arthur saved the day with brute strength and a good punch (in escaping the brain-sawing thingo), which is a rather conventional heroic gesture. I see her point. But generally we had good non-taxing fun with it. David C (who liked Mostly Harmless, though has probably only read the books once each anyway) Interesting stuff, as usual.

Kyla’s main complaint about the movie was that Arthur saved the day with brute strength and a good punch (in escaping the brain-sawing thingo), which is a rather conventional heroic gesture. I see her point. But generally we had good non-taxing fun with it.

David C
(who liked Mostly Harmless, though has probably only read the books once each anyway)

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