Hitchhiker's on tv
We've been watching the episodes of the original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tv show. The production quality is fairly low, and some of the alien voices are a little difficult to understand. But in a lot of ways it reminds me of when I used to watch Dr. Who on tv, the production quality is about the same as that.
I really like the way they've handled doing the Guide itself. There are animations and text that come on the screen when the Guide is talking. The voice and the pictures and the words all sort of compete for your attention, but it stays very clever and amusing. The humor of the books is still present, and they've managed to include some visual gags that couldn't really happen in a book. Overall I'm very glad to get a chance to watch it, although it's not something I think I'd feel a need to own and watch again.
I really like the way they've handled doing the Guide itself. There are animations and text that come on the screen when the Guide is talking. The voice and the pictures and the words all sort of compete for your attention, but it stays very clever and amusing. The humor of the books is still present, and they've managed to include some visual gags that couldn't really happen in a book. Overall I'm very glad to get a chance to watch it, although it's not something I think I'd feel a need to own and watch again.
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posted by cep at
8:53 AM
1 Comments:
Cool fact about Douglas Adams: he was working on a lot of different versions of "Hitchhiker's" concurrently. I think the book was popular before the TV series, but I believe he was writing the script more or less alongside the first book. (And alongside a text-based adventure game, too!)
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Ian, At
July 24, 2008 5:40 PM
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