h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just seemed like they'd traced the phone call or something.

Dragging her to Antarctica would feel like our jumping the shark moment.

yeee-s. I admit it's a bit ropey. But I figured I wasn't beyond a deus ex machina in my writing. We need Anna at Antartica? - so one unremembered chloroform trip later she is.

Labouriously explaing HOW or worse WHY she was taken there a) would sap the drama out of Arthur and X's adventures b) I can't think up a convincing explanation.

When we get around to introducing Annabell as the new 'Master' of The Cult - maybe she can offer up some explanation but frankly if we move fast enough I'm kind of hoping no-body will notice.

*checks for a pulse*

Yes well - it's been a while hasn't it? *ahem*

Anyway just wanted to point out that for both Grobsvaughn and Anna, we have fates set out for them that cut through all of the preceding back and forth which now makes for complicated if insightful reading.

Grobsvaughn *is* a cultist through and through: loyal, fair and true, he is just a generational member of a society founded on a lie and a criminal empire through which he has no direct control or influence. He is a pilot and a deeply religious one, buying in whole heartedly to the religion of the cult. He believes in it so fully that it will save his soul in the end.

Daltmooreby disables him in order to rig the laser, when the shuttle is destroyed in the finale, Grobsvaughn, unconscious and without pain, goes with it. Thus he finds himself in the hall of two truths, so recently passed through by the treacherous and wicked Von Trapp.

Von Trapp got his comeuppance at the hands of those ancient Egyptian Gods that no-one really believes in any more. And Grobsvaughn will do the same, only because his heart is lighter than a feather he will pass into the afterlife of his own creation since that is what afterlives only ever are. Von Trapp in some distant dark pit of his mind knew he deserved oblivion and that is what he got.

So the tale of Grobsvauhn is a tragedy with a happy ending.


And so now to Anna: Ignore all that nonsense about her sneaking on board the shuttle. We left her at a telephone booth in Cairo, having slipped out of Serka's grasp, and there she remains.

Although as it turns out, the Agency do appear in the phone book under "A" and so did come to fetch her. When Arthur and X make the thrilling descent onto Heddingly's island from space, she will arrive in the helicopter the army chiefs sent to fetch them back to de-brief them and will rock Arthur's world.

When X sees Bob and Jill approaching and knowing of Ody's Vendetta against Arthur, now reuinted with Anna, X realises Arthur has to die at elast so far as everyone else is concerned.

So Arthur and Anna hide in the jungle and everyone else has to go back to debrief Guy and attained Arthur's memorial service. (How's that for a pre-credit sequence?)

Arthur and Anna begin life in retirement in the south pacific.


At least that is what is going to most likely, if I get round to it, probably, well forgoing anything unexpected but then who know for sure, eh? ...happen.

you heard it here first but shhh...don't tell anyone I tyold you. Mum's the word. Loose lips sink ships and dribble gravy and all that what what?

Prehaps Arthur 'dies' in the shuttle/[convenient vehicle to get back to Earth] crash?

I can't remember how secretive The Agency is supposed to be. Suppose they pick up the crazy lady in Cairo that's be name dropping them and link her back to Arthur (and X).

(I'm trying to figure a logical reason for her being there in the South Pacific in the first place )