A Conversation for Talking Point: Colfer Takes Up Adams's Mantle
There was a period feel
Tonsil Revenge (PG) Started conversation Mar 18, 2009
to much of the original radio scripts and the later novelizations.
Douglas wrote in and of that period, the seventies.
If a continuation is to occur, will it revisit the characters thirty years later, or will it attempt to revisit the era that produced the influences that affected Mr. Adams as he avoided deadlines in the bath?
The movie demonstrated how difficult it is to retranslate Zaphod for another generation. While Ford is Ford, Arthur doesn't really exist anymore. He is an anamoly. Trillians still abound, but once the girl who figured out how everybody could live in harmony and no one would have to get nailed to anything was incinerated when Earth Mark I went poof, that pretty much finished the philosophy. And Marvin? Oh, don't get me started.
I, for one, will be staying away from any furtherations of the mythos. It would be like trying to read Peanuts drawn by another artist.
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