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

"Roar like lions!"

Liked the Sweaney type fight at the end

It's a shame they didn't have the Party Seven explode at the end, but Mrs. D and I reasoned that they probably only had the one prop and didn't want to ruin it!

Besides which, party sevens *don't* explode if you have two people doing it- that's why Hunt said 'Can't, it needs two'. It's only if you try to open it one side at a time that you get an explosion.

I bet it did explode!

Right. I need to work out how my video recorder works, as I've now been moved up to the "advanced" salsa group, which starts at 8.30 on Mondays, so I can't get back in time to see LOM as it is broadcast.

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Yeah, but the amount of bashing that thing took!

'You should see my playstation score'

I'm with you on this LW - there were some great oneliners and great moments.

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Well, that's true. It did play the part of war drum rather more than seems advisable.

One liners are great

Forgeotten how good a track "Ballroom Blitz" is!

Favourite one line "Armed b**stards!"

1972 was a good year

Right. Any thoughts on the very brief 'flashback' Sam had when the gunman was shot? Just 'texture' or is it germane to the plot?

Here's what I saw:

A modern kitchen stove with blood splashing over it.
Buckled shoes walking through grass
A cooker hood with blood dripping down it
blurred shots of trees
A modern kitchen
the victim in the factory
A glass table with a large bloodstain under it. There's a plate on the table containing a mobile phone, some coins and a wallet
The testcard girl

the sequence ended with Gene Hunt clicking his fingers (which actually happens shortly afterwards).

It's obviously connected to the dead body being discovered exactly where Tyler's kitchen table is in his flat in the present.

I have no idea what any of this means, but I'll be disappointed if it means nothing. I'd hate for this series to turn into a Twin Peaks, full of non sequiturs.

Actually I'd rather love it if it turned into a sort of Twin Peaks thing!

I saw the flashbacks as being him in dreamworld (intertwinned with his old life) very very dreamlke, where your brain sorts out and files all the stuff it's had to deal with during the day and tires to compartmentalise that into existing categories.

Ooh, I don't know, I liked the way Twin Peaks left us hanging.

To be honest I don't really care how this turns out, and don't want to get too hung up on 'clues' as getting all excited only to find a disappointing resolution could diminish the enjoyment of a bl**dy fantastic programme (ahem, Badwolf anybody?)

I'm not actually sure that I mean that.

No, go on - how did you find BadWolf disappointing?

The public & internet community built it up to such an extent that the reality was a bit disappointing. If we hadn't become obsessed by it it would have been great...

Badwolf was awful. It was little more than Deus ex Machina, and a very lazy one at that.

I had a strange dream the night of last programme related to threatend factory closure.
I used to work in an aircraft factory that closed down, I have had the occasional dream about the stairs that went from ground to second floor, the stairs were on the side of the internal wall, in my past dreams I have images of them being very steep and a bit scary. In the dream I just had, bits were being removed making the stairs unstable.
Then dream moved to people flooding out of factory on last working day and fights breaking out in the confusion. Not that detailed a dream, but came on night of watching film so clearly related.....

I've got a siver machine, silver machine!
I've got an argon accumulator, so I'll see you some time later......
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Think I saw Hawkwind at Chalkfarm Roundhouse around that time, I know I saw Lemmy's Motorhead there for certain, lol.
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Another good show tonight, wasn't one of the Kray twins that way inclined too?
There was less of the arn't these 70s people pillocks tonight so I enjoyed it more....
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L.S.D? So that will be big white rabbits all round then!