What
is truly unique about Douglas Adams' concept is that it started as a radio serial,
came out as a series of books, then television series, then a web site, then a
movie. Is that unique, you ask? What is unique, is that each version was
less effective than the one before; the concept slowly and gently came to satirize
itself. HitchHiker's Guide on the RadioThis
is what made the series - and it's author; ecologically friendly, off the wall,
and very, very funny HitchHiker's Guide - the BooksThe
famous five-book trilogy grew out of the radio series. HitchHiker's Guide
- the TV SeriesSome said it was
impossible, and without clever casting and a good deal of imagination, it would
have been. HitchHiker's Guide - the Web
SiteOnce independent, now part of the BBC, hsgs has been overtaken
in technology and content by wikipedia. But please don't tell them ... HitchHiker's
Guide - the MoviePossibly the ultimate
in disaster movies, this one is given the Disney Treatment, right down to an abysmal
soundtrack of trite special effects. |