Hitchhikers guide in SGA!(spoilers or quarantine)

[The_Carpenter]

I see your point. I love the LOTR books and movies but didn't know this was a book. I'll give that a try as the movie was very, very bad.

Its five books, a trilogy in five parts! although it does dissolve into brilliant insanity towards the end of the trilogy.

Also we just need some Marvin the Paranoid Android references in Stargate would be awesome!

[sueKay]

Hey I liked the movie!

Granted, the book was better

[CommanderThor11]

how was it brought up in doppleganger? i don't seem to remember... and am too lazy to look, and why should I, you guys will tell me... lol

[IMForeman]

This is how you should ingest Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

1) the books

2) if you need to see it, watch the 12 part (or was it 13?) part that was shown on PBS about 10-20 years ago. Have no idea if it's available on tape/dvd, but it was GREAT

It was 6 parts... and if you really want to be precise, you really could say that the Radio Show is the place to start, since it was first. Then books, then TV, then Infocom text adventure game, then movie.

Didn't like the movie, loved all other forms.

[HyperspaceDaemon]

This is how you should ingest Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

1) the books

2) if you need to see it, watch the 12 part (or was it 13?) part that was shown on PBS about 10-20 years ago. Have no idea if it's available on tape/dvd, but it was GREAT

3) last resort - the movie

Movies are frequently inferior to the corresponding books.

Take Dune for instance: there are no good Dune movies ... And "the children of dune" movie is impossible to follow unless you know the book already.

[Mr Prophet]

It was 6 parts... and if you really want to be precise, you really could say that the Radio Show is the place to start, since it was first. Then books, then TV, then Infocom text adventure game, then movie.

Didn't like the movie, loved all other forms.

I actually liked the movie, mostly because the order and delivery of the jokes was just different enough that I could laugh at them for the first time in years. I can practically quote all 12 parts of the radio series from end to end ("this is the story of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy..."), which actually makes it very tricky to listen to.

I also loved the new radio series based on Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long and Thanks for al the Fish (more, in fact, than I liked the book) and Mostly Harmless.

[MJCS]

how was it brought up in doppleganger? i don't seem to remember... and am too lazy to look, and why should I, you guys will tell me... lol

Rodney: Do you have any Idea how many gate addresses in the Ancient Database that have no accompaing description?

Sheppard: 42

Rodney: No, I think it is a little more than that. Look, I don't really think that is the point.

[FalconSpirit]

When I graduated from high school, the line about 42 being the answer to life, the universe, and everything was on the little banner that they had for each student.

Such a geek. As if Stargate Atlantis needed even more things like these kind of in-jokes for me to like it even more. TPTB, keep it up, I loved it!

On a side note, the books were better than the movie, though I did enjoy watching the movie as well. It's a shame that what DNA wrote that got put in The Salmon of Doubt didn't get finished. (Not a HHGTTG book, but Dirk Gently is good as well.)

[flameling]

Movies are frequently inferior to the corresponding books.

Take Dune for instance: there are no good Dune movies ... And "the children of dune" movie is impossible to follow unless you know the book already.

True. And most of them fequently separate from the book midway-to end. Take for example, Eragon. At the start it was pretty acurrate, with some mistakes, but midway-end it seperated completely, especially in the last battle .

[MIZA]

yeah i liked the movie, but i wish i could pick up on these movie references a lot quicker, i mean i miss the last one from "Travelers" when he said his name was Reed Richards

[The Maneuver]

When I graduated from high school, the line about 42 being the answer to life, the universe, and everything was on the little banner that they had for each student.

Such a geek. As if Stargate Atlantis needed even more things like these kind of in-jokes for me to like it even more. TPTB, keep it up, I loved it!

On a side note, the books were better than the movie, though I did enjoy watching the movie as well. It's a shame that what DNA wrote that got put in The Salmon of Doubt didn't get finished. (Not a HHGTTG book, but Dirk Gently is good as well.)

Just a little side note. Though what he was writing was a Dirk Gently novel, DNA did say at some point that he was considering changing the plot so it was a Hitchhikers book instead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salmon_of_Doubt

[MIZA]

The Book(s) is awesome. Douglas Adams was a wonderful writer, he wrote/contributed to many Doctor Who eps back in the day... I miss him, they don't write clever, witty scifi like that much anymore. Well Doctor Who aside.

I like that McKay (tptb) respect DA enough to use "42" as part of McKay's password. I bet David got a kick out of it too, being a Doctor Who fan and all.

wow i just saw your video on your live journal very nice and sweet,



questions are looping certain scenes over and are some of the scene from the upcoming episode Outcast ?

[Jill_Ion]

I see your point. I love the LOTR books and movies but didn't know this was a book. I'll give that a try as the movie was very, very bad.

I didn't hate the movie, but I sure didn't like it! Great actors, IMHO, but it was just...just...wrong.

The book, though, totally rocks. Just do like I do for any Highlander movie after the first one. "There can be only one!"

Forget it ever happened. Then you can read the book without any ill-feelings.

[andromeda_dan]

..bought the movie a long time ago, never viewed it till posting came up...funny. Maybe the MALP should be renamed into Marvin.

[Mitchell82]

I didn't hate the movie, but I sure didn't like it! Great actors, IMHO, but it was just...just...wrong.

The book, though, totally rocks. Just do like I do for any Highlander movie after the first one. "There can be only one!"

Forget it ever happened. Then you can read the book without any ill-feelings.

Ugh Highlander. Whoever decided the plot for the movies after the first needs to be shot.