What do you like most about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

[Orrex]

Poll question: What do you like most about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

[SteppingRazor]

1. Other: The wise, trunchant advice on life.

For example, always bring a towel. Or the fact that mice are to be feared. Or that, if the world is going to end, the best thing you can do is go down to the bar and have some beers.

[Orrex]

2. Okay, I'll grant you those

But upon rereading it, the references to digital watches just seem to be clubbing me over the head. I think that it bothers so much, in part, because it dates the series more than any other plot device.

The tea is likewise annoying, but at least it's a more timeless reference, and maybe those crazy Brits really do obsess about it constantly, for all I know. I mean, that's how it is in Wallace and Grommit, and Aardman has never lied to me before...

[quip]

3. The movie

No, seriously: 42.

[Orrex]

4. You know, I actually didn't mind the film

I didn't view it so much as a novelization of the five-book trilogy as a complement to it, serving in much the same capacity that Infocom's text-only adventure game did 20 (or so) years ago.

And the representation of the Infinite Improbability drive was as clever and original an onscreen portrayal of FTL travel as I've ever seen.

Welcome to DU, by the way!
:hi:

[redqueen]

5. I voted for the wry wit and social satire...

but I loved everything about it... even the incessant digital watch / tea jokes.

:loveya:

[southpaw]

6. The rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

Well, that about wraps it up for God.

[Connonym]

7. Marvin!

I use The Hitchhikers' Guide as a barometer to whether I will like someone. If they don't love it odds are that we will not be compatible.

[southpaw]

8. You are obviously a person...

who knows where her towel is!

[Connonym]

9. and knows the importance of a good cuppa