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OmegaDog

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"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy SDCC teaser" , posted Tue 31 Aug 22:57

30,777,070 bytes for about 73 seconds.

... calculate the byterate.

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Iron D

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"Re(1):Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy SDCC t" , posted Wed 1 Sep 14:28

quote:
30,777,070 bytes for about 73 seconds.

... calculate the byterate.

Bah. My computers acting up. What am I supposed to be seeing here? A full blown trailer?

The Hitchhikers books ruled. I've been meaning to get the books all collected in one volume for some time now. Next time I pick up some cash I think I'll get one...that and I'll order that arranged SF3: New Generation st that I've been meaning to get...and that Chris Benoit dvd...and an Xbox...

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Iggy

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"Re(1):Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy SDCC t" , posted Wed 1 Sep 14:45

There are so many ways to screw up the adaptation that if they succeed, it might become the best SF movie ver.
Do they plan to adapt the full "trilogy" or just the first book ?

Iron D

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"Re(2):Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy SDCC t" , posted Wed 1 Sep 15:06

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Do they plan to adapt the full "trilogy" or just the first book ?

You know Iggy, until you pointed this out, I was actually expecting them to do all of the books, but now that I'm actually thinking about it, that would be a heck of a lot of work.

Also: weren't their five books? I remember Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, The Restaurant at the End of the Galaxy...and I think I'm forgetting one...oh, and that's not including Young Zaphod plays it safe.

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Ammadeau

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"Re(3):Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy SDCC t" , posted Wed 1 Sep 20:58

Six books in total. The final one was released soon after Douglas Adam's death so I don't think it was completely finished, or maybe they had someone else finish it. I didn't read it in either case. I thought the 5th book was terrible.

The first two books are pretty strongly interconnected, so I think they could do just those two and stop there. Series lost a lot of its charm for me in the later books.

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OmegaDog

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"Re(2):Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy SDCC t" , posted Wed 1 Sep 21:40:

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There are so many ways to screw up the adaptation that if they succeed, it might become the best SF movie ver.

But what happens between Guile and Zangief when the world blows up?

Either way -- well, you know each version is different -- radio show, books, text parser game, etc. -- and soon, movie. We'll just say that, in each Hitchhiker's, a general series of events happened.

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Iggy

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"Re(3):Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy SDCC t" , posted Thu 2 Sep 00:30

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Also: weren't their five books?

Yes, but they're called trilogy nontheless. The indaquately called trilogy of five, or something.
The Salmon of doubt doesn't have enough Hitchhicker material to be called even the beginning of a 6th book. It was interesting though, and had the beginning of the 3rd book of Douglas Adam's detective series.
The 4th book of the Hitchiker was the worst of the series, the last one was just... strange. reaaaally weird, but not bad.

Spoon

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"Re(4):Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy SDCC t" , posted Thu 2 Sep 20:20

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Also: weren't their five books?

Yes, but they're called trilogy nontheless. The indaquately called trilogy of five, or something.
The Salmon of doubt doesn't have enough Hitchhicker material to be called even the beginning of a 6th book. It was interesting though, and had the beginning of the 3rd book of Douglas Adam's detective series.
The 4th book of the Hitchiker was the worst of the series, the last one was just... strange. reaaaally weird, but not bad.

The 4th one suffered from a major problem of not being funny enough.

It had, if I recall, about 3 or 4 solid jokes in it.

The first one and the restaurant one were pretty bomb. As compared to say, the Red Dwarf ones, of which I can only remember the first one being really really funny, while the few others I read weren't anywhere near the same calibre.

Mokona
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"Re(5):Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy SDCC t" , posted Fri 17 Sep 13:33

Ah, the "Inscreasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's trilogy".
I bet the movie will cover only the first book.
Either that, or they'll cover more and screw it up leaving a lot of interesting stuff out...

I agree that the last books (mostly 3 and 5) were not as entertaining as the first two. If it weren't for the slight improvement of the fourth book I wouldn't have even read the fifth one...

Wait and see...

Damn you Microsoft

because of you I can calculate faster than my computer!