I like how Adams saw this part which in a "respectable sci fi story" would be the point where our hero waxes nostalgic for his home, and yet is swept away by the majesty of where his adventure has taken him, then puts Marvin in there to be completely unmoved by this display of emotion.
You know, the reason the two radio shows are so random was because he made it up as he went along, so much so that the final episode of the second series was still being written While they were recording it!
Don't panic, it's not as if fully explaining the story is unnecessary because there are people online these days that have never understood some of the basis for things on the internet. especially considering that both the titular guide itself is how we got Wikipedia, and Babel fish is how we got autotranslation.
If you want a stall, get someone who does retro games to do a co-review of the 8-bit era Hitchhiker's Guide Text Adventure. www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html
Apparently my new lighting set up brings out the natural red splotchiness of my face and makes it look like I have tan lines. Probably won't be sticking with it... :P
"Your plastic pal who's fun to be with." That joke from the TV series went completely over my head as a kid on first broadcast. Only later did I get the joke, much later. Damn I am slow.
I got to thank you Dom for including the intro music in your video for Hitchhiker's Guide. I never heard it before but fell in love with it, especially when I found out it's by the Eagles. Adams had some fine taste on top of being a great comedic writer :)
I can't believe you summarized the gist of the plot in such a short time. That, sir, takes talent. I have never heard the radio show, but as a fan of this universe and British dry wit, I'm making it a point to listen to it if I can find it.
You just know if Trump loses the 2020 election then he'll be on the first plane to Russia to be the first President to claim Asylum. And probably give the order to nuke somewhere that someone who mocked him lives too, probably. Well, maybe not. But it is soooo easy to see it happening. It is not out of the bounds of possibility, like it ought to be.
I read the first and second one, and Marvin in that died by flying into a star and Zaphod and Trillian went to meet the real runner of the universe. A funny line was that it's really hard to find a suitable president when everyone who is qualified doesn't want to it, and everyone who does isn't.
Hope everyone has their towel's ready. Towel Day is just around the corner ;) Also I was kinda half-expecting the "...penguins steal my sanity"- t-shirt to make a return, you know because "Ford...You're turning into a penguin. Stop it."
I really like the preface to the 4 book collection of THGttG, particularly where Douglas Adams describes the differences between the versi okns of the story. There is one quote al oing the lines of " sometimes the characters take different actions, sometimes they take the same actions but for different reasons, which is much the same thing but saves rewriting dialogue."
Fun Fact: Adams was rather adept with computers and 42 is the ASCII number for '*', which can be taken to mean the Kleene witch means 'everything' or 'anything'
I've always felt Adams was positively prescient with his prediction about chat shows (talk shows in the U.S.). They really exploded in the decades since then. It seemed to go from everyone wanting to appear on them to everyone hosting their own.
Great video! This is not an easy subject to untangle and you've really managed to make sense of it. I definitely feel a lot clearer on the whole canon issue now. Douglas Adams may have been a genius, but he certainly didn't believe in making life easy for the audience, (or the crew apparently - see his run on Doctor Who).
Bought the entire book series a while ago. I can't wait to read it. I'm so glad that you decided to work on this now as it flows so well with my reading plans. :3 Isn't coincidence wonderful?
Thank you so much for doing these TH-cam recommendations, I've loved everyone you've show so far!! Also great review, I can't wait for the other parts!!
The original question was "What is six times nine?" spelled out in Scrabble letters (Made by Arthur). Which naturally to Arthur and Ford was 42. And the question before that was, "What is the answer to the question of the Meaning of Life, the universe and everything?" There are parts that are missing from the synopsis, such as the bird species of shoes salesmen and Arthur asking God questions. Also the explanation of the Infinite Improbability drive just needing a good cup of tea. And that space is really, really big, if you think it's a long way to the chemist, that doesn't compare to space. My parents subjected me to the radio show countless times until I could memorize large parts of it. Eddie, the shipboard computer?
Hey Dom, you missed a kindof important part of the whole 42 thing: It's not "the answer to life, the universe, and everything", it's "the answer to the question of live, the universe, and everything". You can't really have an answer to something that isn't a question.
Atomic comics Actually, that happened on Prehistoric Earth at the end of the first radio series, and second book, and was viewed by the two as proof that the program had been bungled, shortly before realizing that Arthur was indeed descended from the Golgafrinchams, and not the cave men after all. They continued the search for the question in future installments. In the third book and second radio series, it is revealed that the answer and the question are mutually exclusive, and cannot exist in the same universe, or else all of existence will cease to be, and the universe will be replaced by something even more bizarre and improbable. Some say this has already happened.
The whole “English disinterest” element is part of the reason the radio show is my favorite version of Hitchhiker’s Guide. One of the best moments in any version of the story is when Radio Arthur discovers the Earth’s been destroyed and his response is just a deadpan, “I’m a bit upset about that.” I guess it wouldn’t have played so well in book form, but the movie could’ve been improved quite a lot if the characters just didn’t care so much about everything.
In defence of the movie, though I don't know what your critiques are going to be, it's watching that film that going me into the series. The added ideas all came from new ideas Adams had before he died. I think the adaptations varied so much as he liked to add new crazy concepts when he came up with them. Also I'd like to shout out the show Space Dandy which is the most Douglian of animes, and the podcast Welcome to Night Vale has some clear influences as well :)
Heh. I find it kind of interesting (or at least amusing?) that the motivation (or lack thereof) of the characters that he changed into something less stereotypically "British" and closer to a normal adventurer's attitude was, in fact...one of the main things that drew me to the series--and I'm American! And it was definitely not all the way gone--the super underplayed-ness and dry, flat delivery of the lines in the TV version (the first version I ran into) were one of the main reasons I loved it so much, wanted to quote it, and had other kids around school wondering if I was in Drama class because I was going around talking in a British accent all of a sudden. (Be glad you weren't there to hear THAT; I assume it was atrocious. Although there was that one bizzarre incident at work years later when I randomly said something in my fake British accent for funsies and a fellow (American) employee suddenly became CONVINCED I was related to our _actual_ Brit co-worker, Jamie (whom I did actually kind of look like)...but aside from the fact that I first learned how to do that accent _from Hitchhiker's Guide_, that's not important right now. :P)
Technically, the film is the fourth adaptation. Douglas Adams worked with Infocom back in the 80's to make a superb (but brutal) text adventure which the BBC have managed to expertly reproduce on their website: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-game-30th-anniversary-edition
I'm looking forward to your video on the TV series, which I think is perfect aside from Ford's character breaking angry retort once Arther asks about the Earth being simply referred to as "harmless", its probably worse than the movie's version of him since for that one line Ford's personality does a full 180 for no reason at all.
Mr Critical That's ... considering the quality of the adaptations we do have, I don't see why not. Just combine the writing of the 80's tv show with the visuals of the Disney movie, and boom, we got a new show.
I just want to start off by saying that The Dom is by far my favorite youtuber and I really really love his content. Ever since I stumbled across Lost in adaptation, I've wanted him to do an episode on one series of books and movies more than any. I'm usually a lurker and It's pretty rare that I comment but I thought 'what the hell'. So with that may I humbly request a How To Train Your Dragon Lost in Adaption? Not many people know about the book and this is one of those few times where most consider the movie to be better.
In any case it would be an in name only clause do to the very random changes that took place in the first book, and the second had no connection to the second book, How to be a Pirate. In any case I can sum up some major changes that deviates the book from the movie. First of all, in the book it was viking tradition for boys to steal a dragon from the nesting grounds to keep as their hunting partner. Everyone had a dragon, and every dragon was basically the size of a large dog or a bear, rarely if ever were they able to be ridden. Secondly Toothless, Hiccup's dragon, was not the coolest, not the smartest, and definitely not the best, about the only way the book described him is that the only unusual thing about Toothless was how unusually small he was. He was the most common of all common garden dragons. The last really major change that changes the plot is that in the books hiccup had the ability to talk to dragons. It being a language he had dubbed Dragonese, and it sounded much like cracks and pops coming from Hiccup's mouth, and he had trained Toothless unusually by just talking to him instead of shouting and hitting. Some minor changes from the books to the movie was that Snotlout was in no way Hiccup's friend, he was Hiccup's cousin and was vying to be the Chief, and the way he did this was constantly try to get him killed, one of his defining features was his rather large nose and a rather large mustache for his age. Ruffnut and Tuffnut did not exist how they did in the film, Tuffnut Jr. just happened to be one of the boys Hiccup trained with. Another thing is that Fishlegs was not a fat nerd in the books like how he was in the movie, he was a rather skinny kid and really sickly, he was Hiccup's closest friend and was allergic to many things including reptiles. In the books, Astrid and all other girls besides the wives of the vikings did not exist as main characters. It was a tribe of men, however to even things out of the islands in the archipelago (Which had already been properly mapped out Race to the Edge), there was the island of the Bog Burglars, a tribe of woman warriors. The endings of both the book and movie had very similar final dragons, but was drastically different in how they both ended, in the books a Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus had washed up on the beach at one end of berk, which was incredibly bad since no one knew how to deal with it, they all tried yelling at it but that didn't really work, and Gobber (Relatively the same role from the movies) was flicked by the dragon into his own house into his chair landing rather comfortably but without all of his clothes except a pair of briefs. Later the tribes (As this happened on graduation day so the boys from the Meathead village were also there) sent Hiccup to talk to the dragon to see whether it came in peace or war, it said peace, but it was still going to eat everyone. The way Hiccup and the boys defeated the Green Death (The dragon's name) was that another Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus washed up on a beach close by and the two tribes boys used their dragons to lure each of the large dragons towards each other to basically kill each other, which was successful until the Green Death ate hiccup as the last thing he'd ever do, hiccup now caught in his throat put his helmet in to two holes that kept spewing fire and Hiccup was hot, when the dragon tried to breath fire all it did was manage to inflate itself, it kept trying and then blew up with the pressure. Very different to the movie's interpretation that toothless caught the inside on fire. I think that's most of the major changes, and The Dom, if you're reading this, I would totally love this episode too, even if most of the stuff is right here.
Pretty Princess, I agree with you on both accounts, it would be great to see The Dom do an episode on the book and movie versions of How to Train Your Dragon, and he is a favourite TH-camr of mine also. His episodes on The Witches and The Neverending Story are two of my favourites of his.
You should do audiobooks. you are great in telling a story. I mean I am basically obsessed with the book and know it by heart and I still was entertained by you re-telling it.
I am proud of my 42 Tattoo......although, besides my love for Douglas Adams it was my thought of how long I live. I am turning 43 this year and hate it. Although I madly love all of his books, a special place in my heart will forever be for Last Chance To See. Damn, now I am watching Monty Python......but I adore your reviews and analysis.
Aren't there more than just the two books? You didn't even get into the Vogons' obsession with destroying rebuilt Earths over and over again, or "Stravatto Mueller Beta."
Actually there was a Record Album adaptation, and a comic book adaptation of the series made prior to the film. So counting the radio show, book, tv series, record, and comic book, the movie is the material's 5th adaptation.
Will you be doing a Lost in Adaptation for the Handmaid's Tale? I've been hearing lots of good things about the recent Hulu adaptation and it's a wonderful read on it's own.
Yay new The Dom review! I adore your videos Dom and it kills me that you were at Manchester Comic Con and I didn't know! Are you coming this year or will you be in America by then?
SilentRiotXOX Regarding this question, if you're going all the way to Canada for cons, once the giant move (congrats again) happens, are any Pacific Northwest cons on your radar?
I'm old enough to have listened to the original run of the radio series. It blew my mind. I ended up watching / reading / listening and playing all its versions. I'm particularly fond of the audio reading by Stephen Moore. (Marvin). A great choice of narrator. I had them on cassette and my player kept chewing the tapes. Anyway, great job Dom you Hoopy Frood.
You probably should have pointed out that the Prefect is a car made by Ford. It wasn't sold in the US under that name and very few people on this continent know that it exists. And I still enjoy the movie, even if you hate it so much.
Great video. Too many people seem to act like or straight up think the book was the original. It's nice to see the radio play get a little attention too.
I'm on book 4 of this 'trilogy' and the first 3 I absolutely loved and hated at the same time XD Adams really is a mad genius. I've never felt so frustrated, confused, annoyed and overwhelmed reading a series but it felt so natural! Like I was living through Dent. Amazing series up to book 3 :P Book 4 though.....I hated book 4 so very much! It's put me off reading the other 2....
I would be very interested in you doing a spin off show about the histories of fashions of ideas and trends, especially of British stuff, like your run down of the extreme british etiquette humour of the 60s/70s. Nobody else really covers those things and it would be very interesting to hear the reasons as to the rise and fall, the cultural zeitgeist of the time and if in your opinion the topic would ever come back into fashion again and a modern perspective on it.
Fun fact: Back in middle school I watched quite a bit of the 60s Avengers series, as I was a fan of Diana Rigg, and then when Marvel’s Avengers came out about a year later I got super confused as I initially thought they were connected in some way 😂
Timecode for those wo want to click it: 7:51 @TheDom: You might want to put time codes like this in the description. I think you can also make the time code "clickable" to jump forward. :)
I've got a suggestion. What about doing a lost in adaption for Howls Moving Castle? Not many people know that it was a book first. I'm actually in the minority that like the book more. The movie is undoubtful gorgeous but they changed A LOT in the Ghibli movie.
Im guessing you have up to your ears in projects, but i would love to see a video about the netflix-serie 13 reasons why. Cant wait to see your next video whatever it may be about. All love from Sweden! (sorry about my horribel english)
I'd love a Lost In Adaptation about Wuthering Heights, since it's got more than one movie with varying degrees of loyalty. I only know of two but one of them turns a story of abuse and violence into a love story.
So I've been listening to the finnish translation of the radio show but now hearing the happenings of the british one it seems that it is infact an adaptation of the book that has some mixed element of the radio show? So much adapting (it also has the misfortune that the actors for Zeyfort(sorry spelling), Arthur and Ford all sound very similar. It took me 5 cds to be able to tell them apart)
Yes, at the end of the first series they devise a way to get the ultimate answer out of Arthur but because the Golgafrinchans, or as you put it "space twits" crashed on earth and cocked up the calculation it became "what do you get if you multiply six by nine"
Unless I'm too mistaken, I think Douglas once said that all versions of HHGG are true. And on a personal note, I find that there are good pieces in each adaptation. I could easily mash them all together, like how Ford handles the demolishing of Arthur's house, and how the Infinite Improbability Drive works. As described, you travel from A to B in a matter of seconds, but according to visual descriptions it seems to anyways take a while, whereas in the movie it is a blink of an eye. (but I would miss the hilarity of chapter 9)
I hoped you were going to mention this, but... The incarnations of the HHGTTG stories are not strictly "adaptations", they are different Versions of the same story, written by it's original creator. Douglas Adams wrote all of them as separate entities (including the film, he wrote that before he died). They are meant to have different plot points, characters, and subtle changes in timeline - so that viewers/listeners/watchers can have a different experience with each one, not just the same thing over and over in different formats.
If you read the second book you will find that Trillion hardly says a word or does anything until they get to the restaurant. This is because Trillion is absent from the second radio series. RIP to the actress who played her in the first 5 radio series, I believe she died in 2013. Sandra Dickinson took over the role in the 6th series.
Just saying, Life, the Universe and Everything is quite a different book from the rest, it's the only one with a clear villain, that being because it was initially a Doctor Who story which was never finished.
The books are good, my favourite version, but I wish some of the bits cut from the radio-series-to-book adaptation had been left in, like the councillor giving the speech just as the Vogons arrive, and that sort of thing. I'm glad no one got eaten in the book though. That would have really put me off if it'd ended that way, being a massive childhood phobia of mine. By the way, will you also be reviewing the BBC TV series? There were some rather odd changes made in that too.
My favourite from hitchhiker
Dent: "Do you get along with other androids Marvin?
Marvin "I hate them"
Dent: "Right"
I like how Adams saw this part which in a "respectable sci fi story" would be the point where our hero waxes nostalgic for his home, and yet is swept away by the majesty of where his adventure has taken him, then puts Marvin in there to be completely unmoved by this display of emotion.
I liked how he talked a ship *literally* to death
You know, the reason the two radio shows are so random was because he made it up as he went along, so much so that the final episode of the second series was still being written While they were recording it!
The tagline for Hitchhikkers might as well be "It Makes Sense In Context."
Does it though..?
More like "it makes something that is almost exactly nothing like sense in conext"
Btw, I'm sorry that me saying "Join me next time for the Lost in Adaptation" basically became a lie...
Well, this is - kind of - still talking about an adaptation, so it was technically correct.
By the way, when are you getting back to The Prisoner?
The Dom u r fak nes!!!
Don't panic, it's not as if fully explaining the story is unnecessary because there are people online these days that have never understood some of the basis for things on the internet. especially considering that both the titular guide itself is how we got Wikipedia, and Babel fish is how we got autotranslation.
If you want a stall, get someone who does retro games to do a co-review of the 8-bit era Hitchhiker's Guide Text Adventure. www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html
I think a good way to describe the Hitch Hiker's Guide series is: "Just a bunch of stuff that happened."
Apparently my new lighting set up brings out the natural red splotchiness of my face and makes it look like I have tan lines. Probably won't be sticking with it... :P
I saw no such thing, you look very smart.
The Dom if anything it looks like you wear sunglasses when going outside. But you still lookin rather dashing
I didn't notice it before.
Now I do.
I thought you had gone skiing and had a classic panda sunburn :D Seemed a bit our of season, but I didn't know when you recorded this
You can always go the makeup route.
"Your plastic pal who's fun to be with." That joke from the TV series went completely over my head as a kid on first broadcast. Only later did I get the joke, much later. Damn I am slow.
I got to thank you Dom for including the intro music in your video for Hitchhiker's Guide. I never heard it before but fell in love with it, especially when I found out it's by the Eagles. Adams had some fine taste on top of being a great comedic writer :)
He was extremely interested in the soundscape of his series.
More than the story really.
I can't believe you summarized the gist of the plot in such a short time. That, sir, takes talent.
I have never heard the radio show, but as a fan of this universe and British dry wit, I'm making it a point to listen to it if I can find it.
"Becoming President on a whim, getting bored and then running off with a cutting edge space ship"
Did...did Douglas Adams predict the future?
He certainly did when it came to chat/talk shows
If you mean, is Donald Trump = Zaphod Beeblebrox , *yes*
bimmjim I can hardly imagine Trump as being described as “the best bang since the big one”.
You just know if Trump loses the 2020 election then he'll be on the first plane to Russia to be the first President to claim Asylum. And probably give the order to nuke somewhere that someone who mocked him lives too, probably.
Well, maybe not. But it is soooo easy to see it happening. It is not out of the bounds of possibility, like it ought to be.
@@rhisands2063 no way, Putin already glued his butt to the president seat
I read the first and second one, and Marvin in that died by flying into a star and Zaphod and Trillian went to meet the real runner of the universe. A funny line was that it's really hard to find a suitable president when everyone who is qualified doesn't want to it, and everyone who does isn't.
Pinky and the Brain has a whole new meaning after this...
Hope everyone has their towel's ready. Towel Day is just around the corner ;)
Also I was kinda half-expecting the "...penguins steal my sanity"- t-shirt to make a return, you know because "Ford...You're turning into a penguin. Stop it."
I really like the preface to the 4 book collection of THGttG, particularly where Douglas Adams describes the differences between the versi okns of the story. There is one quote al oing the lines of " sometimes the characters take different actions, sometimes they take the same actions but for different reasons, which is much the same thing but saves rewriting dialogue."
Fun Fact: Adams was rather adept with computers and 42 is the ASCII number for '*', which can be taken to mean the Kleene witch means 'everything' or 'anything'
I've always felt Adams was positively prescient with his prediction about chat shows (talk shows in the U.S.). They really exploded in the decades since then. It seemed to go from everyone wanting to appear on them to everyone hosting their own.
I can't believe you did these reviews without a towel.
These is my favourite series of all time, thank you SO MUCH for covering it!
Great video! This is not an easy subject to untangle and you've really managed to make sense of it. I definitely feel a lot clearer on the whole canon issue now. Douglas Adams may have been a genius, but he certainly didn't believe in making life easy for the audience, (or the crew apparently - see his run on Doctor Who).
Thank you soooo much for covering The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy! Ever since I found your channel I've been hoping you'd do it :)
Bought the entire book series a while ago. I can't wait to read it. I'm so glad that you decided to work on this now as it flows so well with my reading plans. :3 Isn't coincidence wonderful?
Thank you so much for doing these TH-cam recommendations, I've loved everyone you've show so far!!
Also great review, I can't wait for the other parts!!
I'd really like to see a Lost in Adaptation about The Giver. I just watched the movie the other day and thought of Dom immediately.
I really loved how when the mice come up with the fake ultimate question it's obviously a jab at Bob Dylan
The original question was "What is six times nine?" spelled out in Scrabble letters (Made by Arthur). Which naturally to Arthur and Ford was 42.
And the question before that was, "What is the answer to the question of the Meaning of Life, the universe and everything?"
There are parts that are missing from the synopsis, such as the bird species of shoes salesmen and Arthur asking God questions. Also the explanation of the Infinite Improbability drive just needing a good cup of tea. And that space is really, really big, if you think it's a long way to the chemist, that doesn't compare to space. My parents subjected me to the radio show countless times until I could memorize large parts of it. Eddie, the shipboard computer?
Synopsis: a brief summary or general survey of something.
Not: complete description of everything involved.
Hey, it did not NEED tea, any brownish motion generator would do : )
Hey Dom, you missed a kindof important part of the whole 42 thing: It's not "the answer to life, the universe, and everything", it's "the answer to the question of live, the universe, and everything". You can't really have an answer to something that isn't a question.
of course you can, 42 can answer many questions, like how long ive waited for this video, 42
coredumperror Saying that something is the answer to something implies that it was once a question.
can I ask how this comment was from "6 days ago" though? are you a time traveler?
well later in the series the answer is revealed as 6x7 equals 42
Atomic comics Actually, that happened on Prehistoric Earth at the end of the first radio series, and second book, and was viewed by the two as proof that the program had been bungled, shortly before realizing that Arthur was indeed descended from the Golgafrinchams, and not the cave men after all. They continued the search for the question in future installments. In the third book and second radio series, it is revealed that the answer and the question are mutually exclusive, and cannot exist in the same universe, or else all of existence will cease to be, and the universe will be replaced by something even more bizarre and improbable. Some say this has already happened.
The whole “English disinterest” element is part of the reason the radio show is my favorite version of Hitchhiker’s Guide. One of the best moments in any version of the story is when Radio Arthur discovers the Earth’s been destroyed and his response is just a deadpan, “I’m a bit upset about that.” I guess it wouldn’t have played so well in book form, but the movie could’ve been improved quite a lot if the characters just didn’t care so much about everything.
In defence of the movie, though I don't know what your critiques are going to be, it's watching that film that going me into the series. The added ideas all came from new ideas Adams had before he died. I think the adaptations varied so much as he liked to add new crazy concepts when he came up with them. Also I'd like to shout out the show Space Dandy which is the most Douglian of animes, and the podcast Welcome to Night Vale has some clear influences as well :)
Heh. I find it kind of interesting (or at least amusing?) that the motivation (or lack thereof) of the characters that he changed into something less stereotypically "British" and closer to a normal adventurer's attitude was, in fact...one of the main things that drew me to the series--and I'm American! And it was definitely not all the way gone--the super underplayed-ness and dry, flat delivery of the lines in the TV version (the first version I ran into) were one of the main reasons I loved it so much, wanted to quote it, and had other kids around school wondering if I was in Drama class because I was going around talking in a British accent all of a sudden.
(Be glad you weren't there to hear THAT; I assume it was atrocious. Although there was that one bizzarre incident at work years later when I randomly said something in my fake British accent for funsies and a fellow (American) employee suddenly became CONVINCED I was related to our _actual_ Brit co-worker, Jamie (whom I did actually kind of look like)...but aside from the fact that I first learned how to do that accent _from Hitchhiker's Guide_, that's not important right now. :P)
Technically, the film is the fourth adaptation. Douglas Adams worked with Infocom back in the 80's to make a superb (but brutal) text adventure which the BBC have managed to expertly reproduce on their website: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-game-30th-anniversary-edition
And added images. I'd have assumed they just used a JavaScript Zmachine, but it seems they did actually port it.
Oh wow thanks for the link! I have fond memories of playing this game as a kid.
There was also the 3 comic books.
Even when summarized, the Hitchhikers Guide remains one of the most genious stories ever told
Hello my beautiful host.
YAY!!! just bought the first two seasons of the radio show yesterday!! Can't wait to save up for the rest of them!
Literally just checked TH-cam after listening to fit the tenth & this is the first video I see on the hompage! That's pretty hoopy.
Having just posted my final essay for uni, this video was quite the treat to help me relax following the stress of university. Thanks.
5 years and he still hasn’t done the TV miniseries.
I'm looking forward to your video on the TV series, which I think is perfect aside from Ford's character breaking angry retort once Arther asks about the Earth being simply referred to as "harmless", its probably worse than the movie's version of him since for that one line Ford's personality does a full 180 for no reason at all.
I loved hearing all this! Great review, Dom!
13:25 Seems like Adams did what the first movie adaption of A Series of Unfortunate Events did
You know seeing as Netflix and BBC America have done so well with their Dirk Gently adaptation I wonder if they'd make a new Hitch Hikers series
Mr Critical That's
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considering the quality of the adaptations we do have, I don't see why not. Just combine the writing of the 80's tv show with the visuals of the Disney movie, and boom, we got a new show.
Heck maybe they can bring Martin Freeman back as Arthur Dent he was definitely the highlight of the movie next to Alan Rickman R.I.P
Mr Critical I'd be on board with that. I loved the movie, and there is enough material in the books and radio shows to make for more adaptations.
If it has Simon Pegg, i am in
And then Dirk gently need to crossover with hitchhiker's
I just want to start off by saying that The Dom is by far my favorite youtuber and I really really love his content. Ever since I stumbled across Lost in adaptation, I've wanted him to do an episode on one series of books and movies more than any. I'm usually a lurker and It's pretty rare that I comment but I thought 'what the hell'. So with that may I humbly request a How To Train Your Dragon Lost in Adaption? Not many people know about the book and this is one of those few times where most consider the movie to be better.
In any case it would be an in name only clause do to the very random changes that took place in the first book, and the second had no connection to the second book, How to be a Pirate. In any case I can sum up some major changes that deviates the book from the movie. First of all, in the book it was viking tradition for boys to steal a dragon from the nesting grounds to keep as their hunting partner. Everyone had a dragon, and every dragon was basically the size of a large dog or a bear, rarely if ever were they able to be ridden. Secondly Toothless, Hiccup's dragon, was not the coolest, not the smartest, and definitely not the best, about the only way the book described him is that the only unusual thing about Toothless was how unusually small he was. He was the most common of all common garden dragons. The last really major change that changes the plot is that in the books hiccup had the ability to talk to dragons. It being a language he had dubbed Dragonese, and it sounded much like cracks and pops coming from Hiccup's mouth, and he had trained Toothless unusually by just talking to him instead of shouting and hitting. Some minor changes from the books to the movie was that Snotlout was in no way Hiccup's friend, he was Hiccup's cousin and was vying to be the Chief, and the way he did this was constantly try to get him killed, one of his defining features was his rather large nose and a rather large mustache for his age. Ruffnut and Tuffnut did not exist how they did in the film, Tuffnut Jr. just happened to be one of the boys Hiccup trained with. Another thing is that Fishlegs was not a fat nerd in the books like how he was in the movie, he was a rather skinny kid and really sickly, he was Hiccup's closest friend and was allergic to many things including reptiles. In the books, Astrid and all other girls besides the wives of the vikings did not exist as main characters. It was a tribe of men, however to even things out of the islands in the archipelago (Which had already been properly mapped out Race to the Edge), there was the island of the Bog Burglars, a tribe of woman warriors. The endings of both the book and movie had very similar final dragons, but was drastically different in how they both ended, in the books a Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus had washed up on the beach at one end of berk, which was incredibly bad since no one knew how to deal with it, they all tried yelling at it but that didn't really work, and Gobber (Relatively the same role from the movies) was flicked by the dragon into his own house into his chair landing rather comfortably but without all of his clothes except a pair of briefs. Later the tribes (As this happened on graduation day so the boys from the Meathead village were also there) sent Hiccup to talk to the dragon to see whether it came in peace or war, it said peace, but it was still going to eat everyone. The way Hiccup and the boys defeated the Green Death (The dragon's name) was that another Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus washed up on a beach close by and the two tribes boys used their dragons to lure each of the large dragons towards each other to basically kill each other, which was successful until the Green Death ate hiccup as the last thing he'd ever do, hiccup now caught in his throat put his helmet in to two holes that kept spewing fire and Hiccup was hot, when the dragon tried to breath fire all it did was manage to inflate itself, it kept trying and then blew up with the pressure. Very different to the movie's interpretation that toothless caught the inside on fire. I think that's most of the major changes, and The Dom, if you're reading this, I would totally love this episode too, even if most of the stuff is right here.
Pretty Princess THERE ARE BOOKS?!
Pretty Princess, I agree with you on both accounts, it would be great to see The Dom do an episode on the book and movie versions of How to Train Your Dragon, and he is a favourite TH-camr of mine also. His episodes on The Witches and The Neverending Story are two of my favourites of his.
Good GRAVY the movie is better. I've never loathed every character in a book before, but that book did it for me.
Pretty Princess I HATED the film! It's not as funny as the book and the dragons look stupid, come on, they ignored all of the book descriptions.
when you're having a hard day but your favourite creator uploads 🙏🏻
hitchhikers guide was one of my favorite books in high school, and then I saw the movie. so I'm looking forward to getting your take on it
6:35 really? Cause I heard they all died out due to a plague spread from a dirty telephone thanks to the lack of telephone sanitisers.
That is what happened in the book.
I'm looking forward to you doing the tv show. I got it on dvd and it's probably time that I gave it a watch again.
I don't care if it's not a true LiA episode, hearing "Journey of the Sorcerer" again is satisfaction enough.
You should do audiobooks. you are great in telling a story. I mean I am basically obsessed with the book and know it by heart and I still was entertained by you re-telling it.
I am proud of my 42 Tattoo......although, besides my love for Douglas Adams it was my thought of how long I live. I am turning 43 this year and hate it. Although I madly love all of his books, a special place in my heart will forever be for Last Chance To See. Damn, now I am watching Monty Python......but I adore your reviews and analysis.
Aren't there more than just the two books? You didn't even get into the Vogons' obsession with destroying rebuilt Earths over and over again, or "Stravatto Mueller Beta."
Thanks for HGTTG and congratulations on 60000 subscribers!
Man, that theme song brings back such great memories of watching the BBC miniseries on VHS from my local library. Good times!
And the fact that it was done by the eagles makes it even better.
And now, once again, I have the song "Marvin I Love You" stuck in my head.
The radio series gets unfairly overlooked! I think the first two are fantastic
Eh, the second season got too lol random for me
11:00 But Zaphod did find his cautorised initials in his brain as a result of it's manipulation.
Sfbe
After watching this video, I have decided to go mad.
Actually there was a Record Album adaptation, and a comic book adaptation of the series made prior to the film. So counting the radio show, book, tv series, record, and comic book, the movie is the material's 5th adaptation.
Check out those sunglasses tan lines. Did The Dom take a vacation up north or something?
Tan lines from Scotland? I don't think they have a word for "sun".
What is this "sun" you talking about Dom?
Will you be doing a Lost in Adaptation for the Handmaid's Tale? I've been hearing lots of good things about the recent Hulu adaptation and it's a wonderful read on it's own.
JS thank you so much for shouting out Rantasmo. He's seriously amazing and got me into Steven Universe.
I had never thought about the humor differences between the book and radio series; what a good excuse to re-listen to it!
Yay new The Dom review! I adore your videos Dom and it kills me that you were at Manchester Comic Con and I didn't know! Are you coming this year or will you be in America by then?
Actually I'll be in Canada that weekend I'm afraid. Going to Con Bravo.
The Dom awww oh well I hope you have a good time!
SilentRiotXOX Regarding this question, if you're going all the way to Canada for cons, once the giant move (congrats again) happens, are any Pacific Northwest cons on your radar?
Currently I can't plan that far ahead but I'll keep everyone informed.
The Dom I just hope that the move to America works out okay. I'm so excited for you! :)
I'm going to miss the end credits "My goodness Dom, I can't do that!" jokes.
This summary needs a big all Astrid’s with the phrase “makes sense in context”
Gods I NEED to read this series. Adams is that special kind of mad I love .... (much like Grant Morrison and Jonathan Hickman)
I still can't believe you'll be in the country this weekend and I won't be able see you!
I'm old enough to have listened to the original run of the radio series. It blew my mind. I ended up watching / reading / listening and playing all its versions. I'm particularly fond of the audio reading by Stephen Moore. (Marvin). A great choice of narrator. I had them on cassette and my player kept chewing the tapes. Anyway, great job Dom you Hoopy Frood.
You probably should have pointed out that the Prefect is a car made by Ford. It wasn't sold in the US under that name and very few people on this continent know that it exists.
And I still enjoy the movie, even if you hate it so much.
Go to Belgium!
I'm kidding, God!
Oh wait, God's dead - killed by a fish.
fuck...
So, I feel the need to point out that you seemed to say Magnathea several times, when the planet's name is Magrathea.
Great video. Too many people seem to act like or straight up think the book was the original. It's nice to see the radio play get a little attention too.
Please review and compare the hitchhikers TV series.
"The second [adaptation], the TV show, I'm going to save for another time."
Ah, the whims of Patreonage.
I'm on book 4 of this 'trilogy' and the first 3 I absolutely loved and hated at the same time XD Adams really is a mad genius. I've never felt so frustrated, confused, annoyed and overwhelmed reading a series but it felt so natural! Like I was living through Dent. Amazing series up to book 3 :P Book 4 though.....I hated book 4 so very much! It's put me off reading the other 2....
I would be very interested in you doing a spin off show about the histories of fashions of ideas and trends, especially of British stuff, like your run down of the extreme british etiquette humour of the 60s/70s. Nobody else really covers those things and it would be very interesting to hear the reasons as to the rise and fall, the cultural zeitgeist of the time and if in your opinion the topic would ever come back into fashion again and a modern perspective on it.
The bowl of petunias: oh no, not again 😂🤘
What happened to the timeline video for Hitchhiker's? I can't find it anymore
I really liked the book when I read it for school.
Fun fact: Back in middle school I watched quite a bit of the 60s Avengers series, as I was a fan of Diana Rigg, and then when Marvel’s Avengers came out about a year later I got super confused as I initially thought they were connected in some way 😂
Timecode for those wo want to click it:
7:51
@TheDom: You might want to put time codes like this in the description. I think you can also make the time code "clickable" to jump forward. :)
There's a building where I live that instead of an adress number sign has a sign reading "the meaning of life", the adress number being 42
I've got a suggestion. What about doing a lost in adaption for Howls Moving Castle? Not many people know that it was a book first. I'm actually in the minority that like the book more. The movie is undoubtful gorgeous but they changed A LOT in the Ghibli movie.
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Such a think could not survive on youtube due to copyright reasons.
IT LIVES!
i was looking for that after you said it was removed...
i thought "surely someone had downloaded it" but nope..
thanks for keeping it!
Could you make a trailer for them with a link in the description, so people know it exists? (Or do you have your own website where you could host it?)
There's dozens of us! Dozens!
@@Dominic-Noble This link no longer works. :( Is it hosted anywhere else? Vimeo, perhaps?
New waistcoat? Either way, looking sharp Dom :)
These are some of my favorite books. The movie made me really sad because I was so excited about it and it just... no.
Im guessing you have up to your ears in projects, but i would love to see a video about the netflix-serie 13 reasons why. Cant wait to see your next video whatever it may be about. All love from Sweden! (sorry about my horribel english)
Wait that book was based on a radio show
I'd love a Lost In Adaptation about Wuthering Heights, since it's got more than one movie with varying degrees of loyalty. I only know of two but one of them turns a story of abuse and violence into a love story.
yay! New review. :D
So I've been listening to the finnish translation of the radio show but now hearing the happenings of the british one it seems that it is infact an adaptation of the book that has some mixed element of the radio show? So much adapting (it also has the misfortune that the actors for Zeyfort(sorry spelling), Arthur and Ford all sound very similar. It took me 5 cds to be able to tell them apart)
wait doesnt that mean the original super computer was bugged since it got "infected" by the space twits?
Yes, at the end of the first series they devise a way to get the ultimate answer out of Arthur but because the Golgafrinchans, or as you put it "space twits" crashed on earth and cocked up the calculation it became "what do you get if you multiply six by nine"
Yay Rantasmo! I love him! He's so cute.
Where is the TV series episode?
Will there be a lost in adaptation for the british comedy too? Because I loved that show ^_^
Unless I'm too mistaken, I think Douglas once said that all versions of HHGG are true.
And on a personal note, I find that there are good pieces in each adaptation. I could easily mash them all together, like how Ford handles the demolishing of Arthur's house, and how the Infinite Improbability Drive works. As described, you travel from A to B in a matter of seconds, but according to visual descriptions it seems to anyways take a while, whereas in the movie it is a blink of an eye. (but I would miss the hilarity of chapter 9)
I hoped you were going to mention this, but... The incarnations of the HHGTTG stories are not strictly "adaptations", they are different Versions of the same story, written by it's original creator. Douglas Adams wrote all of them as separate entities (including the film, he wrote that before he died). They are meant to have different plot points, characters, and subtle changes in timeline - so that viewers/listeners/watchers can have a different experience with each one, not just the same thing over and over in different formats.
HHGTTG has such an awesome theme tune, never tire of hearing it
I haven't read the books in forever, I really need to pick up that pretty omnibus hardcover version.
If you read the second book you will find that Trillion hardly says a word or does anything until they get to the restaurant. This is because Trillion is absent from the second radio series. RIP to the actress who played her in the first 5 radio series, I believe she died in 2013. Sandra Dickinson took over the role in the 6th series.
Just saying, Life, the Universe and Everything is quite a different book from the rest, it's the only one with a clear villain, that being because it was initially a Doctor Who story which was never finished.
It’s also the first with a clear, structured, quest like story, while the rest are all a series of seemingly random events.
Flowers for Algernon? Not the most popular movie but I would love to see you do this book.
The books are good, my favourite version, but I wish some of the bits cut from the radio-series-to-book adaptation had been left in, like the councillor giving the speech just as the Vogons arrive, and that sort of thing. I'm glad no one got eaten in the book though. That would have really put me off if it'd ended that way, being a massive childhood phobia of mine.
By the way, will you also be reviewing the BBC TV series? There were some rather odd changes made in that too.
so apparantly 42 is a programming joke, where it basically means "anything". Douglas Adams was a bit of a tech nut, so it sounds reasonable enough.