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daegfire In reply to SinistrosePhosphate [2015-07-25 20:11:10 +0000 UTC]

Douglas Adams was a genius and his characters are brilliant. The movie Marvin is just perfect rendition of him, and voiced brilliantly too! 
Have you read Derk Gently's holistic detective agency? I only recently discovered the BBC did a series, dunno if you have seen it but it's really good if not. The first 3 or so episodes are on the BBC iplayer at the moment... If you can use the iplayer where you are.

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SinistrosePhosphate In reply to daegfire [2015-07-28 03:51:29 +0000 UTC]

I love the Marvin in the movie. I mean, there were a few misses with the movie, but Marvin was spot-on. I love Douglas Adams in general, and I love Marvin in specific. He (it?) was probably my favourite character in the whole Hitchhiker series! 

I actually -have- heard of Dirk Gently. And I started reading the first book. Unfortunately, I never got a chance to finish it. When I first found out about it, I thought it would be funny, but it was even more non-linear and more non sequitur than the Hitchhiker series. It proved to be a bit of a harder read for me at the time and I just never finished it. However, the whole "professor of chronology" idea struck me as something like Doctor Who. It wasn't until much later that I found out Douglas Adams was actually involved in writing a few episodes of Dr. Who (that never got aired). It was a "a-ha!" moment for me. I didn't know about the BBC series. I gotta look into it! Thanks!  

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