Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - COMIC-CON SNEAK PEEK - Oct 22 ...

[orangerful]

OMG THEY ARE MAKING A DIRK GENTLY MINISERIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I prefer 'Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul' but still...YAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!! I hope it doesn't suck!

Comments

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

Yes, it will be a hard transition, mostly because so much of the humor in the book comes from Adams' observational asides and not what Dirk says.

But not as many quirky AND totally incompetent detectives! Well, I guess Dirk isn't incompetent but he doesn't really operate the same way as your normal procedural (at least, he shouldn't).

I used to have the second book memorized because I spent an entire summer listening to the library copy on cassette over and over and over....

[adam-0oo.livejournal.com]

A great way to compare this is to look at the HGTTG books, compare them to the BBC mini series which had so much of it line for line and compare THAT to the movie from the 2000's, which was adapted for American movie sensibilities.

Also similar is Discworld books, which are hugely reliant on puns and wit and asides and digressions and compare them to the several TV movies of them that were made for the BBC.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

Ugh, yeah I blocked out the 2000s movie...okay, just crush my hopes!