alt title(s): The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Discussion
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Ununnilium: Should the current entry be moved off and this turned into an entry on the books? On the other hand, the radio show
did come first; on the other
other hand, the books are better known...
Morgan Wick: Why not an entry on the entire phenomenon? From radio series, to book, to miniseries, all the way up to
The Movie.
Ununnilium: Good idea! I'll move the current entry to
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy and do a basic franchise entry.
Later: Okay! Now... what index do I put this on?
Zephid: Is there a reason "Don't Panic" is in frickin'
yellow? On a white background?
Nate The Great: I second that. I changed it to green, the color of the mascot.
Haven: Took out this
Did Not Do The Research; the two points under the first one are pretty good arguments, and as for the second—so he said manic
ally instead of
manic depressive, not a big deal. Also, the series started in the 80s, so it probably
predates the research.
- Did Not Do The Research: At least two:
- Ford is supposed to come from a planet of Betelgeuse; Adams chose this star solely so that he could give it the comedy pronunciation "Beetlejuice". Unfortunately, it's a variable star so any planet it has would be too cold to support humanoid life, or too hot — or both of those at different times.
- He's from a small planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse. That doesn't necessarily mean "in orbit around". it could be in the next star system over.
- Also, too cold to support humanoid life? Is there a certain temperature below which a pair of legs and arms just don't work? Humanoid refers to body shape, not "having a biology similar to humans," and for that matter, Ford isn't human. There's no telling what sort of Bizarre Alien Biology he's got.
- Marvin is described as "manically depressed". This is a contradiction in terms; mania is the opposite of depression, so although one person can suffer both (it's called !moodswing", "cyclothymia", "bipolar disorder" etc.) they cannot do so at the same time.
Planet Cool: deleted the "Two thousand years" line, as it breaks the flow of the first page quote and does nothing to describe the work.
Sudden Frost: Should
And Another Thing... tropes be moved to the
And Another Thing page?
- Planet Cool: I don't know about moved, but they should definitely be added to that page. By the way, following in the footsteps of whoever made individual pages for all Discworld books, I've been making individual pages for the books in the Increasingly Inaccurately Named Trilogy. However, I can't get the indexes to show up properly or for a "reviews" link to show up at all. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Okay, guys, BIG problem. The links on some of the individual book pages are getting screwed up. Some links don't recognize the fact that the page they link to already exists (they're marked as red links), the
And Another Thing page has a link on it that leads to the "And Another Thing"
trope, and the books don't recognize one another on each other's pages (so the link to
Mostly Harmless is red on the AAT page). What's going on!?
- OK, apparently the big one is fixed... there's still the trope ling on AAT though.
