On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 00:46:02 +0000, GooeyGirl wrote:
>> I can talk about this subject quite a bit
>
> Nah, i see no compelling evidence of that! rotfl!
LOL
> As a momentary aside, i quite enjoy the linguistic perversity that
> green-screens can be blue, much like black-boxes can be orange [unless
> we’re talking thermodynamics, in which case of course they’re chartreuse
> with nice turquoise edging]. For some odd reason little absurdities like
> these rather please me.
Well, before green screens were green, they were blue. Not sure why they
changed, presumably because the green is easier to key out (blue probably
being more common). 
>> I keep copies of the radio scripts (two copies of the primary/secondary
>> phase scripts - because one is so worn from use - as well as the
>> tertiary through quintessential phases) within reach (just below the
>> towel, I realize now).
>
> Dropped jaw levered back up & stitched back into place.
LOL - that’s an interesting visual. The books were published by
Harmony Books (who published the book books in the US), the Tertiary-
Quintessential were by Pan, who was the UK publisher.
But there are errors in the script books as well. They tried to include
bits that had been cut from the broadcast (but were in the scripts), and
there are a few places where they don’t match up. The notes at the end
of each fit are also quite interesting - including notes about the music
listed in the primary phase. I’ve actually managed to find most of it,
though the specific chord from Ligeti’s Volumina (IIRC) is a challenge to
find in that piece - Ligeti can be difficult to listen to (we recently
heard a performance of his Requiem - which was used in “2001: A Space
Odyssey” - definitely a unique piece to hear performed in its entirety).
>> one of the funniest Doctor Who episodes probably wouldn’t have happened
>> - The Pirate Planet. The sense ofabsurdity that his writing brought out
>> in Hitchhiker’s in 1977 continued in TPP in 1978.
>
> I watched DW as a young kid, & have been an excited Whovian since
> Russell T rebirthed it. In between though, i was a Totally Lapsed
> Pre-Whovian, hence TPP -et al- entirely bypassed me. I’ve just seen that
> YouTube has some links for it so i’ll have a look after this.
We have really enjoyed the new series, though we’re sad to see Capaldi
leave the show. I’m hoping to avoid news of who’s next (if you’ll pardon
the pun), but I don’t really think I’ll avoid the news until the
Christmas episode - which is a shame. It’d be nice to be surprised.
>> Peter Davison
>
> Hmmmm. He’s a good example of how sometimes an actor’s specific
> characteristics can irrevocably alienate them from some viewers. I
> really can’t put my finger on it specifically, but he just gives me
> the Irrits bigtime & i avoid him. I do have a partial theory though on
> it… typecasting… in my mind he is indelibly associated with his
> roles as the useless Tristan in -All Creatures Great & Small-, & as the
> feckless hubby in -At Home With The Braithwaites-. Somehow his clueless
> frivolous incompetence in the first, & spineless moral bankruptcy in the
> second, have imprinted on my mind as being his characteristics, rather
> than merely [of course] just his characters. Silly of me, & it mostly
> does not happen elsewhere [albeit i have really struggled with Peter
> Capaldi as the recent DW; would -Malcolm- really get a gig like that?].
> Hence, for me, PD as -the “Dish of the Day” in Milliways- was a let-down
> not joy that it should have been.
The thing that surprised me about his appearance in the H2G2 TV show was
that the make-up was good enough that I didn’t recognise him at first.
It was a bit of a last-minute addition, because he is married to Sandra
Dickenson.
I thought the way they included her in the Quintessential phase of H2G2
(The radio version) was very clever. Even though when it comes down to
it, there is only one true Trillian, and it isn’t Sandra.
>> It’s generally the radio series that I think of when I think of H2G2.
>> To paraphrase DNA, radio is a visual medium, and the visuals in that
>> medium are so stunningly good that no video-based medium can live up to
>> it.
>>
> For me it’s the books first, then the radio series & then… -nothing-
> else, teehee]. The books because of their emotional significance to me
> historically – it was they not radio that introduced me to DA & HHGTTG,
> & it was at Uni which was A Big Deal in a holistic life sense [hence the
> temporal emotional linkage]. However, -also- because of your paraphrased
> DNA – the ungarnished written word unleashes the most vivid powerful
> sensory engine of all – the imagination – & so far no audio nor visual
> technological sophistication has come close to topping that, for me.
That makes sense.
There are some interesting reasons why some of the radio series doesn’t
appear in the books - the Hagunenons, for example, were a John Lloyd
creation - and for the books, DNA wanted it to be his book. He and John
Lloyd collaborated on a few things over the years - including The Meaning
of Liff (which is quite funny - if you like that sort of thing. If the
Uxbridge English Dictionary is entertaining for you and you haven’t read
The Meaning of Liff, you’ll want to).
> Afterthought: You know, since you kindly let me in on the openSUSE /
> HHGTTG linkage per 42, i do slightly worry & wonder if maybe i’m not
> being “unfaithful” by using TW rather than Leap. Trouble is, having
> tried both in my VMs, it was TW that truly stood out to me as being “my”
> new OS… hence it was TW not Leap that replaced Maui on my Lappy, & to
> which i’d like also to convert my Tower [if i can but only solve the
> lingering MPE WinePrefix No-Sync problem]. I hope that DA is not too
> disappointed with me…
Nah. DNA used a Mac, exclusively. He wrote some tech columns which were
pretty good; if you haven’t picked up The Salmon of Doubt, you should.
It’s a collection of unpublished works that includes some of his non-H2G2
writings (and DGHDA as well).
Jim
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