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It's absolutely nothing like the books, but I'm enjoying it a lot. I think my favourite bit so far was Bart's reaction to Ken knowing the song lyrics.
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Quincyh posted:I, too, like this show and am looking forward to learning more about this version of Dirk Gently. It's better than the version that came out from the BBC a few years back, though it is dramatically different from the books. The Stephen Mangan one? I enjoyed that, although it also wasn't much like the books.
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It was originally a TARDIS. The first Dirk Gently book started out as a Doctor Who story that was never produced.
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Nov 12, 2016 04:26
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Eponymous posted:I was going to question how since that time machine was burned out by the end of that book, but I guess they could sidestep that by having it be from, uh, "earlier"? Time travel tenses are complicated. Well, this Dirk Gently is clearly not the same character as in the books, so it really doesn't matter what happened in the book.
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Nov 12, 2016 08:33
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And More posted:The only thing that's not so great: Dirk comes off like a more obnoxious Matt Smith Doctor, and I don't like it. The major difference is that Doctor Who acts like an idiot who has no idea what's going on, but is actually supposed to be a super-genius who knows everything. Dirk acts like an idiot who has no idea what's going on and actually that's not an act. I find that far less obnoxious.
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Nov 24, 2016 02:36
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tarlibone posted:The big bad guy has Dirk and Todd captured, on their knees, and at gunpoint. That scene was so amazing. Elite posted:So far Dirk isn't anywhere near as bad as The Doctor for being an infallible invincible protagonist, but I think the ground work is there that if they got lazy they could use the most horrifically contrived solutions to his problems. Dirk is trying to open a locked door, well it turns out he found the key earlier. Dirk is infected with a deadly virus, luckily enough he stumbled across the antidote just yesterday. Dirk has a gun waved in his face, it jams. Things like that haven't really happened in the show, but they have established a precedent for extremely unlikely random things working out in Dirk's favour so if contrived solutions did ramp up in frequency it wouldn't really change the 'rules' of the show. Frankenstyle posted:I like the show, but I'd like it more if they'd just sold it as a quirky Sci-philosophy show and left the name Dirk Gently out of the script.
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Nov 28, 2016 15:17
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Elite posted:Sudden random solutions also have to be interesting. If Dirk gets ambushed by goons that accidentally shoot each other for no reason, then that encounter feels dumb and pointless. If Dirk gets ambushed by goons and he manages to fend them off because he happens to have a kitten with him that can astrally project a hammerhead shark to defend itself, then although that's more nonsensical and arbitrary it's also more interesting to watch because things are definitely happening. Also the kitten-shark had been set up well in advance. We didn't know the kitten was the shark, but we knew there was a shark in the hotel where the kitten was found and various people seem to think the kitten is important even if they don't know or didn't say why. It's pieces that were already in play coming together, not a random contrivance.
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Nov 29, 2016 03:24
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tarlibone posted:How many different sets of guys are in this situation?
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Nov 30, 2016 07:02
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tarlibone posted:RIMMER: Why did you attack us? This is so good.
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Dec 9, 2016 13:20
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Doctor Butts posted:The way they killed off Estevez upsets me. That really sucked. Doctor Butts posted:Based on how the season ended, I'm guessing poo poo's going to get really weird and will deal with the origins of the secret program Col. Riggins/Dirk/Bart/Rowdy 3 was a part of and their fight for survival from being killed.
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Dec 13, 2016 01:32
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Pesmerga posted:There was a scene in the seventh (I think?) episode where Gordon was saying that they were left in animal bodies 'too long' and that it 'changes you'. Maybe the longer you're body swapped, the more you take on the characteristics of the person/thing you swapped with? Might also explain why the guy in the FBI body suddenly could talk more and more like someone with law enforcement training the longer he spoke to Farah.
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Martytoof posted:I think my biggest problem with this show was when Rimmer kept changing his voice in some scenes. I couldn't figure out why he was doing it. Was it supposed to be Lux's voice? I didn't realize people could keep using other voices even after they switched bodies.
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