Trillian for web change sounds full#

I however needed to give the Hitchhiker's continuity some kind of dramatic purpose.

Trillian for web change sounds full#

Douglas was too full of brilliant ideas to keep looking backwards, and thus he happily abandoned many story strands over two radio series and five novels, picking them up again only if it suited him.

How did you come up with the idea of turning Vann Harl into Zarniwoop Vann Harl, and why? Thus later on in the Quintessential Phase the memory of Trillian dismissing Zaphod's very real (to him) encounter with the Total Perspective Vortex motivates him to go and find out what DID happen - thus restoring the Secondary Phase to its rightful place in the Saga. Thus - he being now on another point in the probability curve - the additions and changes in the Quandary and Quintessential Phases are all mine, but I always looked for scenes by Douglas which could be extended or which implied later storylines, to connect up all the various story strands that had just sort of stopped in the books (and radio series). On the other hand when we (briefly) discussed the last two books, he felt they would require more hands-on adaptation. The rest of The Tertiary Phase stuck very close to the book because I had promised Douglas it would do so. Zaphod's insistence it DID happen incidentally helped Trillian's motivation to leave him, so it was dramatically useful too, and was supposed to flag up the fact that this was an issue we'd be returning to later. Episode One wasn't the right place in continuity to 'rescue' The Secondary Phase at that point but I was able to adapt the scene in the novel where Trillian was fed up with Zaphod's egocentricity to add a disagreement between them as to what exactly HAD happened to Zaphod when he visited the HHGG Building. Douglas was happy to just ignore the Secondary Phase as if it had never happened (because the books worked in a different way to the radio series, and these new series were based on the books), but I thought that as we were continuing the 'reality' created by the radio series we couldn't just ignore it. The changes in the Tertiary Phase were Douglas's in episodes 1 and 2 except the part where Trillian dismissed Zaphod's experiences in The Secondary Phase as a dream. Dear Dirk - A magnificent job throughout! Just superb! Were any of the changes or additions (especially in the Quandary and Quintessential phases) from Douglas? It doesn't matter: it's all worthy of the master.