HHGG: Fit the 26th

IT'S OVER!!! TODAY THE LAST EVER EPISODE OF THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY AIRED ON BBC4 AND IT'S ALL OVER!!!

I wanna weep because DAMMIT, Douglas isn't around to give us any more!

Then, I also wanna weep because they did such a GREAT JOB with it!

I've been reading and listening to tons of interviews with Mr. Adams over the last few months, and he had explained that the last book in the HITCHHIKER'S series, MOSTLY HARMLESS, was such a downer because he had been having a really downer couple of years, so yeah, of course the book was a downer.

But he had been considering writing another one -- a SIXTH book for his increasingly-mis-named HICTHHIKER'S TRILOGY -- and ending the series more in the spirit in which it was created.

And now it seems that Dirk Maggs has found a way to FAITHFULLY make that happen, and he gave us fans... kind of more the ending that we wanted. I mean, if it HAS to be the END. (With MOSTLY HARMLESS, we believed -- as Douglas did -- that he could always just write another book and put things to rights.)

They did it SO WELL!!!

More than that: If Disney continues the movies, whoever writes the last movie has at least one approach for giving the last novel a more "movie" ending without being particualrly unfaithful to the novel!!!

Blah.

So I'm happy, now! I feel a deep sense of fulfillment and content.

What more can we ask for besides THESE moments right here?