I agree. The only character that actually matters in any of the books is the Guide itself, and the wider universe it explains. Arthur and Ford and Zaphod and Trillian only really matter in so far as they let us see parts of that world, and that's part of what I like about them.

It felt very uncanny valley to me. Like, it felt like someone trying, and quarter-succeeding, at emulating Adams' rhythms. And for me, his way with words—even with books I don't like overly much, like Mostly Harmless and The Long Dark Teat-Time Of The Soul—is a major part of my comedic DNA. Half my sense of humor…

Thanks, fixed.

You need wonder no longer, as I mention Frisky Dingo, and my love thereof, roughly every other review.

According to FX's press stuff, he's played by Randy Havens, who had a small part on the last season of Halt and Catch Fire.

Yeah, damn, you're right. Correcting the story.

I forgot to toss this into Stray Observations, but yeah. And I love how the amounts keep going down.

Yeah, wow. I spent 20 minutes Googling around on that one and didn't catch this. Nice work.

That's a quality catch.

Thanks for that, I didn't see that Variety's version of the story had the casting stuff. Going to update the story to reflect the info.

I don't think you're thick, but that is indeed the joke I was trying to make.

Lil' Regan says: You're gonna die up there!

I am very into this idea.

It's a consequence of having been a commenter long before I became a member of the staff. If you look at my contributor page, it actually has my handle in the address, too. Weird quirk of the system.

I said he's expected to quit. Which is true. Then I linked to the story, which I wrote, in which he said he was quitting. This does not seem vague to me.

Possibility C: I just thought it flowed better.

For anybody who already loaded the article and is hanging out in the comments: I updated it with a link to the Walkthrough interview I did with Matt Thompson, which also just posted on the site.

I have to ask, is that really how this comes off? There's not a line in the entire piece that mocks any of the artists—legends, all—involved. But I also don't think it's mocking to note and make a joke about the fact that there's a specific demographic being courted with this line-up.

I did an interview with Matt Thompson that's going to go up here in a couple of weeks, and he talks a lot about how the show embraces the idea of "change without change," which I interpret as the idea that the characters can evolve without necessarily becoming better people.

Yup, twice! The best part is that there's no malice between them when it happens.