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43: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Part Two
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Grab your towels and your guides BookWatchers! This week, the crew are facing all the improbable odds to discuss the plot of The Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy. From the destruction of Earth to its identical recreation, and all the space oddities in between, we hope you enjoy our Deep Thought and you don’t find us as wretched as Marvin would.
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Introduction to Bookwatch Podcast
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome back to book watch this week. We've got part two of hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. We're coordinating our probability drive to take us to the center of horse head nebula or the plot, you know, alternatively going and we're going into the plot this week. According to the hitchhikers guide, there's a good amount of differences, but mostly similarities between the 1979 book and the 2005 movie. And we're going to get into those today. I'm Jordan.
00:00:27
Speaker
I'm Sarah day. And I'm Chris. And we will get started right after these wretched messages. think that a pretty good Alan Rickman impersonation. Thank you very much.
00:00:46
Speaker
Welcome to Bookwatch, the podcast where pages meet screens. Each week, we dive into the world of adaptations, comparing beloved books with their cinematic counterparts. From faithful retellings to bold reimaginings, we'll break down what worked, what didn't, and what made each adaptation unforgettable. Whether you are a bookworm, a movie buff, or both, grab your bookmark, grab your popcorn, and let's watch some books.
00:01:11
Speaker
um Okay, so we're just going to go through the plot, big point by big point. um Chris, since you love this property, if I miss stuff, please jump in and fix me because i was doing I was doing my best to get everything, but I know
Plot Overview of 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
00:01:28
Speaker
I missed some stuff. So first thing, we meet our POV character, Arthur. He is ah striking against the Union bulldozer workers who are trying to bulldoze his house to create a highway bypass. He's laying in front of the bulldozer. He doesn't want to be here.
00:01:47
Speaker
and then his buddy Ford prefect, secretly an alien. comes and takes him to the pub because he knows that the whole earth is going to be bulldozed to create a sp a hyperspace highway bypass.
00:02:03
Speaker
And he's like, hey, we're all going to die in 12 minutes. So let's go have a couple of drinks at the pub. um And that's kind of the opening to the movie is right off the right off the bat. We're just very confused and jumping right at it.
00:02:18
Speaker
I think though the book did a yeah really good job with, I liked the way that poor prefect talked the, um, the workers into basically going on strike in like laying down in front of bulldozer for him. I was like, Oh, that's kind of missing. But, um, and then he, uh, goes to the bar and, you they, they need the alcohol apparently for this, uh, the teleportation stuff, the salts and all that. And so that all made sense. But, I thought that was a little bit of a miss to not go with go with that that part of the book story.
00:02:53
Speaker
He just gave them all beer. Yeah, that's a glaring difference right off the bat is that he doesn't spend the time to convince them and like use logic. And it's just like, oh, give them some beer because they're going to. It just takes away from the scene a lot, I felt.
Challenges of Adapting Internal Monologues to Film
00:03:14
Speaker
And I mean, some of the stuff, a lot of that scene happens inside of like the head of the um the ah construction foreman. Like he's apparently some descendant of Genghis Khan. And so he's got certain things that the book is talking about being in his head happening in that moment. But he's like so distantly regulate related that he doesn't know why he's feeling this way.
00:03:35
Speaker
and so, I mean, a lot of this lot of this book happens inside the minds of certain people and like different point of views that you don't get the access to in i in a film medium. I do appreciate though that they kept like the tangents until when he's introduced to you know the space and aliens and the Hitchhiker's Guide and that we don't really get any of that kind of backstory until this journey really begins right and obviously the beginning of the movie is the um the dolphins leaving earth and that's how they oh yeah credits too that it's a great credit opening yeah pretty great and they sing their whole song
00:04:14
Speaker
And that's a big change too, because we don't really get that nugget until the end of the
Non-linear Storytelling in the Adaptation
00:04:18
Speaker
book. Yeah, that might be right. Yeah. Yeah. I think that immediately I was like, Oh God, this movie is going to be like the book. Cause all the tangents and jumping back and forth in the timeline, like it makes sense to show the dolphins leaving earth. Cause they also know that earth is going to end. And then we go right into Ford warning Arthur and everybody in the pub, that earth is going to end. yeah,
00:04:41
Speaker
So it makes sense to show them like if they're the second smartest species on earth that they would be aware of it and they would choose to leave to avoid it. um But yeah, I think that I was like, hey, didn't I just listen to that in the audio book? And then now it's the first at the end of the book. And now it's the first thing we're seeing in the movie. So I was like, oh, Lord, this is going to be a journey.
00:05:03
Speaker
The fact that they use dolphins performances as like them trying to communicate with humans to let us know that your world's about to be destroyed. he But throughout they're like they did a double backflip through a hoop while getting whatever. And it was like that's that's them trying to communicate with us. And it did not work. So, yeah. Well, we're only the third smartest species. So we just couldn't understand. Yeah. We're apparently far beyond below them.
00:05:29
Speaker
Yes. Yeah. a big gap between dolphins and humans. Two and three. Even bigger gap of mice and humans. Apparently.
Vogons and Space Ejection
00:05:37
Speaker
ah So, okay So the Vorgons are the alien species that's coming to actually do the demolition of earth. And so that's the type of ship and the first type of like alien looking alien species that we run into when Ford grabs Arthur and like sticks his thumb up and hitchhikes onto one of their ships.
00:06:00
Speaker
um They're taken prisoner. And then the Vorgons have the second worst poetry in the universe. Third. Third worst poetry in the universe. But the first one was destroyed when Earth was. so there's only one other.
00:06:16
Speaker
so they became second. Yeah. So they were third and then Earth got destroyed and then they became the second worst poetry. in the universe um and so sure it was made up but i think that it would have been hilarious if that had been a commentary on someone on earth's actual poetry that would be so funny actually um they they being arthur and ford are being tortured by having wargan poetry read aloud to them and then wargans are like
00:06:46
Speaker
oh, you guys are messing with me because they start talking about like, you know, I actually kind of liked it. Like, it's pretty good. And trying to like get out of the situation by complimenting the poetry and the Vorgon being self-aware, knowing that they have the now second worst poetry in the galaxy was like, you're full of it.
00:07:05
Speaker
Into space. Goodbye. therere You're out of here. so then the guy dumped into space. Ford's reaction throughout the whole thing. He's over there like, very visibly reacting to all the poetry, whereas Arthur's just sitting there listening and like, well, it wasn't so bad. i thought it had this ah certain quality to it.
00:07:25
Speaker
I want to back up to when they first arrive um because the movie did a really good job of encapsulating what this book, like the vibes are when it's showing the ships and it's zooming out and it zooms out some more and then it keeps zooming out and then it keeps zooming out and then you see the whole planet surrounded by the spaceships. But like the way the music was going and you think they're done zooming out, but then it starts zooming out again. Then you think they're done zooming out and so on and so forth.
00:07:53
Speaker
It's just that it's just really cool to see how this movie captured the vibes of the book and put it pulled it from the page and threw it onto a screen. And that felt very much like how you would down a skyscraper with very controlled um explosions. And they had like so they had the whole earth covered in these ah devices and they were able to basically destroy the earth without a big bunch of mess. And so it was it was kind of interesting to see that that method of destruction.
00:08:21
Speaker
I like the – we get more scenes with the Vorgons, later in the movie and later in the book too.
Bureaucracy and Social Commentary
00:08:28
Speaker
But I like their description about them like loving bureaucracy. And you know Arthur makes the joke later, like, I'm British. oh I know how to queue. I know how to wait in line and fill out paperwork and like be part of a bureaucracy. like you know And I just thought that like that was funny because – like as an author and even like as a filmmaker like you don't have to do that like you can just like have them exist without having them do that and especially like as the as the author Douglas Adams like you could just have them be an alien species but again like we're talking about like the broader social commentary of politics and bureaucracy and like you know what yeah all the things of earth that are great and maybe not so great um
00:09:14
Speaker
making people fill out paperwork properly and wait in line is too close to home. The vloggans wouldn't even lift a finger to help their grandmother unless the documents were filled out in triplicate, signed, ah put on display, lost, ah found again, ah publicly ridiculed, and then recycled for gardening.
00:09:40
Speaker
yeah as I was saving that line, trying to memorize that line for something. That'd be a good one to use at work one of these days. Yeah. ah So Arthur and Ford get dumped into space by the Vorgons after failing to ah respect their poetry properly.
Character Dynamics: Trillian and Arthur
00:09:59
Speaker
um And then they get picked up Zaphod Beetlebrooks and Trillian, who is actually also a human, Trisha McMillan, who was plucked up off the earth by Zaphod
00:10:14
Speaker
at the party that we mentioned last week where arthur was talking to her and really liked her and was like falling head over heels and then she wanted him to go to madagascar and zephyr was like well i'm an alien i have a spaceship come with me and she was like okay and she went with him and she was so arthur and trisha trillion are now quite literally the last two people from earth in the galaxy Just figured out how to pick up British chicks. Tell him you got a spaceship.
00:10:46
Speaker
but
00:10:50
Speaker
But that is, yeah, a big part of the story is that the president doesn't want Trillian to know about the plan of destruction. And apparently the movie, he's the one that signed the orders to destroy the Earth. So she definitely has a lot of animosity towards him once she finds that out.
00:11:04
Speaker
yeah But she doesn't find out until she's being held prisoner by the Vogon because she was ah suspected of kidnapping the president of the universe, even though he kidnapped himself.
00:11:15
Speaker
Yes, he kidnapped himself and also stole his own ship that they are currently on, right? Yeah, yeah the the ah infinite probability drive is the first of its kind and they stole it in order to find Magrithia and all the um the riches that he assumes to go along with that. But also to find the answer to the question in the film is more the what he says he wants to do.
00:11:40
Speaker
yeah That's another thing that I really liked how the film visualized is the probability drive. Because in the book, you just kind of... It doesn't really go into details on what they're changing into. um If I remember correctly, at least the first time, um you just get their like...
00:11:57
Speaker
thoughts about how it was weird so it was fun to see like the yarn people and um were they clay at one point or probably the flowers he doer eyelashes yeah yeah him him puking up yarn and then turning back human and like having a piece of yarn still coming out of his mouth was kind of a hilarious way to show someone puking yeah Yeah, that was great. and so I do like everything they did with the probability to drive. I mean, there was more of it in the book, but I think that that's a hard thing to just put it, put into a visual medium. So I think it worked well for what we were seeing here.
Film-exclusive Scene: The Booger Cult
00:12:34
Speaker
um And then I don't remember this in the book. Maybe I was like zoned out while I was listening to it, but there was something. I remember the book mentioning how there was an an alien species who thought that their planet was basically a booger snot rocket that came out of like the creator and that they were waiting for the handkerchief to come and like restore them and like come and like be their savior um and so we visit that planet and like John Malkovich is the leader of this weird like booger cult um and then he and Zephod strike a deal and Zephod loses his second head, which is like not how I pictured the two heads. Like, I guess it makes sense because he like is supposed to be more humanoid, but I thought it was like the traditional two heads, double headed person, but it's more of a two heads, double headed person. So his neck of head one is actually just his head to listeners. You can't see the motions that Jordan is using to help. These go watch the YouTube. Yeah, go subscribe on YouTube so you can see me using my hands and tilting my body. I too have made some weird movements when I was talking about Ford Prefect's reaction to poetry. So there's those a lot there's a lot of visual storytelling happening here. guys are missing out.
00:14:00
Speaker
You've got to get yeah the booger handkerchief cult. Definitely. was pretty hilarious. I think that was meant to be very much a commentary on cult behavior somewhat too. And the way cults can form over almost anything and the belief of, ah of cults and stuff. So I thought that was a fun little um visualization of that and um the way they pray. And then they have their handkerchief, their at shoe at the end, instead of an amen. It's kind of, it was hilarious.
00:14:27
Speaker
I don't know if that was in the book though. Do you guys remember was the ah ah booger cult in the book? I don't think so. I don't think they actually visited the booger cult. No. Yeah. So I, there was some diversion from the book to create certain plot story plots, I think. And that's fine with me. As long as you get a lot of the, the zany weirdness of this book, I was fine with a little bit of diversion in order to create story.
00:14:52
Speaker
yeah, well, they did that. Um, And then even like visiting the planet Vogon didn't happen in the book either, did it? I don't think so, no.
00:15:02
Speaker
because they yeah Trillian never got kidnapped in that either. yes They all were just on the Magrithia. There's a whole movie-only subplot, listeners, where Trillian gets kidnapped by the Vogons. theyre Well, arrested by the Vogons because they think that she kidnapped the president. And so then Arthur, Zaphod, and Ford go to Vogon to rescue her. And that's where you get the scene that I mentioned earlier of like the queue and Arthur being like I'm British oh I know how to queue and then like running back and forth trying to fill out the paperwork for the prisoner release and then Zephad like you know well that's ah the presidential release forms are blue not white so then they got to do it all over again and it's very funny scene I just was like am I losing my mind did this happen in the book and I totally missed it like no that just happens in real life when you go to the DMV
00:15:59
Speaker
It seems like like the Zorgons were like a bigger group in the film altogether. Yeah. Because I don't remember them being as much of a presence.
00:16:12
Speaker
yeah They weren't the police force style thing they were in the film. Yeah, they were just the, they were wanted by everybody, but we never really see anybody coming after them after the after that first little moment. Okay.
00:16:24
Speaker
And kind of makes sense because like we've talked about this with other properties too, but you kind of need some sort of action or some ah enemy or antagonist to like keep you engaged with a visual medium.
00:16:38
Speaker
Pushes the story forward actually. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cause a lot of the book is the excerpts from the guide. And like I said, like the tangents back and forth and the plot is so windy and twisty and confusing That if you're going to adapt it to film, you kind of need something to keep you on a path. and and So that you're not just wandering around forever. and so I think like that was probably the best possible way to create a path for the story to go down to get everybody where they needed to be beyond just the improbability of getting there.
Magrathia and the Falling Whale
00:17:20
Speaker
Yep. And then obviously, you know, Magrathia is the main focus of the book at that point. And that's where the planet is being built. ah The scene with the sperm whale we already talked about was ah hilarious. And him trying to come up with um you know well let's see i'm falling through the air through something what what is this stuff let's go with air uh we're falling it through the air and uh and what is this oh this big thing's coming up towards me it needs a big big round name big big big ground ground uh we're gonna call it the ground i wonder if it wants to be my friend and that's all he wrote yes see a big plume of explosion
00:18:01
Speaker
Yes. I'm glad because in the book it talks about them like walking through the crater created by the sperm whales impact and like all the guts and blood and all that kind of stuff. So I'm glad that the movie did not go that direction because that would have been a lot for me, I think.
00:18:19
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah.
Magrathia's Secrets and Film Elements
00:18:21
Speaker
um yeah and yes yeah yeah and even this this next set of scenes in the movie and the book was also confusing because you have you you really diverge into two separate povs and like timelines of experiences of what's happening at the same time so arthur meets um slutty bart facts uh and gets to like get all the exposition of what is Magrathia why is Magrathia a big deal deep thought all like the mice running earth like earth actually being a supercomputer to figure out the question of the universe life and everything since they have the answer of 42 and he's getting all of that exposition
00:19:07
Speaker
And then Ford, Zaphod, and Trillian are doing something else. I still am not really clear what they were supposed to be doing in the book. But in the movie, they find the gun from the booger cult leader, John Malkovich, that he wanted this gun to like make everybody... it If you shoot this like ray gun at people, it makes them see things from your point of view. So obviously for a cult leader...
00:19:32
Speaker
what a tool to have at your disposal to just force people to agree with you and think the way that you think. um But they're having a little back and forth there and Trillian's having this like existential realization that like, no, Arthur is the type of person that I want to be with. Like Zaphod actually kind of sucks. um and I love that she has that ah that epiphany by shooting Zaphod and Zaphod has the epiphany showing her how she's feeling.
00:20:00
Speaker
Yes, which is fascinating how like sometimes it takes seeing it somebody else. Yeah, like and that other like stepping out of your own self and looking at it from another point person's point of view, LOL, to know what you are thinking and feeling. So that what I thought that was very really fascinating to do that because, again, i don't think that was in the book, question mark. No, the the gun was not in the book at all. okay She starts to come around on Arthur, but it's not in the book at all. Yeah.
00:20:32
Speaker
Yeah. so they're just making stuff up at this point. But we do get back to the, there was a dinner and the mice are there and they're talking to Arthur and they're like, you know, again, ah what a political commentary where like, we don't actually really care about solve figuring out what is the ultimate question of the universe life and everything we just want to be famous back in our home dimension so if we can take you or your brain with us and like there's like a bunch of different you know news stations and tv shows that want us on for interviews um so we're going to strap you to the chair and cut your brain out to take back as evidence um
00:21:16
Speaker
In the book, they offer to buy his brain basically and replace it with an electronic
Climax: The Mice's Plan and Earth's Restoration
00:21:20
Speaker
brain. And he's like, no, I'm pretty attached to it. And yeah ultimately, they don't take his brain, but or don't even try in the book. But the visual of him having to fight from you know losing his brain there was pretty great. And then eventually squashing the mice back into their human forms.
00:21:36
Speaker
Yes. Well, and then he also like gives them a question to use for the purposes of going back and making themselves famous in their home dimension. Like we don't know if that's actually the question of the universe life and everything, but that's good enough for them to be like, oh, you know what? We can use that. We'll skedaddle. We'll go back. um And then they talked to the Magrithians and they're like, well, it's already kind of paid for. we're already kind of almost done with Earth 2.0 to finish the Mices experiment. ah So I guess we'll just put it back where we where it belongs. And, you know, the movie has the fun visual of everything kind of being zapped back to life exactly how it was like all the people from the pub.
00:22:21
Speaker
the animals, like the dolphins come back down to earth, back into the oceans and stuff. um And it's like it never disappeared at that point. Yeah. During the moments before that, when the Volgons are trying to come and arrest ah for for ah Zafod are shooting at everybody, some of my favorite moments there were um when Ford Prefect runs around the corner with his towel and the Volgons start running away. He's got a towel. He's got a towel.
00:22:54
Speaker
And then they go back around. I love Marvin's hero moment there. Yeah, Marvin gets shot in the back of the head and falls, and you think Marvin's gone, then the gun is also left next to him that makes people feel what your point of view. And so in the end, he shoots all the Volgons with some sort of expanded... He had a little filter on it to shoot one person. He opens it up and shoots every one of the Volgons, and they all feel his depression.
00:23:23
Speaker
His manically depressed... His melancholy... What do you think it feels like to be a manically depressed robot? And so they all get to feel that.
00:23:34
Speaker
um And so they all fall over and wallow in their sadness while the earth gets rebuilt and put back into place. But Marvin makes one big change to the earth.
00:23:46
Speaker
He wants to not be on it. He stays on the ship. oh yeah sorry Arthur. yeah yeah Arthur makes that one a big change and decides to stay with Trillian on the ship. and go and They end up saying, Ford says he knows a great restaurant at the end of the universe.
00:24:07
Speaker
So they head off just to that. And that is the second book. I have not read past the first book. I need to actually go in and read the rest of the book. so I think they're going to be just as fun, but yeah, fun with that, Chris. I was going to say, like I will listen to your summaries, King. I'll report back.
00:24:24
Speaker
Yeah. yeah So we, I mean, we kind of talked about, there's a lot of scenes that got added into the film that were not happening in the book.
Book vs. Film: Staying True or Taking Liberties
00:24:34
Speaker
um Are we glad that they're there? Do you, with Chris, especially, do you wish that they had like kept it strictly like more close to the book? um I appreciated the, I appreciate the movie in general, like, cause you can only have so many different points of view happening at the same time on screen. So that,
00:24:52
Speaker
That alone streamlined it for me and made it easier for me to understand what the hell was going on and like who everybody was and what what they were doing. um So I appreciated having the visual medium to make everything line up a little bit better. But there were still some changes that made me confused because this wasn't in the book or this was in the book and it's not there. Like, what do you what do you all thought think?
00:25:18
Speaker
Well, Douglas Adams was involved in the writing of the um of the screenplay, so I um can get behind that. um It goes back to Percy Jackson and all these other things where the where the creator is involved. We tend to like what they do, even if it's makes us a little worried at first when we see certain things. But I think that he was able to give it a vision that kept it within his parameters that he wanted for the story and gave it a full storyline. So I i was fine with it. I like i like that part of book-to-movie transition sometimes where as long as they're telling a good story, I get can get two good stories out of the same story. so
00:25:57
Speaker
Yeah, I think that the added scenes helped streamline the story and make it a
00:26:05
Speaker
added to the plot and it got us from point A to point Z, whereas we're not just a millionly you know wandering the universe and we actually had things to do along the way.
00:26:19
Speaker
so Do you guys think you prefer the movie to the book or book to movie or they're both pretty equal? I think I like the movie better, but I...
00:26:31
Speaker
watched it first and I kind of grew up with it. So I might be a little biased there. Team book for sure. I liked the zaniness of the book. I have the ultimate guide up here, which actually has all of the books in it, um, in one big book. And then i also have a couple of copies of the, um, some of the other books that I'm in collecting of the trade paperbacks of the smaller books. Yeah.
00:26:54
Speaker
Yeah, i ah I read the book and watched the movie for the first time for the podcast. So I had like zero attachment to either of them. um And I definitely like the movie better, but I don't think I'll rewatch it ever again. And I definitely won't read the book ever again. No, I think I think an Apple TV TV show really diving into the the real craziness of the story, you know, really give us that full comprehension of the Hitchhiker's Guide. Yeah, you have fun. You're go you're going to jump in there with me. Yeah, you have so much fun with that.
00:27:31
Speaker
i will be rereading thrown a glass for the fifth time. You have fun with that. Fifth time. i you're You're falling behind.
00:27:41
Speaker
Not all of us listen to audiobooks at work, Christopher. i know. fair enough That's not fair. By the way the restaurant's at the other end of the universe. I was going to mention that.
00:27:54
Speaker
All right.
Philosophical Themes and Human Experience
00:27:55
Speaker
Well, do you guys have any final thoughts, comments, questions, concerns, answers about life, the universe, and Or are we wrapping this up?
00:28:07
Speaker
What's the question? i need to know. What's the question? if You literally have the books. You can read the books and figure it out. It's not in there. Well, we got to let the program run.
00:28:18
Speaker
Isn't that what life is all about? them Trying to find the question. Trying to understand life. Never getting there. Yep. Now we're getting philosophical. Yeah. For any young listeners out there, everybody you know is just trying to figure it out as they go along. Because every day is your first day at that age.
00:28:37
Speaker
So you actually, none none of us have any idea what we're doing. And that's okay. That's just part of being human. um Should we do our bookmarked moments? Yes. My bookmark moment is just every scene with Marvin.
00:28:53
Speaker
Same. Yeah. I was actually kind of going to say the same thing. So I think Marvin's character design is just top tier. Yeah, I think I'll narrow it down to when we first meet him and he's complaining about the doors because the doors are kind of sentient on the ship. And they sigh every time he goes through the door. Thank you so much for opening me. Wow. Oh, you closed me again afterwards. That's so sweet. Like, the doors are super annoying. And he's just like, these doors are so annoying. I hate them. They're so stupid. And I was like, you know what? Yeah, period. I agree. And just his commentary throughout, just like, this sucks. And I was like, yeah, I'm ah i'm with you, buddy. I get you. You start questioning, am I manically depressed, too? I'm like, uh... uh do i need to go back to therapy or is my just leaning too heavily into identifying with this one character fair enough do it next week to find out just kidding joking joking joking all right what are you and so do you guys have any other specific marvin moments that are your favorites or just every time he was on screen was the best moment ever
00:30:01
Speaker
Yeah, I think that kind of comp encapsulates it, especially from the
Character Spotlight: Marvin the Robot
00:30:05
Speaker
film. The book also had his good moments too, and it was he was still entertaining there. But yeah, I think that his film performance of that was great.
00:30:13
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, i just like his character design. i like Alan Rickman's voiceovers. So i' just i would I would take a whole what-if show based on Marvin. Yeah.
00:30:26
Speaker
Well, now I feel like I need to go and watch Harry Potter to get some more Alan Rickman in my life. I miss that guy. Die Hard. The first Die Hard. Classic.
00:30:37
Speaker
Or a Sense and Sensibility, right? Yes. There's a scene in How Met Your Mother raised where Barty, he watches every show wrong. He watches movies wrong. He roots for the wrong character, but he roots for Alan Rickman's character because he's the title character. In the end, he dies hard.
00:30:56
Speaker
ha That's funny. All right, guys. Well, that was our journey across the galaxy, hitchhiking our way through this story. Please like and subscribe on all the places. Share with a friend. ah Follow us on Facebook, Instagram.
00:31:13
Speaker
Join the Book Watch Lounge. Join the Patreon. and let us know what you think. Did you also DNF this when you were 12 like I did? Or are you a diehard fan like Chris? Or are you somewhere in between like Sweet Sarah Day? Let us know.
00:31:26
Speaker
And we'll see you next week. Bye. Bye.
00:31:33
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That's a wrap for this week's episode of book watch. We hope you enjoy diving into the world of page to screen adaptations with us. If you love this episode, don't forget to subscribe, leave a rating and review wherever you listen and share it with a fellow book and movie lover.
00:31:48
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If you prefer to watch along, you can check out the show on YouTube, youtube.com slash at book, watch podcast. You can follow the show on Instagram at bookwatchpodcast. And you can follow me, Sarah Day, on Instagram at captain.mcd. That's M-C-D-E-E.
00:32:06
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And you can follow me, Jordan, on Instagram at jjcorrito. That's C-A-R-R-I-D-O. And you can follow me, Chris, at cyborgnight404. That's night with a K. You can also join the conversation in the Bookwatch Lounge on Facebook at facebook.com slash groups. slash book watch lounge.
00:32:28
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If you'd like to support the podcast, you can join the Patreon at patreon.com slash book watch podcast. Tears start at only $4 a month and we would love to have you over there. Have a favorite adaptation you'd like us to cover or a book you think deserves a screen adaptation or just want to let us know of any feedback. Send us an email at book watch podcast at gmail.com.
00:32:50
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Until next time. Keep reading. Keep watching. And we'll see you next week.