Blasphemous thoughts
Apr. 26th, 2005 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsWhen Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy came out, I got it, I read it, I loved it. Repeat x3 for the sequels. (I gave up after #4.) So you'd think that I'd be beside myself with joy over the new movie, which looks like it is really well done.
And... I'm not. I'm not because in the time since then, my tastes have changed. I'm more into the relatively restrained parody of Pratchett and Whedon than Adams. Although my friends rave about them, I'm not carried away by Jasper fford or Robert Rankin; I think they're a little too much in love with how cute they're being at the expense of actually telling a story.
All the delighted squee in my f-list over the new movie just hammers home to me that if someone handed me Hitchhiker right now, I'd toss it away after three pages. It's a wierd feeling. I'm not going to say I "outgrew" it, because that's the wrong word; it is what it is, and what it is, is famous. I just prefer other things now.
Doubling the wierd is that the last time I felt this way was also after a movie. The Lord of the Rings trilogy inspired me to pull out The Hobbit, another beloved former friend. And I don't like it anymore either. What profiteth a fan if she gain the whole trilogy but lose the Hobbit thereby?
And... I'm not. I'm not because in the time since then, my tastes have changed. I'm more into the relatively restrained parody of Pratchett and Whedon than Adams. Although my friends rave about them, I'm not carried away by Jasper fford or Robert Rankin; I think they're a little too much in love with how cute they're being at the expense of actually telling a story.
All the delighted squee in my f-list over the new movie just hammers home to me that if someone handed me Hitchhiker right now, I'd toss it away after three pages. It's a wierd feeling. I'm not going to say I "outgrew" it, because that's the wrong word; it is what it is, and what it is, is famous. I just prefer other things now.
Doubling the wierd is that the last time I felt this way was also after a movie. The Lord of the Rings trilogy inspired me to pull out The Hobbit, another beloved former friend. And I don't like it anymore either. What profiteth a fan if she gain the whole trilogy but lose the Hobbit thereby?
