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Dirk Gently, a BBC tv series

You gave me hope, as I hadn't heard of this project before now. And then I saw the reviews. Pity.
 
Yeah, this isn't something that appears to have generated a lot of talk, but I'd like to check it out. The Dirk Gently books were great.
 
It was... watchable, but it never really felt like Dirk Gently. Some of the elements were there, but it didn't really work as a whole.

Part of what made the books great is that they go from somewhat grounded to just plain weird very, very quickly—what with the Electric Monk, an immortal professor, ghosts, and a time machine in a small bathroom. But the adaptation was far too normal, outside of time travel randomly showing up at the end, and many of the great characters from the first book were mangled beyond recognition.

I will say that Stephen Mangan was well-cast as Dirk, though.
 
I had a problem with it being normal and then taking a U-turn near the end with the time-machine plot. If it had being a little more crazy from the beginning or either normal all the way I would have liked it more.
 
JRoss said:
You gave me hope, as I hadn't heard of this project before now. And then I saw the reviews. Pity.
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Oh don't tell me you are another one of those people who only follows along with what reviews say...I'm not going to let it stop me from watching it.

RAMA
 
I liked it.

What surprised me was that as a young man I was turned off Adrian Mole by how hideous Helen Baxendale was as Pandora (Once upon a time my life revolved around the original.). The woman can just not pull off blonde. So, I rewatched it to see, Helen was gorgeous on friends, and scrummy the other night on Dirk Gently, I must have been just a bastard back then with my first impressions.

Still a hideous Blonde.

Though I did enjoy Adrian Mole the Cappuccino Years a lot more this time around.

People.

It's two books.

Two and a half.

How many movies are they planning on making out of two and a 1/2 books if they're only really licensed to draw from the first novel that they want to in theory make perhaps 6 movies... They have to pace themselves.

One a year made on the cheap chipping off another feature from the first novel.

Though I did enjoy the Harry Enfield Radio Plays a couple years back much better.
 
Having read the books, I didn't like the choice of actor to play Dirk. I've said this on the other thread about this so I won't go on, but he wasn't even close to being sufficiently unworldly or chaotic.
 
I posted a thread in TV and Media.
This was just a pilot and there's no word on a series yet. It was never meant to be a straight up adaptation of either of the novels, though it used aspects of both I believe. The writer has said that he left out a lot of elements because he wanted to use them in the possible series. Besides how would you fit all that in a 1 hour pilot?
Personally I enjoyed it and hope there's a series that follows
 
Sugar Plum Fairy said:
Having read the books, I didn't like the choice of actor to play Dirk. I've said this on the other thread about this so I won't go on, but he wasn't even close to being sufficiently unworldly or chaotic.
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I'm not particularly fond of the actor anyway so I would never have picked him for the role. But I can live with him in the role as it was written in the show.
 
I'm shit with names, doubly so with colours.

I once called Green Day "Red Door" to the cool kids at prom.

I hated the first episode too.

Tried it again a few years later.

Much better with a bit of pork on my belly.

I wanted to like it because of the blonde from Coupling.

But I went back because of the squinty raven haired gal from Black Books... And the squinty raven haired bloke form Spaced I suppose too.
 
I did a search on my DVR to see if this was coming to BBC America, but didn't see any listing.

I'll give it a try if/when it comes here. I loved those books.
 
I don't generally follow reviews, but this one told me what I needed to know. I don't have a lot of faith in that, and since I live in the US, there's no way I'm expending the effort to track it down.
 
Sugar Plum Fairy said:
Having read the books, I didn't like the choice of actor to play Dirk. I've said this on the other thread about this so I won't go on, but he wasn't even close to being sufficiently unworldly or chaotic.
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He also wasn't fat, and he didn't wear a stupid hat of which he should be ashamed.
 
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