Dirk Gently’s Holistic detective agency is described on its cover as a “thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic”.
and yes . You used H2G2 properly in that sentence.
It is “skit-ish” (as opposed to skittish snort- can you tell I’ve been drinking? :D) But I think reading on, I got more of a NOVEL feel once I had all the pieces. (Frak. Tipsy typing is HARD! Do you know how many times I had to retypwe that sentence?)
I love Dirk Gently, too. (And, it was much more self-contained…)
But as for the topic of the thread, yes. I’m a sucker for serials. Anything more I can be shown of a universe I love is a big plus in my book. I’d watch anything they’re willibng to show me. (As long as it’s coherent and fits in with the current canon, of course :D)
Not enough 
giggle I tried
See, I didn’t like the last Stargate direct-to-DVD at all. I think they forgot that what made the Stargate franchise enjoyable was the characters and how they worked as a team. The last video, Continuum, broke up that team as I remember and was pretty bad IMHO. Ark of Truth, however, was ok.
I would go for more BSG direct-to-DVD stuff too, but I’d like to see more backstory, more stuff from life before the destruction, or like someone else said, maybe the First Cylon War. I don’t think another chapter of the character’s miserable lives on Earth would work well.
H2G2 fans: find the original radio show (legally, if you can… ;)) or, failing that, the scripts. By far the best iteration.
And I think the BBC TV show was brilliant, though admittedly Trillian was no Zooey. British TV actors doing American accents are so often unsuccessful outside of BSG… even Kryten’s breaks down all the time.
And Zaphod’s head was no more laughable than in the movie.
Which is cooler enough, though to be fair one man’s fail at jumping the barb wire in The Great Escape didn’t get me wondering why Steve McQueen wasn’t leading the charge for The Bridge at Remagen.
I’d like a look back at what forced humanity to flee Kobol. Maybe it was like Stephen King’s ‘The Stand’, where both the efforts of men and the Hand of God(s?) led to the end of the world.
Btw JohnAndersenHenry, re: your take on WWII - I think you tend to ‘crowbar’ that war into a WWI setting. In the Great War, any fighting done outside Europe (like Lawrence of Arabia) was just one or two degree removed from Europe. And by ‘emergency’, I assume the scare quotes mean an emergency inflated by cynical leaders. WWII was fought the world over, and by true beleivers, for good or (mostly) ill. Your opening line sums up 1914 well, but not 1939.
No, As one western European nation referred to events 1939-1945 as ‘The Emergency’ which is fair enough, as they had no need to take part directly, same way lots of Independent Nations around the world had no reason too:)
That’ll do for me, it stands uncorrected;)