This is the first one to actually make me a little sad the show didn't get a second series. If it had been independent of Dirk, I think it might've. But it's definitely closer to the source that the Netflix version, which - frankly - no. I'll take this any day.
You know who really gets the BBC #DirkGently? Matt Jones - yes, that Matt Jones - really gets the BBC Dirk Gently. Overman is good at this, don't get me wrong, but Jones manages to inject some actual emotion into the weirdness, and also lets Dirk do some actual detecting and noble sacrificing too.
Because Max/Jane is a sentient computer program that has taken over the body of a brain-dead hotty because human life is more interesting. It's an almost Adamsish idea - possibly a take on the electric monk, but if so moved on several degrees. It's also damned topical right now.
It's a lovely episode, showing the series really settling into itself (ironically just one episode away from death itself), and a little vertigo inducing as it's set at St Cedd's, bringing odd echoes of the original Dirk and Shada behind it. But it correctly stops there, doing its own thing instead.
Went to Destiny's Child's new restaurant. You would not believe the rigmarole when I tried to order a simple desert. #topical
The age gap in the relationship between Dirk and Max/Jane is frankly inappropriate, but his genuine affection for - and amazement by her very uniqueness - is almost Doctorish, and it hurts when the format reasserts itself at the end and they part for the most cursory of reasons.
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This gave me a sensible chuckle
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Sir Ian McKellen.
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Translunar Travelers Lounge
It's Sunday here in the lounge, we're already excited about Issue 15, but there's a lot of work between now and then (scheduled for August 15th).
We're planning to have a look back at some earlier issues of the zine so here's a question - what's your favourite story that TTL has published?
