And Samuel Barnett, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, said that ‘Sherlock has his mind palace, but I have my neuroses cottage,’ which I really love, because it’s such a perfect way to sum him up. “A lot of people were comparing Dirk particularly-and Samuel Barnett’s performance-to Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock, which could not be more different, I don’t think. Geek's Guide to the Galaxy Harlan Ellison Is Sci-Fi’s Most Controversial Figure
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… It was just extremely deep, I thought, which was nice, because it’s rare to see real adults on TV at this point, so seeing the two of them as people who’ve tried to create lives for themselves that haven’t quite worked out, and now they’re getting to an age where they’re trying to figure out what they can do next, and they both feel kind of stuck, and then Dirk comes into their lives and disrupts everything-it’s just interesting to watch them react to that, and then to see how it actually has repercussions through their past as well as their present.” “It was really interesting to see such a close sibling relationship, because I feel like that isn’t something that shows up on TV all that often. I was expecting it to be a business-like I would get his secretary or something-but this male British voice came through the speaker and said, ‘Hello?’ And I said, ‘Hi, I’m here studying radio theater for a year, and I’d like to try to interview Douglas Adams.’ There was this long pause, and then this voice said, ‘Umm, how did you get this address?’ And I said, ‘Well, it’s in the phone book.’ And he went, ‘Ah, right.’ And then he said, ‘Would you come back next Tuesday at 11 am?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, sure.’ So I came back, and sure enough it was his house, and he invited me in and gave me a beer and let me talk to him for a couple hours.
It said ‘Sirius Productions.’ I called him and nobody answered, so I went there and rang the bell, and this voice came through the speaker. “I went over to England-I lived there for a year-and while I was there I picked up the London phone book and looked in it, and I looked for his address. And check out some highlights from the discussion below.
Listen to the complete interview with Tom Gerencer, Leah Schnelbach, and John Joseph Adams in Episode 281 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (above). That seems to be the underlying theme of his entire body of work,” he says. But just have a good time with it, it’ll be fun. “It has that feeling of somebody who’s looking at the universe and saying, ‘What the heck is going on?’ And then confronting the answer that you can find out what’s going on, but it’s going to make less sense than if you never asked the question at all. Gerencer feels that the show does a good job of capturing the most essential aspect of Douglas Adams-the idea that the only way to survive in an incomprehensible universe is to just stop worrying about it so much.
“Even he himself changed things when he wrote something first as a radio play, and then when he turned it into a book, or then when he turned it into a game or whatever. “Douglas Adams is not one of those writers where you can really 100 percent faithfully adapt one of his things to a different medium and expect it to work the same way,” he says. But science fiction editor John Joseph Adams thinks that if those fans stick with the series, they’ll find themselves enjoying it more and more. “Because it is so dense, and so tightly packed with stuff, it can be a little difficult for somebody to just sort of dip into it.”ĭirk Gently has also failed to connect with many Douglas Adams fans, who are put off by the show’s many deviations from the source material. Writer Leah Schnelbach loves how the show’s many mysteries slowly come together, but acknowledges that Dirk Gently can be a challenge for newcomers. The show has a lot going for it, including an original voice, brilliant writing, and complex characters, but it’s failed to connect with many viewers.
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