Universal Day of the Jedi

[Nate the Great]

Yeah, so I'm going to draft the Encyclopedia Galactica into being the counterpart for the SW universe. I'm already working on possible jokes.

[AKAArzosah]

"Don't Panic! Panic leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate..." is inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover, right?

[Nate the Great]

I'm sad to say that the crossfivers aren't going to be happening. Deciding to write them is one thing, actually coming up with good jokes is another. You guys didn't want to know, but these are what the casts would have been:

Hitchhiker's Character Star Wars Character
Arthur Dent Luke Skywalker
Ford Prefect Obi-Wan Kenobi
Zaphod Beeblebrox Han Solo
Trillian Princess Leia
Marvin C3-PO
Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz Jabba the Hutt
Gag Halfrunt Emporer Palpatine
Humma Kavula Darth Vader

[AKAArzosah]

Hmm, I would have suggested swapping Han Solo and Obi-Wan and having R2D2 as Marvin, but then I have only watched the TV
Series-y thing and not read the books, and I'm hardly a die hard fan of Hitchhiker's Guide.

What if you put them out by next year...?

Oooh oooh, OR what if it became a miscellaneous completely unauthorised Fiver by Committee?

Would anyone else participate?

How much did you get done?

Will Carlos finally confess his love to Angelica? These questions and more, answered in the next episode...

[Nate the Great]

Zaphod and Obi-Wan? That's crossing the line from humor to farce if you ask me.

How much did I get done? Just the intro, the cast list, and a fairly humorous bit of banter between myself, the Guide, and the Encyclopedia Galactica.

If you guys pester me, maybe I'll try to get them out by next year, but who knows?

R2 doesn't talk! If anything I'd have Eddie play him and communicate through hums!

[AKAArzosah]

Did I mention that I hardly know Hitchhikers at all? Watched the TV Series about two years ago (I do own it, maybe I'll watch it again). I have never read the book.

I was more thinking 'Han would be better as Ford'.

[Nate the Great]

Ford and Han sorta make sense, but Ford isn't really a flyboy OR a womanizer, so how do you explain him as Han?

[AKAArzosah]

I just think they both have the same 'this and this are common place, duh' attitude. And they get the same responses, ie 'is that good?' and 'who DOES that?'. Am I making sense?
Probably not, I'd guess.

I suppose I mean something along the lines of the 'She'll make point five past light speed' and the resultant lack of awe, and in Hitchhiker's, Arthur not really caring that Ford claims to be from 'a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse'. It's sort of difficult to really draw a good parallel between a genuine SciFi and a Comedy.

[Nate the Great]

It's not that Arthur doesn't care about Betelgeuse, it was more shock and the fact that he's still in denial about Mr. Prosser wanting to knock his house down.

[AKAArzosah]

Yeah like I said, I don't know it. I was looking at a transcript for that bit. I couldn't remember it at all.

[Nate the Great]

So here we are. I hope everyone decides to stay cool and froody today. May the forty-two be with you!