SATIRE AND SCI-FI
If the sci-fi genre was a newspaper, we've finally hit the comic strips.
First off: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio show and the I Think We're All Bozo's on This Bus radio special.
Hitchhiker's was incredibly good and I very much so enjoyed it. It was well acted and faithful to the tonal humor of the novel. Hitchhiker's is one of my favorite stories, ever since I saw the movie as a child. Now I am an adult who's read the book and enjoys the both of them, though the book is better. In the radio show, the use of voice modulators and the over the top way of thinking and speaking keep you entertained, thinking, and laughing the whole way through. Now, as for I Think We're All Bozo's on This Bus, I think it was incredibly clever, satyrical, and does so well to make a point of the blatant issues of the future of humanity, then for the punchline, accepting it as normal. It's all to make the point that no matter how different you are, no matter how analytical you are of the issues humanity and society has, if you're not asking the right questions and not taking action against the thing that's actually wrong, YOU'RE NOTHING BUT ANOTHER BOZO, JUST LIKE THE POPULATION YOU FEEL YOU ARE SO DIFFERENT FROM. All that aside, I was very confused at the beginning but I was soon able to make sense of it and enjoy the incredible acting and voice-work of the special. It was amazing how they did Dr. Memory's voice. 10/10 would recommend.
Also, we're living in an Idiocracy in this day and age. Half of the nation, bias/uninformed/bigoted/uneducated, voted for a man who would run the country amok, and a large part of the nation decided it was better to cast away their vote because they didn't want to vote for the person opposing the man threatening nuclear war against countries he didn't even know if we were at odds with. It's bonkers. Oh god, I wanna check out of this planet like the dolphins in the beginning of the Hitchhiker's movie. So long and thanks for nothing, republicans.
First off: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio show and the I Think We're All Bozo's on This Bus radio special.
Hitchhiker's was incredibly good and I very much so enjoyed it. It was well acted and faithful to the tonal humor of the novel. Hitchhiker's is one of my favorite stories, ever since I saw the movie as a child. Now I am an adult who's read the book and enjoys the both of them, though the book is better. In the radio show, the use of voice modulators and the over the top way of thinking and speaking keep you entertained, thinking, and laughing the whole way through. Now, as for I Think We're All Bozo's on This Bus, I think it was incredibly clever, satyrical, and does so well to make a point of the blatant issues of the future of humanity, then for the punchline, accepting it as normal. It's all to make the point that no matter how different you are, no matter how analytical you are of the issues humanity and society has, if you're not asking the right questions and not taking action against the thing that's actually wrong, YOU'RE NOTHING BUT ANOTHER BOZO, JUST LIKE THE POPULATION YOU FEEL YOU ARE SO DIFFERENT FROM. All that aside, I was very confused at the beginning but I was soon able to make sense of it and enjoy the incredible acting and voice-work of the special. It was amazing how they did Dr. Memory's voice. 10/10 would recommend.
Also, we're living in an Idiocracy in this day and age. Half of the nation, bias/uninformed/bigoted/uneducated, voted for a man who would run the country amok, and a large part of the nation decided it was better to cast away their vote because they didn't want to vote for the person opposing the man threatening nuclear war against countries he didn't even know if we were at odds with. It's bonkers. Oh god, I wanna check out of this planet like the dolphins in the beginning of the Hitchhiker's movie. So long and thanks for nothing, republicans.
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