I just listened to the second series for the first time in many years. It doesn't age well, does it?
I mean, the sound effects are seriously crap...most of the robot voices are essentially unlistenable. The dude playing Zaphod is fucking terrible - he always sounds like he's on the verge of wetting himself. The Ford character seems to be constantly trying (and failing) to combine the hitherto uncombinable modes of "frenzied" and "sardonic". And altogether, everything that makes Adams' novels so brilliant and timeless seem to be missing, except in those bits spoken by the narrator himself.
Am I the only one who thinks this?
I mean, the sound effects are seriously crap...most of the robot voices are essentially unlistenable. The dude playing Zaphod is fucking terrible - he always sounds like he's on the verge of wetting himself. The Ford character seems to be constantly trying (and failing) to combine the hitherto uncombinable modes of "frenzied" and "sardonic". And altogether, everything that makes Adams' novels so brilliant and timeless seem to be missing, except in those bits spoken by the narrator himself.
Am I the only one who thinks this?
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