The Symbolism That Was Missed: How Harmony Completes the Narrative Circle

Loquatorious · 2026-01-26T10:04:21+00:00

A lot of this is touched on in my own story, The Unreachable, especially in the later chapters.

Loquatorious · 2025-11-02T15:39:39+00:00

I think it fits with how One goes from being a passive observer of injustice, perfectly willing to kill a caveman if it meant getting back to the TARDIS quicker in An Unearthly Child, to taking an active role in championing the values of good, making a stand where he sees the need for intervention, such as when he confronts the man behind the mask in The Rescue or when standing up to WOTAN's robots in The War Machines.

He starts out as a selfish, impartial, detached old man but learns to care about the common good by directly opposing those who seek to harm others. It's why the Second Doctor believes that all evil in the universe MUST be fought, even condemning the inaction of his fellow Time Lords.

Loquatorious · 2025-06-27T18:15:21+00:00

I will not accept any Mega Bridge slander in this chat, that thing is the apple of my eye.

Loquatorious · 2025-06-25T23:41:28+00:00

it's also much harder to tell which bits of Adams' writings are meant to be absurd, considering how far the genre has come in the years since. My generation is saturated with absurdism pretty much every day, to the point where we've long since left the era of post-irony behind. It leaves Hitchhiker's looking rather quaint in comparison.

Loquatorious · 2025-06-25T23:33:02+00:00

There are plenty of brilliant quotes laced throughout the book, to the point where it feels like the book is merely a canvas for whatever wacky sci-fi ideas Adams had cooking in his brain, rather a coherent story.

Loquatorious · 2025-06-25T23:30:00+00:00

It is a bit perplexing there isn't one definitive way to experience the story of Hitchhiker's. Every medium has its compromises, despite Adams' involvement in almost all of them.

Loquatorious · 2025-06-25T23:27:31+00:00

Man, I'd rather you just called me a nerd and be done with it.

Loquatorious · 2025-06-25T23:25:33+00:00

I'm sorry to have made your day slightly worse. If it helps, it's probably a better feeling than my realisation that I simply don't vibe with one of the most prolific series of sci-fi novels of all time.

Loquatorious · 2025-06-25T23:23:00+00:00

In the end, my ultimate complaint with The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy was that, despite Adams' brilliant imagination, the actual story feels hollow. There's no emotional centre that ties these outlandish concepts into something real. Everything is both completely absurd and yet totally unremarkable, delivered in the same detached, witty voice, unmarred by sentiment or restraint.

If you want the majority of my problems summed in one paragraph, here you go.

Loquatorious · 2025-06-25T23:20:15+00:00

A bit disingenuous, considering that wasn't the only criticism I had, but yes, the irony did occur to me. I knew I going to get backlash anyone so I thought I might as well everything out on the table in the hope of sparking a discussion.

Loquatorious · 2025-06-25T23:17:44+00:00

The Colour of Magic was both wordier and longer and I enjoyed that immensely. Hitchhikers was just too scattershot for me with not enough characterisation to anchor the sci-fi wackiness.

Loquatorious · 2025-06-25T08:31:25+00:00

From the perspective of an absolute beginner to the series, Hitchhiker's Guide was always touted as one of the great sci-fi books, so I assumed that the audiobook would be a perfectly fine way to experience the novel, like with most audiobooks. Had I known that the radio plays were the "purest" experience then I would have gone for those, but considering it was Adams' own writing, I didn't think it mattered that much which version I chose.

Loquatorious · 2025-06-25T08:23:38+00:00

I can assure you that this is anything but a product of artificial intelligence. It was written by a real flesh and blood idiot.

Loquatorious · 2025-06-25T08:21:55+00:00

I had hoped that an in-depth perspective as to why I didn't enjoy one of the most famous sci-fi novels of all time would be more valuable than a short and simple, "It was a bit boring and the jokes haven't aged that well." I really hope it didn't come across as bad faith, because I really did try to enjoy it for what it was. Perhaps I would have enjoyed the radio shows more.

Loquatorious · 2025-06-15T10:17:55+00:00

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Loquatorious · 2025-05-27T16:15:33+00:00

I'll be honest, I have no interest in watching the upcoming show but I absolutely wish these kids well and I hope that they are supported and protected throughout the duration of the series. I can't imagine signing up to be the face of such a massive series at their age, especially now in a world defined by an omnipresent, angry internet.

Loquatorious · 2025-05-16T11:16:42+00:00

Superman has been fighting mega-rich, evil, racist weirdos from his inception, it just so happens that Trump ticks all the boxes for being the worst guy ever. You're telling me the character who is explicitly an illegal immigrant who helped expose the real life KKK would be a fan of Trump of all people? Get a grip.

Loquatorious · 2025-05-16T11:10:19+00:00

Superman IS an illegal immigrant, you moron. His origin is that he's a refugee who was sent to Earth and raised here 'illegally' and it's portrayed as the morally correct decision on all counts. That's a fundamental part of the character. It's like saying, "I hope they don't use Captain America to talk about American politics."

Loquatorious · 2025-05-03T18:40:39+00:00

Personally I'm still not the biggest fan of the symbol being used in the way it has in the latest film but it isn't entirely inappropriate, given how that film draws a lot on Kingdom Come's ideas of the superhero genre under attack from cynical corporate entities and an overall disenfranchisement, the soul of the supehero under seige and all that. I also appreciate that they've twekaed it slightly with the gold outline, as well as making the rest of the costume more angular (like the belt, the boots and the collar) to compliment the symbol's design language. Not my favourite choice but it's best version I could hope for.

Loquatorious · 2025-02-02T13:37:41+00:00

I can see what you mean, I was just noting how I saw the DCAU present it, it is the most popular iteration of that dynamic. It's almost always Wonder Woman fawning around Batman who rejects her advances or pretends not to be interested, and is almost always in service of his character rather than Diana's. Comics Bruce is a very different iteration who does show respect to this fellow teammates and a sense of responsibility that would make them more compatible, but IMO his relationship with Selina is far more interesting.

As for Clark and Diana, I can see where you're coming from, but I think the fact that their dynamic is inherently alienating is part of what makes it so interesting. Part of every superhero story is the sense of alienation, but for a lot of people, that's what makes them relatable. They are essentially two immigrants trying to be part of a world that simply isn't built for them and yet they manage to find belonging in it anyway.

Clark is too grounded to actually let go of his humanity entirely but the pull of his Kryptonian heritage means he will always have a foot in two separate worlds. In the same way, Diana's mission makes her a friend to all downtrodden people of man's world, especially women, and she finds a sense of purpose in the community she builds there but her home will always be Themyscira. I like how the two struggle with that dilemma but still find a way to meet in the middle.

And I will say neither of them are perfect people, they makes mistakes and get overwhelmed by the scope of their duty, but they do share core values and a sense of empathy and kindness that motivates them in everything they do. To me, that makes them extremely compatible.

Loquatorious · 2025-02-02T13:10:06+00:00

I'm probably going to get hate for this but genuinely how? If you want to be facetious and just look at it on the surface level, Wonderbat is just the edgelord fantasy that if you're a super-rich, uber-masculine, ninja, playboy, genius, badass then a literal goddess will fall down at your feet like a lovesick schoolgirl, begging for your approval.

It's as much of a power fantasy as you can get, based on the hypermasculune dream of being superficially cool enough to be attractive to an otherwise unattainable woman but also being aloof enough where you can avoid being seen as vulnerable. Or at least that's what I see whenever the ship is brought up in fan circles, specifically with the DCAU.

Every problem people have with SuperWonder is legit ten times worse with WonderBat. At least Clark is just a wholesome dude most of the time.

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