Science Fiction and Satire
I have listened to a couple of the audio instalments of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I like it so far because it is a parody of some of the science fiction that I like. I also love podcasts, so it’s interesting that this was actually made for radio. This in particular reminds me of Galaxy Quest, which is really fun because it takes the ideas of Star Trek and other sci-fi things like it and takes it to the extreme. The way the narration and the dialogue are set up to be quite sarcastic and quirky. It really pokes fun at everything in an engaging way, whereas other satire doesn’t quite handle satire in the same way. Some of the issues that have already been brought up, even in the first couple audio sessions of the show, are appropriation of land, widespread war, technology, and race differences. It was interesting to me that as Arthur’s town was being taken over and bulldozed in order to put in a bypass, the earth was also being taken over and destroyed in order to put in an inte