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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • I get what you’re saying. As to point one, I agree. On the other hand, a comedy series with social commentary and philosophical aspects can still contain a lot of character development. For instance, the series Scrubs comes to mind where they definitely pull that off. But I get it’s not the point.

    I agree employee number two, mostly on the friendship part.

    I have a different opinion on Fenchurch. To me, their whole falling in love process was extremely well written and beautiful. Somehow it shows that someone who can’t find a place to fit in the whole universe in can still find someone to call home, and I thought that was really cool, but I do realize that it’s only my opinion and not a fact.

    On another thread, a lemming pointed out that the author was on record, saying, he regretted how he wrote Fenchurch in the fifth book. I couldn’t find the quote in a quick search, but I found something else:

    Douglas Adams frequently expressed his disdain for this ending in retrospect, claiming that it was too depressing and came about as the result of him having “a bad year;” “People have said, quite rightly, that Mostly Harmless is a very bleak book. And it was a bleak book. I would love to finish Hitchhiker on a slightly more upbeat note, so five seems to be a wrong kind of number; six is a better kind of number.” He had planned to write a sixth book to undo this ‘mistake’, but never got around to it before his death source