did you know Douglas Adams turned around and halfway adapted it into the novel "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"?
You know, I've never seen any parts of the original "Shada," but I'd read about it in books like Doctor Who: A Celebration, and when I read Dirk Gently's it really threw me for a loop. I went back and looked up the "Shada" descriptions and was all mixed up about how he took parts of it but added new stuff (probably especially so since I only had a vague grasp of it in the first place).
(Now that I bought the "Shada" CD last week, I really have no excuse--must catch up on this one!)
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Date: 2006-07-16 04:29 am (UTC)You know, I've never seen any parts of the original "Shada," but I'd read about it in books like Doctor Who: A Celebration, and when I read Dirk Gently's it really threw me for a loop. I went back and looked up the "Shada" descriptions and was all mixed up about how he took parts of it but added new stuff (probably especially so since I only had a vague grasp of it in the first place).
(Now that I bought the "Shada" CD last week, I really have no excuse--must catch up on this one!)