BATTLE TWO: Doctor Who vs. HHGTG

BATTLE TWO: Doctor Who vs. HHGTG

Welcome to the second Fandom Battle of Fandom Month. This is the thread for the Doctor Who vs. HHGTG debate.

Which sci-fi do you like best? Is the Doctor you're favourite or do you prefer quirky Ford Prefect? Does K-9 hit the right buttons or perhaps Marvin the paranoid android?

Come up with arguments and points about why one is better than the other, remembering to back your arguments up with quotes, references, pictures etc. However - remember to always be polite and considerate of others views! This isn't a place to bash one or the other, but to have a proper debate.

Only post in this thread if you have been assigned to one of the groups below. You may notice that some people have been assigned to more than one battle - however, they will still only end up with one score as it will be averaged.

Remember to state which side you are arguing for at the top of each post.

Good Luck!

Doctor Who Representatives
Polly
Pickles
drkangelcat
Elfie Dumbledore

Twilight Representatives
Stephy
Gemma
Elana

(HHGTG)

Though HHGTG is not known throughout the world, I agree with Stephy when she says that it is because it is a book instead of a TV show. People are much more likely to turn on the TV than pick up a book, no matter how highly recommended. I for one see HHGTG as genius. Douglas Adams created worlds and characters that haven't been seen anywhere else - not saying that Doctor Who hasn't either, but still, it's incredible. HHGTG began as a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio in 1978, and has gone on from there to five books published between 1979 and 1992, a TV series in 1981, a computer game in 1984, stage shows, comic adaptions by DC Comics between 1993 and 1996, a movie of the first book in 2005 (for the trailer, click here, and so much more in the world of merchandise.

The novels feature a lovable bunch of characters who journey into space on fantastic adventures. Though this may not sound too exciting, the writing makes it incredible. If you're in to going off on random tangents that somehow do relate to what's going on, love getting into minds of the characters to see how jumbled they really are, and adore unique description, than this is the series for you. The following is the beginning to the first book, to give you just a taste of the magic.

Quote :

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape- descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, one girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terribly stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever.

This is not her story.

But it is the story of that terrible stupid catastrophe and some of its consequences.

It is also the story of a book, a book called The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - not an Earth book, never published on Earth, and until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or heard of by any Earthman.

Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book.

in fact it was probably the most remarkable book ever to come out of the great publishing houses of Ursa Minor - of which no Earthman had ever heard either.

Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one - more popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty More Things to do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway?

In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects.

First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words Don't Panic inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.

But the story of this terrible, stupid Thursday, the story of its extraordinary consequences, and the story of how these consequences are inextricably intertwined with this remarkable book begins very simply.

It begins with a house.

(In addition to what polly said)
Doctor who.

the doctor, IS a well knwon show, people from all over the english seaking world know about it. The show Doctor who started in 1963 and stopped again in the year 1989, an impressive reign. The only to satrt up again in the year 2005 and still to this day plays on screen. Old and new episodes are still watched by many.

So who can argue that that HHGTG is better than Doctor who? When even I haven't heard of it? In my opinion Doctor who is more widely known than HHGTG, this is an important thing. Doctor who obviously has better story lines and better characters than HHGTG. This is why Doctor who is the best fandom.

Points for this discussion (out of a possible 150):

stephy: 60
polly: 85
Elana: 50
pickles: 20