Vogon

The second most intelligent species are the dolphins, and the narrator just informs the readers that the dolphins knew the Earth was going to be destroyed

By the Vogons to make way for a hyperspace bypass.

So the dolphins just escape.

They leave the planet before its destruction, and their final message to humanity, which we thought was a double backward somersault through a hoop while whistling the Star Spangled Banner

And movies hate aimless wandering.

They need a chase.

So the film promotes the Vogons.

In the book, they are these unpleasant, bureaucratic poetry enthusiasts who destroy Earth and then basically leave the story.

And there was another great Easter egg that Andrew Howe Davis told us about.

So in the Vogon ship in the hold in part two, he was really cross about this.

He was cross about two things.

He was cross about the Babel fish dispenser, which he said he spent effing weeks on.

And he said it also in the hold.

And again, it's another blink and you'll miss it.

The Statue of Liberty is there in the hold because he figured that the Vogons were like builders.

And like all builders, they nick all the best stuff when they go and knock somewhere down.

Throughout the novel, the narrative constantly pauses to give us these encyclopedic entries from the actual Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Entries about towels, Vogon poetry, the Babel fish, the invention of the wedge.

On the printed page, if you are really invested in the plot of Arthur escaping the exploding Earth, those italicized encyclopedia entries can feel like annoying interruptions.

You just want to know if they survive the spaceship attack.

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Obokathi the Vogon.

Yeah.

Vokodortutak O'Herrera.

They also now have access to data.

and they have access to really good data and now they're finding other ways to I'm starting to think of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the Volcom with all their forms.

And I mean, it's just like,

there's just more to do.

Hmm

... literally, like I might come out of retirement for making a, a post for the show this week just to put his face next to Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz.

Like, he's gotta be the inspiration.

Like the bushy eyebrows, the jowls, the, you know.

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Yeah, he definitely, yeah, he definitely could...

Yeah, he, he looks like the inspiration for like the actual Vogon.

Yeah.

[laughs] Freudian slip, as Tobias Vaughn.

As, uh, [chuckles] Tyrum, leader of the Vogons, uh, Kevin Stoney as Tobias Vaughn.

I'm gonna leave that in.

I'm, I'm, I, I will a-allow all my flaws to show.

At the start, when you get the aliens arriving, it's sort of like when the Vulgons and Hitchhikers come in and all that.

They're like, the Vulgons watch more and more Impassive and at first I at first I was thinking the aliens from Dungeon Crawler Crawler were kinder than the Vogons because the Vogons just like didn't care I'll destroy everybody like I think but then as I was reading a bit more I was like no I mean they're not They're more just cruel compared to the book.

As a society, I would say yes.

The aliens in this book are cruel.

Of course, like any society, they contain multitudes.

And that's one of the main differences, I feel like, is that these aliens are more realistically... depicted than the Vogons who are kind of flat characters, you

know? Well, yeah.

I mean, the Vogons are bureaucrats type thing.