The final series of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy radio series ties up the lack of loose ends from the fifth H2G2 novel, Mostly Harmless, to allow any future series to follow on without disrupting the continuity in a way that Douglas Adams never even bothered about in the first place!

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Another fabulous production and performance with a satisfying conclusion. An improvement over my memory of the final novel.

Likes: Great stuff, lots of quotable quotes, very humorously written.

Dislikes: This is, apparently, the last one.

Enjoyed it and wanted to love it, but listening while I was driving back and forth to work it just got a little too confusing.

If you've gotten this far in the radio series, there's no reason to stop! This installment was not only just as humorous and mind-bending as all the previous ones, it even ended in such a way as to patch up the heart that the Quandary Phase broke

This threatened to be really good. Insanity has been restored to the Hitchhikers Universe with the multidimensional parallel universe strands coming into full force, two Trillians, Arthur Dent - Sandwich maker - has a daughter and Ford Prefect befriends an amusing new robot and uncovers a hostile takeover of the Hitchiker's Guide...

...but again at 4 episodes this is just too short to work those ideas through and they're no sooner introduced than they're abandoned again. Maggs and the BBC decide to impose thier own forced happy ending on the material for no reason I can make out and I just feel sorely disappointed that it's all over. Still, this is heaps funnier than the Quandary phase and a joy to listen to. I've loved hearing the old cast reprise their roles 25 years on and they really get into it. (It's a big shame there's not so much Zaphod and Marvin in these later novels, though) and casting choices for other roles have been generally great, with the production of the shows being fine. Just a bit of a shame about the scripting that can't force the material into the holes it wants to put it and worse, tries to update Adams humour for a modern audience and stumbles horrible from time to time.

3.5
While this is still fun you can feel that the series is really trying at this point

Haven't read the book this one is based on, but I uhhh have heard things. No spoilers, but the ending has been changed dramatically; it sounds like Adams regretted the original ending later on, though, so I don't mind the changes, and  I like happy endings better anyway.
If you wanted to stop here, you absolutely could, but I'm going to try out the 6th one. I think I trust Maggs to make it gel with the rest?

Guide ver 2.0 idea is great, plural worlds is goin back to the whole DoctorWho other dimensions roots which is fine.... but then the Trisha/Trillian and Random plots were the weakest of the bunch

Great you like herring sandwiches and want to find out what actually happened to Elvis.