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Miv (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} eyesdelight) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} fandom_wank,@ 2005-04-20 13:22:00 |
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Mostly Harmless Hitchhiker's Guide Book-to-Film Wank
Did a perfunctory search for this in the archives, but didn't find any mention of it within the past few weeks. So, here we go.
MJ Simpson, once-webmaster of the Douglas Adams super-mega-fansite Planet Magrathea is, according to a quote from the BBC on the site's splash page: "Britain's leading Douglas Adams expert." I say "once-webmaster" because he's decided to give up.
According to his Fuck all y'all farewell letter:
"I have for some time been fed up with the negative attitude of the Douglas Adams estate who for four years have been happy to make money from projects that I have worked on or even initiated but have otherwise been thoroughly unhelpful and antagonistic towards me."
Pity the BNF, overworked and underappreciated. ::facepalm::
"the thing that has tipped the balance for me is the unwarranted, ill-informed personal abuse and libel which has been directed towards me on the IMDB, livejournal and many other websites in the wake of my review of the film."
"I could put up with the pathetic, jealous ramblings of those sad types who feel the need to criticise something they haven't read, describing something they haven't seen. But what has broken my will is the vitriolic personal abuse and libel which has started spreading across the net from various individuals who don't know me."
What caused the splooge? He recently posted a disappointing review [short review for the tl;dr set] of the new Hitchhiker's Guide movie, going so far as posting a list of things that aren't in the film. Wank has exploded far and wide amongst Adams-fen, mostly wringing their hands with worry over what favorite bits of the radio series/television show/books got cut out, how the story has been dumbed down, and blaming Disney or the whole of the United States of America for ruining it.
Personally, I would willingly pay nine dollars to sit in a dark movie theater and wank to watch Martin Freeman running around in pajamas and a bathrobe for two hours.
