nicanical
Milliways, the titular restaurant, is a cool idea: a restaurant rocking back and forth in time, like a flux capacitor on a seesaw. But the characters are only there briefly before splitting up to pursue separate narratives.
Ford and Arthur initially stay on the Ultimate Question. They uncover some interesting Earth lore, but the Question remains elusive. Zaphod and Trillian search for the true leader of the universe; this sidequest just seems like pretext to reveal more of Zaphod's backstory, and ultimately inconsequential.
I like that there is some structure here with the two narratives, but the anticlimactic conclusion, and little progress made on the matter of the Ultimate Question makes The Restaurant at the End of the Universe feel like mere filler until the next book.
Milliways, the titular restaurant, is a cool idea: a restaurant rocking back and forth in time, like a flux capacitor on a seesaw. But the characters are only there briefly before splitting up to pursue separate narratives.
Ford and Arthur initially stay on the Ultimate Question. They uncover some interesting Earth lore, but the Question remains elusive. Zaphod and Trillian search for the true leader of the universe; this sidequest just seems like pretext to reveal more of Zaphod's backstory, and ultimately inconsequential.
I like that there is some structure here with the two narratives, but the anticlimactic conclusion, and little progress made on the matter of the Ultimate Question makes The Restaurant at the End of the Universe feel like mere filler until the next book.