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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The fifth one was written while Douglas Adams was super depressed, so yeah, it's a bit more grim than the others.

The initial trilogy were written after the radio show which was itself written on the fly, hence the continuous cliffhangers and deus-ex-machina turns of fate.