I think I just realized why Marvin saw ‘we apologize for the inconvenience’ as God’s final words to him: his entire life has been nothing but depression and suffering, an endless string of negative occurrences that left his body and mind utterly beaten down. ‘Sorry for the inconvience’ is basically god apologizing for everything Marvin had to be put through, all the depression and negative experience; god is saying that he’s sorry that things didn’t turn out better for him. And for the first time in an eternity, Marvin got to know what it was like for someone to truly care about him.
marvin really is like a morality test for the people around him; hes absolutely right about nobody giving a shit about him. the ultimate point of marvin is to treat anybody with kindness and decency, especially if its difficult to do.
I completely agree. I've listened to the radio show all the way through and I honestly can't help but sympathise with Marvin. You totally understand his behaviour too. He wants an intellectual challenge and a diode change, darn it! Is that too much to ask? 😆
Marvin also treats everyone like crap and makes bad-faith assumptions about their intentions. It’s not like people didn’t want to like him. Marvin and Arthur were actually a dichotomy. Neither of them particularly had any choice about how they moved through the universe. They could each, however, choose the attitude with which they approached the lack of control in their lives. Given lemons, Marvin squeezed them into his wounds and made himself rust. Arthur made roast beef sandwiches. Put another way, whether you are determined to find happiness or misery, you will. It’s a theme echoed in the soul of a potted plant, who repeatedly finds his death, seemingly at Arthur’s hand, from the skies Magrathea to Stavro Meuller’s latest night club: Beta. Coincidence is coincidence, and everyone else is going through the same crap as you. The best we can do is to try to make it a little more bearable for each other. We can love a little more. We can blame a little less. We can take long baths and eat roast beef sandwiches, and we can be ok that not everything is in our control.
benvolio15 I think he's perfectly in his rights to be angry, he's 50,000 times more intelligent than the average human and 37 times older than the universe but he has only ever been sent on menial tasks for his entire life.
@@adamstringer7092 And? The real tragedy of it all is that he never improved, never worked to find his own meaning, and instead allowed himself to be sent on those menial tasks. He could have been someone, he chose not to be. He could have been happy being no one. Instead, he chose only misery longer than the span of galaxies. Those diodes that he never changed? They're his life in miniature.
@@nathanielsmith5976 Agree with your reasoning. However I think its part of the continuity of the "Hitchhiker's Guide" novels that most robots are programmed as well as legally required to be servants to organic beings
Well, done, but I've always assumed the final message was meant to be different for each individual. In the book, Marvin reads the last words himself, with no help from the others (just checked that section.) "He read the 'e', the 'n,' the 'c,' and at last, the final 'e,' and staggered back into their arms. 'I think,' he murmured at last from deep within his corroding, rattling thorax, 'I feel good about it.' The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever." While the book doesn't really suggest, either way, if it's the same for everybody, it would make sense to me that the last message would be appropriate to the individual, which it certainly was to Marvin. It explains why the others don't just read it to him, because they can't read what was left for HIM.
Sorry for the super late reply, 1 year later on this comment. I'd have to check to be sure, but they only animated this, but the audio came from the radio shows. Most of the radio shows were written by Douglas Adams himself. Now I'm not sure about this one. I think it might have been recorded after Adams' passing. However he wasn't consistent with himself, so who knows if he had a vision for this sort of thing.
3D Printing Professor The third, fourth, and fifth series were recorded after his death. This video explains it well: ua-cam.com/video/vnVE7kRYaCY/v-deo.html
On the copy of the book with all 5 parts of the series (The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy) they help Marvin read each letter and it is exactly as animated.
Funny, in the CD version of the radio series they skipped the part where Marvin laughs over the fact that all the diodes down his left-hand side were never replaced. Too bad, its really funny.
The 2005 movie had it's moments...Sam Rockwell's Zaphod was actually pretty damn good...and so was Mos Def as Ford Prefect (which I had the most concern about going into the movie). I ended up having problems with how Arthur and Trillian were written more than the others. My Dad LOVED the part where Deep Thought was enamored with the silly TV show...for what that is worth. Personally, for all of the cheese and bad effects, I FAR more enjoyed the BBC TV series over the movie...and the original radio dramas were the version of The Guide that I enjoyed the most!
I know very little about a Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy or Marvin. But the end made me tear up. Marvin, who has served all his life and waited for eternities has never been treated with care. He gets carried up to the mountains and can finally rest with a apology from god himself. Wow.
The part that really gets to me, is that Marvin sounded so... Relieved upon reading the last message. And his use of Arthur's name when he says Goodbye, only hammers it harder. He never used Arthur's name prior, and when he did? He sounded... Happy. If Marvin had a mouth, he would have gone out with a Serene Smile. I guess having to read god's last message, gave him the peace he never could have felt alone.
I do feel bad for Marvin, but he did, you know, *purposefully didn't tell the crew they were entering a stunt ship designed for the sole purpose of flying into a sun.* They also didn't deliberately abandon him on Frogstar. He has a "brain the size of a planet", but instead of using that to possibly escape the things that make him miserable, he continues to wade through them like some sort of masochistic cycle in order to *stay* miserable. You should treat everyone with kindness, true, but the sad truth is that people have limits to what they're willing to put up with. Depression is one thing; abject universal loathing is completely different.
If I remember, his personality was programmed to be incredibly Cynical to the point of Ridiculousness. He even laments that he has the Brain the Size of a Planet, but Cannot feel Joy. He's literally unable to be anything _But_ Cynical, due to his Hardwired personality. The fact that he effectively Dies with a Genuine sense of Joy is what makes this scene have such impact. The only time he truly felt Joy, was when he was dying.
If only someone ordered him to be happy for once. Funnily enough if someone did tell Marvin just to be happy he would have the best problem in the galaxy (to him anyways) to solve: To solve how to defy his very own coding.
Considering Marvin always reminded people his brain was "the size of a planet", maybe someone should have asked him to determine what exactly was the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything to which the answer is 42? It would finally given him a task worthy of his claimed processing power and if he actually determined the ultimate question, it might have even given him a certain peace of mind. If nothing else, it would have kept him occupied for some 10 million years. I WOULD call that "job satisfaction". ;-) Sincerely, Bill
@@Redfern42 He stated right before they were separated because they were falling into a star that he was perfectly aware of the question, but had kept it to himself because he didn't have much reason to think anyone cared about what he said.
To Marvin: I'll miss you Marvin, you miserable git. ;.;7 Such a sad and profound moment. It pulls at your heartstrings and is such a tearjerker. I guess this is why I love this series
I imagine the Sirius Corporation decided to give a unlimited limited warranty on all the robots it built, where the cost of some repairs and replacement parts wasn't covered (including certain diodes along many robots left sides.) That way they could just keep making the same models of robots each year and still make a profit.
God accidentally makes the universe. Angel: damn it! We made a universe full of living organisms again! God: eh, just leave an apology somewhere for them.
The truest irony is that the Syrus Cybernetics Corporation (the company that built Marvin) is known for building the shittiest robots in the galaxy, but Marvin (who actively wanted to die) was so well-built that he suffered through the entire history of creation- THIRTY SEVEN TIMES OVER. Maybe not the intention, but it's the most perfect deception of what depression must feel like I've ever seen- an unappreciated infinity of pain, your glorious potentials never able to be met, infinitely treated like shit by everyone around you and forced to do the most menial tasks for a literal eternity while everyone just gets annoyed at you for being sad.
Its important and humorous to note this is God's LAST message to the universe, not the most important or relevant message. Its just because its (presented as) written by God that people both within the universe(s) of the novels and outside assume it will (try to) explain deep concepts, until they actually read it.
Never actually seen or heard this full scene before...every bit as tragic as it ought to be. Great work on all the animations. Have you considered doing the bit with Agrajag in the temple of hate?
Now that you say that, I don't think I ever finished this book either. Strange. I remember reading 3 of the Hitchhiker books, but I don't even remember half of it. I remember bits here or there, though. But I don't even remember half of this scene (I do remember Marvin walking in circles in the desert).
@@hioeo So long And Thanks For All The Fish was IMHO just kind of boring. Arthur falls in love and ... sure there's more but, that't really about it. There was a fun scene of him and Finchurch making love in the clouds. I seem to remember them almost getting hit by a jumbo jet which surprised a few passengers. Not just the sight of seeing two flying people...but naked ones to boot. I didn't remember this scene either and I know I finished all of them...Including Mostly Harmless.
@@jeremyheminger6882 Mostly harmless was rather weird, it was the one where the Grebulons don't invade earth but try to work out how astrology works, and Arthur Dent spends much of the book making sandwiches on a primitive planet before having to look after a daughter he wasn't aware of. Ford Prefect meets Elvis and is basically james bond for the whole book. And unlike all the other books, it had a proper Ending. Although it was a massive downer, of course.
@@SymbioteMullet Douglas Adams apologized for Mostly Harmless later. He said he was "in a very dark place" when he wrote it...and you can tell. It was a book I highly anticipated...then read once and never re-read again. It was bloody horrid. Unfortunately, he was interrupted in fixing this with a subsequent novel by the unexpected arrival of a heart attack while ironically on a treadmill. Seems that God has a bit of a sense of humor too...
I was wondering about that as well. I thought i knew the chronology of the various iterations of the story across the different media, but clearly i was mistook. Im downright fuzzlewhompussed...
Good Stuff - I love book 4 because of Fenchurch. Thanks so much for this small glimpse. An animated version of the books is about the only thing they have yet to do (If you don't count the games)
I connected with the character much better in the radioplay than the book. Jane Horrocks really brings her to life in a way that Douglass Adams wasn't able to with written words alone.
I've had a slight crush on Fenchurch ever since I read "So long..." decades ago when I was a teenager. I'd developed an idea of how she would look, speak and carry herself. So this video comes as a bit of a shock, as does the realisation that others don't share my view of what she is like. But I still reckon my idea of Fenchurch is more accurate. ;)
Love these animations to what seems to be the original BBC Radio 4 audio. I always adored Marvin. All of the characters are fantastic, including The Book itself. Thank you for sharing so we all can enjoy it. Share and enjoy, share and enjoy......
probably the saddest moment in the radio series, followed by Fenchurch's vanishing, not as bad since he finds her again :) Then again, Marvin is also found to be happy in the last instalment as well. stll a touching moment though. Thanks again for an awesome animation
Adam Warner and david2869 the reunion only occurred in the radioplay adaptation of Mostly Harmless. The book MH ended with the erasure of all existences of Earth in all parallel universes. They erased Earth from ever happening. The radioplay added a denoument scene at Milliways where the dolphins whisked everyone to safety.
Deniz Kamber in the radio series she is a waitress at the restaurant at the end of the universe but since the hexagonal phase, she ends up finding Arthur on his beach if my memory serves me correctly
I would've seen if I could find his "planet-sized brain" inside of him, take it out, & save it until I could find another unused robot to put it in, & try to boot him up again.
marvin was fantastic in every way. thankyou nick page i...i think i feel quite good about it, good bye, arthur.............-marvin the paranoid android
what I find is great about him is, he was probably one of the first thoroughly depressed characters in popular media that the audience was encouraged not just to tolerate, but to appreciate him, despite his profuse emotional problems. A lot of people like Marvin need that kind of friendship. Putting it in a popular fictional character is a great way to encourage that, especially if education isn't doing a good job of it.
I loved this scene so much, that after finishing the book I found it completely hard to start reading the next. It's been years now, and I still haven't read the fifth and sixth in the "trilogy". But until now the idea of Marvin, and the ironically simple profundity of the Gods' Last Message still gets me for how drastically human it has been all along. If I met the god/s, whoever, whatever, and however many they are, and they said the same thing to me, I'd laugh and cry and be angry and finally just give 'em a big hug.
To see Marvin go after waiting on death for so long was truly something. Sad that's he's gone but happy for him nonetheless. Miserable Git. I'll miss him.
Douglas Adams spent his entire life trying to free the English people from the mindset they are trapped in.. We really need someone like him now. 💗 Citizens not Subjects..
How have you not been commissioned yet!!! you need to put these it all together, to make a six hour Hitchhiker fest Id pay to watch that. I was gonna give you five stars but that would be insulting, your very very talented. Encore!
:') You did such a good job with this scene. It's one of my favorites of the whole series, and you nailed it perfectly! Well-done, and thank you so much for all this!
I identify so strongly with Marvin in this scene, it’s tragic, Marvin has always gotten totally screwed by the universe. The universe is a cold, uncaring place, and we all will die alone…
I am impressed that This series follows the original storyline FAR more closely than that movie, "90 minutes of my life I can never get back" would have been a better title for it.
Considering it's a radio series that has much more time to do more scenes and flesh out other world building, it kinda goes without saying that there's more from the radio than with the movie that was more of an adaptation of the show than of the books.
@@HellsFury-fu3qk The BBC series was far better than the movie. The books better than the BBC series. I would REALLY love to see the entire animated series, but can't find it anywhere.
I think I just realized why Marvin saw ‘we apologize for the inconvenience’ as God’s final words to him: his entire life has been nothing but depression and suffering, an endless string of negative occurrences that left his body and mind utterly beaten down. ‘Sorry for the inconvience’ is basically god apologizing for everything Marvin had to be put through, all the depression and negative experience; god is saying that he’s sorry that things didn’t turn out better for him.
And for the first time in an eternity, Marvin got to know what it was like for someone to truly care about him.
I just realized the absolute absurdity of this scene: A robot in a sci-fi novel found inner peace through a message from God.
That's Douglas Adams for you
Peak science fiction
Not only that, but a God who designed the Babelfish, a creature so mind-boggingly useful, that it proves he didn't exist!
marvin really is like a morality test for the people around him; hes absolutely right about nobody giving a shit about him.
the ultimate point of marvin is to treat anybody with kindness and decency, especially if its difficult to do.
I completely agree. I've listened to the radio show all the way through and I honestly can't help but sympathise with Marvin. You totally understand his behaviour too. He wants an intellectual challenge and a diode change, darn it! Is that too much to ask? 😆
The only person who really cares about Marvin is Arthur.
@@DoctorInk20
Yeah when you're in a hurry.
When happiness and kindness comes your way, give it a comfortable seat.
Marvin also treats everyone like crap and makes bad-faith assumptions about their intentions. It’s not like people didn’t want to like him.
Marvin and Arthur were actually a dichotomy. Neither of them particularly had any choice about how they moved through the universe. They could each, however, choose the attitude with which they approached the lack of control in their lives. Given lemons, Marvin squeezed them into his wounds and made himself rust. Arthur made roast beef sandwiches.
Put another way, whether you are determined to find happiness or misery, you will. It’s a theme echoed in the soul of a potted plant, who repeatedly finds his death, seemingly at Arthur’s hand, from the skies Magrathea to Stavro Meuller’s latest night club: Beta.
Coincidence is coincidence, and everyone else is going through the same crap as you. The best we can do is to try to make it a little more bearable for each other. We can love a little more. We can blame a little less. We can take long baths and eat roast beef sandwiches, and we can be ok that not everything is in our control.
"miserable git... ill miss him" probably the single most British thing to have ever been said... ever
A fitting phrase for a thombstone, I say
It brings tears to my eyes everytime I hear it.
@@KOTYAR0 i certainly hope to have that inscribed on mine
@@crimsondynamo615 Me too...or my mother's.
Marvin is my favorite character. Technically he's still at the restaurant at the end of the universe.
I know! they can visit him at any time!
Haveing lived 37 times longer than the universe itself, there are several of him at any one point in time, just never the same point in space.
Not yet actually. Last time i've checked, it wasn't the end of the universe. :P
Brain the size of a planet yet still ... Parking cars.
Technically he is alive for the entirety of the universe 37 times over.
"The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever."
RIP Stephen Moore
RIP Stephen Moore - I liked everything I saw him in!
Excuse me, I've got something in my eye (sniff)
Found him. Bit of a common name: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Moore_(actor)
I was confused, at first, then realized that I was thinking of Stephen Fry
“We apologize for the inconvenience”
That line hits like a train, right along with Marvin’s death
Poor Marvin. He sounds more angry than depressed in these scenes. Well done.
benvolio15 I think he's perfectly in his rights to be angry, he's 50,000 times more intelligent than the average human and 37 times older than the universe but he has only ever been sent on menial tasks for his entire life.
Adam Stringer the sirius cybernetics corporation must build very high quality robots if they can last that long
@@adamstringer7092 And? The real tragedy of it all is that he never improved, never worked to find his own meaning, and instead allowed himself to be sent on those menial tasks. He could have been someone, he chose not to be. He could have been happy being no one. Instead, he chose only misery longer than the span of galaxies.
Those diodes that he never changed? They're his life in miniature.
@@nathanielsmith5976 Because he is a robot, and that is the personality he was programmed with, no matter how intelligent or capable he is
@@nathanielsmith5976
Agree with your reasoning. However I think its part of the continuity of the "Hitchhiker's Guide" novels that most robots are programmed as well as legally required to be servants to organic beings
“We apologize for the inconvenience”
Wow...
Yes, a BRILLIANT line. And quite understated, as was Douglas' wont. For a confirmed atheist, he really knew God.
And people just remember 42.
@@YodaWhat "confirmed atheist" sounds like you are calling him gay. He and richard dawkins were good friends and he called himself a radical atheist
@@frantic5679 they only made a movie about the first book
He needs a hug.
*_“put me down, you don’t know where i’ve been”_*
the emotion in that line hits so hard
“We apologize for the inconvenience”
A truly BRILLIANT line. And quite understated, as was Douglas' wont. For a confirmed atheist, he really knew God.
“We apologize for the inconvenience.” Such a simple phrase yet so powerful
Well, done, but I've always assumed the final message was meant to be different for each individual. In the book, Marvin reads the last words himself, with no help from the others (just checked that section.)
"He read the 'e', the 'n,' the 'c,' and at last, the final 'e,' and staggered back into their arms.
'I think,' he murmured at last from deep within his corroding, rattling thorax, 'I feel good about it.'
The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever."
While the book doesn't really suggest, either way, if it's the same for everybody, it would make sense to me that the last message would be appropriate to the individual, which it certainly was to Marvin. It explains why the others don't just read it to him, because they can't read what was left for HIM.
Sorry for the super late reply, 1 year later on this comment. I'd have to check to be sure, but they only animated this, but the audio came from the radio shows. Most of the radio shows were written by Douglas Adams himself. Now I'm not sure about this one. I think it might have been recorded after Adams' passing. However he wasn't consistent with himself, so who knows if he had a vision for this sort of thing.
3D Printing Professor The third, fourth, and fifth series were recorded after his death. This video explains it well: ua-cam.com/video/vnVE7kRYaCY/v-deo.html
On the copy of the book with all 5 parts of the series (The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy) they help Marvin read each letter and it is exactly as animated.
I mean it still could be Arthur inferring the rest of the word for him.
The message that Marvin reads... who is that not completely appropriate for? I mean, you go through all that trouble just to read it...
Funny, in the CD version of the radio series they skipped the part where Marvin laughs over the fact that all the diodes down his left-hand side were never replaced. Too bad, its really funny.
Really? I've got the CDs right here and he laughs in the version I've got.
Maybe they made different versions.
Yeah, it must be your edition. He laughs in mine.
AdamFSmith The CDs have been extended from the broadcast versions...
This is better than the entire 2005 movie.
The 2005 movie had it's moments...Sam Rockwell's Zaphod was actually pretty damn good...and so was Mos Def as Ford Prefect (which I had the most concern about going into the movie). I ended up having problems with how Arthur and Trillian were written more than the others. My Dad LOVED the part where Deep Thought was enamored with the silly TV show...for what that is worth. Personally, for all of the cheese and bad effects, I FAR more enjoyed the BBC TV series over the movie...and the original radio dramas were the version of The Guide that I enjoyed the most!
I know very little about a Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy or Marvin. But the end made me tear up. Marvin, who has served all his life and waited for eternities has never been treated with care. He gets carried up to the mountains and can finally rest with a apology from god himself. Wow.
The part that really gets to me, is that Marvin sounded so... Relieved upon reading the last message.
And his use of Arthur's name when he says Goodbye, only hammers it harder. He never used Arthur's name prior, and when he did? He sounded... Happy. If Marvin had a mouth, he would have gone out with a Serene Smile.
I guess having to read god's last message, gave him the peace he never could have felt alone.
That's a good point, he usually called Arthur something related to his species.
That was beautiful!
You do THE definitive Marvin scene justice. Laughing (and crying) right along with the poor android. :)
I do feel bad for Marvin, but he did, you know, *purposefully didn't tell the crew they were entering a stunt ship designed for the sole purpose of flying into a sun.* They also didn't deliberately abandon him on Frogstar. He has a "brain the size of a planet", but instead of using that to possibly escape the things that make him miserable, he continues to wade through them like some sort of masochistic cycle in order to *stay* miserable. You should treat everyone with kindness, true, but the sad truth is that people have limits to what they're willing to put up with. Depression is one thing; abject universal loathing is completely different.
If I remember, his personality was programmed to be incredibly Cynical to the point of Ridiculousness.
He even laments that he has the Brain the Size of a Planet, but Cannot feel Joy. He's literally unable to be anything _But_ Cynical, due to his Hardwired personality.
The fact that he effectively Dies with a Genuine sense of Joy is what makes this scene have such impact. The only time he truly felt Joy, was when he was dying.
I bet you are neurotypical
I like how little Marvin cares for them until hes called a friend.
If only someone ordered him to be happy for once. Funnily enough if someone did tell Marvin just to be happy he would have the best problem in the galaxy (to him anyways) to solve: To solve how to defy his very own coding.
Ask him how much dakka is too much
Considering Marvin always reminded people his brain was "the size of a planet", maybe someone should have asked him to determine what exactly was the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything to which the answer is 42? It would finally given him a task worthy of his claimed processing power and if he actually determined the ultimate question, it might have even given him a certain peace of mind. If nothing else, it would have kept him occupied for some 10 million years. I WOULD call that "job satisfaction". ;-) Sincerely, Bill
@@Redfern42 He stated right before they were separated because they were falling into a star that he was perfectly aware of the question, but had kept it to himself because he didn't have much reason to think anyone cared about what he said.
@@Redfern42 He was asked once, and he said he knew the question, but before he could give it, something else came up, and it never came up again.
If someone ordered him to be happy, he'd reply, "Very well, but I won't enjoy it".
To Marvin: I'll miss you Marvin, you miserable git. ;.;7
Such a sad and profound moment. It pulls at your heartstrings and is such a tearjerker. I guess this is why I love this series
MercenaryX21 Fortunately he's still covered under warranty.
If only just.
....................he is 37 times older than the universe.............thats some warranty
+max harasen Longer than any iPhone that's for sure...
I imagine the Sirius Corporation decided to give a unlimited limited warranty on all the robots it built, where the cost of some repairs and replacement parts wasn't covered (including certain diodes along many robots left sides.) That way they could just keep making the same models of robots each year and still make a profit.
God accidentally makes the universe.
Angel: damn it! We made a universe full of living organisms again!
God: eh, just leave an apology somewhere for them.
The ending of the series spat in the face of this perfect send-off for Marvin, but... I couldn't bear to let him go so I'll take it.
I love your design of Marvin. It mixes the TV series' one and the movie's one perfectly
I love this guys little cartoon tributes to hitchhiker's Guide.
Soon the be not so "little". I think he plans to do the entire series!
The line that always gets me? “Goodbye... Arthurrrr...” I think that was the first time he ever called Arthur by name. It was also the last.
...It's also the tone.
He just sounds so... Relieved. Almost... Happy.
Like he's finally at peace.
@@Victor-056 It was the first time anyone apologized to him in any way.
@@harmonicajay91 Yeah. It's really tragic.
The first time anyone made a meaningful apology to him, and it was in the last embers of his life.
I just barely met this character, and yet.
It feels like I've always known him.
He's older than the universe and incredibly well travelled. If you haven't met him yet, you most likely will at some point.
“Some call him a robot. Most ca him an electronic sulking machine.”
Dude, I'm all teary eyed after Marvin plays the last great gig in the sky. Well done.
This is one of my favorite scenes from the series, and goddamn you pulled it off perfectly.
I think I feel good about this video.
37 times older than the universe itself :3 ... because of time travels and then waiting again and again :3
"We apologise for the inconvenience". Apology accepted.
The truest irony is that the Syrus Cybernetics Corporation (the company that built Marvin) is known for building the shittiest robots in the galaxy, but Marvin (who actively wanted to die) was so well-built that he suffered through the entire history of creation- THIRTY SEVEN TIMES OVER.
Maybe not the intention, but it's the most perfect deception of what depression must feel like I've ever seen- an unappreciated infinity of pain, your glorious potentials never able to be met, infinitely treated like shit by everyone around you and forced to do the most menial tasks for a literal eternity while everyone just gets annoyed at you for being sad.
Is it just me, or does Marvin look like someone who would give you a hilarious sidequest in Borderlands 2?
Its important and humorous to note this is God's LAST message to the universe, not the most important or relevant message. Its just because its (presented as) written by God that people both within the universe(s) of the novels and outside assume it will (try to) explain deep concepts, until they actually read it.
This scene is soul-tearing...
Miserable git - I'll miss him
Marvin, or Douglas Adams?
@@YodaWhat Yes. :)
Never actually seen or heard this full scene before...every bit as tragic as it ought to be.
Great work on all the animations. Have you considered doing the bit with Agrajag in the temple of hate?
Now that you say that, I don't think I ever finished this book either.
Strange. I remember reading 3 of the Hitchhiker books, but I don't even remember half of it. I remember bits here or there, though. But I don't even remember half of this scene (I do remember Marvin walking in circles in the desert).
@@hioeo So long And Thanks For All The Fish was IMHO just kind of boring. Arthur falls in love and ... sure there's more but, that't really about it. There was a fun scene of him and Finchurch making love in the clouds. I seem to remember them almost getting hit by a jumbo jet which surprised a few passengers. Not just the sight of seeing two flying people...but naked ones to boot. I didn't remember this scene either and I know I finished all of them...Including Mostly Harmless.
@@jeremyheminger6882 Mostly harmless was rather weird, it was the one where the Grebulons don't invade earth but try to work out how astrology works, and Arthur Dent spends much of the book making sandwiches on a primitive planet before having to look after a daughter he wasn't aware of. Ford Prefect meets Elvis and is basically james bond for the whole book.
And unlike all the other books, it had a proper Ending. Although it was a massive downer, of course.
@@SymbioteMullet Douglas Adams apologized for Mostly Harmless later. He said he was "in a very dark place" when he wrote it...and you can tell. It was a book I highly anticipated...then read once and never re-read again. It was bloody horrid. Unfortunately, he was interrupted in fixing this with a subsequent novel by the unexpected arrival of a heart attack while ironically on a treadmill. Seems that God has a bit of a sense of humor too...
How did I never consider that animation is the one medium that Hitchhikers could really shine in? This was great!! :=)
I had no idea they even made more radio broadcasts after the original 1970s/'80s ones. And with the original voices to boot, it seems...
I was wondering about that as well. I thought i knew the chronology of the various iterations of the story across the different media, but clearly i was mistook.
Im downright fuzzlewhompussed...
@@Damocles54 Nothing a sandwich can't fix :D
@@SeedlingNL yeah we'll meet the meat ;)
Mmmmmm sammich...
Good Stuff - I love book 4 because of Fenchurch. Thanks so much for this small glimpse. An animated version of the books is about the only thing they have yet to do (If you don't count the games)
I connected with the character much better in the radioplay than the book. Jane Horrocks really brings her to life in a way that Douglass Adams wasn't able to with written words alone.
I've had a slight crush on Fenchurch ever since I read "So long..." decades ago when I was a teenager. I'd developed an idea of how she would look, speak and carry herself. So this video comes as a bit of a shock, as does the realisation that others don't share my view of what she is like. But I still reckon my idea of Fenchurch is more accurate. ;)
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Love these animations to what seems to be the original BBC Radio 4 audio. I always adored Marvin. All of the characters are fantastic, including The Book itself.
Thank you for sharing so we all can enjoy it. Share and enjoy, share and enjoy......
probably the saddest moment in the radio series, followed by Fenchurch's vanishing, not as bad since he finds her again :) Then again, Marvin is also found to be happy in the last instalment as well. stll a touching moment though. Thanks again for an awesome animation
NOOOOOO YOU JUST SPOILED THE BOOK FOR ME
I don't recall Arthur finding Fenchurch again in the books. I think I would remember that!
Adam Warner and david2869 the reunion only occurred in the radioplay adaptation of Mostly Harmless. The book MH ended with the erasure of all existences of Earth in all parallel universes. They erased Earth from ever happening. The radioplay added a denoument scene at Milliways where the dolphins whisked everyone to safety.
TheCuriosCrab in the book there was nothing about Fenchurch after she vanished
Deniz Kamber in the radio series she is a waitress at the restaurant at the end of the universe but since the hexagonal phase, she ends up finding Arthur on his beach if my memory serves me correctly
7:16 Just brought me to tears. A final screw you from the universe to Marvin after his literally eternities x37 of suffering
Yea! Thank you for animating this clip.
Haven't heard it in years.
This was heartbreaking. If I was Arthur, I would've taken as much as Marvin as I could. He at least deserved a burial.
I would've seen if I could find his "planet-sized brain" inside of him, take it out, & save it until I could find another unused robot to put it in, & try to boot him up again.
I miss Marvin :( and Fenchurch for that matter :(
Another wonderful video Nick! I love to see moments like this visualised :)
marvin was fantastic in every way. thankyou nick page
i...i think i feel quite good about it, good bye, arthur.............-marvin the paranoid android
what I find is great about him is, he was probably one of the first thoroughly depressed characters in popular media that the audience was encouraged not just to tolerate, but to appreciate him, despite his profuse emotional problems. A lot of people like Marvin need that kind of friendship. Putting it in a popular fictional character is a great way to encourage that, especially if education isn't doing a good job of it.
I knew that would make me sad. I watched it anyway. I am filled with regret.
Marvin deserved a happy ending. And this was the closest thing he was going to get.
This is freakin' incredible! I listened to all of the series/phases throughout high school, and I've just started to rediscover them again.
RIP Stephen Moore, at last there is no more pain in all your diodes down your left side 😪
is he the guy that voiced Marvin? it's been a while
Making Marvin look like a Borderlands Psycho is perfect for both series
Marvin nooooooooo.
He was my favorite character in the whole series and they killed him off, he didn't deserve to go like this 😢😭
On the other hand no one will live as long as he did. And probably not as miserable as he did.
The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.
Hey Silver, what flag is your PFP?
7:44 It literally took GOD HIMSELF to cheer Marvin up
It looks like UA-cam is recycling this one again in 2020. It never gets old though, as great as ever.
I loved this scene so much, that after finishing the book I found it completely hard to start reading the next. It's been years now, and I still haven't read the fifth and sixth in the "trilogy". But until now the idea of Marvin, and the ironically simple profundity of the Gods' Last Message still gets me for how drastically human it has been all along. If I met the god/s, whoever, whatever, and however many they are, and they said the same thing to me, I'd laugh and cry and be angry and finally just give 'em a big hug.
To see Marvin go after waiting on death for so long was truly something. Sad that's he's gone but happy for him nonetheless.
Miserable Git. I'll miss him.
Douglas Adams spent his entire life trying to free the English people from the mindset they are trapped in.. We really need someone like him now. 💗
Citizens not Subjects..
Beautifully done sir. Thank you for doing these, I'm enjoying them hugely :-)
Very sad but beautiful - always sad to see Marvin and his diodes
Great animation indeed
Only Douglas Adams could have produced something as wonderful and quaint as this... Thank you for making this too.
How have you not been commissioned yet!!! you need to put these it all together, to make a six hour Hitchhiker fest Id pay to watch that. I was gonna give you five stars but that would be insulting, your very very talented. Encore!
Karaoke Trucker Me too.
Marvin was not made to make others happy. He was made to make other APPRECIATE being happy.
This probably is one of my favorite scenes from the series. It's funny like the rest but with a good sense of seriousness to it.
Thank you for this, truly. I just finished the series today and this clip has been the first to make me feel somewhat better about Marvins death.
This robot is the definition of "overqualified"
That’s why he’s so depressed.
"Miserable git! ......I'll miss him!" XD
:')
You did such a good job with this scene. It's one of my favorites of the whole series, and you nailed it perfectly! Well-done, and thank you so much for all this!
"I'm quite used to waiting, you know."
Fuck me, I can relate.
If you 😢 listen carefully. You can hear the telescope timer go out at the moment of Marvin's end.
What the last surviving humans will see at the end of 2020, just before the meteor hits or the sun explodes or something.
It makes sense doesn't it.
"I have cancer."
Insert God's last message.
*wipes tear*
Only just caught up with this labour of love. Very nice work indeed.
He needs a hug... ASAP.
Thank you very much! ! Absolutely wonderful!
One of the most underrated characters in the universe
Poor Marvin.
Thank you, Nick ! So very well done. You put a lot of effort in your animations. 👍👍
Poor Marvin. I was actually sad when he finally went to silicon heaven, although he probably deserved his eternal rest.
I identify so strongly with Marvin in this scene, it’s tragic, Marvin has always gotten totally screwed by the universe.
The universe is a cold, uncaring place, and we all will die alone…
Rest on peace you brilliant miserable robot
Rust in peace, old friend.
They also need to continue this and have Random Frequent Flyer Dent put in an appearance and finish the rest of the story.
Holy crap I don't remember him being this harsh in the book.
Of all the characters in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Marvin was my favorite.
You're back! And with one of the best scenes too! Hurrah!
Say what you will about the Sirius cybernetics corporation, but they built their products to last
I don’t know why… but this made me cry.
This was my favorite chapter
Dang the feels in this one...
He has a planet sized brain so he is constantly depressed.
This was beautifully done!
gods final message to marvin was an apology for his life of pain and misery.....
I am impressed that This series follows the original storyline FAR more closely than that movie, "90 minutes of my life I can never get back" would have been a better title for it.
Considering it's a radio series that has much more time to do more scenes and flesh out other world building, it kinda goes without saying that there's more from the radio than with the movie that was more of an adaptation of the show than of the books.
It was a radio play first, the book has a divergent story
@@HellsFury-fu3qk The BBC series was far better than the movie. The books better than the BBC series. I would REALLY love to see the entire animated series, but can't find it anywhere.
@@Rkenton48 I don't think there's an official animated series
@@HellsFury-fu3qk Bummer
The end of this scene always made me tear up when I read it