firehawk12
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https://twitter.com/theaarondouglas/status/802946177750532097Oh, that was full on intentional (I mentioned it as soon he appeared in the 'OT' thread - sadly there was no real OT for this). Landis is a fanboy and when Aaron Douglas asked 'what's my character' he probably just pointed to Plinkett as a base. He made something great out of Gordon Rimmer as his own character though. The meta aspect just makes it more fun to watch.
Dirk Gently was surprisingly entertaining, with Dirk and Todd being a main draw for it, and that nobody knows wtf is going on. I felt excited for its new episodes, whereas I felt nothing but 'oh we have to do this now, sigh' for Westworld past episode six. Completely expectation reversal on those two shows, where one had an amazing pilot but failed to deliver on its promising aspects and the other had a zany, kind of messy, pilot, but completely delivered on its premise.
I was surprised Landis was able to pull that off, honestly. Very unexpected. (also, he got soooooooo lucky on Samuel Barnett playing Dirk, like holy shit. Can you imagine someone else trying to play that part? )
The fact that I want to talk about this show more than about AmazingMazingMazeWorld kind of says it all. Great music in both though.
I just decided to google his name to see if anything came up and he says he never heard of Plinkett. Oh well. lol
And yeah, I marathoned the show and it really works well. I was a bit thrown off since it is nothing like the BBC Dirk Gently from a while ago, but once I got over that, it works. I almost feel like this is a more successful version of what Preacher tried to do.