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Is the 2016 "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" TV series a direct adaptation from the books?
The story is completely different from that of the books. The show Wikipedia page summary is below (emphasis mine):
The show is based around the eccentric Dirk Gently (Samuel Barnett) who claims ...
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Why is Coleridge needed in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?
The ghost (really an alien) was destroyed after making a terrible mistake. Several billion years later, it realised that Cambridge University presented a unique opportunity, featuring both an ...
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Why doesn't Thor go through the world divide to get to Asgard at the start of The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul?
The sea was impassable in the Valhalla dimension.
The whole sea was glowing like an infection. It was rearing itself up in the night, lunging and thrashing in a turmoil of itself and then smashing ...
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Why is Coleridge needed in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?
As an additional point in response to the original question regarding the significance of Coleridge's involvement, apparently Coleridge's completed poem (in the initial timeline) contained encoded ...
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How does Pararibulitis in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency work?
What does the Pararibulitis exactly do to the concerned person?
Trying to write an oversimplified answer if you want the details of how people would experience such a thing.
In a room, there is a ...
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Why Todd calls Dirk Gently "a monster"?
Todd assumes that,
that he (Dirk) either knew, or at least should have known, what was going to happen
He's possibly laying the blame for those who were hurt as a result of those events at Dirk's ...
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What did Dirk understand at the end of The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul?
Dirk "solved the case", which in this instance means he understood finally why all of the events in the story had happened. Well, almost all of the events. He probably still didn't ...
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Why was there a prophecy about Dirk Gently in season 2?
Or am I wrong, and in fact the prophecy comes from a more recent time, after the boy was taken to Blackwing and made friends with Dirk?
While this is a plausible explanation for the prophecy ...
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Why was there a prophecy about Dirk Gently in season 2?
The Prophecy itself appears to have come via Wakti Wapnasi (revealed in "Two Broken Fingers"), so not necessarily at the time of creation of Wendimoor.
The Boy, once restored, knew who Dirk was, so ...
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Who drew the Wendimoor mural
At least one inhabitant of Wendimoor (Wakti Wapnasi) has the ability to (fore)see the events of our world.
As to why this is, see this question.
This suggests that the murals were drawn by Wakti ...
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Is the 2016 "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" TV series a direct adaptation from the books?
Judging from the Wikipedia pages, and having read the books, it appears to me that the 2016 series deviates even more from the books than the 2010-2012 series. I don't see any shared plot points, ...
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How does Pararibulitis in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency work?
In Season 2,
We also see in season 2:
PS: Season 1 was awesome, Season 2 is possibly better. Very very well written.
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