#dghda s3

two months ago, i posted this more as a joke, and got more than a hundred responses asking me to actually do this. well... ask and you shall receive!

One Septendecillion Brass Doorknobs

The cogs and circuits of the great machine of inter-connectedness are once again in motion. A Thing is missing. In fact, several things are missing, and they have to be returned to their rightful owners. After a whole month of peace and quiet, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency has two whole new cases to solve. And what a fine pair of cases they are.

The journey will start close to home and venture beyond the Earth, far into the cosmos. It will connect an old professor (and his young friend), a paranoid billionaire, world’s worst mercenary and a band of mysterious twenty-somethings in a cool van.

Yes, the Rowdy Three are also there. Yes, there is more than one cool van in this book.

(You can’t go wrong with a cool van)

Read on to discover more of Dirk’s past and Amanda’s future, of the successes and errors of Black Wing supervisor Adams, of unspoken feelings and disappearing music boxes and meanings lost in translation.

Oh, and could there be someone watching this all from behind the reality curtains?..

The scenario in my head was that Dirk calls Thor in for a favour, and Thor turns up as this giant terrifying bearded Viking dude with about 5 different weapons on him, and Dirk has to break the news to him that he just needs him to work reception at the agency

Hello everyone, thank you for being interested in the project! Here’s what you need to know:

Basic idea: The basic idea is to write season three of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency in script form in a way so that it could potentially be produced as a radio show, just like in the good old Douglas Adams time. (Reason: Ideate Media already seemed interested in a Dirk radio show and a possible production would be less expensive. Plus: A radio show script is a bit closer to an actual book, thus more enjoyable to read for others and easier to write.

Genre: Since we already had a “murder mystery” and a fantasy season I’d like to go into thesci-fi direction for season three.

Plot: We focus on the show bible (https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.zen134237.zen.co.uk/Dirk_Gently/Dirk_Gently_-_Bible.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjHuMCW2uXdAhVBHSwKHS8DBaIQFjAAegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw09oiiGLb2MlcnhcKLjoxM4) and keep the tone of the show. I plan on working with what we already know about season three (hyperintelligent lethal children kidnapping an alien, the broken universe with Amanda having to fix it, Dirk x Assistent romance, Farah joining Blackwing, Bart/Ken(/Priest) ‘villain’ team, Mexican Funeral reunion, Friedkin’s new job in the void, Dirk’s little agency and also include the already mentioned holistics Marjory Teeple, Kevin Nothiere and Roose Fryburn.

How do I plan on doing this whole thing? 1. We hope that enough people want to join in as writers. Best case scenario: 8-12 people. 2. Depending on how many people we are in the end, we agree on how many episodes we want. 3. We all brainstorm together to come up with a case, the most important plot points 4. Characterizations for the new characters (Roose Fryburn, Kevin Nothiere, Marjory Teeple and others) 5. Separate stories (including a character development arc) which work with the case for our main characters 6. We fit the most important plot points for the season into the episodes to get a rough structure for the story, then add details. 7. Beginning with the first half of the season, the writers form teams (2-3 people) and each team will work on a episode. 8. After that’s done we repeat the same process with the second half of the season. 9. Possible rewriting and proof reading 10. Celebrate

Deadlines: I was thinking of not strictly putting up deadlines but agree to try and get this whole thing finished over the span of a year plus maybe one or two months. For example: Plotting and outlining the whole thing: 3 months. Writing the first half: 3 months. Writing the second half: 3 months. Rewriting and proof reading: 3 months.

How we communicate with each other: I made a discord server and will send everyone who’s an active part of the project the link to it. Optionally, in case everyone’s okay with it, we could also open up a WhatsApp chat.

And since I started this whole thing I’d do my best to play the role of the supervisor and keep everything going and flowing.

That’s basically all I got for now.

Dirk Gently desperately needs the views. If we have any hope of getting a third season this is it.

More importantly: if you haven’t got Netflix SIGN UP. They offer the first month FREE. Sign up, watch the season (as many times as possible) then cancel your subscription a month later.

So, everything I've seen relating to this concept had been that 'universe destroying' is one whole phrase that is used as a descriptor and I'm wondering if maybe that isn't what max meant? When I first saw it I thought it meant that the big bad universe would destroy Amanda, so like.. the opposite of what everyone's interpreting it as, and that's a concept that terrifies me just as much.

Like just imagine how that would go- everyone agrees that destroying the universe seems really ooc for Amanda, who is wonderful and set up to be a literal saviour of the world so instead picture this:

-amanda brotzmann sets out to find more dirks and barts and rowdies. She's made peace with her visions but they still hurt and they're confusing and each time they get a little shorter and more cryptic but she's so dedicated that she puts herself in increasingly dangerous situations just to find out more (we already saw this happen with the train when she was looking for the boys)

- she won't give up. Of course she won't give up. She's a freakin' witchikookoo and she's got the universe behind her, right?

-wrong

-the universe doesn't give a shit about her as an individual. The universe is barely even sentient, it just needs to be fixed so it pushes and pushes and pushes and Amanda gives it everything

-everyone can see that she's getting in too deep, and anyone who tries to tell her so gets shut down or pushed away because this is her fight, remember? She was made for this

- and so she gathers the tools, ignores the danger, ignores her injuries because she's not the body she's the consciousness and who cares if she gets shot so long as she can do her job?

So you probably have already seen, like, 1000 posts like these and I also have to admit that I’ve only started watching this show a few weeks ago, but honestly: GO WATCH DIRK GENTLY!!!

Even though I have only started watching it so recently, it has already grown to be one of my most favourite tv shows EVER. I was instantly hooked after having seen only 1 episode and I’ve been obsessed ever since.

Unfortunately, this show is super underrated, although it’s extremely funny, exciting and just overall weird! It’s got everything from time travelling, time loops and great, meaningful friendships to badass women, an eccentric detective who doesn’t look for clues, his grumpy assistant and more. It’s a thrilling murder mystery with several parallel plot lines, which don’t seem connected in the beginning, but eventually come together and create one big, beautiful picture.