Quote Originally Posted by Freya View Post
That's creative licensing for you! The problem with the comic book is it couldn't expand as well on a character as the show can. You can actually see their emotions change in real time. You have a panel for each in the book. So they took some liberties to expand on some characters and change the story around that. I think it works, and just like any show/movie that's translated from something else, you have to remember that while they have same title and same characters and same settings, they are two completely different things.
Hitchhiker's Guide is a prime modern example of that. Book, t.v., movie, radio, and live action all had their own, pretty different, versions of the same basic story.