Day 513: City of Death Part 4

The story comes to its natural conclusion here. It's worth mentioning that beneath all of the banter, there is a story here, and one that is actually quite interesting. It revolves around an alien creature that, whilst trying to take off in their spacecraft from Earth 400 million years ago, accidentally exploded, giving both the primordial ooze on Earth the spark to create life (and thus creating all human life), and splintering the alien creature through time. Naturally, he's a but miffed about this and spends much of the story trying to return back to that point through using a time machine of his own devising to save both himself and his species.

This is all a fantastic idea, and reveals much of why City of Death is so good. Yes, the direction, music, performances and dialogue are all fantastic, but they're useless without a good story at the heart of things. Adams succeeds in ideas as well as dialogue, providing something that's fun, unique and interesting, and then constructing a story around it. And it just so happens that everything that was constructed around this story worked perfectly well for the story that Adams had written, giving us something that was truly exquisite.