“I just read another review that says, in essence, that the crucial line that connects this story to the Hitchhiker’s Guide universe was cut out in editing. And Douglas Adams himself, upon finding this out, was basically like, “Well, yeah. It wouldn’t make any sense without that.”
I’d like to think they’d put it back in. On the other, hand, having it this way really reinforces the idea of the whole series, which is that the universe is mostly random and nobody knows what the fuck they’re doing. “