dirk gently  books are good

dirk gently the tv series is psycho, but the characters are also lame, and the plot watered down with horse-piss by making dirk gently a "CIA project"

why take a wonderous and fanciful story, that people will be delighted to find out about,  and then water it down to the mundane  

"let's do something totally different, that's exactly like everything that we've done before !!!" - some studio executive

civilisation has jumped the shark, needs to be reset