Hitchhiker's Guide-verse vs. Star Wars

[Batman]

Doesn't affect the availability of the Mk II as that was indeed introduced in Mostly Harmless, so my bad. I guess I've just done my level best to forget that book.

[The Romulan Republic]

Alternatively, in the absence of an official canon policy one might disregard 'And Another Thing' due to not being written by Douglas Adams and simply assume the series ends with 'Mostly Harmless' (an approach I personally do not like as 'And Another Thing', while still leaving Arthur Fenchurchless, was a much superior ending to the series than Mostly Harmless, which Adams himself admitted was a pretty bleak book), so no Guide Mk II. How much that would help the Wars side is, of course, another matter-the Infinite Improbability Drive alone may be their undoing.
According to the description of the drive in the books, knowing how improbable something is is enough for the drive to make it happen, so as long as an outcome is possible (however improbable), the Drive can see to that it does.

I'd be quite content to discard And Another Thing because it wasn't written by Adams and Colfer isn't on the same level. Also, I think that as bleak as it was, Mostly Harmless felt fitting as an ending. The series was always a comedy with tragic undertones- the tragedy just became a bit more overt in Mostly Harmless.

[Whiskey144]

I'd be quite content to discard And Another Thing because it wasn't written by Adams and Colfer isn't on the same level. Also, I think that as bleak as it was, Mostly Harmless felt fitting as an ending. The series was always a comedy with tragic undertones- the tragedy just became a bit more overt in Mostly Harmless.

Quite frankly, I borderline-despise the ending in Mostly Harmless. Personally, I think a much better ending would have been to have Arthur open his eyes at the end, and find himself in some safe place, with all of his friends/family/and Fenchurch.

[The Romulan Republic]

In other words a sappy, sentimental, and implausible happily ever after.

All this is, of course, rather off-topic, however.