From: tara@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Lady Johanna Constantine)
Subject: Re: Trillian TV question
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 17:51:15 GMT

mei141@cck.coventry.ac.uk (PH) writes:

>In article <923209143202@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk> Simon Jerram<EEE90053@IBM3090.BHAM.AC.UK> writes:
>>>protonen@daimi.aau.dk (Lars J|dal) writes:
>>>
>>>>tuffyd@bray1a.its.rpi.edu (Devin 'Nice Guy' Tuffy) writes:
>>>
>>>>>In article <1992Dec4.032015.18117@husc3.harvard.edu>, mastr@husc8.harvard.edu (claudia mastroianni) writes:
>>>>>|> In article <ByntIG.Eny@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tara@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
>>>>>|>  (Lady Johanna Constantine) writes:
>>>>>|> >I just saw some of the series at Visions 92.
>>>>>|> >
>>>>>|> >WHY THE HELL is Trillian a bimbo?
>>>>>|> >I mean, she's anything but in the books.
>>>>>|> >
>>>>>|> >LJC
>>>>>|>
>>>>>|> Bimbo may be a little harsh.  Blonde, yes.  Annoying voice,
>>>>>|> yes.  *Totally different* from the Trillian in the books?
>>>>>|> Oh, yes, most definitely.
>>>>>|>
>>>>>|> Do any of the men out there find this as annoying as I did?
>>>>>|>
>>>>>|> -- Claudia
>>>>>|>
>>>>>|> :-)~~
>>>>>|>
>>>>>   Yes. I found this extremely Annoying.
>>>>>
>>>>>Dev
>>>
>>>>And so did I. (We could really make a long thread this way :-) )
>>>>In fact, I found that I liked the book pretty much more than the TV
>>>>series. As always: Don't read the book before you see the film.
>>>>There was one exception, though. The bits from The Guide was funnier
>>>>in the TV version because of the small jokes in the background.
>>>>Like the text "Can YOU afford a Magrethean planet?" when we were
>>>>told the history of Magrethea.
>>>
>>>>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>>>>| Lars J|dal                  | Q: What's the difference between a quantum |
>>>>| email: protonen@daimi.aau.dk|    mechanic and an auto mechanic?          |
>>>>|    or: joedal@dfi.aau.dk    | A: A quantum mechanic can get his car into |
>>>>| University of Aarhus        |    the garage without opening the door.    |
>>>>| Denmark                     |                    -- David Kra            |
>>>>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>>>
>>>And so did I. (We really are making a long thread this way :^>  )
>>>The funny bits in the TV show were quite good.  My personal favorite is
>>>the look of the tractor driver when Dent is complaining about a workman
>>>who washed his windows and charged a fiver before telling him that his
>>>house was going to be knocked down.
>>>
>>>
>>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>>
>>Personnaly both TV and MH trillian's annoyed me.  I also perfer Geoff McG to
>>David Dixon in some of the Ford lines.
>>
>>Is this long enough?
>>
>>Simon


>No, I'm going to make the thread even longer.

>It was only in the tv series that Trillian was a bimbo.  In the books, she was
>a brunette.

>And whats this about a film?

>Stephen Buxton aka mei141@uk.ac.cov.cck

>disclaimer:  Opinions expressed here are not my own, but that of a small fish
>that lives in my ear.

>-- 


Wow.  I started a LONG thread.

About this film thing.  I have a freind who worked on one
draft of the screenplay.  This is what she had to say:

The producers wanted to know why 42.  Couldn't it be a bigger number?



to which she promptly replies aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggg........



LJC
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