From: mei141@cck.coventry.ac.uk (PH)
Subject: Re: Trillian TV question
Organization: Coventry University
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:51:37 GMT

In article <004117a.3.724618618@axe.acadiau.ca> 004117a@axe.acadiau.ca (KIM AYRES) writes:
>In article <1gp0voINNhe2@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> s890412@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Chris Diffey) writes:
>>From: s890412@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Chris Diffey)
>>Subject: Re: Trillian TV question
>>Date: 17 Dec 1992 04:51:04 GMT
>>mcginnis-john@cs.yale.edu (John McGinnis) writes:
>>>In article <8f_wZJu00aw5IdaVpy@andrew.cmu.edu> Jason Paul Togyer <jt3y+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>>
>>>> published?  Maybe DA originally planned to make Trillian a
>>>> bimbo/airhead, and later decided it would be more interesting to make
>>>> her one of the more logical and levelheaded people around?  
>>>> 
>>
>>>Well, first of all, I have to say that I have the misfortune of never seeing
>>>the TV series, so I can't comment on the bimboness of Trillian in that medium.
>>>However, I have read the scripts (many times) and I have the CD's of the radio
>>>show, so I do have a feeling as to how she was originally meant to be played,
>>>and I think I can safely say that she wasn't meant to be a bimbo.  First of
>>>all, she does have a degree in math and another in astrophysics.  Plus, she
>>>just doesn't have the voice of a bimbo.  You know, it isn't all bubbly or
>>>anything.  She sounds pretty smart.
>>
>>>Oh well.  These are just my impressions and probably mean absolutely nothing.
>
>>But what the heck, I might as well post them...  :-)
>>
>>I agree how can she be a bimbo I mean Zaphod is far more a bimboish character 
>>then trillian is, ("whats the z for?" "which one?" "any one!") she is the
>>only one that knows how to drive the heart of gold. etc. She and Ford are the
>>only real froods in the story, just as an aside ford chose his name for
>>his assignment on Earth ("the minimal research he had done suggested the name
>>Ford Prefect would be nicely inconspicuous") How come Zaphod calls him
>>Ford throughout the story? shouldn't he only know his real name from the
>>small planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse? and before you say that he told
>>him before he left, Zaphod didn't know Ford was there when he went to the
>>party in Isilington and picked up Trisha.
>>-- 
>>| |/ /		                Chris Diffey                                   |
>>|   < URGAN		s890412@minyos.xx.rmit.edu.au                          |
>>| |\ \  	_______________________________________________________________|
>
>
>
>There's a simple explanation as to why Ford is refered to as Ford even after 
>he has left Earth: remember that everyone has a babel-fish in their ear. 
>This means that whatever Ford is called by Zaphod, it will be transelated 
>into the name that Arthur (or we) heard first.
>
>                          KIM AYRES
>                       Acadia U. Nova Scotia

Nice idea, but not true.  In the Radio Scripts, Adams explains that before
going to Earth, Ford changed his name by the Galactic equivelant of Deed Poll,
which is a lengthy process.  Hence everyone will now call him Ford.  Adams 
also adds that an explanation was to be put in the book, but it was so long
it was left out.

Another thing to add is that Zaphod, according to HHGTTG, is that he is more
intelligent than he cartes to let on, but will often appear stupid so no one
will actually know if he is being stupid or not.

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

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