She's also more responsible than Zaphod, protecting him from himself. So it's often up to Trillian to deal with probability, like when she points out to Zaphod what improbable coincidences they are encountering, like picking up two guys from the same area where she's from (12.17-38). Now, that's a pretty clear indication of how screwed up Earth is: we have lots of jobs for bulldozer drivers to destroy houses, but no jobs for math whizzes who might be able to find the alien fleet before they destroy the Earth. What all that means is that Trillian's math and astrophysics degrees couldn't get her a job. Translation: dole = welfare queue = line. She left Earth with Zaphod because "with a degree in math and another in astrophysics what else was there to do? It was either that or the dole queue again on Monday" (13.69). As she notes to Arthur, she has a degree in math and astrophysics, but there's not a lot she can do with that on Earth. Trillian might be the smartest of the four organic main characters (Arthur, Ford, and Zaphod being the others), especially when it comes to math. (Admittedly, it's hard to get the spotlight away from Zaphod.) First, she's smart and very math-friendly second, she's what we'll call "adult-nice." Math and Other Smartness That's a real shame, because she does show off two very important qualities in those few moments when she gets some of the spotlight.
Knock yourself out, if that's your sort of thing.īut here, in the book, Trillian doesn't really get a lot to do. In fact, we don't have to imagine it: that's kind of the way the movie version does go. She definitely seems like she's supposed to be a love interest for Arthur: it's easy to imagine the Hollywood version where lovable loser Arthur accesses his inner action hero, saves the world, and ends up winning the love of Trillian. She may be beautiful and charming and intelligent-certainly, she gets the attention of both Arthur and Zaphod at that party in Islington.
So far so good, but we have to say that Trillian doesn't get to show off those qualities very often. Trillian is this amazing… oh, who are we kidding? Arthur gives Trillian a terrific description, noting that she's "Beautiful, charming, devastatingly intelligent" (13.63).
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