![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps I merely feel let down by the suggestion that men will be pleased by such a display. However, the characters these men play do at least dress for the occasion. She claims that this is because they are such fabulous actors but I suspect there may be something a little more superficial in her choices as well. My daughter will watch anything with Tom Hiddleston or Benedict Cumberbatch in it. I do not expect those responsible for providing us with entertainment to stop using good looking men and women in their productions. ![]() I suspect it has been put there purely in an attempt to please the male members of the audience. Now, before everyone starts telling me this is meant to be a light hearted and funny show, and if I am going to start arguing about practicality then perhaps I should be talking about sperm whales falling out of the sky, may I just say that I could accept Trillian’s state of undress if it had an amusing explanation as so many of the other improbabilities in the show have. ![]() Arthur Dent’s pyjamas and dressing gown make more sense, the ridiculousness of his attire suiting his goofy character and therefore adding humour. That state of undress is not how an intelligent woman would choose to dress on a daily basis, and certainly not how she would choose to explore an unknown and possibly dangerous planet, even in a comedy show. Trillian is supposed to be attractive but also incredibly clever. I watch a TV show like Hitchhiker’s and think, none of this is new. I do not follow celebrity gossip but these incidents were hard to ignore as they spawned so much news coverage with a plethora of ‘open letters’ being written and many column inches being devoted to discussion of young females in the limelight, wicked middle aged marketing men and the impact of our current culture on the apparently malleable minds of young people. Over the past few months there have been several, well publicised outrages over Miley Cyrus, her twerking and a wrecking ball video. These practices irritate me, but not as much as a TV show that is supposed to be watchable for it’s wit yet takes a supposedly intelligent, female character and dresses her just so impractically. Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that women on TV are usually selected to be pleasing to the eye. The rich and famous regularly appear sporting arm candy along with their sharp suits and orange skin, businesses everywhere use booth babes to grab attention for their product. Now, as a woman, I am always aware that I may just not be ‘getting’ the apparent need of the opposite sex to gaze at exposed, female flesh. The film version does at least choose clothes that are a bit more comfortable and practical I mean, if you are a brilliant mathematician and astrophysicist would you choose to explore space and unknown planets dressed like this? I however am struggling to enjoy it, mainly because of the representation of the character Trillian. They were right in that my son is more impressed, despite the obvious ageing of the show (it was first broadcast in the early 1980’s). Having Martin Freeman in it helped, but not enough for my son.įriends suggested that we may get on better with the TV series so we have been watching that this weekend. It is some time since I last read these so I was watching the film more as a standalone piece of entertainment and found it amusing enough. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy film was spoiled for my son by both minor and major changes which he felt took away from the humour which makes the books so good. Radical and apparently pointless changes are just irritating though. It is understandable that not everything in a book can be included in a two or three hour screening so certain aspects of the plot may need to be adjusted to allow a more natural flow. When a film maker finds a fabulous story why does he then feel the need to change it? Fans of the book are likely to be amongst the film’s audience and are unlikely to appreciate such needless tinkering. Too often I find this to be the case when a book is adapted for the big screen. I remembered that my husband and I had felt a bit let down by the film when we first watched it. It is a few years since we last watched this so it seemed like a good plan. My elder son has just reread the books for the umpteenth time so, last weekend, requested the film for our Saturday night family viewing. We have the wonderful radio series on CD as well as the TV series and film on DVD. I recently bought a replacement set of the trilogy of five books as our originals were falling apart from overuse. My family are big fans of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. ![]()
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