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Originally Posted by yossarin
This movie was mostly bad. Hitchhiker was not a love story, so why the triangle happened was a big mistake. It was enough that Arthur and Zaphod met earlier at a party, but it should have ended at that. I didn't buy the romance/jealousy angle and it distracted from the movie. That said, the flashback to how Arthur and Trillian met was histerical. They never showed that scene in the BBC version.
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Actually, they did show a tiny bit of that scene on the BBC TV series. It's in one of the Guide entries - you see Arthur talking to a girl, then Zaphod's arm around her shoulders, and if you listen closely you hear his pickup line about being from another planet. There was a scene of this in the Infocom game too, and I think it comes up again in the later books (Mostly Harmless maybe?).
But the triangle was always there ... the basics of Arthur and Tricia meeting at a party, and Zaphod stealing her away. They just emphasized it more in this movie than other versions. HHGTTG did become something of a love story in later books, with Arthur and Fenchurch in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.
Incidentally, there's another
Hitchhiker thread over on the Sci-Fi/Fantasy board.