Tell me about Jeremiah.

[redhawk]

Out of curiousity...

No, of course, JMS has definitely mucked up a lot of times... hell, I think the whole end of Sleeping in the Light is terrible and illogical, not to mention him going back on his word that he'd never be in the series. Then there's the whole Legend of the Rangers pilot, which I thought was mostly sub-par for him.

What was so terrible and illogical about the ending to Sleeping in Light? I rather liked it. As far as never being in the show itself - he's allowed, I think, to turn the lights off on his creation before it gets smoked. It's a five-second shot, if that. It's not exactly artistic hubris that wrecks the plot here.

Legend of the Rangers - sigh. Have to agree with you there. What we got was kinda lame in the particulars.

Redhawk

 

[Staffan]

A little 'net research;

The author is a Belgian artist named Hermann Huppen. Amazon has two of the 20-someodd graphic novels in stock; these are apparently adaptations, rather than straight translations but I can't find any other sources right now. The two books are Jeremiah: Gun in the Water , and Jeremiah: Mercenaries.

The TV show and the graphic novel are pretty much totally different. The only similarities are (a) the main characters are called Jeremiah and Kurdy, and (b) it's post-apocalyptic.

 

[LightPhoenix]

What was so terrible and illogical about the ending to Sleeping in Light? I rather liked it. As far as never being in the show itself - he's allowed, I think, to turn the lights off on his creation before it gets smoked. It's a five-second shot, if that. It's not exactly artistic hubris that wrecks the plot here.

Well, the part that bothered me most was the destruction of B5. While the IA governing body was on Minbar (something I'm not sure would have been agreed to anyway), Babylon 5 would likely have still endured as an semi-independant trading outpost - that's too important a function to be simply tossed aside. And I don't believe that the Human government would have been so quick to dismiss that, especially since they had a large part in setting it up and running it.

And the part with him blowing up the station just range extremely cheesy with me... especially since he had stated he wasn't going to make an appearance on the show at all, with vehemence. It really was nothing more than that - completely gratuitous. It's not like he even spurned the B5 universe after that anyway - the movies, Crusade, LotR, and now TMoS, what ever that is.

 

[hong]

He was a bullfrog. He was a good friend of mine.

Curses. Aeolius does this better than me.

 

[Jamdin]

I greatly enjoyed the show and recommend getting the DVD if you have the chance.