Well, actually, the spoilers will be in the next post, so no mouseover issues come up (also they’re in spoiler tags).
I watched the movie “Jumpers” on FX yesterday, and my daughter is watching it as I type this. We’ve just seen the scene where the Paladin Randall visits David’s father.
Mr. Rice informs Randall that David’s mother decamped when David was five years old. Randall also saw a photograph of Mary Rice at Mr. Rice’s home. At the end of the film, it is revealed that Mary Rice was herself a Paladin, and she left her home when she learned that her son was a jumper, in order to protect him (because, as a Paladin, she actually had a duty to kill him then and there).
Now, with the resources at his disposal, Randall surely had knowledge of this fact about Mary when he saw her photo. And he HAD to have been able to locate her and either use her as a stalking horse to try to locate David or manipulate him into revealing himself, or at least visit some consequences upon her for her dereliction of duty.
Keeping in mind that I saw a TV version that had likely had some content edited out, is there any speculation about why he did neither of these things? Or edited content that explains it?
I haven’t seen the movie in a couple of years, but I did just finish reading Impulse by Steven Gould the other night; it’s the 3rd book about Davy (and his family).
After I finished, I went and ordered the two previous books, Jumper and Reflex. But I discovered that there is another book by Gould about jumping that isn’t really part of the series.
It seems that the producers of the film took liberties with the book and changed quite a bit of the story (and the world it is set in), and Gould helped them with the re-writes. But the movie differs so radically from the book that he actually wrote a whole new book (Jumper: Griffin’s Story) that sort of incorporates the new stuff, namely the Paladins, which don’t exist except in movie and this one book.
IIRC, tho, Randall was playing his cards close to his chest wrt Mary and he was just going to take her down when the time was ripe. In fact, wasn’t he actually planning to take David down, possibly with her help, and then take her down when David could see it happen, thus being a total cunt x2?
BTW, Impulse, which I read without reading the previous two books, was freaking excellent. It’s one of those YA novels that adults can enjoy, and it was so good in it’s characterizations and pacing and narrative structure that I couldn’t put it down. I stayed up until 4am finishing it and then had to work a 12 hour day on 1 hour of sleep. And it was well worth the trouble, which is why I then ordered the first 2 books in the series. I’m going to skip Griffin’s Story tho.