Comments on: Jumper and Childhood

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:24:51 +0000

> I wonder if there really was a twelve year old calling the shots.

There might have been one doing the editing too. A friend said:

“Two guys are walking around in Tokyo talking to each other. They are in Shibuya and Hayden Christensen says something, cut to the other guy who’s suddenly in Ginza and then back to Hayden in Shibuya and so on. They’re literally jumping all over Tokyo even though they aren’t teleporting in the movie.”

By: Flack

Flack — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:16:31 +0000

I think we all did the same thing as kids. I remember coming up with probably hundreds of “good ideas” for books that only got fleshed out into short stories. I was pretty good at coming up with “Twilight Zone” endings but found writing the beginning and middle too much work. And sure, lots of those stories starred “me” and were born from real situations (”what if the school’s computer geek was able to make the school’s bully head explode?”)

By: Daphne B.

Daphne B. — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:09:26 +0000

This is just to say, the book is different and (it sounds like) a lot better — the guy is still a self-centered teenager at the start, but by the end he’s… grown up a little? (Man, I make it sound crappy, but it isn’t.) Most of the “people want to kill me” thing is gone.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:23:39 +0000

What Jay isn't telling you is that he possessed many of the same Jumper skills as those in the movies. The trouble was, he didn't have the ability to transcend time, and he could only JUMP between relatively useless locations: the Home Town Deli's Space Invaders Machine, Radio Shack, the 84 Diner, the school computer lab, and his own Atari 800 computer. Like I said, not much help for the kid in his own teen and pre-teen hell. And Jay didn't do drugs, which made things worse. Alas, poor Jay has lost his Jumper abilities. Time, age and illness have robbed him of these skills. It's a sad, sad world.