I am curious, the name Giuseppe Garibaldi… did you get the name from the guy or the ship? I mean the guy obviously came first but just curious.

Elessar wrote:

I am curious, the name Giuseppe Garibaldi… did you get the name from the guy or the ship? I mean the guy obviously came first but just curious.

Neither.

Joe Garibaldi and Bill Sheridan were the original pairing of Rimohrs in the series.  They were named together, and represent two sets of references:

Joe & Bill:  The two detectives on Dragnet: Joe Friday, and Bill Gannon.
Garibaldi & Sheridan:  Two major characters from Babylon 5: Michael Garibaldi (chief of security), and Capt. John Sheridan (commanding officer)

Giuseppe is, I'm sure you realize, just Italian for Joseph.  There was a ship named the Giuseppe Garibaldi?  I've never heard of it...

Eric Storm

Babylon 5 was a great series.  I am cautiously optimistic about the reboot in the works, if only because J. Michael Straczynski is the showrunner and executive producer.

I am always leery of reboots.  I don't think I've ever seen one that was all that good.  (To stop the obvious onslaught:  I never watched Battlestar Galactica.)

That JMS is in charge is heartening, but he's already said the show is going to be very different, so... why even call it Babylon 5?  Just pick a new name and make a show.  Seems like just trying to garner a fan base before the show airs, really.

I will give it a try if CW ever actually airs it.  It's already been put back to next year, so...

Eric Storm

As I am sure you love your wiki links, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian … _Garibaldi It looks like a pretty newer ship though.

As for the rest of it, well I have never heard of most of that, besides Galactica, which was only in passing.

Yes, I NOW realize, much later, that Giuseppe is Italian for Joseph.

Eric Storm wrote:

Elessar wrote:

I am curious, the name Giuseppe Garibaldi… did you get the name from the guy or the ship? I mean the guy obviously came first but just curious.

Neither.

Joe Garibaldi and Bill Sheridan were the original pairing of Rimohrs in the series.  They were named together, and represent two sets of references:

Joe & Bill:  The two detectives on Dragnet: Joe Friday, and Bill Gannon.
Garibaldi & Sheridan:  Two major characters from Babylon 5: Michael Garibaldi (chief of security), and Capt. John Sheridan (commanding officer)

Giuseppe is, I'm sure you realize, just Italian for Joseph.  There was a ship named the Giuseppe Garibaldi?  I've never heard of it...

Eric Storm

Not sure I'd call 1983 a "newer" ship.  That was 29 years ago.

Not sure why the Italians felt the need to waste a billion dollars on half a carrier, either.  *shrugs*

Eric Storm

I'm about to embark on yet another re-read of WA and I thought of a question I'm not sure you were ever asked or answered (of course, I'm probably wrong). We know how failed David's relationship ultimately wound up with his parents and like you've said, there's no real reason for him to reach out to them again. That said, is that the end of the Stroud line on Earth? Are there no cousins, uncles, aunts or grandparents? Up until he became a demighost, he was portrayed as a regular kid if a bit nerdy. Most people have relatives and if that is the case perhaps... well, no... you're going to say there's no story there. So I'm just asking because I don't recall if this was ever addressed.

*shrugs and utters three-tone 'I don't know' noise*  (Why does that not have a name???)

Obviously, David was an only child, but we have no information about whether he has aunts or uncles.  Statistically, it would be odd for him to NOT have aunts or uncles.  It would imply that he is the only child of two only-child parents, which seems fairly improbable.

Thinking on it, the reason that I tend not to discuss extended families in my stories is because I didn't have one growing up.  We lived distant from our relatives for most of my childhood.  My relatives lived in Michigan and Florida, and while we did live in NY state until I was 8, we then lived in Louisiana and New Mexico.  Thus, seeing relatives was a rarity for me.

As to whether David has aunts/uncles...  I quote the Tootsie Pop narrator.

"The world may never know."



Eric Storm

I, too, just finished re-reading all 8 books. I noticed the number 42 popped up several times. Is that a Douglas Adams reference, or was there another significance?

Really?  You think there's some OTHER possible meaning to 42???

:-P

I used to fall asleep listening to the radio play.

Eric Storm

Eric Storm wrote:

Really?  You think there's some OTHER possible meaning to 42???

:-P

That's what I thought, but I've been wrong before. Many times. I've kinda made a career of it.

Eric -

Follow up question from the 8th book. At one point, the King told David that he was keeping him away from some of the things the military wanted him to do in order to keep his sanity. He also mentioned that the he (the King) didn't know if the Vrudans had demighosts and didn't want to give them any ideas in case they do. Now that the story is over, it begs the question are there Vrudan demighosts? I always thought no since demighosts cannot morph and that is a big part of being a were but I'm sure you have the definitive answer.

bigfoot wrote:

Eric -

Follow up question from the 8th book. At one point, the King told David that he was keeping him away from some of the things the military wanted him to do in order to keep his sanity. He also mentioned that the he (the King) didn't know if the Vrudans had demighosts and didn't want to give them any ideas in case they do. Now that the story is over, it begs the question are there Vrudan demighosts? I always thought no since demighosts cannot morph and that is a big part of being a were but I'm sure you have the definitive answer.

I wouldn't know, because I don't know anything about Vrudans.

Oh, did you mean Vrudenans?  You read about the damned place for over three hundred thousand words, seems like you'd remember how it's spelled...

:-P

There could be a Vrudenan demighost.  They would not be able to change shape, so they would be stuck in whatever form they were in when they died.  If they were a werewolf, stuck in human form, this would seriously suck once a month, on the full moon, when they are tortured throughout the night as their body longs to turn, but can't.  They would definitely be spending the night as a ghost.

Are there Vrudenan demighosts?  *shrugs*  I don't know, I haven't written that story yet. :evil:

Eric Storm

Eric,
I have read through ALL of WOODWARD ACADEMY series. VERY compelling reading, that got me hooked. I actually started crying while reading about the Memorial service, the Awards ceremony and Lord Woodward's discorporation ceremony. Great writing.
Thank you.

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Glad you enjoyed the series.

Thanks for the feedback.

Eric Storm

Eric I luv the entire series of Woodward Academy u r brilliant author and i also enjoyed many of ur other stories

(posted from Chapter 15: May - Zyla)

Glad to hear it.  I hope you enjoy all my future work, as well.

Eric Storm

I love this story. This is my 5th time reading it now and damn if I couldn't do another 8 books. Hope your muses can assist my addiction for this world you've created.

(posted from Chapter 15: May - Zyla)

Erm... Glad you enjoyed the series...

Don't think I have another 8 books worth of plots in me... at least not about this set of characters.  But the Dugerraverse will definitely be back in some form.  I already have two book outlines for different Dugerraverse novels.

Eric Storm

Chapter 13 is devastatingly sad. Had me in tears several times.

(posted from Chapter 13: May - Feral Moon)

Normally I would say that I'm glad you enjoyed the story, but... not sure if that's appropriate... 

So...  I'm glad you connected with the story...

Eric Storm

Maybe I should have added more in my comments so here goes.
Loved all 8 books in the Woodward Academy Series. Slow start but soon had me hooked by the end of book 1.
Loved the humor in the naming of some characters..."Eisenpatton"...these gave me a good chuckle.
These books also made my cry in portions. Death of characters you grow fond of is always hard.
I hope you continue to write.

Well, I'm glad you liked it as a whole, then.

As to the slow start, I kind of felt like he shouldn't be tasked with taking down major bad guys before he even had any real training.

(Not saying that some other, much more famous, books-long book series about wizards in training did that, or anything...  0 )

Eric Storm

I love this series. Well done yet again.

(posted from Chapter 15: May - Zyla)

Glad you enjoyed it.  Thanks for the feedback.

Eric Storm