Hey everyone,

'Charlie Jade' co-creator Robert Wertheimer will be joining myself, Summer Brooks and Richard Porter for a very special edition of the Charlie Jade fan discussion podcast later this month.

This is a rare opportunity for you to get your 'Charlie Jade' questions answered by Robert so please share any questions or comments you have about this outstanding scifi series.

You can submit your questions/comments via the contact form on our website which is located here...

http://www.charliejade.net/contact/


Or you can simply reply to this thread as well.


Thanks,

Kevin

First of all, thanks for all you do for us.

My questions:

1. How they travel by water? What's the source for other peoples ability to shift?
2. What would've happened in Season 2?
3. Who were the Men in the Grey Suits? Where the idea came from?
4. What's the last scene's place, exactly?
5. What is this place called "Verse: Unknown" ?
6. Is there any significant connection between Charlie, Jody, Andrea, 01 and Brion? (people who can shift/have visions)
7. Who are the men who kidnapped and programmed Reena?
8. Is there any secret meaning behind Charlie's dream from episode "Bedtime Story"?

I literally just finished watching it on DVD. Excellent (and frustrating!!!).

I'll probably dream up some more overnight but:

1) Is there significance to Charlie and 01's tattoos?
2) When the link came up, it was to connect Alpha to Beta; Beta to Alpha and Gamma; Gamma to Beta (sorry to bang on...). So Beta connects to 2 others. Why then were there three portals in the Beta cooling tower? (and why did no-one notice?)
3) As time continues here in Beta, another TV series is becoming a little less likely. Are there plans to continue the story in other media?
4) The CJ website alludes to an oppressive and autocratic regime in Gamma. We saw very little of this in the series. Would this have developed in future?

Thanks very much for the replies so far. Good questions and I've added them to our list.

Please feel free to keep them coming.


Kevin

mulberry Wrote:2) When the link came up, it was to connect Alpha to Beta; Beta to Alpha and Gamma; Gamma to Beta (sorry to bang on...). So Beta connects to 2 others. Why then were there three portals in the Beta cooling tower? (and why did no-one notice?)

This was one of the items that Summer, Richard and I discussed when we recorded our last podcast covering episodes 16-20. It should be posted soon.


Kevin

Thanks for this wonderful opportunity to keep the Charlie Jade geeking alive.

Unfortunately, I think my biggest questions fall into an area Robert still doesn't want to discuss (judging from the episode commentaries), but here goes. I have always been very intrigued by the change in writing staff after episode 9. The tone definitely shifted, and while I appreciate that the scripts were tighter and more streamlined under the new staff, I did miss the dreamier, more allusive atmosphere of the early episodes. Sure, it was harder to follow and make sense of, less commercially viable, but immersing us in a disorienting and surreal atmosphere kind of made sense, given Charlie's situation.

Also, I finally watched the show after hearing Mike and Summer, et al.'s recommendations on Slice. They kept saying, "Hang on until the fifth episode, or so. After that, you really find out what's going on, it really picks up, etc." Now, I picked up on the parallel 'verses pretty quickly. Between the *-verse logos, Katie Grail's Cape Town/Cape City confusion and lack of Alphaverse ID, 01's disappearance, etc., I was tracking that part of the story early on. So, I was waiting for another big reveal as episode 4 and 5 approached. I thought I was seeing hints that rather than parallel -verses, we were seeing different points on the same timeline. Our present, the dystopian future, and the bucolic past that Vexcor hoped to mine creating the mother of all time loops and subsequent ensuing cataclysmic complications. (The autocratic regime in Gamma mulberry referred to I always took to be Vexcor's alien presence, whether in the past or a parallel -verse.) I even thought Charlie not recognizing Nelson Mandela was misdirection. In the future, once the corporations had taken over, history would have been rewritten and all references to potential beacons of freedom and liberation expunged.

Also, in one of his interviews, Robert mentions he didn't want to do a time travel story. The fact that he specifically refutes it implies to me that the creative differences that led to the change centered on that issue. A case of the man doth protest too much. So, after that long-winded introduction, my questions are, "What can Robert tell us about the change in writing staff, in general, and, specifically, was there are a dispute over the nature of the three -verses?"

I'll probably think of more, but that's the one that's really intrigues me!

Just a few more questions:

9. How the original episode 9 script looked like?
10. Last scene: Who were those other people? How 01 and Charlie ended up "connected"?

Thanks for the questions and comments posted so far.

Feel free to keep them coming.


Kevin

Hello,

I'm a huge Charlie Jade fan from France where the show was very appreciated

I've some more questions for you



- Is there still hope to see new Charlie Jade stories on TV, movie, or comic books ?
- Could you please share with us the very first lines from the 2x01 script ? ^^
- Do you watch the TV show "Fringe" ? It is very similar to CJ in some ways :
--- The observers (bold men in "Fringe", the men in grey suits in CJ).
--- The inter-universes company ("Massive Dynamics" in "Fringe", Vexcorp in CJ).
--- The side effects while traveling between universes (David Robert Jones in "Fringe", O-one-s father in CJ).
--- and probably many more exemples like these...



Thanks for keeping the Charlie Jade spirit alive

-cyb-

cyb Wrote:Hello,

I'm a huge Charlie Jade fan from France where the show was very appreciated

Very glad to hear about the many countries where Charlie Jade has fans.

Thanks for sharing your questions and welcome to the forums.


Kevin