Graphic Novel talk:A Lesson in Electricity

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David Wohl

• Links for whomever wants to do the writer's page: David Wohl at Wikipedia, David Wohl's blog (including photo).--MiamiVolts (talk) 04:07, 4 March 2008 (EST)

Aw man!

Tbh I didnt really like this novel, I was hoping for the linda trilogy :( --(. .') 04:16, 4 March 2008 (EST)

• Yea, I'm rather disapointed with this GN. There was really nothing going on in it. I mean, we're forced to wait till September for another episodes, so at least they could move the story along a bit. The Linda one was a good start, the HRG one was ok, but this one is BOOOOORING! --Looky 06:01, 4 March 2008 (EST)
• Actually the story in the novels is determined by the episodes, not the other way around. Don't expect any story development in the coming novels; only little tid-bits. --  Seclusion  talk / contribs 06:21, 4 March 2008 (EST)

Ugh

• *sigh* It seems every work of real-world fantasy eventually devolves into this fluff. Yes, all of the important historical personages are really vampires/evolved humans/Star Fleet officers from the future. The pyramids were obviously built by aliens/evolved humans and were not, in fact, a miraculous work of industrious and enormously clever humans. It's just such a cheap shot, from a writing perspective, and a cliché, and when it becomes rampant enough, all it does is devalue the extraordinary contributions of ordinary human beings. I hope we don't see much more of it.--Hardvice (talk) 04:19, 4 March 2008 (EST)
  • It indeed wasn't a thrilling novel, but there have been worse imho. Anyways, did anyone else keep hoping for Adam Monroe to turn up while they read the novel? I would have liked for him to have been holding the string. At least, then, it would have been more interesting. The writer could have retitled the novel "The First Followers" or something since supposedly Evan encouraged Adam to try and find some disciples shortly after the Revolutionary War.--MiamiVolts (talk) 04:34, 4 March 2008 (EST)
    • Personally, I think another novel with Evan in it would be kickass, it doesn't ruin the historical facts it just reintroduced an awesome character. --(. .') 04:38, 4 March 2008 (EST)
  • Seriously? I think it actually elevates Ben Franklin's real life contributions for the exact reasons you stated, Hardvice. I mean, obviously, the real Franklin was not evolved, and the pharaohs of Egypt didn't really have this ancient hidden secret. Revising history by making these great people have something *extra* actually adds an air or mystery to the real life people behind the characters. Besides shining a light on their contributions, the fantasy revisions actual add value to their actual donations to history. At least that's what it does for me... -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 06:33, 4 March 2008 (EST)

Details on Names

• Mrs. Franklin is really Deborah Franklin - her name is mentioned in the novel. Will Franklin should be corrected to William Franklin. We will also need a Tiger page too. And according to Wikipedia, Franklin conducted his experiment on June 15, 1752. 07:54, 4 March 2008 (EST)

Evolved

• So, basically, if Ben Franklin is an evolved human, is there a chance that Jack Coleman is as well!? Do the people on the set know something we don't!? --DocM 08:29, 4 March 2008 (EST)

Narrator is an immortal??

It seemed to me that the narrator, who put the book away in the library in the last scene, appeared to be re-telling the story from present day; but from the perspective that he was present when the story occurred. It says expliciately that Franklin had told him the secret info circa 1767, so we know he was living during Franklin's era; but later at the end of the story, when he is putting the book in the library, I got the impression that "the part of the story that was never told until today"...that Franklin absorbed the electricty. If he were only narrating this entire GN back in the late 1700s it would make him an regular mortal, but if he is narrating it back from todays perspective, he would have to be an immortal. I sure expected then to show Adam putting the book away when they showed his face. Did any of you guys think this as well? --HiroDynoSlayer (talk) 03/4/2008 12:44 (EST)

• Looks like a mortal's reflections in a 1767 journal entry to me. I detect no strangeness in perspective. --SacValleyDweller (talk) 13:22, 4 March 2008 (EST)
  • I agree with SacValleyDweller that the story is being told sometime during Joseph's normal life. If they were intending for Joseph to be an immortal and telling the story in present-day, they'd have the artist reading off of a computer screen at the end instead of shelving a book.--MiamiVolts (talk) 13:33, 4 March 2008 (EST)

Gold key

Wasn't there a gold key in the vault? Hmm....I personally wasn't a fan of this novel but I guess it might more sense as they bring things together. --RyanHalfxwitted 14:34, 4 March 2008 (EST)

• Yes, there was a gold key. I suppose it could have been Franklin's.--MiamiVolts (talk) 15:01, 4 March 2008 (EST)

Woah im slow...

Ive only just noticed this Benjamin Franklin has the same last name as me O.O Maybe we are related, Which would mean i would be related to Jack Coleman :O That would be awesome <3 --(. .') 15:41, 4 March 2008 (EST)

• You are likely distant cousins. :)--MiamiVolts (talk) 15:44, 4 March 2008 (EST)
  • Lmao. According to my mum her great grandparents moved to america after there son (My grandad) grew up O.O --(. .') 15:47, 4 March 2008 (EST)