Gerry Harding and Sara Harding
Okay.. here's a little bit of weirdness for you.
For the folks that read the novel, you know that Gerry Harding is chief veterinarian of Jurassic Park. His daughter is Sara Harding 14 years of age (in the game). Okay, now that we know this. Ian Malcolm is an adult.
Lets fast forward into The Lost World which takes place 4 years later.
Sara Harding, (the little girl in the game), is Ian Malcolm's girlfriend. She would be 18 years of age... but in the movie, she's obviously maybe in her late 20s, early 30s.
Am I missing something.. or did they make Sara Harding a little too young, mis-aligning the story line a little bit? o.O
For the folks that read the novel, you know that Gerry Harding is chief veterinarian of Jurassic Park. His daughter is Sara Harding 14 years of age (in the game). Okay, now that we know this. Ian Malcolm is an adult.
Lets fast forward into The Lost World which takes place 4 years later.
Sara Harding, (the little girl in the game), is Ian Malcolm's girlfriend. She would be 18 years of age... but in the movie, she's obviously maybe in her late 20s, early 30s.
Am I missing something.. or did they make Sara Harding a little too young, mis-aligning the story line a little bit? o.O
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The girl in the game is named Jess Harding
Ohhh okay.. so they dodged that loophole. I wonder how "Sara Harding" will be brought up then.
in the game. Harding's daughter name is Jess Harding.
so i think he has two daughters.
Chances are Sarah Harding, if mentioned at all, will be mentioned as Jess' older sister, or something along those lines.
True, but in an interview Chrichton did confirm that Sarah Harding is Gerry Harding's daughter
so If there is a relation in the game, I'd go with big sister, and even if they don't mention her, I'd still just assume it. Personally at least.
That's a good idea right there.
dude the little girl's name is jess...which makes her sara's younger sister...
(Page 281, The Lost World)
It's implied that Gerry and Sarah Harding are related. What does not at up is that, in the first few chapters of the book, we learn that Malcolm and Sarah befriended one another (and might possibly have been romantically involved.) You could question why Malcolm never inquired about Harding's parents; after all. they spend a lot of time together.
In the film(s), the connection is not made. It seems to me that this will not happen in the game either. From what I've heard, Michael Crichton had a habit of giving several characters from different (not related to one another) novels the same, or similar, surnames.
Or you could put your mind inside Crichton's and kill nearly every damn character from the first novel off. Ironically resurrecting one that died :P
Sarah Harding herself in the film is a composite of several characters from the novel: Book Sarah was strictly an animal behaviourist, and the paleontologist of the group was a character called Dr. Levine. As much as they changed and shuffled around characters, who knows if the daughter aspect was meant to survive the adaptation.
Yeah me too. More death and meyhem was caused by his actions than by the "bad guys." I can see the point of combining two characters into one to avoid having an over-crowded cast, but then why create brand new characters like Nick to add into the mix? It would have worked perfectly fine to have Malcolm, Levine, Sarah, Doc and Eddie as in the book (the kids could have been left out, as they didn't contribute much), and then Dodgson and his small team as the antogonists instead of the giant InGen Army.
Dr. Gerald Harding ("Gerry") is Jurassic Park's chief veterinarian. He accepted the job because he wanted to become famous for being the first person to write up zoo guidelines for dinosaurs. When the group first runs into him, he is looking after a sick stegosaur. With the help of Ellie Sattler, he finds the source of their sickness and is able to treat it. Being the only doctor on the island, he is the one who treats Malcolm after he is attacked by a tyrannosaur. He is attacked by a velociraptor during the assault on the visitor's center, but ultimately survives his time on the island. Though it is not addressed directly in either of the books, Michael Crichton later revealed that Sarah Harding is Gerry's daughter
but idk