He stands on the street corners, passing out papers and yelling about the Disappeareds’ extra-marital affairs, struggles with addiction, fraudulent taxes, etc. Thus, Jamison becomes a background character and the joke of the town. If the Disappearance wasn’t the Rapture, he can still believe himself to be a righteous man in the eyes of God. If he can prove those who were taken were not righteous, he can prove that it wasn’t the Rapture that happened. He desperately tries to justify his righteousness by researching the sins of those who were taken and publishing them in a weekly tabloid. As everyone around him claims that the Disappearance was actually the Rapture, he is devastated to think that he would have been left behind. In the novel, Jamison is almost driven to madness by the Disappearance. And here he was, cast as a very small character from the book. After all, Eccleston was one of the Doctors, basically making him British acting royalty. Matt Jamisonĭuring casting announcements for the show, the casting of Christopher Eccleston as Matt Jamison was one of the most controversial. It is the character development of the town’s pastor, Reverend Matt Jamison.Ĭhristopher Eccleston as Rev. It’s something that elevates the show to an emotional level that even the novel did not reach.
One of the show’s biggest changes is actually, in my opinion, one of its greatest successes. With Perrotta at the helm, the changes from book to screen still feel faithful to the source, something that is very rare for most film and television adaptations. As demonstrated time and time again, though, piles of unanswered questions usually don’t translate to popular television.īut, somehow, Perrotta and Lindelof have managed to pull off a critically acclaimed series that is equally as beautiful, mysterious and emotionally jarring as the book. It’s just not important to the book the importance is what happens to the people they left behind.
Perrotta never even comes close to answering where the Disappeared people have gone. The book, which functions as a study of the residents of a “perfect” small town in America dealing with the sudden Disappearance of 2% of the world’s population, asks questions about faith, organized religion, spirituality and humanity, and it answers very few of them. While an impressively original and compelling novel, Perrotta’s book is not one that immediately lends itself to the screen. When Tom Perrotta’s 2011 novel The Leftovers was announced to be in development for HBO by Perrotta and Damon Lindelof, many eyebrows were raised, to say the least.
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