TVTropes trivia-sida för Babylon 5 säger att Jerry Doyle ( Michael Garibaldi) och Michael O'Hare (Jeffrey Sinclair) föll ut under säsong 1: s produktion, och Doyle hotade att sluta om O'Hare var kvar. Detta sägs vara orsaken till att de två inte träffas personligen under säsong 3s "War Without End" -partners.
Oddly for Garibaldi, he never crossed paths with his "old friend" in Season 3, instead communicating over an old video recording. This is because Doyle and O'Hare got into a fight when the latter became schizophrenic. Note: If this seems like a Real Life Kick the Dog moment, bear in mind that no one but JMS knew he was schizophrenic at the time. Eventually, Doyle gave an ultimatum saying he'd quit if O'Hare remained on the show. Clearly, this ultimatum was still in effect for season 3 (according to Doyle, they'd promised to kick each other's asses) which is why Doyle doesn't share any screen time with him.
Det här är det första jag har hört talas om, och jag kunde inte hitta något online eller i JMS 'Usenet-inlägg för att säkerhetskopiera det. Finns det någon sanning i detta påstående? Eller är det en fanteori med liten förtjänst?
Något som jag inte visste förrän nyligen var att sena Jerry Doyle hade en radioprogram där han kort talade om hans erfarenheter med Michael O'Hare. Jag har hittat en podcasts webbplats som arkiverar alla episoder men jag vet inte vilken episod den var eller hur länge sen det spelades in. Så förhoppningsvis citat jag hittade är korrekt.
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My first season of Babylon 5 working with Michael O'Hare, he's a whack-job a complete lunatic. He flies out from New York, he gets the gig, we're doing our rehearsels he says to me one day "Uh can you give me a ride out the the set?" yeah sure! "Wanna stop and have breakfeast?" yeah good! He gets in the car and he's playing with the buttons in my car trying to turn the radio off and I'm like what are you doing? And he goes "I don't want any sound" and I go well why dont you just ask me to turn it off? And he goes "I dont want to talk today!" And I say well why do you want to go to breakfeast and he goes "you talk, I'll listen!" so obviously we hurry through breakfeast, we go out to the set and I realise I'm dealing with a complete nut-job here.
After we finished that first Friday night we go to this bar in Santa Clarita and I'm off in one corner talking to this actress Pat Tallman..just chatting her up having drinks we just got done shooting. He comes over and sits between us and I go oh ok...he was number 1 on the call sheet, he was the lead. He was the guy that got all the media interviews..because he was the lead on the show, and the face and voice on Babylon 5. So he's chatting her up and I'm like "Oh..ok..I'll just talk to the bartender here..." and order 3 more drinks. He turns around, looks at the 3 drinks and says "What is that?" and I say "umm...I'm buying a round..", and he says "Dont try to control me!!" and I went "oh..o...k..." this guy is a complete lunatic!
Now outside of the fact that he sexually harrassed an 18 year old makeup artist and hair gal because he's talking about how its lonely to be on the road and well he did certain things at night with her in mind I thought thats a very nice thing to address to an 18 year old that was interning on a show, not making any money trying to work her way up in the union.
He punches a female actress on the set. He comes after me we have the big meeting. Finally I say to him "Michael is there an Indian behind every tree?" and he says "maybe..you and I will settle this May 26 after we wrap production" And at the end of all this I went back to the guys and said you know what? I don't need this crap..I dont need the money"
Eftersom schizofreni går i min familj kan jag sympatisera med Doyle och någon annan som hade att göra med oförutsägbarheten hos en psykiskt sjuk person. Vissa människor är bättre rustade att hantera det än andra men i det här fallet försökte O'Hare och misslyckades att gömma det från alla.
Här är också en länk till SciFi Debris 'översyn av War Without End, där han berör O'Hares sista dagar med showen.
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