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What happened to Marjorie Donovan?

posted 16 years ago by ryan-anderson
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Mike goes to great lengths to get his son [Sean] back but you don't know what happened to Marjorie. I assume if the visitors didn't kill her (that night) maybe the resistance freed her from cold storage [for a lack of a better way to put it] at the end (when they took the mother ship).

I just thought it was odd (i.e. Mike's attitude about it).....sort of like ah well, it's my ex.....I'll get around to it.

I never read the book, it may have cleared that up.

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[–] Darkchia_of_the_Dead 16 years ago

It was tough enough to just get his son back. Sorry to say, but the ex-wife wouldn't rank high on a list of priorities in real life. Donovan risked a lot for his son, but to him it was worth it because it was his SON.

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[–] cee_64 16 years ago

Sorry to disagree here, but a REAL man would place the life of his son's mother in extremely high regard. A REAL MAN would know that his child would be devastated by the loss of their mother and would move heaven and earth to see them united. Just because you see if played the opposite in movies and tv, but it just doesn't work like that in real life.

IMNSHO, any father who DIDN'T do so isn't much of a father and even less of a man.

[–] virgon035 16 years ago

One of the books (Sorry - it's been a while, I don;pt remember which) had her revived and I think she was converted. They used her to try and get to Donovan.

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[–] djhowe69 15 years ago

A realistic man would have saved his son first, then maybe saving his ex-wife comes after saving his son's girlfriend or his son's best friend in school. Well, save his ex-wife after saving his dog or his neighbor's pet gerbils, but definitely before his mother-in-law. What is real life anyway? Besides she couldn't compete with pizza anyway.

[–] Milkdoesabodygood 12 years ago

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[–] cubdukat 15 years ago

They never mentioned it in the novelization, other than Martin saying that they would have to set up arrangements to return the people they're holding. Presumably because the Visitors reasserted their hold on Earth, that never quite happened.

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[–] myturn21 15 years ago

Maybe it was a storyline they were going to address in the TV series but never got around to.

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Centurion: "Don't keep saying that."

[–] capnmorgan5150 15 years ago

It was his ex-wife. I would PAY aliens to abduct my ex-wife and never bring her back, lol!

[–] ryan-anderson 15 years ago

It was his ex-wife. I would PAY aliens to abduct my ex-wife and never bring her back, lol!

Ouch!

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[–] Juliet_Parrish_Donovan 14 years ago

Marjorie Donovan's Ulimate Fate is in the "V" Book "Death Tide"

she is converted by the Visitors. She ends up with the Los Angeles Resistance. Diana uses Marjorie against Donovan and the Resistance. and Marjorie ends up dying as a result of a battle between the Visitors and the Resistance. Julie tries to save her but there was nothing Julie could do. In the same attack that killed Marjorie Donovan, Julie Miscarries her and Mike Donovan's baby.

[–] Darkchia_of_the_Dead 14 years ago

Thinking about this, she must have died when the Visitors took the town to the Mother Ship. Reason being, in the LA Mother ship eventually ends up in the hands of the resistence. I'm sure with the help of Martin and other 5th Column Visitors, everyone taken would have been revived. If she was in one of those pods and still alive, she would have been in the weekly episode with Sean

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[–] EMME30 15 years ago

He was upset about her being taken. His son was revived by the Visitors. He didn't find him. Remember, "because my son, & my ex-wife, & the whole damn town are up there!" Basically, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. I don't think he was any less of a man for not being able to find her. Plus, he was concerned about her. He was encouraging her to go back to school in the first mini-series. He wanted her to be happy even though they were divorced.

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[–] Crossingthegulf 15 years ago

It was Mike's mom that got Sean back when she approached Steven and Steven and Diana converted him to use him against Mike. In one of the books she is reunited with Mike and dies at the end saving Mike's life.

[–] djhowe69 15 years ago

I'm sure either way she was delicious.

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[–] djhowe69 15 years ago

Yeah, an illegal alien from Canada. LOL.

[–] amazonprince71 15 years ago

I guess we are to assume she was either killed in the attack on the town and never actually taken up to the ship. (Tommy never saw what happened). Or she was possibly killed later...as she never shows up in V - The Series and Mike seems to be a single parent by that time.

[–] djhowe69 15 years ago

I'm sure she tasted good.

[–] stevenackerman69 15 years ago

Oh, the Joanna Kerns character? That was Mike's ex. He might not have had any love lost for her. She was probably still on the ship in storage.

[–] MuggySphere 15 years ago

Who cares? She was a bitch let the lizards have at her.

[–] dpcole7 12 years ago

If I recall, they were nearing divorce or had... maybe he felt more for his son than his (ex-)wife?

Yeah, ex or not, he would still have some feelings for her...

I wish the miniseries had addressed her fate, instead of just not mentioning her ever again... TFB often did get sloppy, especially using a mothership as a convenient nuclear bomb - would they really be so wasteful of food and water, noting the conditions that compelled them to conquer other planets to begin with?