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the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
Reread Grave Peril last night, and I have a potential query for placing it in October; Harry's last conversation with Susan takes place with her in a bikini outdoors getting some sun on one of the last warm days of the year - is this plausible for early October on the shores of Lake Michigan, and if not, would moving it back into late September make a big difference ?
Also, "Lydia", for whom I did not see a specific age but whom I was reading as around 19-22, remembers having had a prophetic dream of people trying to kill the President; her being old enough to have had that dream about the Hinckley assassination attempt on Reagan in 1981 also seems a bit of a stretch. [ Assuming she would have to be old enough to remember and make sense of it, and that that was not a dream she had when she was six months old or something. ]
Also also, is the last time Charity saw Harry, when Michael was wounded in some way, being five years before Grave Peril, worth including on the timeline ? The more I think about it the more I want to know what exactly happened then, and where Michael actually was during Storm Front and Fool Moon, it would be way out of character for him not to have helped in those situations if he had been around; if he wasn't living in Chicago then, what prompted him to move back, and where did Harry meet him in the first place ?
Highlander_II:
Something I noticed that's missing - references to Maggie being an 'associate of DuMorne' - I think McCoy tells Harry about it in BR - don't remember exactly where - but it would be in there sometime either before the Raith stuff or just after.
Also - McCoy worked with Maggie just like he did with Harry - and I *think* she left and hooked up with DuMorne (this stuff is either in BR or PG) - figuring out the 'when' is a little sketchier....
Highlander_II:
--- Quote from: neurovore on February 01, 2007, 07:42:19 PM ---Reread Grave Peril last night, and I have a potential query for placing it in October; Harry's last conversation with Susan takes place with her in a bikini outdoors getting some sun on one of the last warm days of the year - is this plausible for early October on the shores of Lake Michigan, and if not, would moving it back into late September make a big difference ?
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GP has to take place in October - there are several references to 'getting close to Halloween' - b/c that's when the barrier between the NeverNever and the mortal world is weakest... also, Susan sends Harry a birthday card - Harry's b'day is Halloween. GP can't be moved to late-September. And it is possible for it to be warm in Chicago in late fall - unusual, I'd think, but possible.
(( sorry for the double post... too many thoughts at different times ))
Priscellie:
Just as Amber predicted, I've put together a timeline for the TV Show chronology. I swear I really do have a life.
--- Quote from: neurovore on February 01, 2007, 07:42:19 PM ---Also, "Lydia", for whom I did not see a specific age but whom I was reading as around 19-22, remembers having had a prophetic dream of people trying to kill the President; her being old enough to have had that dream about the Hinckley assassination attempt on Reagan in 1981 also seems a bit of a stretch. [ Assuming she would have to be old enough to remember and make sense of it, and that that was not a dream she had when she was six months old or something. ]
Also also, is the last time Charity saw Harry, when Michael was wounded in some way, being five years before Grave Peril, worth including on the timeline ? The more I think about it the more I want to know what exactly happened then, and where Michael actually was during Storm Front and Fool Moon, it would be way out of character for him not to have helped in those situations if he had been around; if he wasn't living in Chicago then, what prompted him to move back, and where did Harry meet him in the first place ?
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Ooh, thanks! I'll do some digging and see if we can't make sense of some of this stuff!
Bob:
--- Quote from: neurovore on February 01, 2007, 07:42:19 PM ---Reread Grave Peril last night, and I have a potential query for placing it in October; Harry's last conversation with Susan takes place with her in a bikini outdoors getting some sun on one of the last warm days of the year - is this plausible for early October on the shores of Lake Michigan, and if not, would moving it back into late September make a big difference ?
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From the National Weather service records for Illinois:
ROCKFORD... OCTOBER 3, 1997: THIS WAS THE SECOND DAY IN A SEVEN DAY HEAT WAVE THAT SENT HIGH TEMPERATURES PAST THE 80 DEGREE MARK. ON THIS DATE...THE HIGH REACHED 90 DEGREES WHICH TIED THE RECORD PREVIOUSLY SET IN 1922. ALTHOUGH THIS WAS THE ONLY RECORD ESTABLISHED OVER THE SEVEN DAY PERIOD...TEMPERATURES WERE AROUND 15 TO 20 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL.
Rockford is a little to the northwest of Chicago, so that means it was unseasonably warm in Chicago until at least October 8th. How does 1997 work as a date for GP? I can't access the first page of this tread at present--every time I try the connection resets.
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