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Discontinuity = clue? [GS sample ch spoilers]
LogicMouseLives:
--- Quote from: Shecky on July 05, 2011, 09:40:56 PM ---Harry's kind of harsh on Mort, all because he thinks Mort has wasted a talent in something Harry holds to be supremely important - magic. That's most assuredly coloring his perception... and Harry has never been one for understatement. ;)
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Are ya sure?
When was the last time he described a character (human character, that is, not mind-rending monster) as actually ugly? He's pretty uncomplimentary about Rudolph, for understandable, personal reasons. And he never waxed poetic about Mort, but I can't think of an occasion when he's really gone to town on a negative description of someone before this. (Not that the phrase we're dissecting really qualifies either, but it does stand out.) I'm not saying that that's a bad thing in any way. In fact, I kind of like it.
Fact is, Harry tends to be much more unkind in the stuff he says out loud than in what he narrates.
LML
Shecky:
--- Quote from: LogicMouseLives on July 05, 2011, 10:08:27 PM ---Are ya sure?
When was the last time he described a character (human character, that is, not mind-rending monster) as actually ugly? He's pretty uncomplimentary about Rudolph, for understandable, personal reasons. And he never waxed poetic about Mort, but I can't think of an occasion when he's really gone to town on a negative description of someone before this. (Not that the phrase we're dissecting really qualifies either, but it does stand out.) I'm not saying that that's a bad thing in any way. In fact, I kind of like it.
Fact is, Harry tends to be much more unkind in the stuff he says out loud than in what he narrates.
LML
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That's right. Like the vast majority of relatively-civilized humanity, Harry does tend both to have extremely negative views of others and to keep those under wraps; when one of those views pops out of his mouth, it seems out of character, but it's very human. And Harry has the added bonus of personally holding those who have magic to a much higher standard, so his disapproval of those who "waste" those gifts is going to be concomitantly harsher when he actually sets himself to dealing face-to-face with those people.
AlbinoRaven:
am I the only one that thought "oh, he redid the front of the house.", he didn't say it was a completely different house, or that it was a different address... he noted it just looks so completely different from before, which means he fixed it to look less like the spooky house on haunted hill into a zen like masterpiece.
My question about mort is more around the lines of:
1. Mort is more bald
2. Mort has lost a LOT of weight
3. Mort seems to have changed himself in a major way
The first reaction I get is "does mort have cancer"? I know he's embracing his abilities and everything but his life seems to completely have done a U-Turn, a life changing event...
Raven 8)
synobal:
--- Quote from: AlbinoRaven on July 06, 2011, 05:05:58 AM ---am I the only one that thought "oh, he redid the front of the house.", he didn't say it was a completely different house, or that it was a different address... he noted it just looks so completely different from before, which means he fixed it to look less like the spooky house on haunted hill into a zen like masterpiece.
My question about mort is more around the lines of:
1. Mort is more bald
2. Mort has lost a LOT of weight
3. Mort seems to have changed himself in a major way
The first reaction I get is "does mort have cancer"? I know he's embracing his abilities and everything but his life seems to completely have done a U-Turn, a life changing event...
Raven 8)
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I think maybe mort has been helping Murphy's A team and it's stressing him out.
MegaPuff75:
Maybe Morty tore down his duplex and moved the old house to its lot.
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