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Doylist analysis on LC fix timing
Priscellie:
--- Quote from: Electric MacButters on April 04, 2012, 11:03:31 PM ---the Burger King after offering Thomas a post-coital breakfast sandwich
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I ship it.
Electric MacButters:
^It would explain the shotgun. ;)
۞†Grey Warden†۞:
--- Quote from: Electric MacButters on April 04, 2012, 11:34:45 PM ---^It would explain the shotgun. ;)
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*snicker*
Serack:
--- Quote from: ReturnToOne on April 04, 2012, 11:19:11 PM ---So then by this logic who ever it was that fixed lc needed someone to let them either past the wards and/or past the threshold (at least so they could use magic while in harry's apartment) AND was either someone Thomas trusted or could fool him into letting them in.
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it makes this likely
--- Quote from: Serack on April 04, 2012, 09:34:09 PM ---The doylist point isn't necessarily that whoever did the fixing needed Thomas to let him in, although that was said to be a possible conclusion. The doylist point is that Jim needed Thomas in the appt when the fixing was done.
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Vairelome:
Possibly another way to reframe the Doylist point in this case is to say that Jim wanted the reader to see Thomas acting strangely, so he inserted "Harry needs to return to his apartment because Mouse needs a walk" in order to give Harry the opportunity to see Thomas acting strangely.
Remember, one of the significant limitations of the novels is that they are limited to Harry's PoV. If something significant happens and Harry isn't there to see it, the only way the reader finds out about the significant event is for someone else to tell Harry about it--and JB can't use this technique too often, or it's a violation of "show, don't tell" and the story gets bogged down in character-dialogue about past events.
So, from the reader's perspective, what do we learn from Harry's interaction with Thomas? Thomas was jumpy and paranoid, and unusually so. This may be related to someone coming in the front door, so we might guess that the apartment had a visitor while Harry was out and Thomas was home alone. We don't know whether the visitor pounded the front door down or talked his or her way in, but either way, Thomas knew something was wrong by the end of the visit, and thought that he should have been more prepared earlier, leading to his later paranoid reaction to Harry coming back home.
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