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Is Mac God?
jonas:
The metaphor can only be stretched soooo far before it's beating a dead horse.
Kindler:
--- Quote from: raidem on April 16, 2018, 06:42:56 PM ---I disagree and enjoy it.
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Okay. You do you.
--- Quote from: groinkick on April 16, 2018, 06:45:11 PM ---If we stopped theorizing what will be left of the forum? Nothing left to talk about.
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I didn't say to stop theorizing. I meant that this type of theorizing (crossovers between totally different, separate intellectual properties with zero chance of ever happening within the series) isn't particularly useful or enlightening. Like I said, parallels are perfectly fine, useful to others, and can be rather enlightening, but that's different from building hypotheses based on a different author's character showing up within the story's main canon.
I might be able to buy a crossover short story, on the other hand, but not the core of the Dresden Files novels.
And Raidem, I promise you, if this winds up being true, I will be the first person in line getting ready to kiss your ring. If you don't happen to have a ring, I will provide a particularly fancy one.
raidem:
I pursue this line of inquiry for multiple reasons, most of it is just to look at the series through another lens like I have by adopting the Murphy=Mab theory. I added further intrigue into the series by postulating a familial relationship between Harry, Murphy, and Marcone with Marcone's origin based in some future. Further adding to the complex timeline, I proposed a Nicodemus whose descendants include Harry.
Now, after I pretty much added enough complexity within Dresden Files for the purposes of my rereads, I started looking elsewhere at influences upon Jim when he was creating the series and see if I could incorporate elements of them into the series. So that is what I'm doing. I don't have a DF book to read so I do this in the meantime.
WereElephant:
--- Quote from: Kindler on April 17, 2018, 12:55:08 PM ---I didn't say to stop theorizing. I meant that this type of theorizing (crossovers between totally different, separate intellectual properties with zero chance of ever happening within the series) isn't particularly useful or enlightening. Like I said, parallels are perfectly fine, useful to others, and can be rather enlightening, but that's different from building hypotheses based on a different author's character showing up within the story's main canon.
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I'm with you there. I like the sandbox Butcher has made, and while there are cool things in other authors' playgrounds, adding them into this sandbox feels too cluttered and confusing. It also dilutes the concentrated Dresdenium too much for me. Now, drawing parallels based on templates and mechanics is cool, whether its comparing the magic system with another universe or inferring who might do what based on mythology, but at the end of the day, I hope to see Butcher come up with something unique. And so far he has. Sure, there are references to things out the wazoo, but everything has the distinctive seal of Dresden's originality on it. A seal that looks an awful lot like a scorch mark and smells both like sulfur and frost, somehow.
groinkick:
--- Quote from: Kindler on April 17, 2018, 12:55:08 PM ---I didn't say to stop theorizing. I meant that this type of theorizing (crossovers between totally different, separate intellectual properties with zero chance of ever happening within the series)
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Well the thing is, Jim has flat out said he will take an idea from somewhere else and put a new coat of paint on it. For example the the Zerg from StarCraft and the Codex series. He took them, gave them a new coat of paint and used them. I'm not saying that any theory in particular is correct, but it's not outside the realm of possibility that you can connect dots within the dresdenverse based on another story if Jim used it for inspiration.
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