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morriswalters:
Oxygen and hydrogen are two separate and distinct elements. Under the right conditions they combine and form water. Water while containing both the original components is something altogether different when in that form. This describes Ivy.
I could have used another example which is perhaps closer to the danger Ivy poses and that is binary explosives. Safe separately, but hazardous when mixed for use.
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on March 04, 2020, 11:33:46 AM ---Oxygen and hydrogen are two separate and distinct elements. Under the right conditions they combine and form water. Water while containing both the original components is something altogether different when in that form. This describes Ivy.
I could have used another example which is perhaps closer to the danger Ivy poses and that is binary explosives. Safe separately, but hazardous when mixed for use.
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Or maybe a loaded gun with a safety. Host lives the better part of a "normal" human life and prepares for the Archive to be passed on to her, safety on, no problem though it is a high powered rifle loaded with a huge clip.. Emotional resentful teenager, the Archive is passed on to her with little or no prep, safety off, madness and suicide. The Archive passed on to her baby? The Council has desperately tried to keep the safety on in the case of Ivy, however both Harry and Kincaid have messed with the safety. So school is still out...
g33k:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on March 04, 2020, 02:45:35 AM --- If you use free labor then you get what you pay for. That isn't to disrespect them, but it's hard to keep the overall view when you don't have access to the plot. Or when the data is spread over 9 books ...
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I think the cumulative passion (and OCD'ness) of the beta-reader fans has exceeded even the author's capacity to keep track of all the details.
I'm quite certain that the "timeline" is a fan-assembled effort, that Jim himself uses as a resource to keep things straight:
https://www.jim-butcher.com/timeline
I believe Jim uses other reader/fan - generated resources, too.
In addition to the main plotline of the series, Jim has in his head various false-start and never-pursued notions... such as Fool Moon originally being planned as a classic "figure out who the werewolf is" story, but morphing into "which of these MANY werewolves is the guilty one?"
Bad Alias:
I don't expect anyone to be able to keep track of everything that happened in such a large work. I expect errors. I'm still annoyed by them, but I accept them as an unavoidable part of reality and hope none are too jarring. While I find certain errors unacceptable in any professional work, I haven't any errors of that magnitude in the Dresden Files. Some of the errors are more funny than annoying. (Thinking of Harry describing Malcolm as a "stage musician" in one of the first books).
Additionally, my head cannon is that the Dresden Files are Harry's journals. I don't think Jim has confirmed this, but he has hinted at it. (Unless I missed him confirming it). If these are written by Harry, a certain amount of errors can be handwaived as Harry's.
morriswalters:
@Bad Alias
It's the central conceit of the series, that each book is a case file of Harry's detective work.
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