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Errors, Inconsistencies, and Oddities

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Bad Alias:

--- Quote ---Either Jim glitched a bit, or they had multiple minivans.
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I could see them having multiple minivans. Why trade one in when you're going to have a bunch of drivers pretty soon?


--- Quote ---"Temporal" refers to worldly things.
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I see that misuse often.


--- Quote ---Harry never says a thing about tapping a ley line in Dead Beat.
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That's because he created it. It had something to do with him not putting Sue back.
--- Quote ---"I Was going to put the dinosaur back," I said. "But I was unconscious."
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--- Quote ---The casualty count goes up in Changes
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I guess an additional ten succumbed to their injuries?


--- Quote ---So why does Collin not just say "Yes. Fallen angel."?  Because that's exactly what we learn happened later in the book. The little lie here makes no sense, given how much he's already telling Harry about the circumstances involved.
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This could mean that the opposition is broader than just fallen angels. This seems to be the case in Fool Moon, but seems to be dropped after that.


--- Quote ---The only job Harry has done that has been mentioned is The Warrior
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It could also be argued that he did a job or three in The Warrior.


--- Quote ---Here we see "Sith" is pronounced Star Wars-style.  That's not actually how it's supposed to be pronounced. It's the same as "Sidhe" (but then you lose the joke, I suppose).
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Sidhe is Irish, and Sith is Scottish, IIRC. Jim's said he doesn't know how a lot of words are pronounced because he's only ever read them. I think that's pretty common.


--- Quote ---It was actually just one vampire, Kelly Hamilton
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This is probably a reference to when he was dogpiled in Chapter 31. One can search for "like a dog shakes off water" to find the paragraph.

That's all my specific comments. Generally, I'd say early in the series errors and inconsistencies should just be ignored as EIW. Jim hadn't really solidified his rules.

And finally, this is great. I can't imagine how much time, sheer brainpower, or some combination of both this took. Impressive.

didymos:

--- Quote from: Bad Alias on April 08, 2020, 09:15:37 PM ---I imagine it's different in every state. For example: "WHAT HAPPENS IF I FAIL MY KS DRIVING EXAM?
If you fail the KS Driving Exam, you will not receive your KS Driver's License. You will be able to retake the test as early as the next business day." What state was Harry in? I've always assumed it was in the midwest. Also, we'd need to figure out what the law was in the 70's.

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It would have been the 80s or even early 90s depending on when exactly Harry was born, but that's a good point. I hadn't considered the state he was in.

Bad Alias:
Yeah, Sinistar was released in 1983, so it can't be much earlier than that.

Snark Knight:
Some examples in here might indicate timeline shenanigans. I don't suppose there's any sort of Coles Notes version that filters out the obvious minor typos?

g33k:

--- Quote from: didymos on April 08, 2020, 07:08:05 AM ---
* In Ghost Story, while in Mort's kitchen, Harry learns the hard way not to go plunging through walls and doors in Mort's place:
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A short while later, he does exactly that with no problem:
* Knight Rider was no longer airing at the time of this memory, which was when Harry was about thirteen.
* One wonders why goblins, who are under the Erlking's rule, are fighting at the Outer Gates with Winter. Maybe he's civic-minded?    

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Pretty sure it's just the one room that is blocked off, inside Morty's (and the threshold around it all, of course).  Most of the internal walls are passable, but he had made one room where he could get away from the spirits' nagging, if he needed to.

Knight Rider could have been in re-runs.

Goblins LOVE a good fight.
And the Erlking probably wants a good idea of what's coming -- all the heavyweights seem to have at least a solid hunch.
And IIRC Mab's forces come from all of Faerie, not just winter... there are Summer sidhe at the Gate!

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