The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
"Job placement" microfiction
Con:
I'm actually enjoying the more fantastical elements, supernatural nations and power becoming greater.
As for academic supernatural intellectualss I always thought that'd be the Alpha's role.
AClone:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on May 05, 2020, 06:58:23 PM ---So, looks like Irwin & Connie are going to be on the bench as local allies, and / or figure into the Maggie Jr. spinoffs...
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With school starting in August, I was thinking that it would be hurrying things for them to manage to be in Chicago by July, in time for Peace Talks/Battle Ground. This seems more like a convenient setup for the Maggie stories.
That St. Mark's is applying for Accorded Neutral Ground status was also interesting. Why wouldn't they already have it--unless Jim is "up to something"?
Dina:
--- Quote from: Mira on May 06, 2020, 03:00:16 PM ---Yeah, it was that off beat PI/Wizard story line that attracted me to Dresden in the first place. I too lament that the direction it is headed seems to be the more standard fantasy route..
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Yes, same here.
@Yuillegan, the trailer makes me hope Mister will be safe.
AClone:
--- Quote from: Yuillegan on May 06, 2020, 06:34:25 AM ---The ones that are still around, probably. Apparently according to a bizarre WOJ some of the Alphas just wrote of their experiences as drug induced delusions in college. Which to me sounds insane.
I suspect Will and Georgia might bite the dust. They are long-time characters with enough emotional value to be worth killing off, without being detrimental to Harry's future or messing up the series. Technically no character is safe but you can always work out who probably won't go. I don't think Andi will necessarily - unless Jim wants to make Butters' story darker.
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I’m not sure that you see characters the same way as Jim does. As far as long time characters being effectively disposable and readily replaced by newcomers, remember what Jim has repeatedly said about being “too lazy” to write up new characters. At this stage of the series, there isn’t really time to fully develop new characters.
Yes, in the Christmas Story short, Harry was clearly feeling the guilt of people he knew being dead. Just remember, he felt the same way when Kirby died—whom we had barely seen on page. That death toll could include people as peripheral as Rawlins—or Mrs. Spunkelcrief. Shoot, he’d probably feel guilty if people like Hendricks or even Rudolph died—because he knew them as real people.
And it would hardly be unlike Jim to include a redemptive arc for even someone like Rudolph in the middle of what Battle Ground appears to be. Making even a worm a sympathetic character.
As far as anyone being “safe” I’m not sure there is such a thing. It wouldn’t surprise me to find that Jim diced out the fates of all of the tertiary characters for a book like BG. I can just see him: “Crap, Andi! Why’d you have to go and roll an eighteen here! That’s a critical failure!”
Or a three, of course. Whatever scale he’s using.
I will say that there is one absence from the Christmas Story scene that seems ominous to me. And no, not just because the older Carpenter kids didn’t make it back from college or on leave for Christmas. But that’s for that thread, so I’ll leave that alone.
Oh, if you’re worried about the Wizard/gumshoe thing, Harry still has a few books left to get back to that gig. It’ll just be on a bigger scale. And part of me is wondering if Murphy will get her PI license. Guess we’ll see.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Mira on May 05, 2020, 09:39:00 PM --- In love but seemingly not burning at touch having something to do maybe with the fact that neither are fully human.
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Jim has said that power differences in the relationship could cause that. I think he said that in relation to Irwin and Connie specifically, but I don't recall it well enough to say for sure.
--- Quote from: Yuillegan on May 06, 2020, 06:34:25 AM ---Apparently according to a bizarre WOJ some of the Alphas just wrote of their experiences as drug induced delusions in college. Which to me sounds insane.
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Unless they were stoned the whole time anyway. In that WoJ, he also said one of them ended up in a mental institution. That one was probably a little too honest and not at all insane.
--- Quote from: AClone on May 07, 2020, 08:33:40 PM ---And it would hardly be unlike Jim to include a redemptive arc for even someone like Rudolph in the middle of what Battle Ground appears to be. Making even a worm a sympathetic character.
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Rudolph admitting the error of his ways would be a good way to show the masquerade breaking or slipping and could be used to redeem him enough to make some readers a little sympathetic if he died.
--- Quote ---I get to be in Lara’s territory, not my father’s.
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I think I found this to be the most interesting tidbit. We don't really know much about the structure of the White Court, but now we know that House Raith at least has territories. It may be that individuals in the Court have territories and it isn't limited to one house. I think that's likely, but we don't know that.
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