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Peace Talks - Continuity Notes [Spoilers]
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on July 19, 2020, 01:21:31 AM ---It close enough to our world to have Star Wars and there have been several slips as the time passes faster here then in the Dresden Files. This is being talked about in Reddit. Jim is of the opinion that the fans know the books better then he does. Frankly I bought in to having Indiana Jones hide on a submarine in broad daylight in the Med, small continuity errors bother me only in the sense that maybe Jim doesn't seem to really care.
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Which isn't a very pleasant thought..
--- Quote ---Maybe some of you weren't around, yes, Star Wars first arrived in 1977, but it played in theaters for the entire time before Empire came out, and even then, you could still find it in theaters. It was still in wide release in 1982! I remember watching both Star Wars and Empire as a double feature before Jedi came out. Then many theaters were running all three, staggered so you could see them all back to back to back. So there's no inconsistency there.
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Oh yes, especially in a large city.. Malcolm died when Harry was about six, it is still cutting things pretty close.
BadHumours:
Not exactly a continuity error, but Harry attributes the Hounds of Tindalos to H.P. Lovecraft. They were created by Frank Belnap Long and later incorporated into the Lovecraft Mythos by August Derleth.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Mira on July 18, 2020, 05:23:44 AM ---It doesn't give the year though, Harry was born twenty six years before Storm Front, but it doesn't give the year that Storm Front takes place in.
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It gives at least a couple of years and the reasons for and against them.
I'm not sure if I've ever heard of a five year old wearing diapers who didn't have severe issues, but my mom doesn't think it would be that unusual. (My mom has more experience with young kids below the age of 6 or 7 than anyone I've ever met including kindergarten teachers and pediatricians).
--- Quote from: BadHumours on July 19, 2020, 01:06:27 PM ---Not exactly a continuity error, but Harry attributes the Hounds of Tindalos to H.P. Lovecraft. They were created by Frank Belnap Long and later incorporated into the Lovecraft Mythos by August Derleth.
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Yeah. (1)Harry mentioning the Notre Dame fire, (2)Lara saying she changed Thomas's diapers after he was five, (3)Murphy's P-90, and (4)the Hounds misattribution can all be easily explained. 1. Harry "wrote" this or all the case files well after the fact. 2. Either Thomas or Lara was wrong about the timeline. 3. Murphy got a second one, or depending on when it reappeared, maybe it washed up on Demonreach after Harry had claimed it. 4. Harry (or Jim) was just conflating Lovecraftian with Lovecraft.
Those are all things that people do, so it wouldn't be nonsensical if it was just that kind of mistake in text. The whole "it's all written by Harry years after the fact" theory can make a lot of the continuity errors go down smoother.
Bad Alias:
Harry mentions Listen. Didn't Listen die in Bombshells?
Mira:
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I'm not sure if I've ever heard of a five year old wearing diapers who didn't have severe issues, but my mom doesn't think it would be that unusual. (My mom has more experience with young kids below the age of 6 or 7 than anyone I've ever met including kindergarten teachers and pediatricians).
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Five year olds have "accidents," hold it too long, or shy about using a strange bathroom type thing, they don't need to wear diapers for that. Five year olds can be bed wetters, now some might put night diapers on them for that, but I know of no parent of a bed wetter who admitted to doing that. If a five year old needs to wear diapers during the day, which means they have little or no control at all, that sounds like a physical problem and in need of a good urologist.. If they are doing it out of spite or fear or some other reason then they need a good child psychologist.
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