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Peace Talks - Continuity Notes [Spoilers]
Arjan:
--- Quote from: knnn on July 21, 2020, 02:40:32 PM ---Others I noticed:
- The distance to the Raith manor is described as "several miles" (and he drives in convoy). In Turn Coat it's "half a mile".
- Harry drinks that "black and white" potion, yet he still sees some things in color (like "scarlet blood") inconsistently.
- Lara states that's she never been betrayed by members of her household. I guess Madeline in Turn Coat doesn't count?
- Not a dis-continuity, but you'd think the Raiths would have had a servant/maid doing things like changing diapers.
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It is how Daddy trained them. Daddy Raith would let her do it to get the right family bond.
--- Quote ---“Family," Raith spat.
"Nothing but an accident of birth. Random consequence of desire and
response. Family is meaningless. It is nothing but the drive of blood to
further its own. Random combination of genes. It is utterly insignificant."
"Your children don't think
that," I said. "They think family is important."
He laughed. "Of course they think
that. I have trained them to do so. It is a simple and convenient way to
control them."
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Regenbogen:
OMG I just found something. I'm currently listening to the audio book as a second "reading". It's page 185 (e-book Peace Talks), just after Harry comments on not having been to the BFS building since Ghost Story, we have mentioned in this thread already. I think during the first read I was too confused by his statement, that this escaped me.
--- Quote --- First, a modest, plain bronze plaque fixed to the wall that spelled out the words BETTER FUTURE SOCIETY in letters an inch high.
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I looked it up:
Ghost Story, page 199, e-book:
--- Quote ---It read simply, BRIGHTER FUTURE SOCIETY.
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OK, it's not so much difference. " better" - "brighter", but...
Could be misremembering from Butcher's side, but with the comment about having been there as a ghost and not at the end of Skin Game, I'm not so sure.
ClintACK:
--- Quote from: Regenbogen on July 24, 2020, 11:18:36 AM ---I looked it up:
Ghost Story, page 199, e-book:OK, it's not so much difference. " better" - "brighter", but...
Could be misremembering from Butcher's side, but with the comment about having been there as a ghost and not at the end of Skin Game, I'm not so sure.
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Oh. Wow. Good spot. It's "Brighter Future Society" in Skin Game as well as Ghost Story, and in most of the references in Peace Talks. It's *just* the plaque that is wrong, not the text anywhere else.
--- Quote from: Peace Talks ---"My comfy, dumpy old apartment was gone, flattened by Gentleman Johnnie Marcone to make way for his stupid little castle and the Bigger Better Brighter Future Society."
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--- Quote from: Peace Talks ---"The fete was being hosted at the Brighter Future Society's headquarters..."
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--- Quote from: Peace Talks ---"But as I approached the front door, I was struck by two things: First, a modest, plain bronze plaque fixed to the wall that spelled out the words BETTER FUTURE SOCIETY in letters an inch high..."
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Ramirez reads the "Better Future Society" plaque and there's some discussion. And then later, when they talk about how Murphy is familiar with the building, it's back to Brighter Future Society twice.
You're definitely on to something, and I don't think it's a timey-wimey mirror mirror thing. For some reason, Marcone stuck a plaque on the door with the wrong name for the Peace Talks. Somethine's going on -- whether it's supposed to keep the low-key paranet-level BFS from attracting Accords-level notice or foil internet searches for them, or something weirder to do with the power of true names.
Perhaps it's Brighter Future Society when Butters and the wolves and the paranetters are the face of the organization, but Better Future Society when Marcone is? Possibly there's even a third name for when it's Lara's people.
But that sure looks like a deliberate switch, especially with that "... Bigger Better Brighter..." line to prime us to miss the difference.
Dina:
I like that. I wish Shecky or another Beta reader read this thread.
Addicted To Stories:
See here for another continuity error - this one about confronting the Wardens in the road and when exactly was the last time he confronted that many Wardens. Peace Talks says it was when he was a kid, over killing Justin. But in Turn Coat he faced off against 5 wardens (and 3 senior council members) on Demonreach...
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