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What's happening in Peace Talks?
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on September 29, 2020, 05:04:25 PM ---I don't know that Jim has spoken to it at all. One of the more common ways to lie is to talk so much that nobody can keep track of exactly what you said. A safe assumption is to believe that Jim will do whatever he thinks he needs to do to achieve what he wants to achieve. Three months from now and 30 book signings later alter there will be 30 new WOJ's full of his current thinking.
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In other words we ran with what we wanted to believe, that mortals couldn't be infected. I was also right that it might have been Justine that called up the Outsider cornerhounds after Harry and Eb. As Harry has said before and in Peace Talks, only a mortal can call up an Outsider, but I guess maybe the doorman is still suspect.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on September 29, 2020, 05:04:25 PM ---I don't know that Jim has spoken to it at all. One of the more common ways to lie is to talk so much that nobody can keep track of exactly what you said. A safe assumption is to believe that Jim will do whatever he thinks he needs to do to achieve what he wants to achieve.
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From a Doylist perspective, Nemesis is somewhat diminished as an antagonist / plot device if it can't cause Harry to second-guess the fairly good chunk of his friends and allies who are 100% human.
Then again, I'm not sure Justine isn't a scion of something.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on September 29, 2020, 05:54:23 PM ---From a Doylist perspective, Nemesis is somewhat diminished as an antagonist / plot device if it can't cause Harry to second-guess the fairly good chunk of his friends and allies who are 100% human.
Then again, I'm not sure Justine isn't a scion of something.
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She could very well have been a scion of something, that is the simplest explanation. However that could become a plot device well that by the end of the series Jim goes down once too often, making it predictable. Another possibility, just as simple and unique to Justine, she suffered from mental illness to begin with, suggesting that she might have been infected from the get go. It would have failed as an experiment by Nemesis to infect mortals however somehow she was thrown in the path of the White Court, specifically, Thomas. His feeding kept Nemesis from driving her completely insane.. Oh boy, this smells of a set up from the beginning.. :o
vultur:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on September 29, 2020, 05:54:23 PM ---From a Doylist perspective, Nemesis is somewhat diminished as an antagonist / plot device if it can't cause Harry to second-guess the fairly good chunk of his friends and allies who are 100% human.
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Also, the Gatekeeper wouldn't have to be so careful about talking about Nemesis if every member of the White Council was 100% immune to Nemfection.
Yuillegan:
I for one never believed mortals couldn't be infected by Nemesis. In fact, when Cold Days came out and Lily literally stated which mortals had been infected most people said she is probably mistaken. Ridiculous. Even when the author tells you straight up, it's like no one trusts him.... ah well that's his own fault.
Truth is, Jim is far more consistent than he is given credit for and it's a better assumption to assume what he writes is true and speculate from there than assume it's false.
But I am not so certain now that Nemesis does infect multiple people. I am reading back but can't find any solid evidence that it infected multiple people at once. If anything, it seems to be that it possesses the victim. Maybe one a book I'd say.
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