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HUGE BATTLE GROUND SPOILERS - (Un)Answered questions
The_Sibelis:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on October 07, 2020, 01:32:16 AM ---Thanks for killing Sanya! ;)
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mwahahaha 😈
I think Jim's adhering to the ideal 'hope never dies' and that's why Sanya has been a constant throughout the series. If he does die Harry will pick it up almost immediately.
On the same topic, I loved that Sanya came and got his ass kicked by Harry. That scene spoke volumes to me. If Harry had killed Rudolph hope would have been lost for him, Sanya prevented that l. I don't think the sword of hope is as powerfully flashy as the other two, but it's steady and inexorable... I'm even wondering if Jim didn't show that Harry could kick his ass as kinda a metaphor for Harry being on the same wavelength. Some kinda opposite reference from when butters showed up to thwart snake boy.
Dina:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on October 07, 2020, 01:32:16 AM ---Maybe Harry having a magical childhood malady let's him learn something about conjuring other wizards don't know because they were too young when they had it. Maybe the Maggie reveal comes later. Also, it's Christmas Eve, not Christmas Story.
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*facepalms* Yes, thank you.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: The_Sibelis on October 07, 2020, 01:29:16 AM ---Hehe, I see it differently. Harry and Marcone are almost fated to throw down, they allude to it all the time almost every interaction anymore... Think Harry's finally going to have to pick up his own sword to balance out Marcones power.. hopefully, literally Hope. It would mesh with his charlie brown ideals. Never stop trying.
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Jim loves to foreshadow an expectation and then take a hard turn away from it, though. Murphy teased to take up a sword, or the Valkyrie job offer for its "health plan" ... nope, breaks a sword, then dead. Most people expecting Eb to bite it in the battle as the classic "death of the mentor" moment ... nope, alive, and the Council's gun pointed at Harry.
Marcone and Harry's mutual expectation to eventually throw down is the best reason to think something else is going to end up happening.
The_Sibelis:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on July 05, 1970, 10:06:02 AM ---Marcone and Harry's mutual expectation to eventually throw down is the best reason to think something else is going to end up happening.
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ooh, I'd argue most of those were simply fan expectations not forshadowing (especially Eb dying) but that does ring somewhat true there. There's another candidate for taking on what I perceive to be the fallen version of king Arthur... The risen version of Mordred lol.
ClintACK:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on October 03, 2020, 08:00:15 PM ---Bradley is the new Murphy, he is I think going to SI and will act as Harry’s liaison.
The reason I think this is that the character has been set up for a running joke, like Murphy with her being exactly five feet tall “Five O”.
In BG where Bradley meets Harry for the second time he is described like an armoured personnel carrier. The main US armoured personnel carrier is....the Bradley. Going back to PT on their first meeting his suit is described as neutral ,designed to blend into the business world, I would think almost like camouflage?
On his third meeting he is literally carrying personnel, his daughter and Rudy.
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Wow. Really well-spotted. These are the little tidbits I love about the Dresdenfiles, but I almost never pick them up on my first reading.
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on October 03, 2020, 08:48:54 PM ---
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on October 03, 2020, 08:00:15 PM ---Bradley is the new Murphy
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I didn't notice the sexual tension. ;)
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You didn't?
--- Quote from: Peace Talks ---I eyed the other guy. He was about five feet, six inches -- in all three dimensions. I seriously couldn't remember the time I'd seen a guy built so solidly. He wore a tailored suit, because I doubted anything fit him off the rack, but it was made of neutral, plain materials, meant to blend into the background of the business world. His salt-and-pepper hair was buzzed short, and his face was rough with beard shadow that I suspected appeared about ten seconds after he was done shaving. Something about the way he held himself, the way his eyes were focused on nothing in particular, put me on notice that he knew what he was doing better than most.
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I mean, I think the paragraph ended just because Harry couldn't think of any more ways to say that Detective Bradley was very, very manly.
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