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Butters *battle grounds*
Telynn:
I know I have to try to remember just how much time as elapsed between Changes and now. 6 months had passed from Changes to Ghost Story. And Butters had been doing the batman routine for some if not most of it, so he had months to train or get into some sort of fighting shape. Then how long before Cold Days? About a month or so? Then a year between that and Skin Games. So we are talking probably almost 2 full years. So the months spent with the knights were just refining skills, not completely getting some skinny out of shape nerd into a fighting machine.
And obviously the sword didn't need a very skilled fighter.
Dina:
--- Quote from: TrueMonk on October 11, 2020, 01:42:47 AM ---To me it was mainly that Harry seemed to remark on his improvement so many times it seemed like something that should have been removed in editing. Maybe it was a hint for something?
But also, it does not take a genius to figure out that the batman act also required being in good shape.
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I think there are many times that Butcher repeats things, specially descriptions, and that has been much worse in PT/BG. I commented in another thread that I was really tired of Harry describing how a soulgaze works and the thing about eyes being the windows of the soul. But that was not the only thing. In PT Lara got a full description twice in not so many chapters, and in BG a couple of things are mentioned again. And I think Butters is one of those things. You may be right that is a hint of something, but I've felt is more about bad editing.
forumghost:
More like him padding it to try and make one book last two volumes.
Mira:
--- Quote from: forumghost on October 11, 2020, 03:25:13 AM ---More like him padding it to try and make one book last two volumes.
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You took the words right off my finger tips.. Yes, I think we all would have found the story more
enjoyable, if some heavy editing had been done, Peace Talks I think suffers a bit more than Battle Ground, but they could have been one book around seven hundred pages more or less and not have
broken the bank, if that really was the reason to split it into two books.
Conspiracy Theorist:
What it shows is that Harry is accepting the changed status of Butters. Butters is a big hitter in his own right now, not the cowering, terrified hanger on to Harry from Dead Beat. That he is every bit the equal to Michael, Shiro, Sanya or Murphy as a Knight.
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