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[BG spoilers] A defense and requiem for my favorite character . . .
Telynn:
--- Quote from: Wicked Woodpecker of West on November 10, 2020, 04:32:23 PM ---Well in theory change happened between Changes and Cold Days, and what sort of ripped Thomas out of whampire life was Dresden's death.
In "Changes" he is theoretically on bad guy side still, he even is bit selfish and goes full to Dresden help after he realises he is threatened by curse as well.
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I also think he was trying to push Harry away. He did kill to live, and he's trying to deal with it. Maybe he even enjoyed it in the moment. But I think his "I did it and I love it, that's what I am now." was hiding his pain at what he did. I don't think he was as dark side as he was putting on.
Wicked Woodpecker of West:
Could be - but even that deserved more resolution than we've got.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Telynn on November 10, 2020, 04:41:48 PM ---I also think he was trying to push Harry away. He did kill to live, and he's trying to deal with it. Maybe he even enjoyed it in the moment. But I think his "I did it and I love it, that's what I am now." was hiding his pain at what he did. I don't think he was as dark side as he was putting on.
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But the thing is, one doesn't just get over it that quickly, or at least it should be interesting seeing how he worked it out. In that sense, Eb is right, at the end of the day Thomas is a vampire, he has to do vampire things to live. Thomas has tried to fight that for a good deal of his life. Harry saw it in their soul gaze back in Blood Rites, hearing his mother's voice full of sadness and pity because Thomas was fighting so hard, but the demon was winning. When Thomas broke off with the family and went to live with Harry for a year, nearly starved to death before he came up with the hair dresser solution. Shaggy's rinse and repeat shattered all of that, when Harry saw Thomas later in the zoo, what remained was the pure predator, that is what he was trying to tell him, "you see a couple of young women, I see food..." I don't think anything has changed in that aspect, Thomas just found another way of feeding, he doesn't want to kill Justine, he finds Evanna, who is made to order because he can get his fill without killing her. Yes, Thomas was as darkside as he was letting on, Harry on the other hand has blinded himself to that fact..
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Wicked Woodpecker of West on November 10, 2020, 04:32:23 PM ---Well in theory change happened between Changes and Cold Days, and what sort of ripped Thomas out of whampire life was Dresden's death.
In "Changes" he is theoretically on bad guy side still, he even is bit selfish and goes full to Dresden help after he realises he is threatened by curse as well.
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This.
--- Quote from: Telynn on November 10, 2020, 04:41:48 PM ---I also think he was trying to push Harry away. He did kill to live, and he's trying to deal with it. Maybe he even enjoyed it in the moment. But I think his "I did it and I love it, that's what I am now." was hiding his pain at what he did. I don't think he was as dark side as he was putting on.
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Also this.
Shift8:
I personally have mixed feelings on Murphy's death
Things I liked:
--Killing the love interest always spices up a story, in a certain way. I always expect the main character and love interest to make it to the end together, fighting back to back or something....but if they die it has its own pleasures in being utterly horrifying and melodramatic.
--It gives Harry a Vengeance Angle, more so than he had. It makes it really personal, and given that she was in 17 books with him, it particularly well established. I love a good revenge.
--It actually did not feel contrived, I felt that the situation where it went down felt perfectly plausible.
--I like that Harry beat the living shit out of Rudolph and gave him what he deserved. A few mildly broken bones are about right. Although to be honest I wish that he had made Rudolph do it on purpose so that Harry could have justifiably killed him on the spot because that would have been far more delicious.
--To be entirely Honest the whole Harry Lara thing is super hot. Lara is a good match for Harry. If they became the official pair of the books I would be totally fine with this. Or Harry gets married to Molly and Lara at the same time.
Things I did not like:
--Murphy was a super cool character and she was established over the course of the entire series. Their relationship had only just begun to be properly romantic and then it just ended. Its not just the romance angle. She was a staple character of the series and her being dead is going to leave a real hole in the books. I mean every book I read I am going to be like, "hey you remember that cop lady that was in the story for that first 17 books and then she just died?"
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