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Adaptation Do's and Don'ts
Conspiracy Theorist:
Actually Murphy (like Hendricks and previously Marcone) was to demonstrate the reason why the supernatural community kept a low profile, humanity could wipe them out if they took concerted action. That was one of Ethnui’s aims, to set humanity against the supernatural nations, and Harry provided a way to mitigate the damage to the masquerade. The reliance upon the two banners fighting for Humanity in BG demonstrates this.
It’s interesting that in BG Murphy and Hendricks die and we get the reveal on Marcone just before this occurred, suggesting Murphy and Hendricks had played their role in this part of the narrative.
Sometimes a character is more than just a love interest (though bizarrely they mirrored this with Nathan and Gard, oh well)
Mira:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on May 25, 2022, 11:47:04 AM ---Actually Murphy (like Hendricks and previously Marcone) was to demonstrate the reason why the supernatural community kept a low profile, humanity could wipe them out if they took concerted action. That was one of Ethnui’s aims, to set humanity against the supernatural nations, and Harry provided a way to mitigate the damage to the masquerade. The reliance upon the two banners fighting for Humanity in BG demonstrates this.
It’s interesting that in BG Murphy and Hendricks die and we get the reveal on Marcone just before this occurred, suggesting Murphy and Hendricks had played their role in this part of the narrative.
Sometimes a character is more than just a love interest (though bizarrely they mirrored this with Nathan and Gard, oh well)
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I can buy that for the most part, Hendricks for the most part, though an effective body guard/warrior, had the limitations of a normal human being. Murphy didn't, by the time she
was gunned down, she was no longer realistic as a character.. She was a realistic exceptional vanilla human character up until the time she got booted off the police force. Then it seemed like Jim didn't know what to do with her, so he attempted to turn her into a mini Justice League Wonder Woman/ mother confessor love interest for Harry. Frankly except for her most ardent fans, it was groaner almost every time she appeared on the page.
And yes, it was normal human beings that fought and died under Harry's banner to save Chicago.. They weren't great at hand to hand combat taking on enemies far above their weight class and skills. They weren't expert marksmen, nor could they rip off casts and hop onto motorcycles with half healed injuries with a missile launcher strapped to their backs.. They were just ordinary people taking a stand.
morriswalters:
Butcher is culling his cast of characters. I assume there is some point to it. I don't pretend to understand what.
vincentric:
Really the only people culled are the normal human combatants.
The story is moving into more high stakes conflicts and all the characters who can't survive there are being moved aside, replaced or powered up. So Michael goes and we get Jedi Knight of the Cross Butters with 2 werewolf sidekicks. I can see Thomas' roles being handled by Goodman Grey. Molly went for clingy damsel apprentice to demi-goddess Winter Lady. Toot and Lacuna are nearing full Sidhe powers. Lara is definitely the most capable of the love interests and definitely not an easy potential hostage but she'll play a support role.
The cast s being cycled out as the danger ramps up. So Harry doesn't feel as guilty taking his crew into battles they can't handle just to give him a slight edge.
Mira:
--- Quote from: vincentric on May 25, 2022, 03:29:26 PM ---Really the only people culled are the normal human combatants.
The story is moving into more high stakes conflicts and all the characters who can't survive there are being moved aside, replaced or powered up. So Michael goes and we get Jedi Knight of the Cross Butters with 2 werewolf sidekicks. I can see Thomas' roles being handled by Goodman Grey. Molly went for clingy damsel apprentice to demi-goddess Winter Lady. Toot and Lacuna are nearing full Sidhe powers. Lara is definitely the most capable of the love interests and definitely not an easy potential hostage but she'll play a support role.
The cast s being cycled out as the danger ramps up. So Harry doesn't feel as guilty taking his crew into battles they can't handle just to give him a slight edge.
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The Knights of the Cross are still ordinary vanilla humans. Butters has trained hard, but he has a lot to learn, he is far from being a Jedi. The Holy Knights are still subject to injury and death.. So yeah, with the help of the Holy Swords they step up, but they are limited.
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