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A crescendo of deliberate continuity errors
Nooneofconsequence:
Ruthless? absolutely
Sadist? maybe, but if so it's combined with a strong " pain is an excellent motivator / pain is the best teacher " position. I don't think she's taking pleasure in inflicting the pain, but in the end result.
Dina:
--- Quote from: Nooneofconsequence on January 24, 2025, 03:03:12 AM ---The statement that none of us are really free, makes me think of a t-shirt I saw once.
It read " I'd be Unstoppable if not for Law Enforcement & Physics."
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--- Quote from: Nooneofconsequence on January 24, 2025, 03:24:14 AM ---Ruthless? absolutely
Sadist? maybe, but if so it's combined with a strong " pain is an excellent motivator / pain is the best teacher " position. I don't think she's taking pleasure in inflicting the pain, but in the end result.
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Perhaps, but I believe Jim did a little retcon with Mab. In Changes I believe she explicitly says she is not cruel, but in the first books that is not the case.
Nooneofconsequence:
Doesn't need to be retcon, could just be Harry getting a better understanding of Mab.
For that matter, how much does her mantle dictate her actions. The Winter Queen Mantle may react to disobedience in a way similar to the Winter Lady Mantle reacts to intimacy. And I wonder how the incident with Carlos looked from his perspective. Did Molly suddenly go silent and violent, or did she still seem to be herself?
Mira:
--- Quote from: Nooneofconsequence on January 24, 2025, 01:11:55 PM ---Doesn't need to be retcon, could just be Harry getting a better understanding of Mab.
For that matter, how much does her mantle dictate her actions. The Winter Queen Mantle may react to disobedience in a way similar to the Winter Lady Mantle reacts to intimacy. And I wonder how the incident with Carlos looked from his perspective. Did Molly suddenly go silent and violent, or did she still seem to be herself?
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I think Harry is getting a better understanding of Mab. That little journey to the Outer Gates and conversation with Rashid in Cold Days, helped him to understand what is at stake. I believe there is also I think a conversation he has with Mab in Battleground, where Harry finally gets it. Mab is what she is because of the battle she had to fight, has fought for a millennia, a misstep on her part, and humanity loses. And yes, she has sold bits of her soul over that time, just to be cursed as a cold cruel queen by the likes of Harry who now understands, and the likes of those who will never understand.
g33k:
--- Quote from: peterwiggin94 on January 23, 2025, 08:12:34 PM ---I really like this idea. I feel like Jim usually has the next couple of books in his head at any time so he could definitely had started this multiverse idea back in Cold Days with the Molly car scene. Based on it and the continuity errors we've seen, I suspect that there will only be a few timelines that are dealt with or that interact with other. It'll be more like Fringe than Rick and Morty in that respect.
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Jim has said that, from the beginning, he had envisioned 20 novels + BAT.
The PT/BG split pushed it up to 21, and the next book "Twelve Months" is new (not in the original plan), so he's now calling it 22 +BAT.
That's not to say he had every detail of every book solidly planned out.
For example: Butters was originally planned as a strictly comic-relief minor character; his whole "magic Batman" personna, all the "spotlight time" as a big piece of Harry's "Scooby-Gang," becoming a KotC, and the male-fantasy-throuple with hot-werewolf-babes, that was all unplanned.
For example: Jim didn't know, as he started Changes, which "power-up" Harry would choose when he needed it. It was only after writing some, that he realized the WK was the one to pick; but before that Jim had considered both Lasciel's Coin & Kemmler's Dark hallow to be possible ways to write it.
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