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True Love's Protection
LaraBeck:
Let me just point out this interview (recent) where Jim talks about the love protection.
Watch from about min 38:40 it's a couple of minutes where he talks about this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg5GxQb_rXo
Let me know your thoughts if you figure out something from it related to this, what's your interpretation.
Though, I should say, I find JB to be somewhat inconsistent lately.
Mira:
--- Quote from: LaraBeck on January 26, 2026, 02:40:39 PM ---Let me just point out this interview (recent) where Jim talks about the love protection.
Watch from about min 38:40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg5GxQb_rXo
Let me know your thoughts if you figure out something from it related to this, what's your interpretation.
Though, I should say, I find JB to be somewhat inconsistent lately.
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That will have to wait until later, thank you though for sending the link. I just don't have time this morning to listen and digest it. My personal opinion is at the beginning of the series, the whole "true love" thing sounded great and worked great for the beginning of the series, but at the same time writing that Jim sort of wrote himself into a corner. The concept of true love burning a White Court vampire was pretty cut and dried, it has been debated extensively for years here on this forum. Then with the Thomas/Justine thing it started to get fuzzy. For years Thomas nibbled on Justine and that feeding helped to keep her sane and there was no burning then though it was clear that Thomas at the very least liked her very much, then in Blood Rites, she was willing to die feeding him to save his life, and he was willing to die rather than kill her by feeding her to death. Enter true love, from then on they were a couple but went to great lengths to avoid Thomas being burned on contact, like Justine wearing a laytex suit at a nightclub so they could snuggle. No word about sex between them, though after Harry was "killed" and Thomas was grieving, Justine comes home with a lesbian girlfriend, they have sex with paves the way for Thomas and her to have relations. If it was that simple, why hadn't that been done after they realized they truly loved one another? And why a lesbian? Wouldn't a one night stand with some guy do? I just find that wierd, not intended to be a judgement about gay sex. Also at the end of White Night, Harry practically burns Lara's lips off because he still loved Susan and hadn't been with another woman for five years since she left. What I am saying is Jim's original concept of the true love's protection thing was really cool, down to touching a wedding ring or a rose given in true love burning.. However jump ahead twenty years, true love really gets in the way of the narrative, especially after all the build up to Harry and Murphy, her dying violently in Harry's arms, and him very much grieving for her in Twelve Months. As the saying goes, please Jim don't pee up our backs and call it rain! I do understand he had created a problem for himself, and in order to move on with the story which now means Harry has to have a close relationship with Lara could only come up with some very lame excuses as to why it didn't burn when she kissed him.. Jim shouldn't have tried, in my opinion. Yeah, other problems, like the very good questions Harry's Id was asking him, was it really true love between him and Murphy? Or just seemed that way? Of course that would have pissed off the H/M shippers, but would have made sense in a lot of ways.. Or could just a doubt about truly loving Murphy or vice versa do it?
LaraBeck:
Yeah, again, to me, trying to push the narrative toward a relationship between Harry and Lara, either if it turns romantic or if it's just about Harry getting "a taste of sexy", is doing a number of things to the overall story that Jim is not handling well, or at least, is not coming through to some of us, this matter feels very retconny. I find it disingenuous >:(
Dina:
Things would have been easier if Harry had not burnt Lara in PT/BG. Not True Love. But since it happened, the easiest way to deal with it was not to have the long kiss scene in TM. Have Lara began feeding and then burn. She still would have tasted Harry and liked it and the rest of the book would be more or less the same, only the sexy scene with all its effect in Harry's mind would be shorter.
LaraBeck:
--- Quote from: Dina on January 26, 2026, 06:14:27 PM ---Things would have been easier if Harry had not burnt Lara in PT/BG. Not True Love. But since it happened, the easiest way to deal with it was not to have the long kiss scene in TM. Have Lara began feeding and then burn. She still would have tasted Harry and liked it and the rest of the book would be more or less the same, only the sexy scene with all its effect in Harry's mind would be shorter.
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Yes, that would have worked.
Honestly, I think many of us would have been so disappointed if Harry had not burned Lara in Peace Talks, I mean, it was him and Murphy, hard to believe they wouldn't have True Love™ all things considered. And in a book that is mostly about Harry mourning the woman he loved as Twelve Months was, it is hard to have that love being so questioned now by things that could have been fixed in a different way, because Lara being "sated" doesn't really work and Mab's explanation of Harry's self-loathing doesn't either. It's like we keep adding insult to the injury that was Murphy's death, because we (Jim) is rushing this situationship with Lara. I dunno, I've heard people saying that's the point, that it is on purpose, perhaps I'd believe that if Harry wasn't so lustful toward her or worse, was trying so hard to justify trusting her.
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