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DF Spoilers / Re: Titles Similar To TDF
« on: January 22, 2022, 06:24:58 AM »Oh why don't they go all out and do Lord of the Rings?
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The unnamed prisoner says that "He belongs to be here" (paraphrasing). I wonder if Thomas will adopt this same attitude after talking with him or once he gets off the Island that he will feel that he belongs back in prison.
Father Forthill is another vanilla mortal, no powers no special status but he is so good at being mortal it almost hurts, he is the vanilla ice cream milkshake of mortals.
Listen is of course Phish Food after failing to kill the Carpenters.
By any measure outside of fiction time travel is impossible because it violates causality. Which means that cause and effect gets broken. The only way to get around it is to cheat or just flat out ignore it. Butcher is trying to cheat in my opinion.
He creates a character that has been around since the White God said let there be light. Then he puts restrictions on what those characters can do. He then creates a new character that is no longer bound by those restrictions. That's the cheat. It may not be his intent but it's what he wrote.
It's like Schrödinger's Cat. Until you look into the box you don't know. The idea comes from Vadderung's dialog in Cold Days when in an exchange where Harry asks if he can do it, ie save the island, Vadderung responds that perhaps he already has. This prose would normally indicate that the protagonist had done this before.
A freaking square 5 gallon tub of vanilla.
Bradley was definitely set up to be the new competent Vanilla mortal now that Marcone had gone all mint chocolate chip and Hendricks and Murphy went honey mead.
I gave my answer in my first post on this subject. I think it's Harry. Butcher says not. It's his book.
Oh no, Carlos is Tutti Frutti if you think about his role in Dead BeatWell then Bradly must be plain old vanilla..
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bom bom
Tutti frutti, oh rootie
Tutti frutti, oh rootie
Tutti frutti, oh rootie
Tutti frutti, oh rootie
Tutti frutti, oh rootie
A wop bop a loo bop a lop ba ba
I got a gal, named Sue, she knows just what to do
I got a gal, named Sue, she knows just what to do
She rock to the East, she rock to the West
But she's the gal that I love best“
Carlos was massively impressed with Harry’s Zombie Dinosaur.
Then I stand corrected, say instead,If you ran across this in SF the prisoner would be a sleeper in suspended animation or in an area where time is suspended.
Bradley,
In and of itself you are correct, however dark gods and monsters don't need sleep.
What seems obvious to me is that all mortals are now off the playing field. Hendricks is gone. Murphy is gone. Justine is the face of Nemesis. The Cops are now the Men in Black, Chicago PD is now a farm team. Bring the Supernatural or go home seems to be the new mantra.