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DF Spoilers / Re: Will the Big Moment Come in Peace Talks?
« on: August 05, 2018, 03:00:23 AM »
Quote from: Carl on August 05, 2018, 02:37:21 AM
Interesting thought on this, where do all the members of the fellowship who died of old age after Harry took out the red court sit. The council obviously isn't concerned but JB's been clear in some WoJ's that what the council's laws are and what the universe level laws are on black magic don't allways line up.
And how about the Grey Council members who were mortal wizards who killed the gunmen and so with magic at that fight?

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DF Spoilers / Re: Will the Big Moment Come in Peace Talks?
« on: August 05, 2018, 02:46:50 AM »
Quote from: peregrine on August 05, 2018, 02:21:49 AM
Harry didn't murder a mortal with magic, Laws don't care.  There is no accessory issues as far as the White Council is concerned.
That’s one opinion. Most human legal systems would find him culpable. It could go either way, I think. I guess it comes down to if the Merlin likes him or not for if he presses it.

Speaking of more of Dresden’s bill, how is it he never was charged for all the young people he burned to death at Bianca’s par-tay? I can’t remember if that was ever explained in the books. I remember him fearing he’d pay for it, but I don’t remember anything ever happening. I remember a question mark on if they were already dead, but it seems unlikely all were. Unless I’m forgetting something, the books seem to have dropped it.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Dresden/Anakin
« on: August 05, 2018, 02:17:04 AM »
Who is Anakin? I’m getting a blank.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Will the Big Moment Come in Peace Talks?
« on: August 05, 2018, 02:14:08 AM »
Quote from: Arjan on August 04, 2018, 08:10:39 AM
The salary is important. When you get a salary from someone you acquire obligations with it. Harry is a warden as long as they pay his salary and he accepts it.
Was that from his talk with Rashid? It seems familiar. I’d forgotten about that; good point. Still, I don’t think they will interfere with him while he’s doing Mab’s business. Later, when he’s either not needed or out from the job, I guess they will want him to pay the whatever bill he’s accrued.

Speaking of a bill, he is an accessory to murdering a mortal when they broke into the vault in skin games. He had been using magics there, so think that gets held against him? Marcone took payment, but that’s not how that magic laws work (can’t buy justice).

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DF Spoilers / Re: Will the Big Moment Come in Peace Talks?
« on: August 03, 2018, 06:17:26 PM »
Quote from: Arjan on August 03, 2018, 05:31:54 AM
Sidhe thinking. Since when can you get rid of an obligation or debt just by taking up another one? Medieval thinking. If you have fiefs in two kingdoms you have to serve two kings and figuring out how to do so is your problem.

The idea that you can have only one nationality, master, etc. is relatively modern and even now far from universally accepted. My wife has two passports, no problem at all.

Mab takes these obligations very seriously. Lea mentoring Molly and helping her protecting Chicago as the ragged lady showed that as well.

There may be conflicts but Mab will not on purpose prevent Harry from his obligations. Worst case that would mean Mab would have to fulfill them in some way.

Everything points to the council having a similar way of thinking. Harry is not the first wizard making deals outside the council and they just claim all wizards regardless of their other obligations.

Besides, they are paying his salary.
That all makes sense and seems logical, but I just don’t see the white council arresting and executing Molly, for example, if they meet up in Peace Talks. I’d think they’d be equally stand-offish regarding arresting and executing Dresden for something he does as winter knight while conducting business for Mab. I think, for the moment, he and Molly are a bit out of their grasp. Moreso for Molly. They just need to watch out if the day comes and they are no longer part of the winter court because, then, I think, the white council would come to make them pay the bill.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Will the Big Moment Come in Peace Talks?
« on: August 03, 2018, 02:57:51 AM »
Quote from: peregrine on August 02, 2018, 10:31:07 PM
Yeah, but the Council disagrees with you.  And for that matter, so does Mab.
They do? I can’t remember him having any interaction with the council since Changes. Besides chatting with Rashid, have I forgotten something?

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DF Spoilers / Re: Will the Big Moment Come in Peace Talks?
« on: August 02, 2018, 09:00:50 PM »
I don’t know when or if it will happen, but, like you, I think it will be more interesting if it doesn’t happen in a parallel universe. As winter knight, I’d think Dresden should be out of the Council’s jurisdiction so he should have more latitude to act without consequence from them.

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DF Books / Re: Perfect Casting Part Three
« on: August 02, 2018, 02:14:54 AM »
Siddig el Fadil aka Dr. Bashir from Deep Space Nine would be good as Nic. He was recently in Game of Thones, too. He’s still very handsome and charming.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Who are minor Characters you want to see again
« on: August 01, 2018, 01:49:30 AM »
Quote from: Mr. Death on July 31, 2018, 02:04:35 PM
Half that list are major antagonists, not minor characters.
Great feedback, thanks!
The only one I see as possibly a major character is Mavra. I’m viewing it from the entire arc of the series, not by book.

The way I see them is:
Deirdre- an accessory to Nicodemus like a handbag that matches Nic’s shoes. Her entire usage has been to further Nic’s story.
Tessa- a sort of side plot for Nic to add conflict and tension to his story.
Naagloshii- a one time side plot to make you oo and ah a little and laugh when he eats finger food at the white court house. He’s not the borg, but someone Janeway fought in one episode on her way to the borg base. For the book, he may not be minor, but, for the series, he definitely is to this point. He wasn’t even the A plot in the book he was in.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Who are minor Characters you want to see again
« on: July 31, 2018, 02:56:34 AM »
Cat Sith
Mavra
Deirdre
That ordo lebes woman with the little dog
Tessa
The naagloshii (as long as it gets to eat more people)
Vadderung’s receptionists
Stevie D (but only if he’s with Kenny G and they do an amazing interpretive dance/musical number)
Oh, and the fluffy bird denarian. How much would it suck to pick up the coin to get awesome super powers only to be transformed into a stinky bird? That guy oozes pathos. There could be a whole book just about him.

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DF Spoilers / Re: How big was the Boarding House?
« on: July 30, 2018, 02:22:43 AM »
I think it’s just one of those aspects to the story where you don’t look too closely. Like Dresden’s origin story, him not being able to be near electronics but living in an apartment with a neighbour having a tv a meter above his head, why Captain Picard just happened to be wearing a jacket for the first time when he was beamed down to survive with a Tamarian captain, et cetera.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Right in the feels (favourite heartfelt moments)
« on: July 30, 2018, 02:10:04 AM »
Deirdre explaining her life to illustrate how much she was sacrificing to save the world and then her going through with it later in the book was good.

Can’t really think of other stuff as it’s been a few years now. The writing  with Dresden’s daughter was just so saccharine and heavy handed, I didn’t like any of those scenes. They stood out as the author trying way too hard to get an emotional reaction.

Oh, I remember reacting to Dresden’s hand being maimed. At the time, I thought it was pretty bold to maim and partially debilitate the main character in what is, ostensibly, an action adventure series. It turned out the wound wasn’t really an issue in later books, but, at the time, I was intrigued as it should have changed a lot of the action stuff.

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DF Books / Re: Alternatives While We Wait
« on: July 30, 2018, 01:40:31 AM »
Quote from: wardenferry419 on July 27, 2018, 01:11:44 PM
Witching Hour should have been a stand-alone. What follows is not so good.
Yeah, the first was the best by far, but the others have their moments. I didn’t like the taltos, so that aspect was not great to me. I loved the Uncle Julian character in the series and the Deirdre storyline was tragic. A lot of the Talamasca stuff was interesting, too.

She wrote a Lestat, taltos crossover book later in her career. That was awful. She really went off the rail for a period of her career. She even stopped writing any supernatural stuff because she’d gone religious crazy and would only write about the Jesus character. Fortunately, she got over that and wrote some okay books afterwards. She did a new one about Lestat et al to tie up the stories for all the major and a lot of the minor characters in the vampire books a few years ago and it wasn’t bad. It wasn’t great, but not terrible, either. Definitely worth a read if one enjoyed any of the series.

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DF Books / Re: Alternatives While We Wait
« on: July 26, 2018, 02:47:25 AM »
I’m listening to a series called Malazan, Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson right now and it’s really good. The first book is a bit of a drag, but it gets better and better. The writing is a lot better than the DF books, too. And, the series is complete, which is a big bonus. I listen to the series at night while my husband snores, so it has really been quite a lengthy experience with each book being 42 hours or more in terms of narration length.

Anne Rice’s vampire books are great, too. Well, not all of the books are great, but the earliest ones (Interview, Vampire Lestat, etc.) and a couple of the middle and one or two of the latter ones are superb. She started the books in 1976, so she went through many periods with her writing.

Her Witching Hour series was great, too.

JD Salinger wrote some really amazing shorts and a few brilliant books. My favourite is Franny and Zooey followed closely by the shorts, A Perfect Day for Bananafish and Teddy.

Another favourite book is Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Narcissus and Goldmund was also really good.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Reddit Functionality
« on: July 26, 2018, 02:15:16 AM »
Quote from: peregrine on July 23, 2018, 10:00:47 PM
And nested comments makes things a lot easier to follow vs the standard message board.
I think this is the best part of the layout. It makes it a lot easier to only read the parts of discussions you find interesting. I don’t read the DF reddit, but I sometimes read other stuff. The ability to collapse and skip the uninteresting comments is quite nice. The downside to that site, for me, is the formatting. The text area is too wide for me since I almost exclusively read that sort of site on a mobile device and that wide layout makes me have to scroll left and right to read it since I have to zoom in because I need glasses but am too vain to have them.  ;)

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