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Roundboy posted:I guess reading books okay back to back give some conrinuityy errors. Does she melt brains with her voice alone or not? Only when she's really pissed about something
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Everyone posted:Wow, medicine is really advanced nowadays? Figure wizards/vampires/etc have been dealing with this forever. Some version of fake death and his nephew/hidden grandson/etc inherits? And I don't think the Fallen "gave" Marcone the Coin. I think he took it from the island during the chaos at the end of Small Favor. Marcone clearly doesn't consider himself to be part of the Fallen and their agenda in any case. Gopher Wood is referenced in the bible as the kind of wood Noah's Ark was made out of. Its unclear exactly what wood it was supposed to be referring to but a lot of folklore paints it as an ancient super wood of some kind
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ImpAtom posted:Looking at the spoilers Did Butcher really fridge Murphy just to give Harry fee-feels? Seriously? That is the end of that character, she gets to join Susan in 'dead so Harry Dresden feels sad and can gently caress more hot women' heaven? He didn't fridge her unless your definition of fridging is 'a woman in a relationship dies' which would be so broad as to be completely useless. Honestly everything leading up to and surrounding her death was the strongest part of the book by far.
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Oct 6, 2020 01:36
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ImpAtom posted:
Rudolph isn't a joke character, he's literally been her personal nemesis for a bunch of books now. Her death also really doesn't inspire Harry, it makes him absolutely break down and the only thing that pulls him together is the thought of his daughter dying if he doesn't. Also she got taken to Valhalla as an einherjar and can't come back to earth until nobody living remembers her. Which is blatant foreshadowing that she absolutely is going to come back with a pretty major powerup at some point, probably when Ragnarok breaks out during the final trilogy. The restriction mostly seems to be to explain why she isn't just going to show up as one of Odin's mercenaries the next day Zore fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Oct 6, 2020 |
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Oct 6, 2020 01:49
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But for real there are like 6-7 books left in the series? I'll eat a hat if Murphy isn't a major character in at least 3 of them. Butcher is absolutely going to have an evil version in Mirror Mirror and there was no reason to make her an einjerhar if she isn't coming back for the big apocalyptic trilogy at the end
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Oct 6, 2020 01:56
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ImpAtom posted:Rudolph is Murphy's nemesis to the degree that he is the scummy IA guy who is harassing the good noble cop from every movie on the planet. At every chance he is shown to be a corrupt coward who is literally a source of comedy at every single chance presented. Even after he murders Murphy and Dresden is threatening to murder him there is a focus on the fact he both peed and pooed his pants. So I think the scene touched on a theme that Battle Ground was leaning really hard on, that ultimately the mortal world was more dangerous than the supernatural one. Murphy is told in both Peace Talks and Battle Grounds that she's too injured, things are too dangerous. But in situations where they're facing supernatural foes across both books Murphy is an invaluable asset who contributes a lot. She kills a giant that was about to murder Harry single-handedly right before the scene with Rudolph. And then Rudolph kills her without even meaning to. One of the things the series absolutely beats into your head is that the Supernatural world is terrified of the mortal world for exactly that reason. Rudolph is a coward and he kills someone who qualified to become an einjerhar entirely by accident. Humans are incredibly messy and ultimately more dangerous than these ancient monsters. Its reinforced with Harry's volunteer army of Chicagoans who help hold off the Formor and the fact that for as terrifying as everything seemed, the bad guys were on a time limit the whole time because once even the National Guard arrived they were completely hosed. I dunno, it worked for me. And I stand by the idea that she is absolutely still going to be playing a pretty major role moving forward
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Oct 6, 2020 02:17
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smertrioslol posted:Dresden is almost always broken or recovering from being broken. My guy needs to take a break from world ending poo poo and learn a more efficient fire spell - though according to the books this takes years of practice? When is the last time we have seen Dresden practice? When he was convalescing in Cold Days, and before that when he was training Molly. And both times he pulled off stuff in the books he had previously described as beyond his level of control (mostly stuff to do with veils on the fly).
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Oct 8, 2020 20:30
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Up Circle posted:didn't dresden grow like 6 inches taller sometime in the last 10 years No? He was always like 6'7 from book 1. Butcher calls him NBA sized like twice per book.
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Azhais posted:Strictly speaking she's only mostly dead since let's be honest, she's definitely an Einherjar now. Yeah she's explicitly pushing 50 when she dies since Harry's in his mid-40s and she's a few years older than him.
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