Ok, now let's discuss world creation and metaphysical ties.... (and have i in fact, missed anything really important?)

I can buy Jim being inspired by the Amber Chronicles, or using some ideas based on them, but there is zero chance that the Dresden Files is literally connected to another series altogether, for the same reasons that the Hulk won't actually show up, even if he has Hercules's mantle.

Dresden, the Cinder Spires, and Alera—the three series Jim actually has intellectual property rights for—maybe, but definitely not something that he doesn't own. Speculation in that direction is a dead end.

You can draw as many parallels as you like, and that's perfectly valid, but Corwin is not going to show up in the Dresden Files any more than Cyclops.

exactamundo.

Nah.  I see they have a really convoluted time travel theory that isn't consistent across movies. They do have some time travel theories that work within particular movie or some subset of movies.  But that really misses the mark. This thread really isn't so much about Time Travel as it is about John Connor's origin being based in it and his birth being targeted because he plays a pivotal role in the defeat of Team Bad's plan.

That said, I do need to watch the movies, all of them. I've seen the cliffnotes in other writeups and they do show a VERY complicated, contradictory, inconsistent overarching theory but that there does exist some parts of TT theories that attach in different movies.

I admit, I cherished mine idea after movie 2 that Skynet was only trying to destroy humanity to kill John Connor, because they copied the chip from the first one to build Skynet. John connor being out of time actually creates the time loop of Skynet's existence(something they hinted at in a different way in Genesis... a shame, cause Genesis could/would have tied all the other timelines together in a 'the Magicians' sort of way). So Skynet exists to destroy John Connor and since they know he will be born into humanity, it target's humanity before he is born/during his life.

Going with a timetravel series you 'read the cliffnotes' of seems kinda a waste of time. If you actually watch the movies instead you'll realize they screwed up their TT plot after movie one... not exactly a good model to base anything on.

Which would then make either Harry or Mac the Sun.  Probably the sun, because beer gives people that warm feeling.  Of course!  How could it be anything else!

Guess you got this snippy at Eldest Gruff's son of the chief physician when it came out? Go over to Reddit where he still hangs out and make such comments, i'd love to see that.. you can pretty much sling shit back at people for continuingly making the same sort of comments of stubborn refusal to see anything they don't wish to, made worse by the egotistifcal need to rally against it.... You know, hypothetically, over there, were we don't have such fine upstanding people to do such things, no?
Adding in the Dagda/Sun/Appollo association isn't a thing already so well proven. Giving him connotations of rebirth btw, point to the origins of Harry's starborn trait, that of fire, change, death... and also inherently rebirth.

Because it can't just be a car.  No, that would be unrealistic and require too many assumptions.

Considering it's already been linked as a firebird, yep. I find it likely an incarnation of the Chariots that pull the sun, even if now only metaphorically.

But even with that, he's established that he's lied in his comments.  Even direct quotes are now officially questionable.

I think it's all a smoke screen made up in the last year or so to keep us off the truth. He's slipped up and mentioned quite a few things and implied hella others in his Wojing over the years... I think he's trying to cover his ass from every direction is all.

Sorta, yes, and definitely not...