Author Topic: A crescendo of deliberate continuity errors  (Read 176 times)

Offline KurtinStGeorge

  • Posty McPostington
  • ***
  • Posts: 4264
  • Oh no, there goes Tokyo
    • View Profile
A crescendo of deliberate continuity errors
« on: December 20, 2024, 03:09:04 AM »
I think with Twelve Months we will reach a crescendo of continuity errors.  Well, maybe Peace Talks and Battle Ground was where the crescendo occured and Twelve Months will contain the coda of the continuity errors we have been seeing for a long time now.  The topic of continuity errors isn’t anything new, but I noticed how both frequent and egregious they became in Peace Talks and Battle Ground and I am seeing them in my most recent reread of Skin Game, which I’m only half way through.

It is particularly noticeable in Peace Talks when Harry tells Lara while they are doing some staff training that he has a guy watching Justine but at the end of Battle Ground Lara berates Harry for not telling her that he had someone watching Justine. 

In Skin Game, while Butters was telling Harry all the reasons why he was losing trust in him, he told Harry that his ghost told Butters and company that he was dead and gone.  Of course, that didn’t happen at all.  Harry’s ghost self specifically told Butters that he didn’t know if his condition was permanent.  It was Mort who was certain that Harry having produced a shade meant that the real Harry was dead and gone.

There is also the dream sequence in Skin Game where Harry sees multiple versions of himself and Molly driving down the same road.  These errors are not errors at all, but clues to the fact that a multiverse is in existence.  Actually, I think that is pretty obvious by now to just about everyone.  I think what isn’t obvious is what this will lead to.  It will lead to a confrontation and conclusion in Mirror Mirror.

The real significance of Mirror Mirror won’t be Harry meeting his evil self.  The Harry that made one bad choice in Grave Peril that led to series of other bad choices.  Superficially, that is exactly what will happen, but I suspect the greater significance of this meeting is it will lead to a fulcrum event.  When all the alternate versions of Harry and company will settle onto a single path, for better or for worse.   

All the slightly different versions don’t necessarily have to become one; though I suppose that might happen, but either our Harry wins and all the other versions of Harry can continue to fight the good fight or all of them are tainted or cut short by Alt-Harry’s path. 

I think with the conclusion of Mirror Mirror, we will see the end of the Brighter Future Society and the Better Future Society seeming to exist at the same time, along with other minor contradictions, unless Jim makes a real mistake and none of the Beta readers spot it.
« Last Edit: December 20, 2024, 11:59:49 PM by KurtinStGeorge »
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Groucho Marx

Offline Lord Kinbote

  • Participant
  • *
  • Posts: 34
    • View Profile
Re: A crescendo of deliberate continuity errors
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2024, 02:57:19 PM »
Here's to hoping in the Evil Harry 'verse that everything else is definitively better - like Murphy still alive, Molly neither the Winter Lady nor under the White Counsel's sword, Susan still alive and raising Maggie, the Red Court and Outsiders in their places or maybe even defeated, etc. - so Harry knows if he'd have made different decisions that turned him evil, the world and the people he loved would be much better off.  Fulcrum, indeed, plus personal depression.

Offline peterwiggin94

  • Participant
  • *
  • Posts: 21
    • View Profile
Re: A crescendo of deliberate continuity errors
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2024, 03:52:57 PM »
I agree. I think that the best evidence would be a continuity error in Peace Talks and Battle Ground. They were originally written as one book before coming out as a two-parter.

Offline Dina

  • Has Collapsed Into a Singularity of Posts (a.k.a, "The Dina")
  • ***
  • Posts: 105558
    • View Profile
Re: A crescendo of deliberate continuity errors
« Reply #3 on: Yesterday at 03:21:19 AM »
Here's to hoping in the Evil Harry 'verse that everything else is definitively better - like Murphy still alive, Molly neither the Winter Lady nor under the White Counsel's sword, Susan still alive and raising Maggie, the Red Court and Outsiders in their places or maybe even defeated, etc. - so Harry knows if he'd have made different decisions that turned him evil, the world and the people he loved would be much better off.  Fulcrum, indeed, plus personal depression.
Oh no. That would be awful.
I think in the Evil Harry verse there would be no Maggie, and that is what convinces our Harry that he did the right choice.
Missing you, Md 

There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be. Someone has stolen a book (Terry Pratchett)

Offline Lord Kinbote

  • Participant
  • *
  • Posts: 34
    • View Profile
Re: A crescendo of deliberate continuity errors
« Reply #4 on: Yesterday at 03:34:47 AM »
But you KNOW how much Butcher likes to torture Dresden.

Offline Dina

  • Has Collapsed Into a Singularity of Posts (a.k.a, "The Dina")
  • ***
  • Posts: 105558
    • View Profile
Re: A crescendo of deliberate continuity errors
« Reply #5 on: Yesterday at 03:50:55 AM »
Yes, I know. I am very aware, but I am not forced to like it. With moderation, it is ok, but sometimes it is too much, and he has already suffered more than enough.
Missing you, Md 

There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be. Someone has stolen a book (Terry Pratchett)