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Re: I meant more take note about that iron/Mantle/back thing, ha Isaac Send a noteboard - 12/06/2014 05:21:41 AM

View original postIn that you noticed that it seemed to be an inconsistency, and that he's claiming here to have put that inconsistency in intentionally.

Sure, or he might have caught it and decided to run with it instead of fixing it too, but I also wasn't trying to imply that the guy who writes detective novels doesn't like to scatter mysteries in front of his readers. I'm sure there are tons of deliberate things like that, I just think not all of them are, and that also many were oopses that, because he's a good writer, he decided to change from oops into story. Why admit to or ignore a mistake when a little creativity makes it into a new mystery for the audience to enjoy?


View original postAs for the other stuff, oh totally, he's come up with new stuff and changed stuff. Actually, the character of Butters is one great example of that: Butters was originally just supposed to be a one-off character in Death Masks. However, Butcher ended up liking him, and brought him back for Dead Beat, and he grew from there.

Butters appeals to geeks, of which Butcher and much of his fanbase are. The thing is that returns to the point, Butter's has Shiro's sword, which was given to Harry to pass on in the same book Butters was a planned one-off, now common sense says Butcher probably didn't have Butters in mind to inherit, meaning either Butcher didn't know who he'd give it to or planned someone else. I'd bet on Murphy, she's obviously meant to be seen by the audience as the frontrunner and of course she did inherit between Shiro and Butters, but I think he meant it to be more permanent and changed his mind. But either way he changed it or didn't have it, and that's a fairly major plotline in the series after it was well-developed, so Lash/daughter2.0 switch isn't hard for me to consider probable.

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