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Current Talk '09 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0811
« on: August 05, 2009, 06:30:28 AM »
The butler is my favorite LE characterization. He's touching and hilarious at the same time.
As for inconsistency amongst spirits, well, this is a world of magic. When dealing with fiction involving the known real world or science fiction, I require consistency. In a fictional world of magic, absolute predictable consistency would be a real disappointment. Why wouldn't Jenny Collins appear to those important to her, at a crucial moment, as she needs to, and able to speak? Perhaps she wouldn't have been able to do so at any other moment. Maybe it was the special character of this moment that allowed her to communicate.
As for Beth, say, perhaps the nature of her afterlife determines her abilities and the nature of her presence. People die in different ways, for different reasons, and their spirits linger therefore in different ways. To say that all ghosts must have the same abilities is to deny what being a ghost is. Ghosts haunt us or remain in the world because of how they died, and what went wrong in their lives. All that is different for every person. Beth is silenced for a long time, perhaps by Quentin, perhaps by the special characteristics of her haunting.
Jenny was, all things considered, an innocent, and when it came time for her to speak something important, she could.
As for inconsistency amongst spirits, well, this is a world of magic. When dealing with fiction involving the known real world or science fiction, I require consistency. In a fictional world of magic, absolute predictable consistency would be a real disappointment. Why wouldn't Jenny Collins appear to those important to her, at a crucial moment, as she needs to, and able to speak? Perhaps she wouldn't have been able to do so at any other moment. Maybe it was the special character of this moment that allowed her to communicate.
As for Beth, say, perhaps the nature of her afterlife determines her abilities and the nature of her presence. People die in different ways, for different reasons, and their spirits linger therefore in different ways. To say that all ghosts must have the same abilities is to deny what being a ghost is. Ghosts haunt us or remain in the world because of how they died, and what went wrong in their lives. All that is different for every person. Beth is silenced for a long time, perhaps by Quentin, perhaps by the special characteristics of her haunting.
Jenny was, all things considered, an innocent, and when it came time for her to speak something important, she could.