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** It's actually explained in the book, too. The boys fight according to the timeless boys' code of honour; Pepper fights to ''win''.
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** As I remember, she doesn't keep it in her belt normally, she keeps it in her handbag.
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** The four kids are analogous to the Horsepeople, and she's War. This troper never needed more explanation than that.
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** The four kids are analogous to the Horsepeople, and she's the equivalent of War. This troper never needed more explanation than that.
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** The four kids are analogous to the Horsepeople, and she's War. This troper never needed more explanation than that.
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*According to the book, Anathema is sensible, so instead of protective amulets she carries a foot-long bread knife in her belt. But if she was really sensible, wouldn't she carry a weapon that's harder to injure yourself with (think about it, it's blade is a foot-long and it's just swinging around on her belt, she could easily accidently stab herself) and is easier to conceal (though you could make the argument that she wants people to know she's armed.)?
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* This is entirely a matter of personal opinion. I know it continues the joke about Queen. And yes, ''Bohemian Rhapsody'' is an awesome song. But when I read that book, for that ''one scene,'' I substituted ''Bohemian Rhapsody'' with ''Bat Out of Hell'' and it was '''even better.''' I just wonder why it didn't occur to either Pratchett or Gaiman to use the song that had -- at least -- the obviously more appropriate''title.''
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* This is entirely a matter of personal opinion. I know it continues the joke about Queen. And yes, ''Bohemian Rhapsody'' is an awesome song. But when I read that book, for that ''one scene,'' I substituted ''Bohemian Rhapsody'' with ''Bat Out of Hell'' and it was '''even better.''' I just wonder why it didn't occur to either Pratchett or Gaiman to use the song that had -- at least -- the obviously more appropriate''title.appropriate ''title.''
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* This is entirely a matter of personal opinion. I know it continues the joke about Queen. And yes, ''Bohemian Rhapsody'' is an awesome song. But when I read that book, for that ''one scene,'' I substituted ''Bohemian Rhapsody'' with ''Bat Out of Hell'' and it was '''even better.''' I just wonder why it didn't occur to either Pratchett or Gaiman to use the song that had -- at least -- the obviously more appropriate''title.''
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*** This might veer into AlternateCharacterInterpretation a little, but I have the impression that Aziraphale thinks he's much more good than he really is (just as Crowley thinks he's more evil than he really is). Him conveniently forgetting all the "minor" times he's cussed "because they don't count" fits neatly into that.
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** She's a tomboy, and two of the kids she beat up were wusses. The Antichrist didn't use his powers against her.
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** When he was young he didn't have power's those manifested when dog first arived.
** When he was young he didn't have power's those manifested when dog first arived.
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* Adam is an ''insanely'' powerful RealityWarper, and he [[AchievementsInIgnorance doesn't know what the rules are]], which mean they become whatever he thinks they are. The bit with Lucifer is a glorious example of this: he's told that His Father is coming to punish him, and he interpretes that in a way that makes sense to him ... so Mr Young arrives, and he's quite cross.
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* Adam is an ''insanely'' powerful RealityWarper, and he [[AchievementsInIgnorance doesn't know what the rules are]]. are]], which mean they become whatever he thinks they are. The bit with Lucifer is a glorious example of that: this: he's told that His Father is coming to punish him, and he interpretes that in a way that makes sense to him ... so Mr Young arrives, and he's quite cross.
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* How were Lucifer and the Horsemen defeated? I know Adam has reality altering powers, but both of these lost me. The THEM just confront the Horsemen with copies of their symbols and the Horsemen just disappear? Was it because Adam was siding with them and treating his friends as the true Horsemen instead of the actual four? And what about Lucifer? Considering he is Adam's father and his coming was treated as the equivalent of the end of the world how could Adam just handwave the whole thing?
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** I always thought he had some of his "rarer" old books still, but some others that were merely first editions of books still in print got replaced with different first editions.
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*I know we all like ActionGirl and YouGoGirl and all that, and it seems like the character archetype of the sweet and gentle GirlNextDoor is dead or that people don't think there's anything interesting out of that character archetype (which I sincerely doubt.), but I have to ask here; Pepper apparently beat up three kids at once, one of them being TheAntiChrist. Yeah, how the hell did that happen realistically?
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** I'm not sure what the question is. The whole point of that exchange was to show that to Anathema their, ahem, "activities" were nothing more than fullfilling a prophecy. Newton wouldn't have been able to convince her otherwise if he tried.
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* If there's any time to tell a prophecy to piss off, it's "It says we only do it once."
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*** Yes, but doesn't he also say "bugger" when they're drunk at the beginning of the book? And there's still the "What the hell is it?"... [[MST3KMantra Oh well.]] Maybe he decides those don't count for some reason?
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** It's actually stated that it's the second time he's sworn in an hour, and when he says bugger earlier, it's stated that it's the first time he's sworn in four millenniums. It's just that the "oh fuck" line was a lot more powerful than the bugger line.
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* How exactly is the incident with the blue circle the ''first'' time Aziraphale has sworn? He says "bugger" at least once in the book before that, and "What the hell is it?", and "bloody" if you really want to be strict.
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**** A cut snake is a dead snake and should therefore have no feelings or mental stability one way or the other. If it is both cut and mad, it's probably undead and should have better adjectives attached to it then mad.
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** Which in turn could lead to the extinction of their food source from overeating, which would lead back to whale extinction except now you have at ''least'' two things gone forever. Also restoring the whale population would mean that Adam created life. God tends to get annoyed when you do things like that.
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* Late in the book after [[spoiler: Adam powers up]] he's encouraged to use his powers to do good things like restoring the whale populations. It might be intelligent to realize that this wouldn't stop humans from hunting them again except he never considers the possibility that at least it would help a great number of whales ''avoid extinction''.
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** Aziraphale puts the loss of one good thing behind him and gets on with enjoying a new good thing that has just dropped into his lap. It doesn't come strange if you subscribe to the view espoused in ''Perelandra'' for instance - where Tinidril, in complete acceptance of the will of Maleldil, philosophises at Ransom's departure "We will meet again, or else some other good thing will happen to us instead".
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*** The villainous Death who... compliments a delivery man on his dedication to the job, sticks around to collect the bikers who were stupid enough to try and make an impossible jump, and, confronted with the loss of the other Horsepeople simply states that he is necessary to the functioning of the universe and that the absence of the others means that it simply grinds down in entropy before leaving. ...What?
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** I dont remember him doing anyting particularly evil.
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* Yes, I know they were replaced with expensive first editions (of the kind of books Adam likes) but I think it was ridiculously out-of-character that Aziraphale wasn't in the slightest bit upset about losing, among other things, a ''Bible'' in which the typesetter left a long paragraph about how much he hates his job. How could you not be upset about that being destroyed? Especially if you loved books as much as Aziraphale?
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* What's so gay about a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide?
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Not that there isn't anything ''strange'' about a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide, and not that it isn't fun to say, [[hottip:*: and not that I'm not waiting for someone to say the book sounds "gay" as a derogatory term so I can use that line]], but I don't see anything particularly homosexual about it.
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** What was so evil about him? He was just an entity doing his job.
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*Was this troper the only one disappointed by a villainous Death? I mean, between [[DiscWorld Terry Pratchett]] and [[TheSandman Neil Gaiman]], I was hoping for a good to neutral one, but instead we got the cliched evil death.
