Vision Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 Maybe this is just a case of unreliable narrator, but in Chapter 12, David claims, "He'd spent weeks sitting in the center of town bare-chested like some ancient sun god, drawing heat out of the air, basking in the sunlight. He'd stored it up, then released it all at once." In Chapter 29, he says "Before he destroyed Houston and each of the other cities he's annihilated, he sat in the sunlight for seven days drawing energy... He then released it in one burst." Obviously the second claim is the one to go by, so why is the first statement so far off? It's not a super big deal as the second is reiterated multiple times to make sure it's the correct time scale, but it's just bugging me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjustice99 Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Maybe weeks was a typo and was meant to be days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fifth of Daybreak Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Sounds like Obliteration teemed up with a slider. Weeks for them, only a week for us. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Observer Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Hasn't he done this twice? I could be wrong, but maybe he's talking about two different occasions there. Other than that, the way David talks can change depending on who he speaks with, so it could be that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cemlub Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 When David was explaining what Obliteration did in this scene, my understanding was that he was trying to recall information he had previously learned from various and possibly unreliable sources. So when he said "weeks," this was an estimate, not an exact measurement. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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