gharial posting in antishurtugal_reborn, 2018-10-21 19:46
Brisinger Spork: Part 57: Shadows of DoomLucky me. I get to spork both the most important chapter in the novel (the introduction of the Eldunari plot point) and the climax. Let’s delve right in (title sucks, but I'm not going to harp on that point).
The story opens with Eragon acting like a massive dick to some elves. And that’s not our antishirt bias, Arya even calls him out on it, but Eragon doesn’t have time to justify himself or argue because suddenly we’re switching to Glaedr’s pov as he flies of Gil’Ead. There doesn’t seem to be any express reason Glaedr is sharing his pov with Eragon. He makes no direct reference to Eragon in his mind, but he must be doing it consciously because Arya is just as close to his Eldunari and she’s not experiencing these flashes. It’s not like Eragon has any intrinsic link to Glaedr either like he does Saphira, he’s just the guy that happens to have Glaedr’s Eldunari nearby.
And because we’re once again looking through the eyes of a dragon, we of course get the tilde~dragon~language. We’ve complained about this at length before. It just doesn’t work stylishly, consistently or even linguistically. All it serves to do is make the dragons look less intelligent. There will be so many examples of it not working in this chapter, I won’t even bother naming them. Just assume every Glaedr scene comes with cringe.
( Read more... )And that’s it for the climax of the book. I suppose it could have been worse. The stuff with Galbatorix is decent, the shade stuff was completely unnecessary, though I guess it didn’t blatantly contradict anything that had been previously established…which is a win as far as the series goes sometimes. I guess its good the book had some sort of climax rather than just ending abruptly. Only the last wrap up chapter left, I believe Torylltales has it written already, which means we can finally finish this spork and move on to Eragon. Ah the good old days when it seemed like Paolini gave a crap.
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