Chapter Fifty: Snalglí for Two
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watersheerie wrote in Antishurtugal, 2012-10-15 08:38:00
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coldInheritance Spork: Chapter Fifty: Snalglí for Two
Chapter Fifty: Snalglí for Two
You know this is going to be a great chapter with that title. Just look at it, admire how clever, how ingenious such a title is (because you know CP was admiring it after he wrote it). A title blessed with one of CP’s brilliant and unpronounceable words. Snalglí for Two.
What
The
Fuck…
So let us begin.
“Snalglí for Two” begins with Eragon, Saphira and Glaedr/Mr. Exposition chilling on Vroengard Island. I say ‘chilling’, because Eragon definitely seems to be taking his sweet time here. He marvels over the scenery, Saphira’s sleeping mind, the sounds of squirrels that may not be squirrels. CP loves his visuals, and there’s a fuckload in the first page alone. A paragraph devoted to the ‘majesty’ of the morning on the Riders’ island. Another paragraph where Eragon compares Saphira’s sleeping mind to a ‘flame that had dimmed until it was little more than a smoldering coal’ pg. 506 (WTF). Apparently his eloquence over that particular analogy was just so vivid and thoughtful that it scares him and he starts to listen to the forest.
He lay where he was for over an hour, listening to the shrieks and chattering that emanated from the woods and watching the patterns of light as they played across the hills, fields, and mountains of the bowl-shaped valley. Pg. 506
I guess there’s no need to rush here. Sure they made a big deal about having to be quick in previous chapters, which is why Saphira decided to fly through a storm. But the urgency seems to be gone in this chapter. I guess maybe they could have taken the long way.
Anyway, Eragon decides to be useful, I guess. He goes off to collect firewood, but again the general tone is that he’s just killing time. He wanders off through the woods and CP takes the opportunity to slam the reader with as much purple-prose laden imagery as possible.
Shadows lay heavy under the trees. The air was cool and still, like that of a cave deep underground, and it smelled of fungus, rotting wood, and oozing sap. The moss and lichen that trailed from the branches were like lengths of tattered lace, stained and sodden, but still possessed of a certain delicate beauty. They partitioned the interior of the woods into cells of varying size, which made it difficult to see more than fifty feet in any direction. Pg. 507
What the Hell? Partitioned the wood? I…just...okay, I have to just keep going. Deep breaths, it’s just CP’s expected thesaurus rape.
So Eragon keeps walking through the forest that apparently is made up of cubicles; because that is the imagery I’m getting here, mostly due to CP’s poor choice of words. Also the trees are scary. How scary? Apparently they look like they are about to start walking, excuse me, ‘striding.’ Actually some of the imagery used here to describe the trees was quite nice, until CP gets to this part:
…as if they were about to pull themselves free of the earth and stride down to the city below. Pg. 507
Scary trees look like they are about to walk. Eragon shivers and fondles his massive magical
These grubs are the same ones we encounter in a previous chapter where Galby tortures Nasuada by placing them on her body and letting them burrow into her skin. These grubs also have some sort of weird ability in that one white grub can divide into many green centipedes. It must be magic that can let them multiply, change color and species all at once. No, I’m not sure what sort of advantage or purpose this ability serves, beyond looking cool.
Eragon asks Glaedr about these creatures and Glaedr tells Eragon that these things might be dangerous (no shit). Glaedr is troubled by this. Even though he spent previous chapters explaining how the very air and water of this island was dangerous and everything had been altered by the
Eragon finds some bones and decides to leave. He keeps hearing the strange chattering that sounds like squirrels but isn’t squirrels as he returns to the meadow and decides to go wash his face in the stream. At this point I’m wondering what was the point of Eragon’s little jaunt through the woods. Wasn’t he going to get firewood, or something? And then he didn’t. So really the walk through the woods was just to show off the grubs again and to build up some sort of suspense or atmosphere. Which is lost because it’s so very boring and mostly I’m wondering why Eragon is wasting time here.
Eragon finally discovers the source of the strange noises. It’s totally riveting as CP devotes more paragraphs to describing these shadowy birds. Eragon grasps his
The excitement is killing me.
Saphira quips about eating the grubs, which prompts Glaedr to enthrall us all with a dragon proverb:
You know the first law of hunting as well as I: do not stalk your prey until you are sure it is prey. Pg. 511
Really? That’s like saying the first law of eating is don’t eat something unless you are sure it is food. Good to know, I’m glad we have Glaedr here to pass on such tidbits of wisdom. That is so profound, except it isn’t. Sort of like how this chapter is entertaining, except it isn’t.
Saphira goes to sleep and then Eragon and Glaedr chat a bit about the island before the Riders fell. Glaedr beams a vision of the Vroengard into Eragon’s head, so CP can has an excuse to write more descriptions of a city that isn’t even really there. And then we finally get to something interesting. Eragon notes some lights in the ruins below. He uses magic to see that it is a line of people in robes slowly walking about. They appear to be monks of some sort, there’s some neat imagery used and Glaedr has no idea who these people are. It’s a mystery, and it’s an interesting mystery. Here are some people on a dangerous island that’s supposed to be uninhabited.
Eragon thinks nothing about it and goes to sleep. I guess he used up all his emotion and concern for the maggots, trees and shadow-birds. But this is par for course with CP. All the truly interesting bits of the Inheritance books are ultimately shoved to the side so CP can wax poetic about trees and how awesome Eragon is.
They go to sleep; I’m on the edge of my seat with excitement here. There is a break and next thing we know Glaedr is mentally shouting at them to wake up…excuse me, to ‘rouse’ themselves. ‘Wake’ is such a boring word anyway. Apparently there is danger and Eragon
It’s a giant snail.
::sigh::
I’ve noted this before, CP is definitely one of those ‘bigger is better’ people. He seems to think that exaggerating everything is part of what makes an epic story, which has resulted in such ludicrous moments as Roran killing that mass of people with his hammer. It’s also given us the ridiculously large crowns and mustaches and animals, because bigger is better and makes things seem more epic. Or as CP would write:
EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!
But no matter how big or large or ‘epic’ you make something, sometimes at the end of the day all you have is a slug. A giant slug. For ye all knoweth that it is perilous to face giant snails on yonder field of battle. Especially when they hiss and ooze across the grass toward you. Apparently these giant snails are super-fast and can ooze as fast as a man can run, but Eragon is a sexy man-elf so he should be safe. Except this is one of those rare moments where Eragon’s Sue-reflexes are not quick enough, either those snails are faster than a speeding bullet or this is just another plot contrivance.
…and swallowed the creature whole, bobbing her head twice as she did, like a robin eating an earthworm. Pg. 513
Nice, the fearsome dragon is eating snails the way a robin would eat worms. Let us continue. There are more snails and Saphira goes after them and eats all of them except one. The last one she cooks with fire and brings it back to Eragon, so he can eat it. Eragon finds this hilarious, no really.
He stared at her, then began to laugh—and he kept laughing until he was doubled over, resting his hands on his knees and heaving for breath. Pg. 514
Even Eragon finds the idea of giant predator snails to be absurd.
I’m not sure why he’s laughing. He spews some gibberish about eating snail parts, I don’t know, none of it makes sense. Even Saphira and Glaedr find it odd. Then Glaedr asks about the ‘first law of hunting’ and oh God I wish I were making this up, but Saphira and Eragon repeat back that stupid little proverb together. Like a fucking sitcom.
Together Eragon and Saphira replied, Do not stalk your prey until you are sure it is prey. Pg. 515
Now just imagine them saying that, then hearing a laugh track going off as campy music plays and the entire scene freezes so the credits can play.
Glaedr infodumps about the giant snails, or Snalglí as they are called. And now we know where the stupid chapter title came from. Eragon cleans the snail. No, I don’t know how you can gut a snail, but apparently it’s really slimy and messy. Wow, this is certainly Important Information. And very exciting too.
Eragon then buries the meat and the next morning he has tasty snail bacon to eat. It’s so tasty he eats more than usual. Eragon you glutton, you know that snail meat is high in calories and carbs, it will all go straight to your thighs. After eating they pack up and set off to the Rock of Kuthian to finally get shit done.
In conclusion: this is a chapter in which nothing happens. It’s completely pointless. Eragon wanders around a scary forest with scary animals, giant snails attack, they eat them. Nothing that happens in this chapter furthers the plot in any way. It’s completely meaningless. If CP was trying to show how twisted and scary the island had become, he could have done that in a couple of paragraphs starting off the next chapter, where they actually go and do something that has bearing on the story itself. As it was, this chapter was an exercise in boring. It was dull and tedious and has the feeling of something that was tacked on as an afterthought.
Thank you CP; you never fail to bring on the disappointment.
43 comments
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lady_licht
October 15 2012, 13:51:59 UTC Edited: October 15 2012, 13:53:03 UTC
like squirrels but isn’t squirrels
Like... THE CHICKEN WHICH IS NOT A CHICKEN! *thunder*
Wasn’t he going to get firewood, or something?
If a hero says he's going to collect firewood he always returns empty handed. Always. Eragon finds some wood. Oh.
The last one she cooks with fire and brings it back to Eragon, so he can eat it.
I can almost see how Paolini learned that yes, you can eat snakes and just had to write about it.
Is the fact that they ate those snakes going to affect anything of what follows?
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ana0119
October 15 2012, 17:58:58 UTC
Eragon finds some wood.
Is it... morning wood?
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torylltales
October 16 2012, 08:48:40 UTC Edited: October 16 2012, 08:49:07 UTC
I wish it were giant snakes, we might have actually had some tension then. Giant snails just... don't bring exciting narrative tension, even if they are fast. What, is their slime highly acidic? Are they going to nibble Eragon to death? Yawn.
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lady_licht
October 16 2012, 08:54:25 UTC
What the... I honestly read it as snakes. XD Damn it. I'm growing old.
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ana0119
October 16 2012, 15:10:53 UTC
"Nibble?" They have teeth now? Is it one of those pulsating round mouths with multiple rows of saw-like teeth? ...Like the last King Kong remake?
'Cause that's starting to sound a bit threatening now.
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torylltales
October 16 2012, 19:00:19 UTC
Go to Youtube, watch snails eating things. How it is not nibbling? Except that they sort of inhale little bits at a time, instead of tearing it off with teeth.
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ana0119
October 16 2012, 23:10:00 UTC
But my question is, do those snuggly thing have teeth? Does the book say so? Cause for me, "nibbling" would include teeth, right?
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torylltales
October 17 2012, 07:57:07 UTC
Fine, the giant snails are going to gum them to death.
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ana0119
October 17 2012, 10:59:45 UTC
That's right, those snails are going to gum Eragon to death! That's so much better!...
Wait. No, it's not. Paolini!!! *shakes fist*
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mage_apprentice
October 17 2012, 16:38:29 UTC
Actually, gumming to death might be pretty scary, depending on how powerful those jaws are. Might be like being crushed to death . . .
. . . Wait, those are snails. PAOLINI!!! *shakes spear*
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ana0119
October 17 2012, 16:44:43 UTC
PAOLINI!!! (<= the rallying cry of the anti-riders)
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torylltales
October 28 2012, 23:59:08 UTC
I thought our rallying cry was "GET ON WITH IT!" a la Monty Python?
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ana0119
October 29 2012, 00:01:41 UTC
"GET ON WITH IT!" is what you yell at the computer or your book, alone in your room.
"PAOLINIIIII!!!!" is what you howl at the moon to gather like minds in your quest for better literature.
Or something.
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ana0119
October 15 2012, 16:11:11 UTC
After eating they pack up and set off to the Rock of Kuthian to finally get shit done.
You think they get shit done next chapter. That's so cute. Yeah, no.
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watersheerie
October 15 2012, 20:32:21 UTC
Yeah, I keep hoping that something is going to happen. Ye gods, how can someone write so much while saying so little?
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ana0119
October 16 2012, 03:55:18 UTC
I think Paolini got confused about what kind of story he was writing. See, Chris, if you were writing an adventure story about traveling, seeing new places, meeting new people (and killing them), that sort of thing, then we wouldn't complain quite as much. Then, you could afford to have your characters meander around. But you decided to write an epic with a set plot, which by the way, is supposed to be pretty urgent. This isn't "Eragon and Saphira's Grand Adventure." It's not even "Alagesia Trail."
*sigh*
(On an unrelated note, is that Outlaw Star I spy in your avatar?)
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watersheerie
October 16 2012, 13:37:04 UTC
Yup, a favorite anime of mine. I have to say, you are the first to notice :)
Eragon bitches and moans about not having the perfect, magical sword, while Twilight Suzuka manages to destroy shit with just a bokken.
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mage_apprentice
October 16 2012, 14:52:58 UTC
Reminds me of Rurouni Kenshin. While he didn't use a bokken, he still took a no-kill vow and held to it despite tribulations and temptations. He even took up his signature sword to make it easier to keep that vow. Does Eragon ever even worry about killing people? No, he just whines about how he killed people after the fact if it's time to wax poetic about the horrors of bloodshed.
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predak123
October 15 2012, 16:34:36 UTC
And the Snagli, of course, bear no resemblance whatsoever to the racing snails in Neverending Story. Nope, no similarities at all. Mein Gott, Paolini is such a hack.
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maegwin_of_hern
October 15 2012, 18:36:12 UTC
I know, right? That snail was awesome!
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mage_apprentice
October 15 2012, 18:14:25 UTC
He uses magic to see that it is a line of people in robes slowly walking about. They appear to be monks of some sort, there’s some neat imagery used and Glaedr has no idea who these people are. It’s a mystery, and it’s an interesting mystery. Here are some people on a dangerous island that’s supposed to be uninhabited.
Hey, Paolini! I wanna know about the people who live on this supposedly uninhabitable island! Maybe they're the last remnants of the dragonrider civilization! How did they survive the magical fallout? How did they stay hidden from the world? I want answerNO DON'T GO OFF TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE WORTHLESS SNAILS YOU COULD EASILY INTRODUCE THROUGH THESE PEOPLE EATING OR HUNTING THEM!
Apparently his eloquence over that particular analogy was just so vivid and thoughtful that it scares him and he starts to listen to the forest.
Heheheh. Deep thinking makes Eragon's brain hurt.
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zorbulon
October 15 2012, 23:02:50 UTC
Nah; it is just the local band of jawas. They don't speak, anyway; they just trade
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lupus753
October 15 2012, 20:07:30 UTC
That first law of hunting is not so much the first law or even the zeroth law, but rather the negative twenty-seventh law. A thing so basic it is implied in the act itself. Too bad "first law" keeps reminding me of a certain violent film that satirized the overt masculinity in our culture and had a bar of soap. Stupid marginal connections...
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Anonymous
October 19 2012, 01:48:11 UTC
The first rule of dragon rider club is don't talk about dragon rider club?
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swankivy
October 15 2012, 20:09:24 UTC
I hated the contrived danger of this chapter partly because frigging Glaedr "roused" them moments before Eragon would have become a snack for that snail. Now, we know dead dragons don't really need to sleep, so was he daydreaming? For a Wisdom-Dispensing Stone, he sure does a lot of dumb things. Surely a guardian angel dragon should acknowledge that if a dragon and a human (excuse me, human-elf thing) need to sleep, he should be, you know, being a guardian. Instead he waits until Eragon was about to get eaten before he wakes him up. Which if it wasn't on purpose means he's negligent and if it WAS on purpose Glaedr is a dick.
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watersheerie
October 15 2012, 20:34:20 UTC
It's definitely contrived because not only does Glaedr not need sleep, but since Eragon became the wondrous Man-Elf that he is today, he hasn't needed to sleep either. Instead he does those stupid 'waking dreams,' and I know that at some earlier point in the books, CP has noted that Eragon is aware of his surroundings while lucid-dreaming/tripping on acid.
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white_wolf03
October 15 2012, 20:41:42 UTC
I'm sorry; I'm still trying to wrap my head around the 'Killer Snails' thing.
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torylltales
October 16 2012, 08:38:26 UTC
"That’s like saying the first law of eating is don’t eat something unless you are sure it is food."
Actually, It probably is the first and most important lesson our parents teach us when we are young. Don't eat what isn't edible, especially if you don't know if it is. Common sense. Applying that to hunting, thouigh, ruins the lesson. If anything, you should be watching your predators far more closely than your prey.
"Roran killing that mass of people with his hammer."
With his spear. Never downplay the symbolism, Roran killed just shy of a hundred trained soldiers with his hard thobbing spear.
I think ana0119's idea about Paolini forgetting what kind of story this is is probably the best theory I've heard yet. There's simply no way anybody can be this meandering and verbose and tangential if they were focused on the urgent overthrow-the-king-before-lunch plot that was set up in previous chapters and books.
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predak123
October 16 2012, 08:59:42 UTC
No, Roran was killing people willy-nilly with his hammer. That don't mean it loses its symbolism, though.
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torylltales
October 16 2012, 11:16:40 UTC
Oh, I thought you were referring specifically to the incident in Brisingr when Roran killed 193 armed and trained soldiers with a spear.
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predak123
October 16 2012, 14:14:56 UTC
I am. He used his hammer for the lot of that fight. He switches to a spear later on in the scene, but after it breaks (metaphor?) he hauls out his hammer again. "Throwing the splintered remains at the soldiers, Roran took a shield from a corpse and drew his hammer from his belt. His hammer, at least, had never failed him." So he uses a spear for a lot of the fight, but he starts and ends with his hammer.
"Where is your manhood, you deformed maggots, you bilious, swine-faced murderers? Your fathers were dribbling half-wits who should have been drowned at birth! Aye, and your mothers were poxy trollops and the consorts of Urgals!” (has nothing to do with anything, just thought I'd throw in some of Roran's Totally Awesome insults from this part of the book)
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ana0119
October 16 2012, 15:17:47 UTC
It's like Pokemon. Your goal is to become a Master -- by overthrowing the current Master, I suppose. But before that, why not go on years of little adventures across the lands. I'm sure there was at least one snail episode on Pokemon.
(Come on, Paolini wrote a visitor's guide to Alagesia! You know what he really wants to be doing.)
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mage_apprentice
October 16 2012, 19:18:32 UTC
At least half of the original series of Pokemon was dedicated to fillers. Though, much of the emphasis in the pokemon series (anime, mangas, and the games) was more on the journey rather than the destination. You could become the region's champion with almost any team and any pokemon and any strategy, so the fun came from trying out different teams, raising your teams, and competing against other people (if you got the chance). Ash's journey in the anime is similar to that (since he's already the champion of the Orange Islands, though not an acting champion), considering how he does more traveling than really achieving his dreams, something that the side characters would do (Brock, May, Gary, Dawn and the numerous Side Characters of the Day). What makes this sort of thing work, however, is that there isn't a world-saving rush (at least not at first) in this series, not in any of the stories associated with the series. When they do get into world-saving, however, they don't stop to smell the roses because (well, not only have they already done that but) they're trying to save the world! The plot goes faster and being forced to meander in order to find a solution to the problem really puts things on edge.
This . . . does not work. Eragon is meandering just to meander. He's stopping to smell the roses when he needs to go and go now. This chapter killed any sense of urgency Paolini may have built up all because he wanted to chew sceneries. Eragon's journey is not about the journey itself but about the end as soon as possible. It has a timer and lives are at stake and all his dreams need to be put on hold for this (what are his personal goals, anyway?). He now leads a large organization of people and they are currently holding down the fort with an illiterate farmer calling the shots (instead of, oh I don't know, THE KING OF SURDA or maybe JORMUNDANDR OR WHOEVER THE VARDEN'S SECOND-IN-COMMAND IS) and everyone is vulnerable to another attack from Galbatorix. Eragon rushed off then but decided to smell the roses on the way, knowing all of this. *flails arms around* I-I can't get over that! I can't! It's like Paolini is still thinking in terms of Eragon and Eldest where Eragon could take his sweet time traveling around!
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ana0119
October 16 2012, 23:08:43 UTC
I'm sorry if I insulted the integrity of Pokemon...? Don't get me wrong, I love that series, both games and show. It was just the first thing I could think of that included lots of traveling and gawking at the sights.
I actually meant the anime, which was so full of filler that it basically was filler all the way. Because of the format, it's a little hard to claim that Ash emphasized the journey, because he didn't really grow as an individual, for years. It's a kids show, so that's okay, but still. He really did just wander around.
It kind of feels like Paolini wanted to be writing that kind of series instead.
Thing is, yeah, Paolini set himself up with a pretty urgent plot. Pokemon kept the world ending stuff to movies, for the most part, so they dealt with it within an hours or so. Eragon... yeah. The world is ending and he just... goes for wood. Or something.
You do bring up some interesting questions. Does Eragon have any personal goals? (Aside from scoring with Arya.) Does the Varden have a second in command?
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mage_apprentice
October 16 2012, 23:32:51 UTC
I'm sorry if I insulted the integrity of Pokemon...? Don't get me wrong, I love that series, both games and show. It was just the first thing I could think of that included lots of traveling and gawking at the sights.
You didn't. I was just more adding more to the example you used and got annoyed with both myself (for not being able to communicate as clearly as I wanted) and at Paolini for the trite he gave us.
Yeah, Ash didn't grow from his journey. The side characters did, but he never did. It's a shame, really, because that's how you can ruin a good character without fail.
There is the manga series Pokemon Special/Adventures (Japanese/English title) which does feature saving the world, but it does focus on saving stuff when the plot needs to and incorporates the joys of travel with the urgency to save the world quite well (except with Mirage Island which was pretty annoying, and so was the Emerald arc until you actually get to a conflict).
. . . It's pretty sad that we're praising better works for having some basic storytelling elements simply because a bad series didn't have that.
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ana0119
October 16 2012, 23:55:40 UTC
I read some of Special. It was a long time ago. I think the last arc I read was Yellow's introduction and Lance's bullshit plot. ...It's been a while. Thing is, the manga (and games to a certain extent) don't feature half as much wandering around the world in general. The anime was really outstanding in that regard.
Anyway, I think everyone can agree Paolini does not convey any kind of urgency at all. He doesn't even convey that Eragon has a very definite goal to be working toward.
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mage_apprentice
October 17 2012, 01:34:06 UTC
I've always felt that the Yellow arc was one of the weakest arcs. Try it again with the GSC, Sapphire/Ruby, and the FireRed/LeafGreen arcs and some of Emerald to find a conclusion to the FireRed/LeafGreen arc. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised (even the end of Emerald surprised me and got me to regard it more favorably). Though, I will say that Giovanni is the best villain the series has and is, by far, more understandable in terms of motives and actions and in how he gets things done. The villain in the GSC arc, while certainly terrifying, does not have very clear methods and his motives for me are complete bullshit (though that doesn't stop me from enjoying him as a villain). Though, the weakest point for the GSC villain is one of those "NO, THAT'S BULL AND YOU KNOW IT" moments that certainly detract from the series overall. However, I still find everything else about the series most definitely worth a second chance.
Paolini created more urgency back in Eragon when Arya was poisoned and needed saving. Not that it had much in the way of urgency to begin with, but it still had more than what's here in the last book.
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ana0119
October 17 2012, 01:43:25 UTC
I would... but the city I'm living in has no bookstore (aside from a few small used-book places). And I'm too cheap to actually buy manga without reading it first. Actually, I haven't been reading much manga lately, though I still watch some anime.
I think the tension in Eragon came more from being chased by Urgals than from Arya being poisoned. I never really felt like she was in danger. Eragon certainly found time to sniff her and marvel at her hair. There were also lots of stupid asides. Like trying to get water in a desert, talking to Murtagh (and comparing swords), having Saphira fly around and try to drop rocks on Urgals, the slavers, blah blah. It's just that the Urgals were always there, so there was some illusion urgency. It helped that Eragon was a shorter book.
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mage_apprentice
October 17 2012, 01:54:35 UTC
You can find scans for free online. I don't think they're sold in the US anymore (or at least, not yet at the moment).
Yeah, good point. Here there's not even the illusion in this book.
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Anonymous
November 8 2012, 00:53:07 UTC
I agree the Snagli thing is pointless (when I come across a weird word I subconsciously subtract the letters that don't make sense, whether it's one or ten. Y'all should try it sometimes. It makes reading books like Inheritance and those silly Warcraft novelizations a lot easier.)
Of course, without the silly Snagli thing, the chapter is rather pointless, but there was something that fascinated me in this chapter: the burrowgrubs.
Either Galbatorix said they could be found in only one place, or Glaedr said all the Vroengard fauna are unique; I don't remember. Either way, I'm almost certain it was said or implied that the grubs can only be found here. That means (most likely) that Galbatorix was here before Eragon but a fair bit of time after Nukelf.
Of course, since this is where the Vault of Souls is, it means Galby got there first. That could lead to some interesting developments.
But, of course, it doesn't. And of course, it didn't need a whole chapter; maybe a few paragraphs in the single chapter that should have been ALL OF VROENGARD.
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subzero008
March 3 2013, 04:13:37 UTC
I think you were a whiny little bastard in this spork. I know CP isn't a good author. Actually, that is a bit of a stretch, but whatever. Stop presuming you know what CP would do and stop exaggerating. It's rude.
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watersheerie
August 4 2013, 15:38:37 UTC
Lol, u mad bro?
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dragonflame246
August 3 2013, 05:12:49 UTC
I'd love to watch paolini describe minecraft that'd be awesome lol