Actually, you know what? That's the weird thing. Eragon is the POV character but I'd say Paolini also uses a 3rd person omniscient narrator. That's what's so jarring about it. And yeah, it's silly that the magical people wouldn't have some way of being more certain. Or at least... the problem is that Paolini tries to bring in uncertainty when it doesn't matter and depicts absolute certainty when it really, really should be uncertain. I think. :1
It really is sad when your minor villains are more human than your heroes.
Yup! All of that 4th edition level 20 RPing bleeding into it, without any perspective thrown in. XD
I think the heroes would be easier to accept if more truly awful things happened to them. If it was a shades of gray world they lived in and all that. But no... they're just heroes because they're the protagonists and don't think too hard about it.
To be honest, I wouldn't mind as much what he'd done if he would have just ended everything already instead of padding it out and frittering around. In trying to "delve deeper" he's lost all importance and impact of what serves as the "plot" here. The fact that he still won't be killing Galbatorix in THIS book is even more annoying. Or am I assuming things? I think I remembered hearing there might be a fifth book but maybe I made that up in my head or something? Regardless, even four books for this "plot" has been way too long. He never really had enough plot to carry it past two but he diddled around too much with all of these pointless "world-building" side-trips. It's one thing to build a world of rich, beautiful depths and another to make your readers into tourists in a tourist trap.
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Date: 2012-01-15 09:27 pm (UTC)It really is sad when your minor villains are more human than your heroes.
Yup! All of that 4th edition level 20 RPing bleeding into it, without any perspective thrown in. XD
I think the heroes would be easier to accept if more truly awful things happened to them. If it was a shades of gray world they lived in and all that. But no... they're just heroes because they're the protagonists and don't think too hard about it.
To be honest, I wouldn't mind as much what he'd done if he would have just ended everything already instead of padding it out and frittering around. In trying to "delve deeper" he's lost all importance and impact of what serves as the "plot" here. The fact that he still won't be killing Galbatorix in THIS book is even more annoying. Or am I assuming things? I think I remembered hearing there might be a fifth book but maybe I made that up in my head or something? Regardless, even four books for this "plot" has been way too long. He never really had enough plot to carry it past two but he diddled around too much with all of these pointless "world-building" side-trips. It's one thing to build a world of rich, beautiful depths and another to make your readers into tourists in a tourist trap.