Eragon, once he's on the ground, declares that he's hungry.
All this time eating and never once has he gone to the bathroom. He must be horribly constipated, four books in. I expect him to be groaning in pain in the middle of battle, wishing he could drop a load so bad, just so it'd stop hurting. That's why he REALLY became a vegetarian. Fiber! Then he still couldn't take a shit, except that one time during the dragon ceremony where he shit in front of everyone... er, I mean, he shed half of his humanity, which made him think he was fine so he went back to an all-meat diet later on.
I know most stories never show that bit because there's no need to. It's rarely interesting, it's kind of disgusting, and everyone assumes it happens but considering how boring these books are, I'd be more excited to read about Eragon taking a dump than watching him "free the kingdoms from tyrannical rule." It'd certainly be more realistic.
Roran calls after Eragon with an "Oi" I expected to hear the word, "wanker" after that
I'd be much happier if he had called him a wanker. I'd accept Paolini's decisions if EVERY character in the book, including Saphira, called Eragon a wanker. It wouldn't be tongue-in-cheek enough but it'd make up for some of it.
I've recently been reading the first book in the Complete Calvin & Hobbes and thinking about why it was such a great strip. For one, everyone frequently disagrees with him and call him out for being dumb or frustrating. Second, Hobbes may or may not be an imaginary friend but the reason he's such a great character is that he always has a reason for when he disagrees with Calvin and it's so perfectly logical and realistic. If he's imaginary, it's also Calvin's internal excuses for why Hobbes doesn't actually do some of the things Calvin says he does or wants him to do (such as eating people.) They frequently have arguments and sometimes Calvin looks to Hobbes for advice. Even when Hobbes is correct, it's not necessarily for the right reasons.
If Saphira and Eragon interacted like Calvin and Hobbes did, we'd have a much better series. Interestingly enough, in the introduction to book one Bill Watterson said that Calvin and Hobbes are actually two sides to Bill Watterson's personality and opinions, which is probably why they feel so realistic and plausible.
No concern for her welfare.
Silly Kippur. Don't you know that dragons are like airplanes? They feel nothing unless a terrorist, I mean, imperial trooper attacks them. Wait, sorry. Not even then.
Honestly, give the man a magical talking hang-glider or a magical, talking, flying boat, with guns attached, and it'd be more unique and interesting than a dragon at this point.
Yeah. You go Katrina. You know you're being treated like dirt.
That would be a more interesting story too, honestly. As long as she was portrayed intelligently, following Katrina's POV with this horrible brother-in-law could be really dramatic. Would she worry he'll influence her husband and her child? Would it put a strain on her relationship with her husband? Would she ever try to get vengeance for her father? Is she in a perpetual state of fear for her own life and possibly her child's?
“Mmm,” said Eragon, rivulets of juice running down his chin.
To be fair, I think he was just trying to emphasize how good it was or how hungry that Eragon was. I'm a bit of a sloppy eater, so I've had stuff like that happen. But considering it's all meat juice, it does simply come off as savagery, especially since he has a predator asking him how delicious the pig's belly is, which certainly conjures up images of wild animals tearing into their prey.
Plus, yeah, the veins and then the meat juices? My brain very much went into the gutter but it is usually in the gutter so...
He really needs to consider loaves of bread and cheese more often.
I think the real reason Paolini dropped the vegetarianism is because it made him think more about the vegetables and other vegetation inhabiting his world, considering it's a pseudo-medieval other-world. He didn't want to have to deal with that, when meat is so much easier. That's my theory, anyway. :P
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All this time eating and never once has he gone to the bathroom. He must be horribly constipated, four books in. I expect him to be groaning in pain in the middle of battle, wishing he could drop a load so bad, just so it'd stop hurting. That's why he REALLY became a vegetarian. Fiber! Then he still couldn't take a shit, except that one time during the dragon ceremony where he shit in front of everyone... er, I mean, he shed half of his humanity, which made him think he was fine so he went back to an all-meat diet later on.
I know most stories never show that bit because there's no need to. It's rarely interesting, it's kind of disgusting, and everyone assumes it happens but considering how boring these books are, I'd be more excited to read about Eragon taking a dump than watching him "free the kingdoms from tyrannical rule." It'd certainly be more realistic.
Roran calls after Eragon with an "Oi" I expected to hear the word, "wanker" after that
I'd be much happier if he had called him a wanker. I'd accept Paolini's decisions if EVERY character in the book, including Saphira, called Eragon a wanker. It wouldn't be tongue-in-cheek enough but it'd make up for some of it.
I've recently been reading the first book in the Complete Calvin & Hobbes and thinking about why it was such a great strip. For one, everyone frequently disagrees with him and call him out for being dumb or frustrating. Second, Hobbes may or may not be an imaginary friend but the reason he's such a great character is that he always has a reason for when he disagrees with Calvin and it's so perfectly logical and realistic. If he's imaginary, it's also Calvin's internal excuses for why Hobbes doesn't actually do some of the things Calvin says he does or wants him to do (such as eating people.) They frequently have arguments and sometimes Calvin looks to Hobbes for advice. Even when Hobbes is correct, it's not necessarily for the right reasons.
If Saphira and Eragon interacted like Calvin and Hobbes did, we'd have a much better series. Interestingly enough, in the introduction to book one Bill Watterson said that Calvin and Hobbes are actually two sides to Bill Watterson's personality and opinions, which is probably why they feel so realistic and plausible.
No concern for her welfare.
Silly Kippur. Don't you know that dragons are like airplanes? They feel nothing unless a terrorist, I mean, imperial trooper attacks them. Wait, sorry. Not even then.
Honestly, give the man a magical talking hang-glider or a magical, talking, flying boat, with guns attached, and it'd be more unique and interesting than a dragon at this point.
Yeah. You go Katrina. You know you're being treated like dirt.
That would be a more interesting story too, honestly. As long as she was portrayed intelligently, following Katrina's POV with this horrible brother-in-law could be really dramatic. Would she worry he'll influence her husband and her child? Would it put a strain on her relationship with her husband? Would she ever try to get vengeance for her father? Is she in a perpetual state of fear for her own life and possibly her child's?
“Mmm,” said Eragon, rivulets of juice running down his chin.
To be fair, I think he was just trying to emphasize how good it was or how hungry that Eragon was. I'm a bit of a sloppy eater, so I've had stuff like that happen. But considering it's all meat juice, it does simply come off as savagery, especially since he has a predator asking him how delicious the pig's belly is, which certainly conjures up images of wild animals tearing into their prey.
Plus, yeah, the veins and then the meat juices? My brain very much went into the gutter but it is usually in the gutter so...
He really needs to consider loaves of bread and cheese more often.
I think the real reason Paolini dropped the vegetarianism is because it made him think more about the vegetables and other vegetation inhabiting his world, considering it's a pseudo-medieval other-world. He didn't want to have to deal with that, when meat is so much easier. That's my theory, anyway. :P