Questions we could ask Paolini that he would actually answer

[thegharialguy]

So over the years antishirts have tried to point out the inconsistencies and basically poor writing in Inheritance, but he (or someone on his staff) have basically always silenced or ignored them. But I'm pretty sure if we phrase our critques in such a way, we actually could ask him legitimate questions and get legitimate answers in the next faq.

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[anonymous]

That was really more of a challenge than a question, though. What else was he going to do but ignore it? Fall on his knees blubbering and beg forgiveness?

Just really, did you expect him to act at all differently from how he did?

[vorpal_tongue]

Hm. 2016? Might see if they've laxed up on nannying his own FB page...

[tt_7]

Especially the Big KPao.

[thegharialguy]

Well I could phrase (or maybe more accurately retool) the middle one as "Why did you decide to have Eragon use a sword instead of focusing on his bow. I think a bow using dragon rider would have been very cool!"

[thegharialguy]

Or actually, a closer variation, "Why was it so important that Eragon got his own sword if he was destined to defeat Galbatorix using wordless magic?"

[anonymous]

Seeing as thegharialguy modified your second question, I’ll try changing the third.

“Why did you have Eragin defeat Galbatorix the way he did instead of having him decapiate him after a kick between the fork of the legs or something similar? It seems like a very unique way to defeat someone as I’ve only seen something like that in Magician’s Gambit.”