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The Official Inheritance Spork, Part 2: Hammerfall

Nov 20, 2011 14:51

Hello, everyone! Stealingvowels was sick and busy and unfortunately didn’t get the chance to do her chapter, so I’m posting in her place. In the last chapter, we found Eragon in a battle and he expanded his equipment by obtaining Plot Coupon Spear, which triples his stat points. Suddenly, something happened to Roran!
( Cause it took me 3 tries to get an LJ cut right )

mary-sue, roran, inheritance sporks, eragon (character), inheritance, characters, anti-shur'tugal, paolini, deus ex machina

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ana0119 November 20 2011, 22:19:23 UTC

Great spork~ I'm glad we're moving along again. (I'm next~~)

Also, love the Raine icon. Symphonia was full of plot holes and cliches, but at the least the characters were incredibly loveable.

mage_apprentice November 20 2011, 22:59:17 UTC

Found the icon from someone else.

ToS may be full of plot holes (and the cliches are on purpose on the writers since that's Tales Studio's thing), but plugging those plot holes is fun. Well, fun until you get to ToS2. To write a fic over that, I'd have to rewrite the entire plot.

ana0119 November 20 2011, 23:04:49 UTC

I never quite got over the sheer mystery of what happened 4000 years ago or how the world-splitting worked. There are lots of weird details, but at least the plot moves right along and is actually surprisingly coherent in terms of tone and message. (ToS2... Look, it says something when you need to rewrite the laws of reality to make your stories fit together. I think it's called retcon.)

And, of course, I love the characters. So much, all of them.

Oh, I forgot before, but I totally laughed at "JK Rowling needs to write this book. With her powers of killing off every minor character we love in a final book, JK Rowling will right this wrong and save the Inheritance Cycle! Oh, wait, there are no minor characters we love in this book."

I do have a fondness for Murtagh, and Angela. And Elva. Hell, even Arya's icy bitchiness becomes endearing, if only because she maintains it constantly (until Brisingr). I just... really hate Roran.

mage_apprentice November 20 2011, 23:09:54 UTC

I think the deal with what happened during the 1000 years of Kharlan War and how Mithos established Cruxis is mostly supposed to be left to the player's imagination, like Sheik's physical gender in Ocarina of Time.
But with ToS2 and its problems, it tries to retcon a difference between ToS and Tales of Phantasia when, in my opinion at least, it doesn't need the retcon. Supporters of that retcon say that mana wasn't as important in ToP so it fits. The World Tree fricken died in ToP! No one is going to know that mana is the source of life when they treat said source of the source of life like crap.

I do like Murtagh. I was so angry at what Paolini did to him.

ana0119 November 20 2011, 23:16:19 UTC

...I haven't gotten to Murtagh yet. Just to tunnels under Dras Leona. Oh god... *whimper*

Yeah, the mana issue... Well, I also remember having so, so many questions about half-elves and just how their entire "species" works. (For an isolationist race, elves sure sleep around with humans a lot.) And for that matter, where humans came from in this world-set up. (Elves came from space, before there was any life on the planet. Any life.)

But I love that story and just hand-wave it all.

mage_apprentice November 20 2011, 23:21:23 UTC

I think the species between humans and elves are genetically minimalistic, like the differences between different breeds of dogs. That's why they can reproduce among each other and make half-elves. Other than that, you got me.

I guess the reason why we can hand-wave a lot of plot issues with ToS is because the story pulls us in despite the cliches and the characters are enjoyable and can be related to. Inheritance, however, does not do that. It doesn't pull us in and does not have lovable characters we can relate to. That is why cliche-fests that Tales Studio produces are enjoyable while the Inheritance Cycle is not.

ana0119 November 20 2011, 23:22:59 UTC

That's exactly it. ToS can be stupid, but I love every character and want to see what happens to them, how they react and where they end up. Eragon... not so much.

atateatarin November 21 2011, 02:47:36 UTC

That is everything I love about Tales Studio :D They have such a good balance between great writing and characterization that you just kinda let the plotholes and cliches be.

It's like loving someone for having such a great personality that it lets you overlook all their terrible, terrible habits XD haha

Also I should add that your post icon made my day XD

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