Further fantasy babbling, NOT (well, hardly) Tolkien-related this time! :D
Caught Eragon yesterday on TV. Just as I had gathered, it was pretty much a shameless and unoriginal re-telling of Star Wars: A New Hope in a fantasy setting and otherwise everything you'd expect from a 15-year-old LARPer who writes the background story for his very first character. Mind you, when I was 15, I'd probably have written the same story, only (I hope) with more (read: any) interesting female characters and more consistent names. -- Did I get that right or did that just come across poorly in the movie -- all the dragons are female, and all the riders are male, and the dragons die when their riders die but when the dragons die, the riders will merely (at worst) mope and guilt? Well fuck that shit!
Other than that, however, it was mostly harmless if ridiculous, so I guess I won't get angry about it. At least Paolini's dragons aren't related to the Most Noble Platypus- I guess that's something...
Which reminds me about that other recent fantasy hype I meant to rant about, but oh well.
Also, Paolini kinda poked fun at that "I totally learned to fight with my cousin! And this is why I'm an awesome swordsman!" trope common in LARP beginners' character background stories. Huzzah! I wonder whether that was on purpose or just pure chance...
The Eragon Darth Vader equivalent kinda reminded me of that Maedhros AU plotbunny I had while writing The Tempered Steel and that I'd managed to push aside. Crap, here we go again. Like I need another one!
And I guess that's all I have to say about Eragon. Must admit that I still have no interest whatsoever in reading the book trilogy in four parts. I probably will hear everything about it when Felix is 10 or so, anyway. (Oh well, it could be worse. We could be looking at Twilight...)