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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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anonymous November 20 2011, 22:45:47 UTC

This kind of reminds me of Star Trek: Voyager since those writers hit the reset button at the end of every episode as well.

And, if you go by the SFDebris reviews, Janeway was a psychopath.

watersheerie November 20 2011, 23:31:41 UTC

Excellent spork.

So Eragon screams so loud his throat, apparently, tears open and fills with blood. CP just loves to load up on extremes such as this, it's as if he thinks that readers won't truly feel the 'epicness' of his epic saga if he doesn't. Like how in the last book, the gold brick, Eragon punches a guy in the chest, and his fist goes straight through the armor and flesh. The only thing that would have made that scene more absurd would have been if Eragon had then pulled the heart out, still beating, held it above his head and shouted "KO!"

mage_apprentice November 20 2011, 23:32:59 UTC

[insert list of epic Mortal Kombat KOs Paolini could have done]

caelynx November 20 2011, 23:32:59 UTC

Pao's editor needs a kick in the pants (if he even had one). So completely pointless because, of course, Roran won't die. The Sue genes run in the family.

At least the Final Fantasy franchise attempts to explain things. (Except Final Fantasy XIII.)

cavuy November 21 2011, 00:24:54 UTC

Roran's ridiculous plot armor aside, Paolini actually ruined the suspense of this chapter long before the book came out. The first preview chapter he released came after this point in the story, and it featured Roran. And then he actually released this exact scene as the second preview chapter, meaning people literally had MONTHS to figure out that Roran survived this.

mage_apprentice November 21 2011, 00:27:19 UTC

Good point. I just never bothered reading it since the preview chapters tend to change between then and the official book release.

13thfriday November 21 2011, 08:24:28 UTC

This scene tells me that Paolini is afraid of killing off his beloved characters (much like Masashi Kishimoto is with Sasuke in his Naruto manga). I don't read Naruto, nor One Piece, so I don't entirely know what I'm talking about, but both those series sell extremely well in Japan, and I doubt either artist would be "allowed" to kill off a primary character - I highly doubt it matters if they're afraid to do so or not, their publishers want them to keep their series going a loooong time ( ... )

mage_apprentice November 21 2011, 15:19:13 UTC

but both those series sell extremely well in Japan, and I doubt either artist would be "allowed" to kill off a primary character - I highly doubt it matters if they're afraid to do so or not, their publishers want them to keep their series going a loooong time.You give the publishers WAAAAYYYY too much power and credit. Both manga writers, while they might not have the power to put in whatever they want, have control over their plots. I didn't read One Piece, but I can see a clear cohesive plot that was well-planned and written out long before drawing the scenes even started. If they wanted to kill off a primary character then the manga writers are free to do so, the publisher's desire to make more money be damned ( ... )