I felt highly uncomfortable when I first read that part where Galbatorix mentally attacks Eragon. It's like in my old spork of Chapter 64 when I described this to be a 'godawful metaphor':
Eragon felt a blade of thought stab into his mind as the enemy magicians began to chant in the ancient language...
Though I guess that one was just the beginning of an obsession with describing Eragon's mental battle with Galby as an actual physical battle - blades and all.
And unfortunately - whether it's my dirty mind on full throttle or simply just that obvious a comparison after all - yes, this whole excerpt sounds to me highly rapey. Which is just full-on disturbing.
TV Tropes even mentions this in its 'Mind-Rape' page:
The less said of the things that are created when this trope meets Rule 34, the better.So I kinda hope that when you mention having a laugh it was maybe perhaps due to Paolini not at
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Well it does not help that apart from all that stabbing, twisting, and turning, Paolini actually uses the words "savage joy", "perverse pleasure", "probing", "Sumbit," the king whispered, almost lovingly."
My strategy is Eragon calls the entire army off any walks into Urubaen with an invisible Elva and openly walks into Galbatorix's throneroom. From there he makes correct use of Elva and wins the war.
He may as well, considering Angela foretold his survival as it is. Considering he has the life of the last female dragon as leverage and the fact that an army can't prevent Galbatorix from doing what he wants with Eragon anyway.
Yes but the Eldunari Eragon had brought were invisible but Galbatorix still knew they were there, and he had long known about Elva so Galbatorix could have taken appropriate measures. And even though Angela foretold his survival, he could still stick that blade of thought in Eragon's mind and break him and Saphira to his will.
This... spell they use on Galbatorix to make him selfdestruct reminds me of the climax of the anime Berserk - where Griffith is shown all the people his campaign to fulfill his dream has killed as rotting corpses, paving the way to his goal, the castle ...with several times that amount missing to reach it. His conclusion? If he regrets it or apologizes, he will stumble and fail. And then he sacrificed his warband to a bunch of demons to become one of the most human villains of all time. But Berserk is actually good, so... yeah.
I enjoyed this series and now I am a bit sad that it's over.
To get organic matter to undergo uncontrolled nuclear fission would take more energy than was released by the actual explosion.
What happened to spells that take up more energy than you have, not only failing but killing the caster in the process. Pretty sure that was established in book 1.
Let me put it this way. The Large Hadron Collider puts all that energy into breaking up just a couple of atoms. Imagine that, taken to the scale of Galbatorix's entire body.
Well I intend to post at least two more essays, one to prove that the Eragon movie is in fact brilliant, and one to prove that Eragon is in fact sexually impotent.
Lord Barst is awesome, but why is he the only one member of the Empire who gets an Eldunari? Considering that Barst kicked the Sueiful elves' butts with no effort, Galbatorix should've given several Eldunari to elite soldiers and mages. He had hundreds and it would've given the Varden some trouble, if not stop them outright.
I wouldn't give PaoPao any credit for actually thinking at all when writing the final tussle between Suegon and Galvatronix. It is just a big mishmash-ripoff-combo of the endings of Magician's Gambit, Enchanter's End Game, Return of the Jedi with some sprinkles of Dune added in. Elva is after all a shallow pencil-scratching copy of Alia Atreides.
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Eragon felt a blade of thought stab into his mind as the enemy magicians began to chant in the ancient language...
Though I guess that one was just the beginning of an obsession with describing Eragon's mental battle with Galby as an actual physical battle - blades and all.
And unfortunately - whether it's my dirty mind on full throttle or simply just that obvious a comparison after all - yes, this whole excerpt sounds to me highly rapey. Which is just full-on disturbing.
TV Tropes even mentions this in its 'Mind-Rape' page:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MindRape
The less said of the things that are created when this trope meets Rule 34, the better.So I kinda hope that when you mention having a laugh it was maybe perhaps due to Paolini not at ( ... )
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My strategy is Eragon calls the entire army off any walks into Urubaen with an invisible Elva and openly walks into Galbatorix's throneroom. From there he makes correct use of Elva and wins the war.
He may as well, considering Angela foretold his survival as it is. Considering he has the life of the last female dragon as leverage and the fact that an army can't prevent Galbatorix from doing what he wants with Eragon anyway.
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Yes Galbatorix may have known of the Eldunari.
He may shut Elva down immediately.
He may break Eragon and Saphira to his will...
...An army doesn't solve any of these problems.
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Whether he has an army behind him or not makes no difference to anything.
Which makes the series entirely pointless.
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But Berserk is actually good, so... yeah.
I enjoyed this series and now I am a bit sad that it's over.
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What happened to spells that take up more energy than you have, not only failing but killing the caster in the process. Pretty sure that was established in book 1.
Let me put it this way. The Large Hadron Collider puts all that energy into breaking up just a couple of atoms. Imagine that, taken to the scale of Galbatorix's entire body.
It's just stupid.
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