Continuing my ever present attempt to destroy my liver

[kippurbird]

Inevitable Drinking Game

* Use of the word Throbbing or Throb
* the word meat.
* Every time something shows up which is just Paolini making a commentary on what he feels is important but isn't done very subtly and has absolutely no importance to the story.
* Every time Eragon does something that is supposed to be heroic (according to the text) but isn't.
* Every time Eragon fails at doing something heroic, which he's supposed to/should do.
* It's just there.
* Every time Eragon is Just That Special
* Every time Roran or someone else is Just That Special
* Every time Eragon falls unconscious
* Every time Eragon does something that should be impossible
* Every time Paolini breaks his previously established continuity or rules.
* Twice if he does it when Eragon is being Just That Special or doing something Impossible
* Three times if it's all three.
* Every time Saphira is treated less like a friend/soul-mate/forever companion and more like a slave
* Every time his prose gets utterly ridiculous.
* Every time there is a weird metaphor or simile
* Every time Eragon falls a sleep to end a chapter.
* Every time Eragon wakes up to begin a chapter.
* Every time the elves are shown to be Better Than Thou.
* Every time Angela is Quirky.
* Full bottle if there's any mention of hairless groins or something to that effect.
* Every time Eragon wangsts about something.
* And then immediately forgets about it.
* Every time it feels like Paolini's just throwing something in there because he thought it was "Cool".
* Every time something appears to be stolen from somewhere else.
* Every time it's mentioned that the world would be so much better if the Dragon Riders were still in charge.
* Every time it's mentioned that Galby is evil but there's still no evidence to back it up.


Anything else?

Comments

[axilet.livejournal.com]

Every time Paolini drops a bit of foreshadowing with the subtlety of a sledgehammer?

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Oh! Good one!

[shmeiliarockie.livejournal.com]

Poor thing, you're going to die of alcohol poisoning. *single crystal tear*

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

*is Emo*

[julyflame.livejournal.com]

Everytime Paolini uses a food metaphor. Or something is described and it sounds like it should be food.

[faded-enmity.livejournal.com]

No suggestions from me, but question: has there been any evidence at all to Galby's evilness in any of the series?

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

As of what I know now he's

1. Made people pay their taxes.
2. Allowed the urgals into the land.
3. Killed all the dragon riders.
4. Kidnap Murtagh and made him work for him.
5. Stole a dragon's egg and made it impress on him.

The thing is, in the beginning of the series, everyone called Galby evil and the only evidence that they could give is that he made people pay their taxes. Other than that he didn't seem to have much of an impact on people's lives.

As the story is progressing he does appear to be making strides towards evil, but in the beginning they had no reasons to call him evil.

[falconwhitaker.livejournal.com]

He needed to be shown doing something evil, I think - like burning down a village for refusing to pay taxes or something of that ilk.

But that's just me using something akin to logic, and what place does logic have in this story? :P

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

It's even better in the movie. See, his Big Evil Thing there isn't taxes, but a draft. Which, for a moment, actually seems like it might be something worth fighting against... until you stop to think just who, exactly, you'd be fighting.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Well, the urgals killed everyone in a village and put a baby's head (I think) on a stick very reminiscent of the Sword of Truth actually.

[falconwhitaker.livejournal.com]

Well, that sounds vaguely evil, I suppose...

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

You know, this discussion is making me want to reread Wyrd Sisters. As I recall, there's a beautiful passage on how little the difference between one king and another affects the day-to-day life of the peasant class .

[wayoffbase.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, you're gonna be utterly wasted by the second word.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Nah, second sentence. You can't really do much damage with a two words. Unless it's like, "It throbbed".

[wayoffbase.livejournal.com]

Yeah, fair enough. I forsee a trip to the ER for alcohol poisoning in your immediate future =P

[the-norseman.livejournal.com]

Eragon watched in stolid horror as the troglodytic hierophants devoured the throbbing manflesh, slide it down their quivering gluttonous throats, as strange screams and calls filled the cyclopedian chamber where dozens of mangled hideous forms writhed and throbbed to the tune of an unseen drum.

Summat like that?

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

...yes.

You frighten me.

[the-norseman.livejournal.com]

Good, goooooood! >:-D

[emily-goddess.livejournal.com]

Wait, was that Paolini or Lovecraft?

[mistyeyedreamer.livejournal.com]

Every time something relating to modern ideas or values is stuck in for no reason?

[dryaunda.livejournal.com]

* Full bottle if there's any mention of hairless groins or something to that effect.

But aren't groins better off hairless?