That.... actually makes sense. Which scares me because it's actually giving Paolini some credit.
Except I have to take that shiny credit away from him because the Morzan red herring was stupid and pointless. I say cut out the middle man and be done with it--it's stupid to fiddle faddle around with the whole "OMG WHO'S HIS DAD" thing.
And also it's a pretty messed up theme; even though Eragon and Murtagh both didn't have real father-son relationships with their fathers, they still end up walking in their footsteps. A load of antiquated predestination BS that doesn't have much business with a modern audience who should know better, especially when it's all so literal. But honestly, it might just be there for the Rule of Cool--a sort of tacky parallelism mixed with a more refined version of Sue parents, where Sue characters have Sue children that are cloned versions of themselves. Probably more the former than the latter, but still, I still think Paolini's more of a fanboy than a philosopher.
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Date: 2010-06-29 02:54 pm (UTC)Except I have to take that shiny credit away from him because the Morzan red herring was stupid and pointless. I say cut out the middle man and be done with it--it's stupid to fiddle faddle around with the whole "OMG WHO'S HIS DAD" thing.
And also it's a pretty messed up theme; even though Eragon and Murtagh both didn't have real father-son relationships with their fathers, they still end up walking in their footsteps. A load of antiquated predestination BS that doesn't have much business with a modern audience who should know better, especially when it's all so literal. But honestly, it might just be there for the Rule of Cool--a sort of tacky parallelism mixed with a more refined version of Sue parents, where Sue characters have Sue children that are cloned versions of themselves. Probably more the former than the latter, but still, I still think Paolini's more of a fanboy than a philosopher.