As we come to the end...
Nov. 12th, 2010 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kippurbirdTwo more chapters left.
And there's no build up to any final conflict. No tension. No we have to get this done or else... two chapters left to the end of the book.
Nothing happens.
I was flicking through it, got to the end and went "wait, what? That's the end? That can't be right."
There was no climax, no denouncement. At least no real one. There was a climax to a fight scene which may or may not be dramatic (as you'll see) and then the clean up from it. But it has absolutely nothing to do with what Eragon was working for the entire book.
Of course, that's the problem: Eragon wasn't working for anything the entire book. He had no over all goal. There was no build up to anything, no build up to Eragon needing to get to the town to help with the siege or being conflicted if he should go with Oromis or go and help the Varden or... any sort of choices. The entire book was just a series of interconnected scenes that only had bits to do with each other.
Thus the ending of the book is unsatisfying because it doesn't end so much as stop and roll credits. Randomly.
I should be able to finish this by the end of the month.
Yay?
And there's no build up to any final conflict. No tension. No we have to get this done or else... two chapters left to the end of the book.
Nothing happens.
I was flicking through it, got to the end and went "wait, what? That's the end? That can't be right."
There was no climax, no denouncement. At least no real one. There was a climax to a fight scene which may or may not be dramatic (as you'll see) and then the clean up from it. But it has absolutely nothing to do with what Eragon was working for the entire book.
Of course, that's the problem: Eragon wasn't working for anything the entire book. He had no over all goal. There was no build up to anything, no build up to Eragon needing to get to the town to help with the siege or being conflicted if he should go with Oromis or go and help the Varden or... any sort of choices. The entire book was just a series of interconnected scenes that only had bits to do with each other.
Thus the ending of the book is unsatisfying because it doesn't end so much as stop and roll credits. Randomly.
I should be able to finish this by the end of the month.
Yay?
