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ultimate_cheetah ([personal profile] ultimate_cheetah) wrote in [community profile] antishurtugal_reborn2021-05-09 01:00 am

LOL! Look what I found on the Eragon subreddit!

 The link: www.reddit.com/r/Eragon/comments/n692qg/nasuada_is_the_next_galbatorix/



The text:

 Nasuada is the next Galbatorix

Think about it. After there’s an entire revolution against a tyrannical king, they just reinstate the monarchy and Nasuada starts a turn towards authoritarianism. She puts complete surveillance on magic users, she is furious when Eragon refuses to serve under her, and gives Orrin just a few cities in exchange for everything Surda has done to help the Varden. She’s going to be the next Galbatorix.

A couple of people are chalking this up to Christopher's brilliance rather than his just not thinking it through. The way the book was written, it did seem like this was supposed to be a rather happy ending.


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[personal profile] epistler 2021-05-10 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
Which fits with their usual approach of "if it doesn't affect me personally then it doesn't matter", seen all through the Cycle.
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[personal profile] torylltales 2021-05-13 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)

To be fair to Paolini, that's also a staple of lots of monster movies and superhero movies. How many hapless humans died in Neo's fight against Smith at the end of the last Matrix movie? Or by the "good guys" in Pacific Rim? At least the MCU made the civilian casualties in Age of Ultron a major a plot point in Civil War.

There's a long history of "collateral damage" and mass civilian casualties by the "good guys" being overlooked so long as the "bad guy" is defeated. Even Power Rangers had to change their formula to stop showing inhabited buildings being destroyed, after 9/11.