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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.
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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And Angela. They both immediately get the fuck out of dodge. Also, Arya is queen of the elves. None of the cast is affected by anything Nasuada does, so they don't have incentive to do anything.
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Yeah. The cities literally burnt? Nah, doesn't matter. For example, in Dras-Leona, how many people died from Saphira and Thorn's fight? But you know, not like they can do anything about it.
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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.
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To be fair to Paolini, that's also a staple of lots of monster movies and superhero movies.
That is a good point. In Paolini's case, though, he takes pains to show how Noble Eragon is, and how much he cares about the people. Furthermore, in those movies, the entire earth is being saved, while in the I.C, this not-very densely populated country is being saved.
How many hapless humans died in Neo's fight against Smith at the end of the last Matrix movie?
I didn't see that. What happened?
Or by the "good guys" in Pacific Rim?
Didn't they evacuate the cities or go into shelters or something? And in that, Earth would be dead with the Kaiju, but people seem to be fine with Galbatorix.
One further point: those examples are pulpy, fun movies (well, at least until the sequels), that aren't meant to be taken too seriously. Paolini wanted to be the next Tolkien.