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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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Date: 2021-05-13 10:15 pm (UTC)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.