I also wouldn't expect him to make such puns when he's so (inexplicably) angry; why would he care for that?
Because Paolini still thinks his puns are OMG SO FUNNY AND CLEVER. Never mind that Murtagh is supposed to be a character with a dark sense of humour.
I don't mind the onomatopoeia so much as that it almost looks like Paolini forgot about "hissed", as with the earlier "the goat went "Maaah""; it's just such a weird way to describe it. (And it puts me in mind of "Boom! went his grenade launcher. Brrt! went her guns. Bzzt! went its lasers" from TSIASOS, which doesn't help at all.
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It's just so childish.
Ah, but calling them unnatural makes it easier to rationalise genocide on them. I'm quite sure that's the main reason they're called that, after all.
Yup. For want of a better word, he's dehumanising them the way genocidal scumbags always do.
Silna's just a child, after all, not some holy being like Murtagh's making her out to be
It's all through the book, you'll notice: putting children (generally little girls) on this weird pedestal with all this carry-one about how "pure" they are. It just gives me the ick.
Him being sarcastic would fit with that, so I don't mind this all too much.
If this is supposed to be sarcasm then it needs to be properly indicated in the text. Instead, the line is played straight.
It absolutely should, as would the zombie-like behaviour, and I don't doubt he'd be quickly known as "the man with the painless soldiers", which is quite bad for someone trying to stay undercover.
This guy's even worse at preserving his cover than Morontagh is.
Yep, if he really was a hero, he'd never let Lyreth, who he knows is trouble, take him anywhere. But no, the Plot says something else (sigh).
Worse, this entire sidetrack with Lyreth isn't even relevant to the plot anyway! All it really does is introduce a new (lifted wholesale but what else would you expect?) device which is never used again, apparently because yet again Paolini saw something in someone else's book and went "ooh I think that's cool so I'm gonna throw it in just because".
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Why, though?
Because Paolini still thinks his puns are OMG SO FUNNY AND CLEVER. Never mind that Murtagh is supposed to be a character with a dark sense of humour.
The Horse Says: "Your writing sucks!"
It's just so childish.
Yup. For want of a better word, he's dehumanising them the way genocidal scumbags always do.
It's all through the book, you'll notice: putting children (generally little girls) on this weird pedestal with all this carry-one about how "pure" they are. It just gives me the ick.
If this is supposed to be sarcasm then it needs to be properly indicated in the text. Instead, the line is played straight.
This guy's even worse at preserving his cover than Morontagh is.
Worse, this entire sidetrack with Lyreth isn't even relevant to the plot anyway! All it really does is introduce a new (lifted wholesale but what else would you expect?) device which is never used again, apparently because yet again Paolini saw something in someone else's book and went "ooh I think that's cool so I'm gonna throw it in just because".