but I just discovered how to make tagged pages. I guess this is why all of you have been complaining about how my photos are tagged.
So get ready for a more organized blog coming in a few weeks (as soon as school is out), I promise!
Thanks for following, and remember to send me your favorite Eragon/Arya moments.
“Hi can you please put in some more exchanges that took place between Eragon and Arya. I wish I could specify one for you but I can’t. Just any segments when either Eragon is depicting how beautiful Arya is (green eyes etc.) or whenever Eragon confesses his love for her. I balled my eyes out when Eragon had to leave because he couldn’t be with her, so it would be great if you could help out please.”
^^Sounds like a great idea. Alas, I haven’t read the books recently, and I don’t have any off the top of my head. I’m planning on going through GoogleBooks and using the Find tool to look for some of them.
If anyone out there has some favorite Eragon/Arya moments please please please send them my way! Thanks guys!
This song makes me think of Inheritance every time I hear it. The line, “There is a place to hide, It’s in our minds, It’s in the dark,” reminds me of when Murtagh said, “My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, but I’ve learned to defend it vigorously, for I am only safe with my innermost thoughts.” in Eragon. Then the lyrics, “It’s well known that we have a fragile heart, Its deep inside, It has a sound that you can follow.” How does that not describe Eldunari?
THIS IS NOT SPOILER FREE. So I honestly hadn’t watched the movie since I was 7, when the movie had just come out in theaters. Back then, I hadn’t liked the movie much, but instead of working off of that old opinion, or just bandwagoning on hating the movie automatically, I went to Wal-Mart, picked up the movie for $5, and sat down and watched the whole thing. All the while, I wrote down the good things and the bad things I observed. Notice that the bad things greatly outweigh the good points. Overall, I did not like the movie, though I didn’t find it absolutely wretched since I went into this with extremely low expectations. Note that I haven’t read “Eragon” in a while, so I may have made some mistakes, or forgotten some things in here, so bear with me. I tried to put these in chronological order, and I succeeded…for the most part. So, here goes nothing!
— The Good —
1. The very beginning where Arya was transporting Saphira’s egg and the story spliced with scenes of Eragon hunting and finding the egg. I thought that parallel was actually really cool.
2. Brom. When I read the books, I initially imagined Brom as a grizzly old wizzard or something, and so when Brom starts kicking butt and traveling across the desert, my original image never really fit. I liked the movie’s adaptation of Brom.
3. Eragon and Roran’s brotherly love. I think their relationship was portrayed well.
4. I liked that Eragon got emotional when Garrow and Brom died. I liked that he was vulnerable, and they didn’t try and make him into some super tough dude.
5. Eragon and Brom’s relationship.
6. “One part brave, three parts fool.” I’m glad they included that quote; I’ve always loved it.
7. Brom and Eragon sword fighting. It wasn’t how I had imagined, but I’m glad the writers included it.
8. “Let’s talk about the truth before we talk about duty.” Eragon’s quote.
9. Dursa the shade had red eyes and red hair.
10. MURTAGH.
11. Saphira did the rock entombing thing for Brom like in the book.
12. Arya is poisoned. Well, this isn’t good, but it follows the book. ;)
13. BRISINGR! I was just glad they kept this in.
14. Roran. I really don’t have complaints about the casting for Roran, I thought the actor did a good job.
— The Bad —
1. The stupidly overly epic introduction. It just set the story up to be cheezy instead of meaningful.
2. Saphira is born omniscient, and just knows everything about dragon and rider, and comes into the world all, “My name is Saphira…” instead of Eragon naming her. Eragon’s and Brom’s dragons having the same name was kind of a big deal in the books, so the fact that Eragon never named her made me sad.
3. ARYA. ARYA. ARYA. Though I thought the actress portrayed Arya well, Arya’s appearance is very blatant in the books. Black hair, green eyes, etc,… With Arya being my favorite character, I was severely disappointed in this respect.
4. Arya screams like a little girl.
5. The costume design. I couldn’t get over the fact that they put Arya in a dress, and that hideous bizarre brown coat that Eragon was wearing.
6. The way that Arya, Galbatorix, and Brom all know when the egg hatches at the exact instant it happens, and the fact that there was no explanation as to why they could feel the egg hatch or whatever.
7. Ummm…. I expected the egg to look like an egg…not a giant vitamin.
8. Saphira’s instantaneous transformation. I guess the writers had to save time, but it was so poorly done!
9. Saphira’s stupid voice. She doesn’t sound like a dragon, she sounds like an infomercial salesperson!
10. In the movie, Roran left because he didn’t want to be a soldier. Um, no.
11. The stupid overly epic music.
12. How after Saphira hatches, Eragon isn’t even slightly scared or intrepid about having a DRAGON IN HIS BEDROOM.
13. The Gedway Ignasia is supposed to be an oval, not a lowercase “e”.
14. Saphira calling Eragon, “pathetic” and “you stupid boy”. I didn’t like that at all.
15. I didn’t really get the relationship and the love and the intense bond forged between Eragon and Saphira. I guess it developed over the course of the books, but still…
16. Hoarst is Garrow? They mixed up those two names and made the two guys into one character at one point where the villagers were talking outside of a shop on wooden tables.
17. In the movie, Brom forces Eragon to leave Carvahall instead of Eragon wanting to leave and bringing Brom along.
18. Brom suddenly has two horses at his disposal, without any explanation as to how he acquired them.
19. Saphira’s head is just really tiny. It kept bugging me. Maybe the book covers just threw me off or something…
20. Eragon is seventeen? Wasn’t he supposed to be sixteen?
21. Brom mentions the Razak, and Eragon automatically knows what they are, even though the audience doesn’t.
22. Saphira’s vanity was really overdone. Like, I know that in the books, she is vain, but in the movie it came off as really rude a lot of the time.
23. The mind-to-mind communication was made really awkward by Eragon’s weird faces.
24. Ergaon has cat eyes when he switches to Saphira’s vision.
25. This isn’t the fault of the writers, but whenever Dursa had a scene, I kept thinking he was Rumpelstiltskin. (If you watch “Once Upon a Time”, you know what I mean.)
25. Dursa had a bejeweled outfit and blue nails, it was just a bit weird to me.
26. In the movie, Arya says that she’s a princess, but in the books she made a big deal out of the fact that being the daughter of a queen and being a princess is not the same for elves.
27. Queen Islanzadi doesn’t exist.
28. When Eragon dreams of Arya he has visions of her from the past instead of seeing her getting tortured.
29. Arya is supposed to tell Eragon to go the Varden, not Brom.
30. Eragon had to rescue Arya before he could communicate with her.
31. Brom says that Arya would be willing to give her life up, but Arya says, “You’re the only one who can save me!” I didn’t like that line. It was really cliche.
32. Brom, rather than Murtagh helps Eragon rescue Arya.
33. Arya is totally conscious when they save her.
34. Eragon whines to Saphira about his mom leaving him.
35. Just before they enter the Varden, Eragon goes into the water first, before Murtagh. It was the other way around in the books.
36. Zarok had a blue stone hilt, I didn’t imagine it that way.
37. The movie incorrectly said that riders will live on without their dragons, but that dragons perish immediately after the death of their riders. This made the dragons look really weak, and more like animals than competent beings.
38. Eragon falls asleep on his horse and sees Arya holding saphira’s egg/vitamin? I have no idea what that was all about.
38. Nothing about Angela or the story-telling was right, besides the fact that the fortune itself and Eragon’s reaction was correct. I was extremely disappointed with Angela’s character.
39. Stupid echoing during the fortune telling.
39. Solembaum didn’t exist. How can you have Angela without Solembaum?
40. Jeod didn’t exist.
41. Murtagh shows everyone his scar, but there’s no explanation about how he got it or why or how he was only like five…
42. Murtagh and Eragon’s relationship wasn’t portrayed well. They didn’t even seem like they were friends!
43. Ummm… no twins? Okay, I’m not complaining…
44. Nothing about Elva’s curse?
45. At one point Saphira just magically (a relative term, but you know what I mean) has a saddle. So she says, “You can thank Brom for the saddle.” as a way of explanation. Like ”Yeah, Brom didn’t make it or anything, he just happened to be carrying one around with him as he was travelling on horseback, ta-da! Surprise!” It would have made more sense for him to get a saddle before they left.
46. Saphira and Eragon’s big fight before they left Carvahall was just weird.
47. Arya is an ELF! Why was this never mentioned in the movie?
48. Eragon stand up while riding on Saphira, because on his second time flying, he’s just that good.
49. I didn’t like anything about the final battle. For one, Arya didn’t have any significant part in it (the whole destroying of the giant gem was pivotal in the book but it was never included in the movie). Instead, Eragon just does everything. Also, they made it so that the battle seemed to finish everything, but in the books, this battle was only the beginning of a long and taxing war.
50. Galbatorix looked off. Maybe he was just much older-looking then I had imagined.
— Indifference —
1. I don’t recall anything about Arya being imprisoned and tortured being put into the movie…but I understand that for the sake of time, some things have to be removed, so I wasn’t really peeved about this detail.
2. Katrina doesn’t exist in the movie. However, I did see the deleted scene with Roran and Katrina together and Eragon being jealous on YouTube and it was terrible. So I guess I’m happier that they didn’t put it in and kill that for me.
3. Eragon was supposed to have brown hair and brown eyes. Still, I liked the casting for Eragon. I thought the actor was good; he fit the part, and my image of what Eragon looks like.
4. Saphira eats rats. Kind of a trivial detail.
5. The fact that you see Zarok in pretty much the beginning of the movie.
6. Slone gets beaten up…well that just never happened.
7. Brom commits arson.
8. The way that Eragon found out the Brom had been a rider wasn’t right, but I didn’t really mind.
9. Those weird markings on Dursa’s face.
10. Dursa has sparkly robes. He’s truly the fashionista.
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-2- Arya and Eragon
**As requested by Micah. I’m sorry it took so long!
So I finally decided on a new layout for my quotes! I’ve tried out lots of different ideas, and I think I liked this the best. I hope you guys like it, and I’m going to be back on board with requests.
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Julia
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midnight-mania Asks:
inheritance-cycle-quotes Said:
Oh my gods I cried too! It honestly took me another two days afterwards to process the whole ending. I can’t lie, I was definitely saddened by Eragon’s departure, but it just makes my imagination run wild with thoughts of Alagesian children going to become the new generation of riders, trained by Eragon. I also have hopes for my beloved ships Nasuada/Murtagh (especially them) and Eragon/Arya. At first I was outraged by the ending, but now I’m just so happy that it left me so many things to think about, and possible outcomes. Also, like the rest of the Inheritance family, I am anxiously awaiting CP’s follow up series about the next generation of riders.
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Thank you so much, I am so glad you enjoy my blog! More to come in a bit, I am swamped with schoolwork right now…
— Julia
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