book_guy ([info]book_guy) wrote in [info]antishurtugal,
@ 2008-08-28 12:28:00
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Deleted Scene!

Tired of waiting for Brisingr?  Wait no longer!  There is a never-before-seen deleted scene from Eragon for PDF download or listen to the audio on Shurtugal.com.  What does it mean?  Where did it come from?  Will there be more?  Do we even have to ask?

"I strive to be like Brooks at his best."  -  Christopher Paolini*

* Not his actual words.


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[info]guardian_hawk
2008-08-28 04:47 pm UTC (link)
Guh. Horrible.

But it has a special guest appearance by Generic Unspecified Meat! :P

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[info]redwheel69
2008-08-29 11:23 am UTC (link)
"Humming a tune, she swiftly constructed a large meal of meat..."

Out of what, I wonder. Gluten? Playdough? Ectoplasm?

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[info]kevias
2008-08-30 05:18 pm UTC (link)
It just jumps out so much because it implies that Eragon:

1) Doesn't know what kind of meat it is.
and
2) Doesn't care.

And this is quite disturbing. Considering how hungry he is, it'd make sense to obsess over the food, not disinterestedly pass it by.

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[info]torylltales
2008-08-30 10:26 pm UTC (link)
I think it's quite sad/disturbing that Paolini doesn't know/care to distinguish betwen types of meat. I mean, beef comes in huge variety based on the cut, and so does pork, mutton, goat, okapi, platypus, or any other type of meat you choose to eat. And they all taste remarkably different.

The fact that a so-called

hunter

who supposedly kills his own meat doesn't know the difference between wild game and domestic meat, or even between poultry and mammal, just shows Paolini's own disinterest in the scene.

Also I think you're right that a starving man will pay much closer attention to what he's eating than to anything else. Even if he is in pain or confused/scared from his nightmare. Although, knowing Paolini, Eragon will never ever feel fear, or admit to it. Where's the naive hero who faces a glowing demon from hell for the first time and wets himself?

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(Anonymous)
2008-08-28 04:57 pm UTC (link)
I think he wanted "phantom" for that first sentence.

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[info]jacobford
2008-08-28 07:00 pm UTC (link)
Pfft. Phantom is such a common word. Paolini doesn't like common words. Phantasm is much cooler!

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[info]jacobford
2008-08-28 06:50 pm UTC (link)
It's not just a download. I was at Wal-Mart the other day and saw the paperback versions of Eragon and Eldest--there was a deleted scene in the back of each one. Didn't read the one for Eragon, because I had looked at the one in Eldest first--and stopped immediately when I discovered it was about Dwarven theatre. Does Paolini's evil dopey incompetant innocence know no bounds?

I guess not. Dear god, I can't tell which is worse--the audio exerpt, or the fact that Paolini was reading it.

[Gertrude] smiled. "Well, it gave me something to do with my hands. Patients can be boring when they only snore."

So, Inheritance has a happy ending?

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[info]bonnieklyden
2008-08-28 08:36 pm UTC (link)
"Eventually you will have to face us...and then you will die..." EEEEEVILLLLLL!!!!!1! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

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[info]4eversleeping
2008-08-29 01:37 am UTC (link)
He sounds like he is reading to a five year old...

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[info]meghan_rachelle
2008-08-29 05:20 am UTC (link)
At least he's not using ridiculous synonyms for "said." Since it's a "deleted" scene, I'm starting to wonder if he went back and put all of those synonyms in during the editing, or if he actually cleaned up and edited this one before making it public.

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[info]redwheel69
2008-08-29 06:37 am UTC (link)
The healer "constructed" a meal? What is she - a food-processing cyborg?

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[info]redwheel69
2008-08-29 07:00 am UTC (link)
Oh god. Paolini's recital skills. I just love how he read out even lines about the most mundane matters in such a melodramatic manner - but then delivered Eragon's "Very much so!" and "emphatic" nodding in such a limp and utterly unemphatic manner.

Also? Paolini sounds like a younger version of Fozzie Bear. LOL

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[info]torylltales
2008-08-29 12:05 pm UTC (link)
"Wocka wocka wocka!" Pronounced Christopher facetiously.

Man, that deleted scene was deleted for a reason. Nice to know somebody's looking out for the poor half-insane-from-reading-what-they-did-include fans. I think the whole concept of "deleted scenes" is that the scenes that are included are actually worth putting back in. Having a deleted scene where one of the characters contemplates eating cheese completely defeats the entire purpose of including it as a bonus.

Deleted scenes, whether in books or in movies or in radio-plays, should reveal something about the world or about the character, and the only reason it should have been deleted from the published narrative is because it would have interrupted the pace of the rest of the scene, NOT because it doesn't add anything to begin with.

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[info]vesi_y
2008-08-29 07:02 pm UTC (link)
Oh god. Paolini's recital skills. I just love how he read out even lines about the most mundane matters in such a melodramatic manner - but then delivered Eragon's "Very much so!" and "emphatic" nodding in such a limp and utterly unemphatic manner.

Having a deleted scene where one of the characters contemplates eating cheese completely defeats the entire purpose of including it as a bonus.

*sporfle*
But aren't those just keeping in line with his usual stuff? Useless things get the dramatic, flashy gestures and things and Eragon remains an unempathetic, unsympathetic bream who can't manage being as dramatic as his little hippie elf photography.

It could have been worse, though. Remember that we're talking about the guy who wrote
Going to the stream by the house, they quickly disrobed. Eragon surreptitiously watched the elf, curious as to what he looked like without his clothes. Oromis was very thin, yet his muscles were perfectly defined, etched under his skin with the hard lines of a woodcut. No hair grew upon his chest or legs, not even around his groin. His body seemed almost freakish to Eragon, compared to the men he was used to seeing in Carvahall -although it had a certain refined elegance to it, like that of a wildcat. Blame the eragon-sporkings. There really should be a whole easy-to-use database for every single mockworthy quote and excerpt one can find in those books, so that one wouldn't have to always dig this particular one up..
I'd always take a pointless cheese contemplation over that.

"Well, it gave me something to do with my hands. Patients can be boring when they only snore."
I'd think a healer would be damn thankful if their patients only snored as opposed to screaming and oozing something purple or, you know, not breathing.

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[info]scapegoat_723
2008-08-29 07:34 am UTC (link)
Zomg. Did anyone else laugh their ass off at his voices?
Oh, man.
I'm going to bookmark that, and listen to it when ever I'm feeling down.
LAWL.

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[info]sanrock
2008-08-29 06:07 pm UTC (link)
1. Since when do "phantasms" walk? Don't they glide?
2. Exactly what kind of meat is she cooking?
3. "But that means he hasn’t gotten any better." uh, no shit, Sherlock?
4. What was the whole point of this scene? Really, NOTHING HAPPENS!

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