In the wake of the news that Paolini is meeting with his editor about the Sci-Fi Brick, or "TSiaSoS," my brain made a rather unsettling leap. I have made some pretty bizarre mental connections in the past, but... I legitimately think this is a pattern.
What we're seeing here is a shitty author who started out with a fantasy series originally intended to consist of fewer books than it did coming out with an unrelated sci-fi novel instead of working on extra series-related material like their fans want. The timeline may be off, but there is a direct comparison that can be made here:
TSiaSoS is Christopher Paolini's equivalent of Stephenie Meyer's The Host.
I have pointed out similarities between Paolini and Meyer before. They both have no idea how to edit, tell one thing while showing another, self-insert like crazy, and have a seriously bad tendency towards Protagonist Centered Morality. However, I did not imagine that their career arcs would end up being that similar. It seems the one thing Paolini hasn't done is alienate his entire fanbase to the point of becoming a memetic laughingstock. I suppose this constitutes more evidence that Paolini is at least marginally better than Meyer.
Now, I have actually read parts of The Host out of sheer Trainwreck Syndrome, and it is a horrifying showcase of just how much Stephenie Meyer has not grown as an author and has in fact regressed. So if the parallel continues with TSiaSoS, we can expect it to be terrible, just as rife with Unfortunate Implications as Inheritance, and even more boring.
And now, let us come up with unflattering things to call TSiaSoS! I submit Terrible Science is a Sign of Stupidity, Thesaurus Syndrome in a Sea of Similes, and Tentacle Scenes in a Saga of Squick.
What we're seeing here is a shitty author who started out with a fantasy series originally intended to consist of fewer books than it did coming out with an unrelated sci-fi novel instead of working on extra series-related material like their fans want. The timeline may be off, but there is a direct comparison that can be made here:
TSiaSoS is Christopher Paolini's equivalent of Stephenie Meyer's The Host.
I have pointed out similarities between Paolini and Meyer before. They both have no idea how to edit, tell one thing while showing another, self-insert like crazy, and have a seriously bad tendency towards Protagonist Centered Morality. However, I did not imagine that their career arcs would end up being that similar. It seems the one thing Paolini hasn't done is alienate his entire fanbase to the point of becoming a memetic laughingstock. I suppose this constitutes more evidence that Paolini is at least marginally better than Meyer.
Now, I have actually read parts of The Host out of sheer Trainwreck Syndrome, and it is a horrifying showcase of just how much Stephenie Meyer has not grown as an author and has in fact regressed. So if the parallel continues with TSiaSoS, we can expect it to be terrible, just as rife with Unfortunate Implications as Inheritance, and even more boring.
And now, let us come up with unflattering things to call TSiaSoS! I submit Terrible Science is a Sign of Stupidity, Thesaurus Syndrome in a Sea of Similes, and Tentacle Scenes in a Saga of Squick.