Ha..wish I could, but it´s not on here....anyway I´ve been up all night now and I´m going to work soon,,bleh, I must say I don´t feel all that well either....

Dethklok!! Dethklok!

Cooommmeeedddyyyyyy!!

I love when they write the metal song endorsing coffee.

"We will make coffee metal. Blacker than the blackest black times infinity."

blarg... School has started once again.... time to get into my same old rut.

Alright, I went to see Eragon in the cinema today. Since people were arguing about it a while ago, I'll give my opinion on the movie. The movie, not the book.

First of all, let's take a look at the main characters.
Eragon:
Hmm, average farmboy living with his uncle thrown out to save the world. His inexperience and overconfidence at first was decent. (He believed that having trained with his cousin during their spare time made him a master fighter. Till Brom kicked his behind. ) But later on, I was beginning to get irritated with his continuing overconfidence. In fact, he defends his reckless actions passionately, even though he always gets himself or others into danger.

And please, his armour really needed a helmet. The best Varden smiths had worked day and night on making his armour and they couldn't get a helmet done? Oh well, the hero needs to show his face, so that can be forgiven.

Saphira:
Ok, I'll start of by saying that Draco from Dragonheart is a much better dragon visually despite being much older. (Incidentally, Draco is Soulseeker's avatar) That said, a further bad point in my opinion is her super-accelerated growth during her first flight. But, I suppose that by the time Saphira would have reached her massive size through natural growth, Eragon would be an old man.

Personality-wise, Saphira was Eragon's voice of reason, constantly warning him when he was about to do something stupid. Though she didn't have much luck with that unfortunately. I also liked her remarks. She had the best dialogue in the film, though even her's wasn't brilliant.
Brom: ,,She can't breath fire....yet."
Saphira: ,,Luckily for you.” This is just one of the many one-liners. Is it just me or do Dragons always get the best dialogue?

Brom:
Old teacher. That pretty much describes Brom’s role. He teaches Eragon how to fight properly, how to use magic, he makes a saddle so Eragon doesn’t fall from his dragon’s back and blablabla. He also gives Eragon Za’Roc, some supersword which falls under the same category as Excalibur, Durandal, Anduril, Sting (ok, technically a dagger but still treated as a sword), various katanas, Stormbringer and Chrysamere. (Yes, I just have to include my favourite Claymore in the list. Shame on me. )

His personality was a sharp contrast with Eragon’s constant overconfidence. Brom took the matter serious, very serious. He was angry, sad because of the death of his Dragon and so on. He is also quite strict and mysterious. It was a bit of a pity to see him die. I personally preferred Brom over Eragon though not by much. If only Dragons could change riders during their life.

Arya:
Ok, now Arya could be replaced by any other character. Her only role was as a key around which the events unfolded. Throughout the first half of the film, she’s stuck in Durza’s fortress where the Shade gets to play with her. (torture.) It is because of her that Eragon goes to said fortress to save the woman of his dreams. (dreams need to be taken literally here.) This also incidentally allows the army of Urgals (orcs) to follow Eragon to the Varden city which leads to this big old battle at the end. Her last role is to kick the behind of every Urgal in sight during that battle but to say the truth, all characters with a name kicked the behind of every Urgal in sight.
As far as I’m concerned, Arya was just decoration, not a true character even though our farmboy develops a crush on the princess. (Yes, she’s a princess. What did you expect?)

One final note: The scene in which Eragon, Murtagh and Saphira take the poisoned Arya to the Varden eerily resembles the same scene in Lord of the Rings in which Glorfindel/Arwen races to Rivendell with a poisoned Frodo. Creepy.

Murtagh:
Finally, we go back to a good character. Now Murtagh is even more mysterious than Brom. He turns up to save Eragon (trust me, that farmboy needs to be saved all the time.) and saves him again later. Throughout the movie, he maintains a cloak of secrecy and it does seem like he has hidden plans. Murtagh turns out to be the son of a major baddie to which he says: ,,A son does not choose his father.” While he openly claims to stand against everything his father did, I’m a bit reluctant to call him a pure do-gooder myself. If he is, he is the shadowy good type. And I like those types. Much better than the lightheaded farmboy turned into hero.

Durza:
The great evil overlord. Ok, Galbatorix is the head baddie but that guy only got to tell Durza to do the dirty work. Durza is a shade, some sort of supernatural creature with an immense mastery over magic. His smoky teleportation was neat to watch and he came back from the death to haunt Eragon which was pretty cool. He is quite sadistic, taking pleasure in all forms of death. That said, his ending was a bit too abrupt, no matter how cool it might be to see Eragon get launched at the Shade like an arrow from hell. He could have struggled a bit more. Oh well.

Ra’Zac: These two were a pair of assassins sent to kill Eragon. They were only seen in short flashes, with a lot of emphasis put on how scary and unstoppable they were. Because of this, I found the final confrontation with the Ra’Zac halfway through the film extremely disappointing. Within less than a minute, both were death and the only success they got was injuring Saphira’s wing so light that the Dragon wasn’t even bothered by it. (The injury was caused by a tree by the way. That’s what happens when you tell a big Dragon to divebomb into a dense forest. Stupid Eragon, he doesn’t notice the leafy obstructions in his path until it is too late.)

Moving on to the film, I’d say that the plot was average at best, nothing special. The worst plothole has to be the constant meetings. Saphira is a Dragon and described as faster than any horse. (Which in fantasy is usually the fastest non-magical means of transport.) Yet still everyone manages to catch up with her whenever it is convenient. Take Brom for example. After Eragon abandoned him to save Arya, the old man somehow managed to get to Durza’s fort, get inside the fort and jump in front of Eragon just in time to catch a big spear for him. Just how did he get there in time anyway? The whole story falls apart once you take this into consideration.

My final report (is about time because it gets rather long.). Feel free to see it if you like dragons really much or just have to see every fantasy movie there is. Otherwise, stay away and get yourself a LOTR night or something. You won’t really miss anything.

I thought it was quite boring actually.. Hehe, I was comparing it to LOTR the entire time though..

I'd much rather see Beerfest or Snakes on a Plane.. rtfo!

Ugh! Today started off on a bad note. For some reason I mixed up the days so I thought I didn't have to go to work today. Turns out I was wrong, so I got to work 35 minutes late. The other employee that works out in the front office area told me that if I was 5 minutes earlier, he wouldn't have called my manager to ask what was going on.

So, basically it looks like I'm not going to enjoy Monday too much. First off, I'll be back at school again and secondly, I'll hopefully only get a lecture from my manager about time management or something like that. I think I've done this job enough favours to get it pretty easy though.

We'll see...

Ai, I hope you get off the hook easy then. I still have a day and a half to go before school starts again.

Aye, I have a wintersession class beginning on Monday--a couple of weeks at a field station in the high country NE of Missoula, with a weekend break. I imagine my story update today will be my last until at least next weekend. Fortunately, my regular classes (and teaching) don't begin for another two weeks. Until then I get to do a bunch of snowshoeing in the mountains. We got a bunch of snow here the last couple of days--not dumped on like Colorado or New Mexico, but a few inches down here in the valley, and more up in the mountains. How's winter going elsewhere?

I'm just back from Melbourne today it was cool, too bloody hot though.

Meh, if a job is going to get on your case for OCCASIONALY being a bit late, they can take a long walk off a short pier, and kiss a shark...

Well guess what happened later that day? I guess supposedly my manager called the person up in the front near the end of the day to check if I was even still there! Like what the hell? Who would seriously think that if I accidently showup late, for the first time at that job let me add, that I would purposefully decided to leave early as well?

Now I think I understand why some of my other employees complain about him....

This is an excellent start to the New Year....

You should be fine. Any job that would fire you for something like that isn't worth your time anyway. Like my old job at the coffee shop. I got fired for no reason (they couldn't tell me why) and then the next summer they asked me to come back. I did for about a week before I quit and got a much better job. And I have cool managers

Odd Danny, in NC they have to tell you why they fire you, and they can't tell the job your applying to what you got fired for..

Kinda weird eh?

They can if it's within 90 days of being hired. I'd only been working there a couple months.

All I really have is two words to say: SNOW DAY!!!!

About time the snow got here! It's like the middle of January and we've been having spring/fall weather with just one odd day with snow and then it would all melt away the next day. I have a feeling it'll be sticking around now.

I'm actually kinda surprized it's a snow day, as there isn't a lot out there. The roads must be in bad shape I guess. Oh well, that doesn't bother me. I get a day off school so I'm happy!

Well, MM be glad you don't live in the central US (not that I do). Because they're have an ice storm over there, fog, frozen over roads, etc. I'm glad I don't live there, it sounds crummy right now........

Global Warming anyone?

I hope that was sarcasm, because when I came home from school our mailbox was partially frozen over. We live near the border, and according to the Mom's car it was 29 degrees farenhiet (Sp.) That has got to be a record for our state!

Well around here it didn't get cold enough for snow until the middle of January. That's nearly 1 month to a month and a half late than it usually is. Sometimes we get it as early as October, other times we have a green Christmas. The weather is just getting more and more messed up...

Not very good if ya ask me.