See the similarities?
So here I was, watching Star Wars IV (Or if you look at it chronologically, Star Wars I) for the first time, and I felt that somehow I'd actually watched all this before. However, I didn't realize how, where or why I felt this way, until I saw Eragon. Then I realized that half the storyline was exactly the same! (Well,almost exactly the same..)
There are so many things common, it makes you wonder...
- Both Eragon and Luke never knew their parents.
- Both the guys' moms died when they were babies.
- Both of them were brought up by their uncles.
- Both meet a mysterious old geezer.
- Both of them walk out and return to find their house gutted and uncle killed by 'the forces of evil'*.
- Both leave the place they were brought up in, never to return again.
- Both get a shiny sword from Mysterious Old Geezer.
- Both discover 'the force within them'.
- Mysterious Old Geezer teaches both of them how to use 'the force within them'.
- Mysterious Old Geezer dies halfway through the first movie/book.
- Both find out at the end of part II that their dads are/were the bad guy.
- Both go to some wierd place to complete their training and learn from another wierder geezer who speaks philosophical shit all the time.
- Both are trying to overthrow the emperor and end his 'regime of terror'.
- Both rescue a damsel in distress in Part I.
- Both join a 'resistance' to overthrow the emperor.
- Both suddenly realize that one of the people they've hung out with for a long time is their sibling.
- Both their dads are the emperor's flunkies.
- Both their dads were originally good guys, but were 'turned to the bad side' by the soon to be emperor.
- Remember Mysterious Old Geezer? Turns out he and Eragon and Luke's dads were pretty close before they 'turned to the bad side'
Its a wonder George Lucas hasn't noticed this. How do we know he hasn't noticed this? Because if he had, he'd be suing the pants off Paulini and not trying to make another *sigh* Star Wars movie.
* Here, and in the rest of this post, everything in inverted commas is meant to be spoken in a deep, booming sepulchural voice, with just a hint of sarcasm in it.
