So watching Eragon again...

[Human No More]

Originally Posted by Woodsprite

Written by a kid. Therefore neither worth the read, nor the watch. Have never been interested. Never will be interested.

Ageism. Anyway, it's been YEARS in the making, and the original storyline has little to do with the actual published form. I'm not much of a writer, but I'm sure that most people will take inspiration from things they wrote before, that was maybe not as good - he just went a step further and improved the actual story into something great.

Originally Posted by Woodsprite

Experience has everything to do with it, and the kid (to my knowledge from reviews of the book series) practically took every single fantasy storyline ever written in the past 50 years and crammed it into a dragon novel series called Star Wars--er, I mean, um, Inheritance Cycle.

This just proves you haven't read it at all. You know something? 1. having the person who was like a father to you killed, 2. an empire or similar organisation who happen to be the antagonists and 3. magic ARE NOT UNIQUE TO EITHER. Go on, find me ANY story that has 100% elements that have not been seen in any other. You won't be able to. Even if one existed, it would not be a success because nobody could relate to it.
Other than that, I could write pages and pages of differences (and no, I do not mean in things like setting, but in storyline).

I love Avatar because of the emotion it envokes. Does Eragon do that just as well as LotR or Avatar? I haven't read the books, so I can't say. However, from what I've read, it apparently doesn't do that for the majority of reviewers I've heard.

This is even more subjective than most of your argument against it. I'll tell you something - for the majority of reviews - neither does Avatar. They like it, but it isn't hugely emotional. The series isn't as emotion-heavy as something like Avatar in the first place, but that's no reason to mistake it for not having any, whether maliciously or inadvertently. It didn't affect me as strongly as Avatar, but nothing else has, at all, and I doubt anything will.