Eragon and it's entire "Inheritance Cycle". So... incredibly bad... I believe the appropriate term would be some combination of total rip-off and Anvilicious.
Sci Fi, I think, has a better chance of staying original. The spirit and nature of it allow for more bizarre and radical concepts. Modern fantasy (and I consider Star Wars to be fantasy) is basically too respectful of the past. Not enough development.
People don't want original stuff. They want familiar comforting stuff. They want it to be exactly the same... just different.
Human nature.
People don't want original stuff. They want familiar comforting stuff. They want it to be exactly the same... just different.
Human nature.
Wrong.
I want original.
I want baby-killing necrophiliacs as my main characters.
And gunslingers named Roland who search for Dark Towers.
I want something no one has ever seen before.
B movie plot time!
In the middle of WW2, suddenly an alien invasion happened! USSR is wiped, much of Europe is wiped, and now they're moving on to the US.
This is actually a game for PS3.
B movie plot time!
In the middle of WW2, suddenly an alien invasion happened! USSR is wiped, much of Europe is wiped, and now they're moving on to the US.
This is actually a game for PS3.
If that's Resistance, then the plot's...a bit different from how you make it out to be.
When I tried steampunk, it turned out like Barry Lyndon, but with added steam, clockwork, and general coolness. And tricornes worn by almost everyone.
Personally, going from The Wizard's First Rule and what I've heard about the others, I would consider Terry Goodkind to be among the worst worldbuilders the world has ever seen. I almost put Terry Brooks, but remembered something: The Midlands are a country taken over by villainous commie-satanists! Oh no! Now I'll never go to Birmingham again, for fear of getting captured, tortured in an excessively impractical way, witness lots of hilariously accidental innuendo, and then get lectured at by an imbecillic fascist-objectivist (of the sort the most ardent of US Republicans would probably send off in disgust-hell, Louis XVI would probably prefer the Jacobins to this man) about Moral Clarity. Brooks had some originality in him, Paolini has a dash of raw enthusiasm, but Goodkind is a pretentious, moronic ass. No, that's degrading to donkeys and asses the world over.
He is unoriginal because he scratches vaguely at a world, and then simply decides to spend the rest of it indulging alternately in Red Scare propaganda and sexual fetishism. That is the summary of my argument.
To be perfectly honest, I've always liked that sort of thing... I realize it's not plausible, but I don't mind the "rubberhead" aliens at least, though I guess if you say "no real complexity" that can be an issue...For sci-fi Id see your typical "rubberhead aliens with no real complexity" setting, so stuff like Star Trek
Or maybe ST was original when it first came out. It certainly isnt anymore, though.