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I need to talk about The Hunger Games - Spoilers
So. I finally finished all three books over the weekend.
Some thoughts:
I don't like Peeta. I think she should have ended up with Gale. I thought Peeta was a whiny baby.
So, at the end, things were basically the same as before? Split into districts that people didn't really cross? A new President in the Capitol, but the same kind of influence? And just no Hunger Games?
Re: I need to talk about The Hunger Games - Spoilers
It's been a long time but my thoughts:
I think she HAD to end up with Peeta. He's the only one who could possibly understand how damaged she was from everything they went through. Plus Gale was responsible, indirectly, for Prim's death.
I didn't read the end that way. I assumed that the districts survived much like states but that they'd all trade and cross borders at will. But I don't remember why I think that.
I feel the same way. it has been a while since I read it. But I just got the impression that the areas along with the industries in them stayed just by the fact that that would make sense for them to fish by the ocean and mine near the coal mines, etc, but not that they had no choice or freedom.
I guess I assumed they didn't/couldn't cross borders because it seemed like she never saw her mom or Gale again. And I assumed Capitol influence over the Districts because of the new factory being built there.
I think I liked Mockingjay the least. Felt too rushed, maybe?
i think she should have become a [kickass] spinster. or i don't know, met some other guy some day! by the end after all the brainwashing and military tactical mastermind bs, neither of them really struck me as someone she should trust as a life partner.
ETA: but i think i remember reading the end more like how fallin and winged et al are saying, more that the district areas of expertise/resource distribution preceeded the Capitol's regime. i think she never saw her mom/gale because on some level they just chose not to see each other anymore and drifted apart. didn't want to revisit the spectre of her sister's death, how her mother dissociated when their father died, etc...let the past be the past.
I agree about liking Mockingjay the least.
I think not seeing Gale again was a very deliberate choice.
I think his willingness to kill innocent people as part of the quest for power made him too much like the original people who ran the Capitol. I thought that was the most interesting part of 3--that the people who fought against being oppressed were so willing to become the oppressors when they had the power.
Why did Peeta get on your nerves? I found him noble, if a little too self-sacrificing.
I support this idea. I wasn't super stoked about her ending up with Peeta, but I would have felt the same if she had ended up with Gale. There are more than two men in the world.
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I would have been fine with her finding another man. I do think she needed to be a mom to pass on being a kick ass woman. Their society needed more of that.
But, obviously the choice to go with one of the leading characters was about appealing to the YA reading audience. So, of the two, I was happier with Peeta, because like fallin said, Gale was willing to stoop to the "capital" level to support his cause.
I cannot wait for the movie. I will be enraged at this kid if I miss the movie because of it.
I didn't mind that she ended up with Peeta. Actually, I loved what she said about having too much fire of her own, and needing someone who could mellow her out. Gale showed that he was too much fire, and I don't think she would ever be able to look at him the same after him having a hand in Prim's death (even if it was indirectly).
I think what bothered me is that she didn't see her mother again. That seemed pretty unrealistic. I wondered the same thing about the districts, and what the government was like afterwards. It did seem like the ending was very rushed. I mean, she gets married, has babies, etc in a couple of pages, meanwhile it was chapters and chapters of gore and destruction before that. I could have used a little bit less detail about the last parts of the war, and more about what happened afterwards.
Yeah, I think she cut out her mom and Gale. Gale for reasons discussed and her mom because there's no way for her to be the Katniss her mother knew. Think about how effed up and isolated Haymitch became and he just survived the Games. She survived that and being used by the Capitol and war. Rough.
I think maybe her ending up alone would be more realistic, but I'm glad she got a tiny happy ending after all the shiit she went through. And frankly, people who try to force this trilogy to be a YA romance are already so pissed off that the 3rd book wasn't happier with Katniss and Peeta (or Gale--that people have "teams" for this like it's effing Twilight makes me crazy) living happilyeverafterYAY! that I don't think Collins could have gotten away with spinsterhood for Katniss.
I agree that it felt rushed. Maybe not the whole book but the denouement, definitely.
HA!
I'm soooo excited for this. This and The Dark Knight Rises.
I think I would have preferred her to be alone, too. Or to have found someone else.
Peeta was just too good for my tastes, I guess. And if I were Katniss, his persistance in declaring his love would have pushed me away.
The whole part where she killed Coin seemed rushed, too. I need more details!
I already have t-shirts designed to wear to the premiere of the movie.
PICTURE!
I don't know that there's such a thing as "too good" after going through all that.
Gale was gross.
It's just in my head right now. Raglan tee, with red sleeves. "May the odds be ever in your favor" on front, and then District 12 on the back, like it's the name and number of a player.
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I like it.
I also think it fit that she ended up with Peeta. It made sense, particularly since he was the only one who "got" what she was going through (besides Haymitch, and ew). However, I don't know that I can buy that Katniss would have been willing to have kids. I think after all that she had to deal with, particularly coming to terms with Prim's death, she would have never been willing to have them - even after 15 years.
I would have been okay with a Katniss-Finnick affair, myself. Is it bad that I always picture Robert Pattinson playing Finnick? Hahaha.