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Jens and other second wave hunger gamesers
I finished. The end was a total downer. I really kind of hated it. I expected practically everyone to die. I'm glad that Coin was killed. I just kind of expected that Katniss might get a shot at a relatively happy life. Clearly, you don't forget all of that trauma or ever get completely past it, but she just seemed so "eh, I married him to go through to motions".
Re: Jens and other second wave hunger gamesers
YES. I was bummed about it. It was just such a...fizzle.
And, I wanted there to be a real moment of decision for Katniss in terms of who she chooses, and what kind of life she chooses for herself. It was just like "They convinced everyone I was crazy, then I went home and was weird, and then things kind of got better and I lived a semi-normal life."
After going through what they all went through, I didn't expect them to just skip home and live happily ever after. But I wanted it to be more triumphant - like, they're free, and they are choosing to go back and rebuild their home and create a better life for their children. I know that's what they did in the end anyway, but it was almost like it was just "I guess we'll do this now..." instead of "This is what we have fought for and now we are going to claim it!"
And I wanted Peeta to have that moment from Katniss where she finally reciprocates in a big and decisive way.
Yes. She was so tired of being a player in everyone else's game that I wanted her to have that moment when she's just done and taking control of her own life and happiness.
AND DOUBLE YES. I think in the end, I'm not even sure that I truly liked Katniss, but I love Peeta. Even with the Mitchell thing and the brainwashing and all of that, I just hated to seem him doubt. He needed to know that she loved him by her own choosing. I guess she sort of acknowledged it with the "You love me, real or not" thing when she said "real", but it lacked the oomph that I wanted after the rest of the drama.
I didn't necessarily want a more happy ending - I think just a more powerful ending.
I mean, part of my dissatisfaction is the (maybe immature?) desire for the romance stuff. But more so, like Buddha said, because I love Peeta and wanted it for him. The rest though wasn't about wanting a sappy, fluffy ending so much as wanting to feel like something was accomplished, and like the deaths and suffering weren't in vain.
~Benjamin Franklin
DS dx with celiac disease 5/28/10
I think it really boiled down to the fact that Katniss was just so passive through it all. I don't know, maybe she was just tired of fighting and nothing left.
Speaking of Hunger Games, I'm leaving this here.
http://www.pinkisthenewblog.com/2012/02/the-hunger-games-releases-animated-promo-ads-featuring-cinna-seneca-crane-caesar-flickerman/
I don't think it would be in character for Katniss to have a big, triumphant ending. Peeta either. I think the best they could hope for was to not be totally messed up from the whole thing, and they seemed to be getting by. I liked it because I thought it was realistic.
I changed my name
All I gotta say is....I'm just glad that Gale didn't imprint on Katniss and Peeta's kids. I mean.... anyone who has read the fourth book in the Twilight saga knows what kind or crap you get when you try to make a happy ending for everyone.
I was pretty satisfied with the end overall. My only complaint was that she went into such detail over things and people blowing up then the last couple of chapters felt so rushed. I would have wanted more detail about Peeta and Katniss adjusting after the fact.
I think that it all boils down to Katniss seeming to have no personality in the last book for me. It's not that I don't find the end realistic or believable. I just wanted her to at some point decide something for her own life.
I felt like, realistic or not, she spent the entire third book in a drug induced depression and haze. I kept waiting for the moment when tough Katniss was going to show up and snap herself out of it, but it never happened.
I think the end also suffered from being a complete blur and telling instead of showing. I didn't want to see Katniss recovering in yet another hospital room. I wanted to know what has happening in the capital and what the fallout from shooting President Coin was. Suddenly, BAAM "You're crazy, now go back to 12 like a good little girl" THE END
I need to re-read the books in the next month.
I hope that maybe with time away from the series to soak it in, the 3rd book will be better this time.
I contemplated just starting them over right away. Maybe a second reading will help.