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So there's a game I play online and while I was perusing in the forums, there was a rant thread going on about The Hunger Games. Both the movie and the book series. It started off first about how the series has been "Twilighted" and then moves into how liking the books is like liking 1984 and is terrible because it's too morbid.
Re-read that last sentence again, if you will. Don't worry. I'll wait.
I had to go back and read through all the posts again because I wasn't sure I was reading this in the right context, but no. I was. First off:
Wah? What's the big deal about a bunch of teenagers being pitted against each other in fighting to the death? Battle Royale, anyone? It's been done. And frankly, the Asians did it better. My point is, I don't think this series is going to cause governments to have collective aneurysms and start playing these hunger games. Even if they did, I'm already too old to play. So I'm safe.
Second, I can sort of see how liking The Hunger Games is like liking 1984, but how is that a bad thing? I'm sure Orwell is doing other-worldly flips that his book is still being talked about. I guess I can KIND OF understand an oppressive government scenario. And possibly the similar setup of a post-mass atomic war/apocalyptic setting, doomed love, never-ending war, but that's about as far as it goes, I think.
I have successfully lost my train of thought. |D
Re-read that last sentence again, if you will. Don't worry. I'll wait.
I had to go back and read through all the posts again because I wasn't sure I was reading this in the right context, but no. I was. First off:
Wah? What's the big deal about a bunch of teenagers being pitted against each other in fighting to the death? Battle Royale, anyone? It's been done. And frankly, the Asians did it better. My point is, I don't think this series is going to cause governments to have collective aneurysms and start playing these hunger games. Even if they did, I'm already too old to play. So I'm safe.
Second, I can sort of see how liking The Hunger Games is like liking 1984, but how is that a bad thing? I'm sure Orwell is doing other-worldly flips that his book is still being talked about. I guess I can KIND OF understand an oppressive government scenario. And possibly the similar setup of a post-mass atomic war/apocalyptic setting, doomed love, never-ending war, but that's about as far as it goes, I think.
I have successfully lost my train of thought. |D