Random Hunger Games thought

[girl_wonder]

It's really sad to be a Gale/Katniss shipper. Like, I know that the pairing doesn't happen (thanks epilogue!) but I still want them to get together.

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[agentclaudia]

I just finished Mockingjay about ten minutes ago. I was *so mad* that Katniss and Gale didn't end up together, if only because--as much as I like Peeta as a character--I am morally opposed to rewarding any of that "puppydogs after a girl without speaking to her for years" shit. The plot point that was why Katniss could not end up with Gale was enough of a thing I did not see coming that I bought it, but... yeah, it would have been nice for more of the plot to be driven by Katniss actually doing stuff, even if the big deep point of that particular book was supposed to be that becoming the symbol of the revolution actually curtailed her ability to do stuff. She still didn't need to spend like 85% of the book in the hospital.

I do think that the hijacking thing they did with Peeta was awesome and scary, and I would have liked to see more of it, possibly the actual damn rescue. Particularly if Katniss' presence would have complicated it. Maybe if the book had been allowed to be, like, twice as long, we would have had room for Katniss to actually do stuff? Cramming an entire continent's revolution into the same number of pages as a single Games just doesn't seem to have worked.

[girl_wonder]

Yeah, Peeta suffered from being Nice Guy and also I'm not a huge fan of the message that girls should be ok marrying someone who actively wants to kill them. Thanks Edward Cullen! Thanks Peeta!

The thing about Mockingjay is that it could have been such a cool book! If Katniss had done anything! Other than be in the hospital!