Yesterday I finished the last of the Hunger Games books. I have not yet seen the movie, although I think everyone else I know has. Thoughts about the series are under the cut. Naturally, there are ( spoilers )
I definitely had a lot of these same feelings about these books--especially CF. I was surprised there was this long period of sort of hanging out and then uh oh! Back to the Hunger Games!
Thinking further about it, I'd have preferred it as two books with the second Hunger Games starting off the second book. If she had to do two games that is. Then build up from there: rescue, District 13, attack on Capitol.
Oh, interesting. I really liked the parts of Book 3 you pulled out here. Especially how she was primarily kept out of the loop and that District 13 wasn't presented as 'The Light' side. The issue for me was that it just became ridiculous that Katniss was able to survive ALL of these life threatening situations. In the first book her survival could be put down to extremely good fortune combined with one tangible skill. Not to mention Haymitch's goodwill during the Games (parachutes) and Peeta's determination to keep her alive. In the second book, there were actually a group of people specifically devoted to keeping her alive. But in book 3? Even though others were still protecting her, the life-threatening situations were just OTT for a 17 year old with no training and limited opportunity to use her one genuine skill
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I can see where Katniss surviving all of that makes it difficult to suspend one's disbelief. I guess I mostly ignored the improbability. I remember thinking when they were assaulting the Capitol that there's no way a bunch of fighters with small arms would be able to mount that sort of attack, or that the Capitol's defenses were that weak. And for people like Katniss and Gale and Peeta to be put in the positions they were in, especially leadership ones like Gale, with so little training. But then I thought, eh, it's just a book. It'd be more difficult to write a book where the protagonist was stuck back at home due to age and inexperience while all the fighting was going on.
The huge wild animals in the movie that didn't have the eyes and personalities of the other tributes was more than enough, imo. Or if the idea that poor Rue was used was supposed to be especially horrifying, I think it should have had more emphasis.I think in the movie in particular this would be hard to show. All Katniss has to do is think "the mutts have these
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And for people like Katniss and Gale and Peeta to be put in the positions they were in, especially leadership ones like Gale, with so little training.
You know, I hadn't actually thought of that before. Though Katniss and Peeta were both used for very specific assignments no one else could do (ie - be the Mockingjay and then get rid of the no longer useful Mockingjay). But Gale? District 13 should have had far more capable people. The only reason to put him in such a position was to make it "impossible" for Katniss to chose him over Peeta since he was ~responsible for Prim's death.
It'd be more difficult to write a book where the protagonist was stuck back at home due to age and inexperience while all the fighting was going on.Hm. Perhaps. Though most of the fighting was happening exactly like that. We were given glimpses of life in District 13 while someone else fought. I think I'd have been fine with Katniss running into more random danger, like when she went back to get her flowers and watched the man in District 11
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The huge wild animals in the movie that didn't have the eyes and personalities of the other tributes was more than enough, imo. Or if the idea that poor Rue was used was supposed to be especially horrifying, I think it should have had more emphasis.I think in the movie in particular this would be hard to show. All Katniss has to do is think "the mutts have these ( ... )
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You know, I hadn't actually thought of that before. Though Katniss and Peeta were both used for very specific assignments no one else could do (ie - be the Mockingjay and then get rid of the no longer useful Mockingjay). But Gale? District 13 should have had far more capable people. The only reason to put him in such a position was to make it "impossible" for Katniss to chose him over Peeta since he was ~responsible for Prim's death.
It'd be more difficult to write a book where the protagonist was stuck back at home due to age and inexperience while all the fighting was going on.Hm. Perhaps. Though most of the fighting was happening exactly like that. We were given glimpses of life in District 13 while someone else fought. I think I'd have been fine with Katniss running into more random danger, like when she went back to get her flowers and watched the man in District 11 ( ... )
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