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 )
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 killed or after the bombing of the hospital. Both scenarios made it seem believable to me that she could survive.
As for the Capital defenses, I liked that it was far more fragile than people might think. But at the same time, I agree that it didn't make sense for them to be that easy to defeat. Unless, of course, there was so much more going on that Katniss, and thus the readers, didn't know about.
All Katniss has to do is think "the mutts have these people's eyes! scary!" and that's enough for the reader. But how would you show that in a movie?
Have Katniss or Peeta say, "the mutts have these people's eyes! scary!" ;D I would have been satisfied if they were explained away as computer-generated robotic monsters. They didn't need to be genetic mutants. I get that that could be more emotionally devastating. But if I'm being chased by one, I'd be just as scared of the robot as a real animal.
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 killed or after the bombing of the hospital. Both scenarios made it seem believable to me that she could survive.
As for the Capital defenses, I liked that it was far more fragile than people might think. But at the same time, I agree that it didn't make sense for them to be that easy to defeat. Unless, of course, there was so much more going on that Katniss, and thus the readers, didn't know about.
All Katniss has to do is think "the mutts have these people's eyes! scary!" and that's enough for the reader. But how would you show that in a movie?
Have Katniss or Peeta say, "the mutts have these people's eyes! scary!" ;D I would have been satisfied if they were explained away as computer-generated robotic monsters. They didn't need to be genetic mutants. I get that that could be more emotionally devastating. But if I'm being chased by one, I'd be just as scared of the robot as a real animal.
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