I Am Always and Forever Team Katniss (Or: A Hunger Games Entry)

[rsadelle]

I saw The Hunger Games last weekend with two fangirls, a fangirl's wife, and my mother, which was a lovely group of women to spend the morning and lunch with. I've been slacking on making a post about the movie because I really only had three things to say. Now, however, I'm on a Hunger Games email thread that has brought up a fourth thing about

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[eleanor_lavish]

I feel like I want to retype my "I identify with Peeta not because he's a boy, but because he's the person whose life experiences and reactions to the Games, the capital, etc I have the most in common with" email here! But I am too lazy to go get it, and I know you read it already, so I hope that helps?

I also don't think Team Peeta folks are not also Team Katniss in many cases - it's just a holdover from all the love triangles ever. (I was going to use Twilight as an example, but ugh. Buffy is better - Team Angel or Team Spike, most of us were first and foremost Team Buffy, because it was about who was best for HER, in the end.)

[rsadelle]

I still don't get it. :-(

I'm still standing by my choice of Gale. I'm getting the uncomfortable feeling that part of what people like about Peeta is the way he loves Katniss. That is not what I think relationships should be; people should love each other for who they are, and not feel obligated to return love. Gale, to me, is the person who is most clearly her equal partner from the very beginning.

[norwich36]

Well, not having read the books, I am mystified by Team Peeta folks. (Is he more interesting in the books?) From the film I am all about whoever Katniss wants to be with, and in the film that really seemed to be Gale.

[rsadelle]

Apparently he's more understandable to privileged/middle class white girls? Or something? I still don't understand.

[rsadelle]

Oh, I think Collins absolutely sells that because of the things that happen, Katniss and Peeta work. I'm mostly just surprised at how many people's first choice of character to care about is Peeta.

[rsadelle]

Frankly, I dont get identifying with either boy--the book is about Katniss and her life, her choices and sacrifices. For me that supercedes it all.

Yes, yes, yes! This is it exactly, and why I'm having trouble understanding other perspectives on the series.