*Bmom* re: Hunger Games - Spoilers inside

thatgrrrrl

I want to know all about the other victors' Games and how they won. We only ge to know how Finnick, Beetee and Haymitch won. I want to know what Mags did.

AND.... here is the blog  I mentioned last week.  http://victorsvillage.wordpress.com/

baconsmom

I JUST finished last night. That ending was not at all what I expected. Every minute was so. sad. And they were going to start a republic but Katniss couldn't be present at her own trial? Did all those books they read fail to mention that very basic right? 

I don't know how I feel about it, to be honest. I was expecting something uplifting, something hopeful. I *wanted* that. 

thatgrrrrl

I'm glad she realized what she needed to survive was Peeta and all that he represented.

Those history books seemed to have been thrown out the window in everything that happened before Panem was created.

Did you find Paylor an interesting choice after Coin was assissinated? She was such written in such a way that she was almost a throw away character. Had Boggs lived I would have voted for him.

baconsmom

I got the sense that Paylor was a top-tier commander, though we didn't see her much. The fact that she was still alive at the end helped that impression, and it didn't seem quite so random to me. 

I saw the assassination of Coin coming, but I expected Katniss to be praised for it. Coin was just as much a totalitarian tyrant as Snow - why would anyone put her in charge after doing all this work for freedom? I mean, that was a dumb idea from "go", and I'm surprised people in 13 weren't more eager to break free from their own oppression. I felt the lack of any sort of discussion of that fact, too, but I can guess that's not what Collins was going for. 

I may have been less disappointed, too, if I hadn't just come off the Harry Potter finale, whose tone is so totally different. 

thatgrrrrl

I still haven't seen HP yet. Trying to find time/babysitter.

I agree about Coin. The way she kept Snow imprisoned was indicative that she knew she was in the same sort of mind set as a leader. And the whole idea of another Hunger Games with Capitol kids? That was also pretty obvious before it was mentioned.

Mockingjay was not my favorite of the three. It was good, but I much prefered the first two.

baconsmom

I also feel that probably my own politics are getting in the way. I think it was supposed to be a meditation on the horrors of war, and I'm over here all "Yeah! Kill the Capitol! Make those bitches feel it!" Obviously I expected an uplifting ending about the triumph of freedom, because in my mind, that's where revolutions against tyrants should end (and since this is fiction, I expect my "shoulds" to be followed). 

It's not that it was bad, it's just - yeah, I can't get behind Mockingjay like I can the other two. It left me feeling like so many people died for nothing, when I know that freedom isn't nothing. I just wish Katniss didn't seem to feel that way.