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Post by venus on Aug 11, 2017 1:40:47 GMT -5
for some reason i decided to watch the entirety of the hunger games movies right cause i loved the books as a kid but never got around to seeing all of the movies aside from the first one and mannn, the ending/epilogue whatever is just so...unsatisfying. maybe some people were happy with it, but i'm not. i think, like any other movies based off book series, people should be able to critique and have opinions on things that are important to them without backlash or rude comments.
many YA authors need to rethink their ideas of a happy ending. magically transporting the audience to a look into the main character's future, where they're happy and adjusted and have a wife/husband and kids is extremely unsatisfying. in the hunger games, we went from seeing peeta beginning to cope with his PTSD, to playing in a field with kids within a couple of minutes. i've seen it so many times, like in harry potter. it's so unsatisfying, to me personally, because we don't get to see them heal.
and not just that, but i don't like the idea of giving young teens characters that they see themselves in, that give them hope, only to show them that hey itll all magically be ok and you'll be a mom in the future! that's what you want right! i feel like these authors don't put enough thought into these endings, and it makes me so mad!!
like, they don't leave any capacity for these character's emotions afterwards. it's almost like, 'hey, you did your job of being action-y and cool, but we dont care enough to use you to show that emotional vulnerability is normal and okay so just look pretty with your babies.' katniss went from being manipulated into being the face of a revolution at 16/17 years old, to sitting in a field with a baby. maybe i'm being repetitive now, but how does that feel like closure? she was thrown into pretty much a murder arena by an oppressive government, then thrown into yet another murder arena with everything around her being manipulated and her being forced into helping a revolution by an equally manipulative leader, and then while trying to fix what she felt responsible for, she watched numerous friends, and her sister, die. but its all okay now, she had babies, she fell in love, that always makes it all better!
its just sad when you love a character so much and see them go through tons of pain and turmoil, and you dont get to see them heal afterwards, deal with their demons and cope and be okay on their own terms. instead, we get a shoehorned ending.
alright im done
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winnie
President Mercy
just a simple worm.
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Post by winnie on Aug 11, 2017 1:45:52 GMT -5
it's because the author shoehorned her into a romance with a man she shouldn't have been w when she should have been w johanna who Gets her a lot better + also their arc of healing from trauma would have been much more emotionally satisfying than having her with An Man.
also it's because katniss with either gale or peeta w/o the other is imbalanced; they're a triangle with very stark differences that make the trio of them stable together (best ex. to describe this is id/ego/superego with each of them fulfilling a role). when u remove one of them they fail to fulfill certain emotional and mental necessities. it can't work when you've set up three books of them balancing one another and playing off each other. lol.
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Post by wadevvilson on Aug 11, 2017 1:46:03 GMT -5
Also, still mad that Finnick was killed off. Was there an actual reason for that, or was it just to be dramatic? Not sure.
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Post by venus on Aug 11, 2017 1:54:57 GMT -5
it's because the author shoehorned her into a romance with a man she shouldn't have been w when she should have been w johanna who Gets her a lot better + also their arc of healing from trauma would have been much more emotionally satisfying than having her with An Man. also it's because katniss with either gale or peeta w/o the other is imbalanced; they're a triangle with very stark differences that make the trio of them stable together (best ex. to describe this is id/ego/superego with each of them fulfilling a role). when u remove one of them they fail to fulfill certain emotional and mental necessities. it can't work when you've set up three books of them balancing one another and playing off each other. lol. i hadn't thought about it like that w kat gale and peeta huh. i agree, but also yes katniss and johanna would be much better than the hets
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Post by Aku on Aug 11, 2017 2:18:53 GMT -5
I lowkey thought the ending in the book was too... Idk it just didn't connect with me. It didn't feel like the character we read because it time skipped so far for only that one scene. Wait, here's what I was thinking of: easy. It felt like the author took the easy route when writing the epilogue.
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