Lack of Games

[Rowena]

*spoiler alert*

I just had an observation - both THG and CF live up to the name of the series and contain a Hunger Games in them - the 74th and 75th, respectively. Mockingjay is the only one that doesn't. What do you think about how that affected the book? Was MJ more gruesome or less grusome by comparison?

I think MJ was actually more grusome even though it wasn't about children (or adults) being forced into an arena with intent to kill.

[vividlyvisceral]

I won't lie. It disappointed me, but that's only because I expected a lot more effort in the book as a whole. While it was gruesome- I liked the Resident Evil-style mutations that killed Finnick- but the entire rebellion seemed... thrown together to me. Almost as if SuCo had no idea how an actual rebellion might work.

So I was disappointed. I would've preferred just an endless stream of these games. She could've released one a year, I'd buy them all.

[Hannah]

I think that the rebellion sort of counted as the Games for that book. "The 76th Hunger Games". Anyone else remember that scene with Finnick and Katniss when it got that nickname?

[vividlyvisceral]

Again, the rebellion didn't seem as organized as a Hunger Game- so it wasn't as satisfying.

[koalakoala]

It wasn't exactly another arena, but it was similar, like Hannah said. I think the Games were there, but it was kind of an evolution of the series from the first book.

I know some people who've read the books and think it was cheap to throw Katniss and Peeta back into the Games in CF, if they went back a third time it would definitely seem overused.

[Hannah]

I have to agree with Vivid that there wasn't as much effort as there could've been in the book, but I guess I found the action proportion satisfying--since I guess I wasn't quite as "in to" the action as some people were. Yet that was what I read the series for. Hmm. I'm contradicting myself. Well, I guess I just found it satisfying enough, as far as the amount went, but not as the quality went. Final answer. Really, this time.

[Rowena]

I don't remember when Katniss and Finnick nicknamed the revolution the 76th Hunger Games but I find that ver amusing.

I know some people who've read the books and think it was cheap to throw Katniss and Peeta back into the Games in CF, if they went back a third time it would definitely seem overused.

That's a really interesting thought - I never thought about that before, but I can totally see where those people would be coming from.

[Hannah]

Rowena--

It's the part in MJ (well, no duh, huh? considering as this is the thread for it...) where Finnick and Katniss both join Squad 451 and then Boggs shows them the holo (at least, I think it was Boggs...) and they're both freaked out by how much it looks like the arena, and they both walk up to it and are like, "Ladies and gentlemen, let the 76th Hunger Games begin!"

Leah--

I can also see where those people are coming from, because I sort of thought that too, at first. But then I saw how that (the QQ) had to have been planned out from the start when we got to MJ, so I sort of changed my mind about it.

[megasaurus]

The same rpinciples for The Games was n Mokcingjay, you just kinda had to look for them.
The rebellion against the capitol, basically you have just a larger amount of tributes trying to kill each other and the rebels are the poorer districts who have made an alliance and the Capitol are the Careers. When they were in the Capitol with the pods that's like the Gamesmakers activating crap for the tributes, in this case the rebellion. Training to be soldiers and how to hold a gun=training center. Taking the test to see if you'd go to war=being reaped. Katniss killing Coin is like her killing the last tribute and being crowned the Victor basically since she gets away with it scot free basically. Katniss' family falling apart shows how families are torn from the Hunger Games. There's quite a few references to the HUnger Games in Mockingjay, you just have to read between the lines. So Mockingjay was basically one huge Hunger Games.

[maxrider12]

I think SuCo had just run out of ways for Katniss to be in the Games, so she had Katniss rebel.

Also, this is kinda random, but did you ever notice that nobody ever calls Katniss "Kat?"