Thoughts on The Hunger Games Saga. February 6, 2023

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 In the early 2010s, nearly any time I mentioned I was an aspiring novelist, somebody would always mention The Hunger Games Trilogy, and when I saw there was going to be a movie based on it, I felt I should read it. I read the first book in the series while recovering from knee surgery and finished it just in time for its release. It at first seemed like a fad, but I am looking forward to seeing its prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes this November. 

I do not watch the movies as much as I used to, but I am watching them this week, and here are my thoughts. I did enjoy them, but there were a few times where I felt like it needed more action, especially in Mockingjay Part 1, but when there was it was superb. A lot of it, especially the feminism in it, was nothing new, it was not the first action series with a female lead, and in the end, not that I am sexist, there are still some attributes where men are physically superior to women, but I am not putting them down and saying they are weak. The movie clearly did not try to make women look superior to men, to which I am grateful because I had a bad experience in elementary school, but it made me who I am now. Most people think Primrose should not have died, though the character I would have preferred not to die was Finnick Odair, but I can't rewrite it, but that doesn't mean I can't do that in my books. As for the splitting the last two books into two movies, I did not have a problem with, even if I feel it is pointless. Some people think Katniss Everdeen is not a very likable hero, and I can see why, but she does have a good heart. The way Katniss volunteered to take Prim's place was noble, and it was clear she did not like killing people for sport. One of the only things I would have preferred the book and movie did was in someway punish Romulus Thread, but there is nothing I can do. The producers probably thought it would be easier to give an appropriate ending to the saga, and as a writer, I can see why, but I in the end liked, even if I don't watch it much. 

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