Mockingjay - I really love it
Feb. 6th, 2012 07:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieI continue my contrariness - I am about halfway through Mockingjay, the near-universally-reviled third part of the Hunger Games trilogy, and I adore it. Maybe even more than Catching Fire. In fact, the only book I don't care for is the very-loved first part of the trilogy, Hunger Games. I also don't have a problem with not seeing a wider world but sticking with Katniss POV - these are YA books. Sure, gritty ones, what with deaths and child prostitution, but still...
I like Katniss, but I can't say she is my favorite character in this - I like Peeta, Haymitch, Johanna, and Finnick better than I do her. But I don't get the loathing fandom seems to have gone into. I've seen people complain that Katniss is surly in Mockingjay and/or whiny. I don't find her whiny, I do find her surly, but I am absolutely fine with it. She's seventeen. I am almost twice her age, and if I'd been through what she's been through, I'd be more than surly, I'd be locked up in a straight-jacket somewhere. She is gritted-teeth tough, but she is human and she holds it together better than most anyone would (including some of the characters in this).
Also, I don't really get the shipper wars in HG fandom. You know me, I am very easy to please, shipper-wise, and will ship almost any canonical couple, but even though I like Katniss, adore Peeta, and don't loathe Gale (though honestly, I find him almost a non-character), I just don't think Katniss/Peeta is a love story for the ages. In fact, I don't think Katniss should be with either Peeta or Gale because she's not ready (and possibly never will be - she makes me think of Haymitch) to emotionally open enough to a person. It has nothing to do with 'she's too damaged to love' (if you think about it, Finnick went through way worse, and he indubitably loves Annie beyond anything), but the way her damage manifests and the fact that, even before all the stuff happened, she just seemed like a very emotionally closed-off person. I guess I just don't see her as being happy in any relationship. So the rabid Gale/Katniss/Peeta shipping confuses me.I do ship Finnick/Annie like mad though - it hits all my fictional kinks. I need fanfic.
Other things - for some reason, the atmosphere in District 13 makes me think of BSG. Who gets to be Adama? Lee can certainly be Peeta (I don't know why I see the connection, but I do). Haymitch is Tigh, hello there drinking problem, toughness and my inexplicable crush.
Also, I guess that proves me like everyone else, but I pretty much decided Finnick is my favorite character. Ummm. Am embarrassed. Slipping into my hole now.
I like Katniss, but I can't say she is my favorite character in this - I like Peeta, Haymitch, Johanna, and Finnick better than I do her. But I don't get the loathing fandom seems to have gone into. I've seen people complain that Katniss is surly in Mockingjay and/or whiny. I don't find her whiny, I do find her surly, but I am absolutely fine with it. She's seventeen. I am almost twice her age, and if I'd been through what she's been through, I'd be more than surly, I'd be locked up in a straight-jacket somewhere. She is gritted-teeth tough, but she is human and she holds it together better than most anyone would (including some of the characters in this).
Also, I don't really get the shipper wars in HG fandom. You know me, I am very easy to please, shipper-wise, and will ship almost any canonical couple, but even though I like Katniss, adore Peeta, and don't loathe Gale (though honestly, I find him almost a non-character), I just don't think Katniss/Peeta is a love story for the ages. In fact, I don't think Katniss should be with either Peeta or Gale because she's not ready (and possibly never will be - she makes me think of Haymitch) to emotionally open enough to a person. It has nothing to do with 'she's too damaged to love' (if you think about it, Finnick went through way worse, and he indubitably loves Annie beyond anything), but the way her damage manifests and the fact that, even before all the stuff happened, she just seemed like a very emotionally closed-off person. I guess I just don't see her as being happy in any relationship. So the rabid Gale/Katniss/Peeta shipping confuses me.
Other things - for some reason, the atmosphere in District 13 makes me think of BSG. Who gets to be Adama? Lee can certainly be Peeta (I don't know why I see the connection, but I do). Haymitch is Tigh, hello there drinking problem, toughness and my inexplicable crush.
Also, I guess that proves me like everyone else, but I pretty much decided Finnick is my favorite character. Ummm. Am embarrassed. Slipping into my hole now.
