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chocolatepotI can't remember if the books addressed it, but what was Panem going to do for coal after burning down District 12? If a district is so unnecessary that you can get rid of it, why have it in the first place?
- I was honestly not sure going in if I could handle Prim dying. Like I've been thinking about the movie for ages, and I kept asking myself, can you really go see this? Can you deal with a younger sibling death? Well, I dealt with it better than I expected but I still kiiiiind of wish they'd deviated just that little bit from the canon. Interesting to notice how it was foreshadowed with the Lake(?) sisters, and then Castor - I didn't pick up on that in the book.
- I KNOW WHAT MY NOVEMBER HSM WILL BE. I was going to post about individual costumes in period dramas that struck me as being done especially well, but instead I'm going to write about 1930s elements in THG. Annie's veil with the bandeau around her head!
- Another of those things where I'm not sure if I was a faulty reader or the movies improved on the text - in the books, I kind of felt like Peeta was more changed after they got him back, and never quite regained his softness, but Josh Hutcherson did a really good job gradually coming back to Real!Peeta.
- I wish splitting books for movie adaptations wasn't rapidly becoming the standard, but this one really needed the split. Definitely an improvement there.
- I'm so emotionally wrecked. That book's a bloodbath. It occurred to me at one point that it's kind of a flipside to Deathly Hallows, with a "what if Harry'd stayed with the Order?" kind of twist. (Obviously not an original idea, I'm sure.) And then I was struck by how both books ended up criticized for the protagonists being simultaneously being too important and not important enough to the wars they depict, and how kind of ridiculous a lot of media criticism is.
- Ugh, people tho. Why do so many people get up in the middle of the movie to get more popcorn? Are you here for lots of popcorn or for the movie? Do you really need to be eating popcorn through the entire thing? And the people whispering, and the ones laughing at barely-funny moments in tense scenes. I like it so much more when I go to see unpopular movies and the theater is empty.
One of the authors on Writing Excuses is Mary Robinette Kowal, whose name was totally unfamiliar to me, but she wrote Shades of Milk & Honey. It's weird, because she's the one who hits on some of the things that are most relevant to me (the other authors being more epic and/or actiony in scope), but at the same time it's like, I really disliked that book. I can't remember if I even finished it. It was P&P mashed up with Jane Eyre. I ordered a book of hers she mentioned on the podcast that's a pseudo-historical take on Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart growing up knowing each other, and I ordered it from the library. Normally I have very bad luck (there are 65 libraries in this network, and they are all podunk apparently), but there was one copy, and I've got it. We're hitting some pet peeves by page three, but I'm going to give it a chance.
- I was honestly not sure going in if I could handle Prim dying. Like I've been thinking about the movie for ages, and I kept asking myself, can you really go see this? Can you deal with a younger sibling death? Well, I dealt with it better than I expected but I still kiiiiind of wish they'd deviated just that little bit from the canon. Interesting to notice how it was foreshadowed with the Lake(?) sisters, and then Castor - I didn't pick up on that in the book.
- I KNOW WHAT MY NOVEMBER HSM WILL BE. I was going to post about individual costumes in period dramas that struck me as being done especially well, but instead I'm going to write about 1930s elements in THG. Annie's veil with the bandeau around her head!
- Another of those things where I'm not sure if I was a faulty reader or the movies improved on the text - in the books, I kind of felt like Peeta was more changed after they got him back, and never quite regained his softness, but Josh Hutcherson did a really good job gradually coming back to Real!Peeta.
- I wish splitting books for movie adaptations wasn't rapidly becoming the standard, but this one really needed the split. Definitely an improvement there.
- I'm so emotionally wrecked. That book's a bloodbath. It occurred to me at one point that it's kind of a flipside to Deathly Hallows, with a "what if Harry'd stayed with the Order?" kind of twist. (Obviously not an original idea, I'm sure.) And then I was struck by how both books ended up criticized for the protagonists being simultaneously being too important and not important enough to the wars they depict, and how kind of ridiculous a lot of media criticism is.
- Ugh, people tho. Why do so many people get up in the middle of the movie to get more popcorn? Are you here for lots of popcorn or for the movie? Do you really need to be eating popcorn through the entire thing? And the people whispering, and the ones laughing at barely-funny moments in tense scenes. I like it so much more when I go to see unpopular movies and the theater is empty.
One of the authors on Writing Excuses is Mary Robinette Kowal, whose name was totally unfamiliar to me, but she wrote Shades of Milk & Honey. It's weird, because she's the one who hits on some of the things that are most relevant to me (the other authors being more epic and/or actiony in scope), but at the same time it's like, I really disliked that book. I can't remember if I even finished it. It was P&P mashed up with Jane Eyre. I ordered a book of hers she mentioned on the podcast that's a pseudo-historical take on Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart growing up knowing each other, and I ordered it from the library. Normally I have very bad luck (there are 65 libraries in this network, and they are all podunk apparently), but there was one copy, and I've got it. We're hitting some pet peeves by page three, but I'm going to give it a chance.
