I'm so glad you're around to say all my thoughts so I can just FLAIL.
Katniss is like Buffy and Veronica Mars and Kara Thrace all rolled up in one sixteen-year-old girl.
Except NOT BLONDE, which I know shouldn't matter to me, but I really loved that I could picture a non-white protagonist if I wanted to? I've heard a bit about the movie-fail on this, but I did love that the book wasn't so exclusionary.
a statement about injustice and abuse of power, or commentary on our current obsession with reality TV
AND AND AND, how those two things in particular work together in some ways? How far can we dehumanize people we can put real names and faces to, without either becoming or showing something awfully ugly about us as a whole? Loved it.
I am so totally a Katniss/Peeta shipper now, lol. The funny thing is, this is the kind of story I should be immediately predisposed to hate, because it includes three annoying tropes
WORRRRD. I think I liked it because of those three tropes which I usually hate too!? Because the narrative knows what's up, and Katniss knows what's up, and they're shown as things to work around among all the other stuff, not falsely prioritized.
2. RUE.
3. SO MUCH THIS. It wasn't like, "she's a strong girl so ALL ELSE IS INVALID." She's physically tough, but that wouldn't be enough, and the physical strength and skill isn't something used to detract from her other survival skills.
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Date: Mar. 30th, 2012 11:06 pm (UTC)Katniss is like Buffy and Veronica Mars and Kara Thrace all rolled up in one sixteen-year-old girl.
Except NOT BLONDE, which I know shouldn't matter to me, but I really loved that I could picture a non-white protagonist if I wanted to? I've heard a bit about the movie-fail on this, but I did love that the book wasn't so exclusionary.
a statement about injustice and abuse of power, or commentary on our current obsession with reality TV
AND AND AND, how those two things in particular work together in some ways? How far can we dehumanize people we can put real names and faces to, without either becoming or showing something awfully ugly about us as a whole? Loved it.
I am so totally a Katniss/Peeta shipper now, lol. The funny thing is, this is the kind of story I should be immediately predisposed to hate, because it includes three annoying tropes
WORRRRD. I think I liked it because of those three tropes which I usually hate too!? Because the narrative knows what's up, and Katniss knows what's up, and they're shown as things to work around among all the other stuff, not falsely prioritized.
2. RUE.
3. SO MUCH THIS. It wasn't like, "she's a strong girl so ALL ELSE IS INVALID." She's physically tough, but that wouldn't be enough, and the physical strength and skill isn't something used to detract from her other survival skills.