Prim's death... kindasorta has some impact on the last chapter? I mean, I think that's why Katniss flips and shoots President Coin. I think. But while you see her flipping out, you don't see any of the aftermath or recovery or... any of that. It felt very much like a 'see! this really is a grim book!' capstone more than it felt like something the book was going to address.
(It's not even that marriage fixes anything. She sorta winds up with Peeta for lack of anything better to do, and eventually he convinces her that having children might not be totally horrible. Soooooo... yeah? I mean, if I was a Katniss/Peeta shipper, I think I'd still be pretty annoyed, because it's sort of 'well, everything sucks for ever, so I guess I might as well shack up with him.' Very grim and grey.)
And it's not even so much that I'm mad about the tragic ending. I'd be happier if I was mad, because that'd at least be a reaction, as opposed to just feeling flat. A total reversal of expectations can work, but it has to come from somewhere; in this case, it felt like it came from a theme/moral of "war is hell" rather than from the characters, and that just didn't work for me in a big way.
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Date: 2010-09-13 02:56 am (UTC)(It's not even that marriage fixes anything. She sorta winds up with Peeta for lack of anything better to do, and eventually he convinces her that having children might not be totally horrible. Soooooo... yeah? I mean, if I was a Katniss/Peeta shipper, I think I'd still be pretty annoyed, because it's sort of 'well, everything sucks for ever, so I guess I might as well shack up with him.' Very grim and grey.)
And it's not even so much that I'm mad about the tragic ending. I'd be happier if I was mad, because that'd at least be a reaction, as opposed to just feeling flat. A total reversal of expectations can work, but it has to come from somewhere; in this case, it felt like it came from a theme/moral of "war is hell" rather than from the characters, and that just didn't work for me in a big way.