Oh, there's nothing wrong with liking it. I liked it, in a very forgettable way with a dash of "good fanfic rewrite concept" and a bit of headdesking at the bursts of obvious stupid. And I wouldn't have noticed the gender thing if I hadn't been told it was feminist and decided to pay attention - I meant to just have evidence that it was merely okay but not actually challenging anything in the way actual feminist works should.
The real thing is expectation. The capital-is-evil bit is very clumsily added in as plot device, the actual plot is just Katniss faces adversity in a story that honestly is not all that dark. There's no horror that innocent people are dying or anything, they're all assumed evil. So of course there isn't going to have to be any real sacrifice.
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Date: 2011-04-07 05:15 pm (UTC)The real thing is expectation. The capital-is-evil bit is very clumsily added in as plot device, the actual plot is just Katniss faces adversity in a story that honestly is not all that dark. There's no horror that innocent people are dying or anything, they're all assumed evil. So of course there isn't going to have to be any real sacrifice.