Reading comprehension sure is a thing

[farla]

Oh my god, I barely made it through the first post before getting fed up with inane pseudopedantry — like in order to be upset at Katniss hiding a bow beneath a berry bush, they assume that all berries are edible, which they're not. Or being unable to comprehend clauses like, "but carefully, carefully." For every moderately reasonable point, they go off on five idiotic tangents due to either their inability to correctly parse a sentence or their presumption that they understand the economics and ecology of dystopic Appalachia. Add to that some crazy Von Mieses bullshit about how the kids are morons to eat a strawberry (which do actually grow wild in much of America, including the Virginia Strawberry that is native to Appalachia) instead of selling it… Ugh. That's exactly the sort of shit that needs to be quarantined in LiveJournal so that no one outside of bitter fanficcers ever reads it.

I wonder what it is that makes about saying how wrong I am without daring to tell me I'm wrong so appealing? BEARS ATTACK PEOPLE guy was pretty into that too.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Say, Farla, what did yoou think of the HG trailer? I thought it was kind of epic, and it looks as if it might be better than the book. Especially considering that we won't be stuck in Katniss's head, and the did-not-do-research stuff will be less apparent.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Like I said above, kind of sterile and I think people should look more starving, scrawny, and otherwise showing the physical signs of poverty. But it doesn't look bad. My main issue was how ridiculous Effie looked (that is, I feel making her look objectively terrible instead of just odd and imposing undermines what should be the message there, and also none of the men seem to look stupid even though the explanation for her appearance is that it's Capital fashion) and that's how it was in the book.

I would definitely assume it'll be an improvement, since the books seemed like it's what they were being written for in the first place.