Let's Play....er Read The Hunger Games (an experiment in literary criticism).

[Spark Of Spirit]

This concept makes for some really easy writing.

[Dr. Insomniac]

This concept makes for some really easy writing.

Dystopic fiction's pretty easy to write. How to write it well is another story.

[Spark Of Spirit]

This concept makes for some really easy writing.

Dystopic fiction's pretty easy to write. How to write it well is another story.

Yeah, you're right, but I meant the whole "sponsor" thing leads to very easy writing since you can just make anything happen whenever you want it to.

[Rynnec]

B. Peeta tells Katniss the story of the first time he developed a crush on Katniss. The language he uses is surprisingly tender and forthright leading Katniss to... oh god...

C. A pot of lamb stew plus french bread which is apparently Haymitch-ese for "Second Base".

Not making this up.

Is this scene supposed to be played for humour or something?

[Lord Dalek]

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: The Beginning of the End

The rain finally stops for Katniss and Peeta who have nearly depleted their supply of lamb stew. During the storm, Thresh was apparantly killed by Cato. AWWWWW(MOVIE CHANGES: They've flipped the deaths in this chapter around so now Thresh gets mauled by badly rendered CGI pitbulls). So it goes.

Time for game hunting... finally. Peeta sucks at it creating lots of noise and scaring off squirrels. Katniss is more than a little annoyed when all he brings back are Nightshade berries. A poisonous combination that'll leave you a corpse within seconds. But only if you're dumb enough to eat them... and its not like anybody is dumb enough to...

Oh Hi Foxface!

Oh Hi DEAD Foxface!

We hardly knew ye. Now there are only three left (and only four chapters left to boot). The Final Battle is about to begin. And then I can read another book. Thank god.

[Foggle]

During the storm, Thresh was apparantly killed by Cato.

NOOOOOOOO!!!

AWWWWW

I was thinking more of this...

We hardly knew ye. Now there are only three left (and only four chapters left to boot). The Final Battle is about to begin. And then I can read another book. Thank god.

Almost there!

[Spark Of Spirit]

I actually preferred Thresh's death in the movie. It was a real chump move to kill him off via Cato.

[Lord Dalek]

I actually preferred Thresh's death in the movie. It was a real chump move to kill him off via Cato.

Yeah I was like... WTF? Thresh coulda kicked whitey's ass back to SoCal, it was that cheap.

[Lord Dalek]

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Showdown at the OK Cornucopia.

With Foxface dead, there are only three left, and only two who can actually benefit from it. Katniss and Peeta start heading for the Cornucopia expecting Cato to be lurking around there. Nightfalls and he fails to appear. Somethings amiss.

After a lengthy investigation of the area, Katniss and Peeta plot a hiding place to eventually jump Cato but its too late. Cato burst out of the woods and a two on one fight breaks out in the middle of the field. Its pretty one sided since Cato's wearing some sort of body armor and Peeta's knife just bounces right off. In fact, to the two's bafflement, Cato seems completely uninterested in them and runs right past. You see he was being chased, and what was chasing Cato immediately bursts out of the woods.

More mutants. This time they're wolves. Yaaaaayz.

[Foggle]

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Showdown at the OK Cornucopia.

That song will never cease being stuck in my head. I sing or hum it at least once every day.

Its pretty one sided since Cato's wearing some sort of body armor and Peeta's knife just bounces right off.

Was it made by a company named Plot?

[Lord Dalek]

Chapter 25.... um.... oh god......








I feel sick.

[Spark Of Spirit]

It seems like a good portion of this is way better in the movie. Other than the needless shaky cam, that is.

[Avaitor]

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Showdown at the OK Cornucopia.

That song will never cease being stuck in my head. I sing or hum it at least once every day.

I always think of the hide and seek chase scene in that one episode of Lizzie McGuire when it comes to that song.

That show had a pretty eclectic soundtrack IIRC.

[Foggle]

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Showdown at the OK Cornucopia.

That song will never cease being stuck in my head. I sing or hum it at least once every day.

I always think of the hide and seek chase scene in that one episode of Lizzie McGuire when it comes to that song.

That show had a pretty eclectic soundtrack IIRC.

I always think of Lupin III because of this video.

[Lord Dalek]

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Hunger Lied

........ ok....um... this chapter.... is.... Ok....

So the wolves chase Katniss, Cato, and Peeta onto the Cornucopia. Katniss can kill Cato but because of a combination of the body armor, her exhaustion, and Peeta's bad leg nullifying his climbing skills, she doesn't. Eventually Peeta makes it up but not before his leg injury is opened up again. The three should have their final duel now but Katniss is distracted by something... something...horrific.

The "wolves" are not mutated wolves at all. They're all the other tribunes... Glimmer, Foxface, even Rue. The Capitol has taken the corpses and transmogrified them into mindless abominations of nature and dumped them back into the arena as part of some sick karmic joke. Its truly horrifying, and I wasn't expecting this... at all...

So eventually Cato turns the tables on Katniss, grabbing Peeta and daring her to use the old Keanu Reeves trick. But Peeta's able to fight back allowing Katniss to shoot Cato in the hand. He preceeds to plummet to his apparent demise, almost taking Peeta with him but Katniss is able to save him. What follows is nine hours of Cato being eaten. NINE HOURS. THEY EAT HIM FOR NINE HOURS. And even that doesn't kill him. Katniss has to shoot an arrow through his skull to put him out of his misery. Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn.

So the Hunger Games are apparently over and Katniss and Peeta are joint win-excuse me I've just been informed that rule change has been revoked.... OH NOES!

Yeah it was all a scam so that the home audience could get the fake lovers to kill one or the other. Peeta, who's bleeding to death again, begs Katniss to kill him, but that's not good enough. Katniss has a much better idea. A gigantic fuck you to the Capitol, President Snow, the whole lot. The Nightlock berries. They will both eat them and die in each others arms on live televison. It will be beautiful. But before they can go about reenacting the ending of the hit 1981 movie The Blue Lagoon, Claudius Templesmith declares them the winners.

See that wasn't so hard?