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

[Avaitor]

You can tell that they're going to have a field day condensing it to a PG-13 rating and to find points of interest to adapt.

[Lord Dalek]

Against my better judgment...

PART III - "THE ENEMY"

CHAPTER NINETEEN: The Horror Of Party Beach

The tribunes have been dumped this year onto a strange ring of wobbling pedestals above the ocean (the Mechanical Age from Myst in other words). Being one of the few tribunes who knows how to swim, Katniss makes for the shore and the Cronucopia in record time. The Games are only 9 chapters long in this book so we ain't wasting any more time this go around. After reaching his bow and arrow set, she's confronted by some guy she should just murder right now...

YAY ITS CREEPY FINNICK!

Actually surprise, surprise the two are on the same side. Behind Katniss' back Haymitch apparantly recruited Finnick to buddy up with Kattypoo. This becomes incredibly convenient as Peeta can't swim and neither can Mags, a toothless old woman also from District 4 who is added to our motley crew of Career-free Careers.

While this is all happening a gruesome grueling battle begins on the beach. Wiress remains stuck on her pedestal and Beetee (the smart one) has discovered that the belts this year's Tribunes are fitted with are some kind of flotation device using it to escape undetected. At least 6 are dead, although Katniss isn't exactly sure if that's an accurate number.

The beach is adjacent to this years real battlefield, a jungle. There is no source of fresh water to be found at all. The reason is the Gamemakers have installed forcefields to cordon off the other half. This seems like another plot contrivance.... until Peeta gets electrocuted trying to bust through and dies.

Dies. Dies. Peeta is dead. Dead. All Dead. He's getting deader. Dead dead deady dead dead.







Excuse me.

[Spark Of Spirit]

That was pretty awful from pretty much every single perspective.

[Avaitor]

Wow these are some awful names.

[Rynnec]

Dies. Dies. Peeta is dead. Dead. All Dead. He's getting deader. Dead dead deady dead dead.

This calls for appropriate music.

Now Katniss can dump Gale and is free to go running off with Johanna, right? Right?

[Lord Dalek]

Wow these are some awful names.

THE FUTURE!!!!!!!!!!!

[Spark Of Spirit]

I'm really wondering how they're going to adapt this. The worst part is that apparently the final book is substantially worse than this.

Wow these are some awful names.

THE FUTURE!!!!!!!!!!!

With some of these names I'm surprised there isn't anyone named "Trouse", "Kratt" or "Pincey". Those would slide right in.

[Lord Dalek]

Rejected Hunger Games Character Names could be the latest game...

Booze
Picker
Optimus
Etc.

[Avaitor]

I got some!

Wheeler
Ma-Ti
Hoggish Greedly
Sly Sludge
Looten Plunder
Verminous Skumm
Mame Slaughter

[Dr. Insomniac]

Tegan
Nyssa
Adric
Turlough
Kamelion
Erimem
Peri

[Spark Of Spirit]

Francy
Willianna
Shieler
Wheela
Adrock
MikeD
MCA

[Kiddington]

I'm really wondering how they're going to adapt this. The worst part is that apparently the final book is substantially worse than this.

How did this series become popular again?

[Dr. Insomniac]

I'm really wondering how they're going to adapt this. The worst part is that apparently the final book is substantially worse than this.

How did this series become popular again?

Because STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS and Stephenie Meyer liked it.

[Spark Of Spirit]

I'm really wondering how they're going to adapt this. The worst part is that apparently the final book is substantially worse than this.

How did this series become popular again?

Love triangle.

Despite there not actually being much of one.

[Avaitor]

If you call it a love triangle, most fans will try to maim you. But they'll talk about how they love Peeniss (hohoho).