Lol I thought it was just me with Rue, I never really cared *that much* about her death in the books or the film and it seemed like most people were in floods of tears over it! Maybe I cared a little more in the film as I liked the way they tied it in to the rioting in her district, but the whole thing just felt a little too manipulative and besides it's not like we ever got to know her all that well. I was a lot more upset over the deaths in the later books like Cinna because it felt so much more shocking that they would just kill a main character like that. Rue was always the cute little girl way out of her depth and marked for death, so how shocked and invested could you really be?
And yeah I got that feeling at times too, but it seemed like a cop-out if you're going to establish a world where children have to kill for their own survival and then have your protagonist mostly just defending herself from attacks and still winning the games. I would have expected her to kill at least one person outright and have to deal with her feelings after that
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Date: 2013-05-04 10:27 am (UTC)And yeah I got that feeling at times too, but it seemed like a cop-out if you're going to establish a world where children have to kill for their own survival and then have your protagonist mostly just defending herself from attacks and still winning the games. I would have expected her to kill at least one person outright and have to deal with her feelings after that