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fandomsecrets2012-02-15 07:40 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-02-15 07:40 pm
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I'll admit, I'm not a fan of Twilight and so I don't like to see The Hunger Games, a series I really enjoy, being held to the same level as something I really can't stand.
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And I'm really not a total HG fan, but I can't even tell you how irritated I get when Bella is compared to Katniss. "They're both strong women who go to great lengths to help those they love" is the argument I'm always hearing, and it never fails to upset the happy out of me.
I'll admit, I'm not a fan of Twilight and so I don't like to see The Hunger Games, a series I really enjoy, being held to the same level as something I really can't stand.
That's exactly how I feel about the constant Harry Potter & Twilight comparisons. Just. Ugh. There's even less to compare than Hunger Games and Twilight. It makes absolutely no sense but everyone still does it anyway.
*Coughs* Not only did I not really answer your Q, but I ended up rambling, too. Sorry!
ETA: Twilight vs. Hunger Games (http://www.eonline.com/photos/gallery.jsp?galleryUUID=3386#127144)
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UGH YES! The comparisons between Twilight and Harry Potter all started when SMeyer was doing her book signings and book tours and the bookstore owners and/or whoever the news interviewed kept saying "I've never seen a crowd this size" followed by "This is the next Harry Potter!", "She's the American JKRowling!", over and over and over and over and OVER again.
Then the twihards picked it up, and get all smug at how ~Twilight is the little movie that could~ and how much money it made compared to HP, and the media picked it up eventually and ran with it.
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Lacking personality is your own opinion. I thought Katniss had plenty of personality: intense loyalty to protect those she loves, a killer survival instinct that helped her to last through the Games and the war, trust issues, and more. But that's your opinion.
Dying FOR someone is a lot different than dying WITHOUT someone. Katniss felt she owed Peeta a debt after everything he had done for her. It had nothing to do it with love, just Katniss deciding that Peeta was the one who needed her protection during the second Games, after everything he did for her in the first.
Yeah, everyone does fall in love with Katniss, I can't deny that. But my argument here is that she doesn't want it. She would rather not be the center of attention. She would rather just carry on with her quite life in District 12, trying to keep her family alive. But everyone around her forces her to be the Mockingjay, to be the center of attention. And after everything is over, she keeps trying to fade back into obscurity.
I still say that everything you mentioned is a stretch for people to compare the two series to each other.
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Such a big step, in fact, it's practically a marathon.
Most parents in the world would die for their children, and yet we never lump the capacity for self-sacrifice in mothers and fathers into the same category as teenage over the top angst.
Nor do we count soldiers willing to die for their country as being a 'step away' from Bella Swann. Which, in essence, was what Katniss was doing - willing to die to save Peeta who she believed to be in every way What It Means To Be Good, and a fit leader for the resistance.
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