[ SECRET POST #2198 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2198 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Nikita]


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[Game of Thrones]


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[Storage Wars Texas]


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[Professor Layton games]


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[The Incredible Hulk]


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[Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance]


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[The Hunger Games]


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[Lost Girl]


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[Kuroko no Basket, K Project, Ookiku Furikabutte]


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[Bust a groove 2]


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[The Hobbit]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It set sail and I was not on board, and no matter how many times it stopped at port I could not board.

[funyarinpainahat]

I prefer it to the alternative. Gale legitimately scared me by the end.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Preface by saying that Collins lost me in book 3, I didn't like where she took the characters. Given where she did take them, Katniss and Gale would not have worked out. But throughout all three books, I found difficult to believe Peeta as a character. I had very little sense of who he actually was, and that made him both boring and frustrating to read about as the winning love interest. Even more so by the end. So I don't have a counter offer within Collins' writing, only a disgruntled lack of ship.

[(Anonymous)]

da, really? I sympathized with him. The Capitol people, while not the ones directly hurting him and his loved ones, were the ones actively enjoying the shit that happened to them. I can understand that after seeing your home bombed and your friends tortured, and your family on the brink of starvation, you wouldn't feel too compassionate for the people who sat by and drank champagne in their cosy homes while watching it all on television. I'd like to think I'd be the kind of person to take the higher ground, but I doubt I would be; by that point I'd have a very hard time not seeing them as evil.

I mean, he's not a perfect person... revenge doesn't help anything by any means. But I found Gale far more sympathetic than Peeta, who didn't seem to care about anyone else in the world but one girl, even after his home had been incinerated and lots of his friends murdered.

[(Anonymous)]

original anon

I find this to be a fair point as well.

[(Anonymous)]

I completely agree, anon. I don't know if Katniss/Gale would have worked out in the long run, but we definitely have a stronger sense of Gale as a person and I hated how he got written out at the end by Katniss just saying he got a new job/assignment in District 2. Seriously, he's your best friend and that's all you tell us about him?

[shortysc22]

I definitely have to chime in and say I loved Gale in the books and hated his ending. I get Katniss is really messed up at the end, but to just abandon her best friend like that? Considering how the two of them basically kept their families alive prior to that, I just thought their bond was a little stronger than that.

Not that I necessarily think they should have ended up together, they're both a little too volatile for each other, but I think Katniss needed Gale to argue back with her, while Peeta would just sit back and praise her for everything, boosting her self-esteem.

[keire_ke]

I thought the nail in the coffin was that he helped design bombs that killed Prim. They've been growing apart before that, even if the hunting kept them together, but there's no way Katniss would get over the bombs. That, and wasn't it more that he abandoned her? She was the one confined to the ruins, he was the one with freedom of movement, plus he emerged from the war as close to victorious as possible, what with his whole family safe and his position strong.

Where do you get the idea that Peeta would sit back and offer praise? He has no trouble arguing with Katniss (for all his other shortcomings).

[shortysc22]

I definitely agree that Gale and Katniss had been drifting apart prior to end of the war. They weren't the same kids they were before and I realize that their friendship would have to change, but the way I see it, Katniss was just content to let him leave.

I feel that biggest flaw is that so much happens at the end of Mockingjay and Katniss, Peeta, and Gale are all so messed up by the end that there isn't much resolution or much of a chance for us to see who their characters really grow into it.

I see Peeta as someone who knows a bit more of backing down in comparison to Gale. I see Katniss as fire, same as Gale, with Peeta being a bit more of a water element-fierce when needed, but also someone who has an extreme calming effect.

Again, these are just my opinions and it'll be interesting to see how the movies portray the last two books.

[funyarinpainahat]

I totally understand where you're coming from, and it does make sense. The problem is that Gale (especially in the movie) reminds me of someone I used to know who is very suffocating, domineering, and borderline abusive in relationships, which is why I disliked him.

But I get what you're saying from an objective standpoint.