[ SECRET POST #2594 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2594 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The romance is definitely there, but it isn't important from Katniss' point of view so I think you're not crazy to overlook it. I can't speak for the other fans, but I liked the romance because I thought Katniss and Peeta were really good for each other--she's the practical one, he's the romantic one, together they fight crime!--and also the whole damn world is so depressing it's nice to have something optimistic to think about. I'd certainly rather a little focus on that than the unrelenting hopeless pointless muddle of the last book.

I don't really get the 'love triangle' thing, Katniss never seemed to me to be romantically interested in Gale at all although both of the boys were in love with her. I saw her relationship with Gale like she thought of him as a brother/best friend, and Peeta was just someone she thought was a good person and came to (kind of?) love almost by osmosis.

[(Anonymous)]

She did kind of think about Gale romantically (she sort of mulled it over after he kissed her and she implied to him that if they ran away together into the woods with her family then she might come to love him the way she loves her which isn't doesn't exactly scream "romance" but whatever.) Still you're definitely right that her feelings for him in a romantic capacity weren't really a significant part of the story at all and aside from some brief confusion about her feelings towards him, to me it mostly came off as if she only really considered being in a relationship with him to make him happy because it didn't seem like she cared all that much.

Regarding the supposed "love triangle", I really liked the way that while Gale and Peeta both had feelings for Katniss, there was never really much rivalry between them and it never really came off as being love triangle-y. Gale seems to, in some capacity, reluctantly respect Peeta and Peeta understands that Katniss (platonicly) loves Gale and is respectful of that (one of my favorite little things in Catching Fire is that Peeta was thoughtful enough to include a picture of Gale in the locket he had made for Katniss because he realizes how much he means to her and isn't threatened by their relationship like a lot of male protagonists in other works are portrayed)