Tuesday, August 18, 2015
The Hunger Games Series
In
the 50ies there was Lord of the Flies, in the 80ies The Blue Lagoon.
Lately there has been a blossoming of Dytopian Nightmare Worlds that
includes Divergent, The Maze, Twilight, The Vampire Tales. Many seem
to have female heroines. There are alien invasions à la V,
Independence Day, Falling Skies; there are takeovers by sentient
computers and then there are human created nightmares the Hunger
Games being one such. There are no winners here, only survivors to
quote Haymitch whose solution is to descend into an alcoholic haze.
So Peeta or Gale? I happen to favour Gale.