Just wanted to say how interesting I found your rant on war in THG. There's an impression in the fandom that Mockingjay is this brilliant and mature book, and if it isn't your favorite you just don't like it because it's "too sad". The whole Gale being badness and Peeta being goodness thing was ridiculous and lazy. IMO, Gale should have been a soldier, Katniss a symbol, and Peeta a statesman. I'm just kind of uncomfortable with Collins' demonization of those who want to fight for freedom.

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Thank you very much!! My feelings on Mockingjay are precisely the same… it would be my favorite of all three if the war stuff had been done better, because I find the actual physical civil war more interesting than the Games themselves (not that those aren’t interesting, it’s just that Mockingjay raises the stakes). I thought that the treatment of Gale in Mockingjay was spectacularly lazy as you said and ughhhh about the triad of what the three mains could have been—just perfect. I wish it had been done that way.

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