History Headscratchers / Thehungergames

** hover planes (VTOLs) are more usefull in the sense that they don't require runways / catapults.

** But all she’s doing is matching pictures. There’s nothing on the activity that even identifies what the plants are or what their uses are, it just looks like a regular speed picture matching activity. There’s no indication that she’s even knowledgeable on plants and their properties.

** There’s nothing on the activity that even identifies what the plants are or what their uses are, it just looks like a regular speed picture matching test. There’s nothing that indicates it would give information on how to identify a nightlock plant (or any plant for that matter), or how what properties it has.

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* Am I the only one who thinks it's strange that a lot of fans are focusing so much on the romance aspect of the story, even though it's not the main plot? At least it made sense with ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' since the romance was the focal point of the book, but why do the same with ''Literature/TheHungerGames''?

* Syndrome from WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles puts it best too, “When everyone’s special, no one is.”

* In short, there is no way to have everyone's odds be equal. It's set up in that way: poorer families are more likely to be reaped because richer families are more content with the system as it is (why rebel against something that isn't bad for you?). Families with more members, and thus more angst, are more likely to be reaped (and it is stated that the siblings of Victors are still fair game: there are two siblings in 75th) aand, more importantly, the odd LOOK to be in the favour of the younger children because if you exclude tessarae a 12 year old has less chances to be picked than an 18 year old. This makes it appear that the Capitol is trying to give the kids a chance, really just amping up the drama when a young child is reaped. And, let's face it, your odds mean NOTHING. Prim's name is in there once with 20 Katniss names, even without the rest of the female reapable population. She is reaped. Peeta, who probably didn't take tessarae because there's food to waste in his house, had 5 names (probably?) against Gale's 42 and the rest of the male reapable population. All statistics and odds are semantics: you can have odds of 1000000000:1 but there's still that one chance it'll happen.

** 1) Starving people aren't the most logical and rational people you'll come across, and 2) the people in the Districts seem to think of "odds" as something equivalent to fate or [[StarWars the Force]]. Katniss herself thinks Prim's odds ''weren't'' in her favor because she got picked. No, I don't think these people would have spotted that "loophole", not in a million years.

* You can have one name in your 1st year. Another is added each year, but they're cumulative so by 18 you have seven names in the pot before you even start tessarae. This means that, statistically, older kids are more likely to be reaped. If you have tessarae you can add one name for yourself and one for each member of your family. So a 12 year old with their one name, one for themselves and one for each parent and three siblings has the same odds as an eighteen year old who never took tessarae. A 12 year old with one name, one for themselves, two parents and FOUR ssiblings has higher odds than that 18 year old. But these are still cumulative. If you want tessarae next year, all the names from last year are aadded THEN your new one for another birthday, another for your tessarae, another five for your siblings. An eighteen year old with five family members who always took tessarae therefore has incredibly high odds. Because there is always a different pool of people to reap (new 12 year olds in, 19 year olds out) and they have unequal families you can't say that everyone has the same odds if they all take their tessarae.

* Am I the only one who thinks it's strange that a lot of fans are focusing so much on the romance aspect of the story, even though it's not the main plot? At least it made sense with ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' since the romance was the focal point of the book, but why do the same with Literature/TheHungerGames?

*** Yes. Also, the Hunger Games trilogy contains a lot of love, but very little erotic. Many media people may have confused erotic with love.

* This troper often wonders how this series managed to avoid the MoralGuardians. ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' had a similar premise, and it's American remake has been put on hold because of that (and VirginiaTech).
** They didn't. The Hunger Games trilogy is indeed [[https://ew.com/article/2012/04/09/the-hunger-games-ala-challenged-books/ among the most challenged books]].

** Before I read the books, I was skeptical as to whether I would enjoy them going off the dark premise, but it helps that killing people in the Games is never presented as something easy or fun from Katniss's perspective. In both of the Games she's in, she only kills out of self-defense or mercy, never in cold blood. She becomes a bit more ruthless in Mockingjay, but her actions are mostly justified and she still suffers severe PTSD. I'm not very familiar with Battle Royale, but the major draw of Hunger Games is in watching Panem overthrow the corrupt government and the system of the Games, not in the entertainment value of the Games and the violence that goes along with them. However, it is still impressive that there hasn't been much outcry to ban them from people who haven't bothered to read the books (along the lines of people wanting to ban the Harry Potter books because they supposedly teach children witchcraft).
** Well books simply don't have to get past the moral guardians in most cases. As for the movies I think the big difference is that while the Hunger Games does have children it seems to focus on teens that we mostly identify as young adults and not specifically children. Also I think an argument could be made that the Hunger Games makes a stronger effort at a story and Battle Royale at times slips straight into the Saw styled violence porn.

*** See, that doesn't hold up for Haymitch's tactical perception of Katt to the crowd, one of the few things I can agree he did well: As he says himself, the idea of Peeta attributing affection for Katt was to make her desirable to those in The Capitol. That was the entire point to their plan. A lot of rich boys in the capitol, if the plan worked, would be interested in Katt and wangint to support her with tributes and boons.

*** When it comes to live-action adaptations, actors get cast ''close enough'' to the characters' descriptions. As far as ethnicities go, with the vague enough descriptions, they could be any ethnicity, as skin color and eyes can imply anything. To answer a point of about accents, well, like skintones, those aren't too indicitive either, considering how this takes place in some distant far off time.