Only three mistakes. Things are looking up.

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I got to work an hour early this morning. My clocks weren't set ahead on the wrong weekend or anything like that. I just forgot when I went to work. Beth looks at me and said, "What are you doing here?" and I swear, my first thoughts were Did I get fired and no one told me? Did I forget and I really don't work here any longer? Am I dreaming?

The second mistake of the day was wearing a purple shirt. Not a good thing to wear when you have purple hair. I just didn't think anything of it. Since I don't see my hair all the time, I forget that it's purple. Really. A note to the wise... don't wear a purple shirt with purple hair. And I really think I'm going blue next year because I'd rather be Grover than Barney.

My third mistake was... well, there wasn't really any major thing that was mistake three. Maybe... waking up? No, it wasn't that bad. It snowed today. Big, fat flakes for most of the day. Thankfully it only stuck around on the areas that already had snow so the streets are fine. That's why I love this time of year. It's still all wintery but not really dangerous. I'll take that kind of winter.

Since I've been watching Farscape pretty much nonstop since I got the DVDs in this weekend, I thought I should watch something else. I vaguely remember having some very brightly colored dreams last night. So now I'm watching Supernatural. Cause I don't seem to have anything in my DVR that is all happy and light. *grins*

I haven't written anything in about a week. It's high time I get off my lazy arse and get something written! SOMETHING!

Comments

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I vote for writing some John & Ronon!! *g*

I can't remember where the Hunger Games thread was, but my main question for you was: what did you think of the ending? Like, the last few chapters. And the epilogue. Basically starting from when they got into the Capitol. Did you love it? Wish she hadn't slapped on an epilogue? etc.

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

I'm not a huge Epilogue lover and I can't say that I loved this one. I think it's the fanfic writer in me. Shadows are beautiful but epilogues are like turning ALL the lights on and not allowing for creativity of fanfic. Don't tell me where it's going! Let me decide!

Those last chapters were hard to read. Really, book 3 was hard to read. It was intense and so very, very sad. While I see where she was sort of going so that it felt like the games without being the games (and I thought we might have been inside a game and they had been tricked into thinking that they were doing something on their own when really someone somewhere was still watching them and laying bets on who would win), I felt like the deaths were there just to kill everyone off. I didn't like it much. And Prim? Don't get me started. I liked Gale even less after that bit.

We've been discussing this bit at work... the fact that Peeta seemed to change so much. Here's my opinion of that... even if you didn't ask for it but it's on my mind. I thought that Peeta's love was still very immature in the first two books. Still a schoolboy crush. When they took his memories, they took those feelings and threw them away. He didn't have that crush to keep him going. What he was left with was a void that he could either fill with more hate or he could fill with a real love that would stand the test of time because it only saw her as she was. And then in typical Peeta style, he stood back and waited to see what was going to happen next. What do you think of that idea?

So while I didn't like the end, I spent most of it thinking, "When I write my fanfic, I will do this differently..." even though I don't know if I will ever write a fanfic. It was a comfort, though.

What do non-fanfic writers do when they encounter things they don't like about a story/movie? Their lives must be hard!

ranty mcranterson takes the floor

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I really disliked the third book. The violence felt gratuituous as opposed to "necessary," and by the time they got to the Capitol it felt like she was saying, 'Hey! Let's see how many people I can kill before I wrap this up!' Suffice to say: super disappointing. Dude, Finnick?? What the hell was she thinking! I'm supposed to rejoice because he left behind a legacy? Fuck that noise.

The chase through the sewers was ridiculous. Like, in the first book, with the mutts that had the look of the other tributes? I said, out loud, "Oh my God, that's so sick." But it was - like, a horror type of sick, the skin-crawling kind. And the mutts in the third book were like, really? Not ho-hum, exactly, but - really? I think the challenges of the pods and the Peacekeepers would have been enough.

I hated the part with Prim. I thought that was lazy writing. Surely there could have been another way to get to the conclusion that the Coin had used one of Gale's double bomb tricks. And unlike Rue's death, there was no tenderness afterwards, nothing to make it feel like it had meant something other than a numbing casualty of war. Maybe that was the intention? But it left me feeling cold, and not caring that Kat was this shell of a person by that point.

I like your idea about how it could have been a Games within a mission. Learning that could have been enough to make Kat aim her arrow elsewhere.

And the epilogue was just... blaaaaah. I had no sense of who Kat *was* in there, that all of the things she felt so strongly about were just tossed to the wayside because she had found her twoo wuv, and everything was just daisies and cream tralala. Barf.

re: Peeta - no, I think you've got it just right. He knew that there had been something between them, and he didn't have anywhere else to go, really, so he went back to Victor's Village because at least there were two people there who didn't think he was a freak. Home is where they have to take you in and all. I thought it was pretty horrible of Gale not to like, ever contact Kat again (well, insofar as we know, I suppose), and I wish there'd been more with Haymitch at the end, too.

TBH, if I were to rewrite the ending, I probably wouldn't have Peeta & Kat wind up together. While there are some things that will bond you forever with another person, there are also some things you just can't get past, and there was little acknowledgment of just how messed up they both were (like, deeply, deeply, wow, they'd HAVE to be), and there'd be all kinds of motive questioning and... idk, maybe I'm too suspicious :P I bought that Kat loved him, but I'm not sure that I buy that they lived happily ever after.

I think my favorite parts were ones involving Buttercup, ffs. And it really should have ended when Kat said, "Real."

Re: ranty mcranterson takes the floor

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I don't think we needed all those deaths at the end to make it acceptable for her to kill Coin. She could have killed her at the first part of the third book and I would have been all for it. They didn't need to run around in the underground, getting killed, to make that make sense.

Yeah, I don't think there was much happily ever after in their life and trying to make us buy that in the Epilogue was a bit much. That was a relationship that had to be worked on and she condensed it down to too much sunny and happy there at the end.

Yes, I also believe that Prim deserved more. She mourned more for Finnick than Prim. Of course, you could see something like that coming from the moment that she mentioned that Gale was working on different bombs that were just as bad as the "other side".

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the day I get one hour early to work (or ANYWHERE), people will totally give me shocked looks. and check my temperature. ;)

I need to write soon too! I'm outlining, but not writing and that is not good for my deadlines. good luck with yours!

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm pretty much the same way. Why be there early if you can be there five minutes late and they're still smiling?

All my outlining has been in my head so I don't know if it can be considered work. It never feels like work until there's something on a page or screen somewhere!

And good luck to you!