Seriously. Mockingjay is dark dark darkity dark with a side of despair. Mockingjay makes the first 2 books look like laugh riots.
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Steph L. - Nov 12, 2010 6:55:22 am PST #12898 of 28769
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.
zuisa - Nov 12, 2010 7:06:53 am PST #12899 of 28769
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Oh, yikes. I knew Mockingjay was bleaker than the others, but man. I just cannot imagine Katniss's life getting a whole lot worse at this point. I am envisioning a very high death toll her. I just passed the part where the jabberjays are screaming in Prim and Gale and everyone else's voices and I shudder to think what the Capitol is doing to them =( I am going to need some happy books after this!
§ ita § - Nov 12, 2010 7:09:41 am PST #12900 of 28769
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
zuisa, whatever you do, DON'T START WATCHING BSG RIGHT NOW. Pace yourself.
eta: I didn't have audio, but the visuals of that trailer were great. Was that RDJ as Haymitch?
zuisa - Nov 12, 2010 7:11:54 am PST #12901 of 28769
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Hah. That's probably sound advice. Something happy is definitely in order, seeing as how I'm probably going to need to be scraped off the ground in my sadness-induced stupor when I'm done with Mockingjay.
Laga - Nov 12, 2010 7:19:09 am PST #12902 of 28769
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I've moved up to #37 in the holds queue for Mockingjay.
megan walker - Nov 12, 2010 7:39:32 am PST #12903 of 28769
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Yes, Mockingjay is the most bleak, but, if it helps, it's also the least believable.
tiggy - Nov 12, 2010 8:11:06 am PST #12904 of 28769
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
Was that RDJ as Haymitch?
it was, indeed! he seems to be the most popular choice from fandom. i'm not on board the Kaya train. i think Lyndsy Fonseca would make a better Katniss. i really wish they'd go the unknown route with most of the characters though.
zuisa - Nov 12, 2010 8:14:54 am PST #12905 of 28769
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Welp. Catching Fire done.
Not sure if I want to even attempt Mockingjay yet. I'm emotionally distressed!!
I would love them to cast unknown kids in the movie. Although, I can't imagine that movie being anything but upsetting. There is SO much violence.
Strix - Nov 12, 2010 8:19:31 am PST #12906 of 28769
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
For a cleansing of the palate, I highly recommend "Lost in Austen" a really charming and funny miniseries starring Jemima Rooper (who I fell in love with as the lesbian ghost in "Hex".)
Basically, it's time travel back into Pride & Prejudice, and it's funny and lovely. It's streaming on Netflix.
zuisa - Nov 12, 2010 8:20:29 am PST #12907 of 28769
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Ooh, I saw that on Netflix, and I love Pride & Prejudice, and it did look really fun. I'll have to look into that.