Another awesome lesson. Very good stuff here if you want to get yourself excited about grabbing readers have them rooting for your characters all the way. Thanks!!
I'd be super curious to hear his analysis on the rest of the series. I found the first book unexpectedly satisfying, but book2 felt like book 1 warmed over again and book 3 just felt rushed and like it fell apart to me.
Mostly because they are shallow, strawman lessons. First of all, someone would have to explain why these games would do anything except ferment rebellion. A feudalist system really isn't anywhere as miserable as that.
Well, I guess so. Strawman though? Isn't that like a 500 year old noun that you just used as an adjective? That's not what I gathered from those novels, you see, it's not about the fact they had The Games or they had a rebellion because of them, there's a lot of things that can incite rebellion, the beauty of the author's work lies in how the rebellion was executed in such a plutocratic dystopian society. When capitalism reverts to feudalism in a technologically advanced world that is what you get, another dark ages on Earth. And does not history prove it took us 1,000 years to pull ourselves out of those dark ages after the fall of the Roman Empire? Our systems of feudalism are what kept us in those dark ages and when we finally did ascend out them we mostly replaced feudalism with a little less brutal but certainly more corruptible system known as capitalism. It's just now our lords and princes and kings are corporations and we are slaves to a mostly barely survivable or comfortable wage. But, returning to my original point, the author of the Hunger Games did a good job of laying out the framework of how to successfully execute a rebellion under those conditions. I'm not at all interested why the books attracted the majority of the shallow readers by having kids kill each other. I'm more interested in the political and sociological cause and effect of living like the people in those books did and how they were able to unite and overcome such an oppressive situation.
If you want to study these lessons read Misery by Stephen King instead. The Hunger Games has some of the least likable characters in my opinion. When Katniss (worst name ever) shot the apple in the pig's mouth it was a great moment, not because it was unexpected, it was, but because it showed how badass she was. Then she regrets it and goes form badass to dumbass. Those turns were completely predictable rendering them suspense-less. The dilemmas' solutions were obvious from the beginning.
How is she a dumbass for worrying about what shooting toward the game makers may end up causing? She did it out of anger and spite, not expecting them to be impressed.
This was really good. Thank you. Such wise advice.
This was an awesome presentation. Thank for sharing.
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Another awesome lesson. Very good stuff here if you want to get yourself excited about grabbing readers have them rooting for your characters all the way. Thanks!!
This is outstanding. I'll be checking out his website. Great stuff. If you write - watch this.
This is all I need. Thank you!
Thanks for posting this amazing vid!!
I'd be super curious to hear his analysis on the rest of the series. I found the first book unexpectedly satisfying, but book2 felt like book 1 warmed over again and book 3 just felt rushed and like it fell apart to me.
Looking at it from a critic of books perspective. Jesus man, everything written in those pages was lost on you. Good job.
@@notices_demons Or it was just not their thing and you're a pretentious ass.
Wow, I searched the sociological lessons learned from The Hunger Games and this is the only video that was remotely similar to the question I asked.
Mostly because they are shallow, strawman lessons. First of all, someone would have to explain why these games would do anything except ferment rebellion. A feudalist system really isn't anywhere as miserable as that.
Well, I guess so. Strawman though? Isn't that like a 500 year old noun that you just used as an adjective? That's not what I gathered from those novels, you see, it's not about the fact they had The Games or they had a rebellion because of them, there's a lot of things that can incite rebellion, the beauty of the author's work lies in how the rebellion was executed in such a plutocratic dystopian society. When capitalism reverts to feudalism in a technologically advanced world that is what you get, another dark ages on Earth. And does not history prove it took us 1,000 years to pull ourselves out of those dark ages after the fall of the Roman Empire? Our systems of feudalism are what kept us in those dark ages and when we finally did ascend out them we mostly replaced feudalism with a little less brutal but certainly more corruptible system known as capitalism. It's just now our lords and princes and kings are corporations and we are slaves to a mostly barely survivable or comfortable wage. But, returning to my original point, the author of the Hunger Games did a good job of laying out the framework of how to successfully execute a rebellion under those conditions. I'm not at all interested why the books attracted the majority of the shallow readers by having kids kill each other. I'm more interested in the political and sociological cause and effect of living like the people in those books did and how they were able to unite and overcome such an oppressive situation.
@@mariasmith2198 .
What episode of writing excuses do they discuss Hunger Games I wonder
this guy totally sounds like penn of penn and teller...
If you want to study these lessons read Misery by Stephen King instead. The Hunger Games has some of the least likable characters in my opinion. When Katniss (worst name ever) shot the apple in the pig's mouth it was a great moment, not because it was unexpected, it was, but because it showed how badass she was. Then she regrets it and goes form badass to dumbass. Those turns were completely predictable rendering them suspense-less. The dilemmas' solutions were obvious from the beginning.
I know! I call her Katpiss
How is she a dumbass for worrying about what shooting toward the game makers may end up causing? She did it out of anger and spite, not expecting them to be impressed.
@@mariasmith2198 Well aren't you clever? Here's a pat on the head.👋💢