Yes. I agree with so much of what you said about the Hunger Games. *spoiler warning if you don't want to know about the end* I thought the ending was flat. Like Katniss didn't even care about what had happened. I understand that - really I do. But as a reader, I want to know if everything she went through was worth it. And the book didn't answer that question. (of course, "worth it" is in the eye of the beholder - and the emptiness it left could never be completely filled by "worth its" - but like in Harry Potter, there's a line at the end of the last book about how much safer the world was without Voldemort - that's all I wanted to see in HG)
I think Finnick is one of those characters is made just loveable enough to get killed off, and have people really care. If you've ever read Fullmetal Alchemist - there is this one guy who's whole role is to show up, steal the show with his character (and his cute daughter), and then get killed. I think authors plan the "victim" to be loveable enough that readers want to see the same - or worse - happen to the bad guys. If the readers didn't love the victim character, they wouldn't care about how the bad guys got revenged.
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Date: 12/15/14 04:39 am (UTC)I think Finnick is one of those characters is made just loveable enough to get killed off, and have people really care. If you've ever read Fullmetal Alchemist - there is this one guy who's whole role is to show up, steal the show with his character (and his cute daughter), and then get killed. I think authors plan the "victim" to be loveable enough that readers want to see the same - or worse - happen to the bad guys. If the readers didn't love the victim character, they wouldn't care about how the bad guys got revenged.