I thought it was pretty stupid to run the lottery starting at age 12. I understand that was a critical tool in forcing her plot, but when the games involve people watching children being murdered it seems the design is to create the rage and rebellion the games are supposed to suppress. It just seems so much more sensible to make it some form of adulthood ritual and limit the selection to 18 year olds. Also, given all the big brother tech the Capital seems to have, why bother with the hand drawn lottery when you could simply ensure that the selections are made from the most obvious trouble makers? You'd think the Capital would have a pretty solid system in place after 74 years of experimentation.


I'm generally pretty good at suspending disbelief in the process of reading or watching, but a lot of stuff just collapses upon any reflection. So it wasn't a bad read.

 

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I've been told that fiction stories need to be more realistic than reality. I believe this. When crafting a fantasy story, you're already asking your readers to accept the reality your forcing on them. Plot holes and logic gaps stretch your readers imagination beyond acceptable levels. Too much and it shatters your fragile crafted reality.


Like I said, it was a really entertaining movie. I just won't give it props for a quality story.

 

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I don't disagree there. At all. Just that the plot holes were so enormous. Although I do agree with this:





Yeah, agree totally. In fact, I remarked to my friend next to me, "ou would think after 74 years of watching your kids be slaughtered, the next rebellion would have started by now."

 

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