I agree with a lot of what's been said here. One thing I did like about the movie version though was that Katniss genuinely seemed to care for Peeta. One of the things that bothered me the most about the books was how ambivalent she was toward him: she only ended up with him because...well, I guess he was the only…

I agree with this! If there has to be that choice to begin with then maybe it is best to just not consider either as potential partners. I also would say towards the author that I don't believe polygamy necessarily the answer to the problem at hand, though this concept was interesting.

How about 'single and childfree, like she claimed to be right up until the last chapter'? Gah, that pissed me off to no end.

...Gale accidentally maybe killing you-know-who

That's one of the things I thought the second movie did well— it made Peeta likable— he's essentially the political one of the pairing while Katniss does all the physical stuff.

While reading the books, I felt such little sexual/romantic attraction between Katniss and Gale that at first, I pictured Gale as being older and more father-figure than an age-mate. It also felt like Gale wasn't exactly that attracted to Katniss as a person either. Once I realized he was more of an age with her, he…

I agree. I think Collins was trying to show the lasting effects of trauma, which is something that I really like about the novels, thematically speaking. But I think that creates more complexities for the character and she didn't really succeed in addressing those complexities.

This is actually what I wanted as well. Not that I don't think Katniss deserves happiness because she does, after all she's been through, but I honestly thought she was going to end up like Haymitch. Alone, going through bouts of rehab and substance abuse, and just kind of muddling through the rest of her days. It was…

This kind of stuff happens in about 99% of love triangles, which is why I tend to stay away from love triangle stories. Most of them cop-out by making it too obvious who the character will end up with, and sometimes this is done by having one choice do something so bad that they get ruled out.

THIS.

Right. To fully heal Katniss is to remove a lot of the power, and a lot of the parable. She's been through hell, at least three times, and as much as we root for her, her happy ending has to be mitigated by the remnants of her trauma.

Argh! Just re-read and I realized I forgot to say what I set out to say:

Oh for fuck's sake. Your post is one giant eye-roll. It doesn't change the fact that his hair looks terrible.

In my opinion, the more we talk about Katniss's relationships (EVEN IN A FEMINIST CONTEXT) the less we talk about HER. I'm tired of the American media dissecting the love triangle, because frankly, even if we're talking about the way it should have been, we're detracting Katniss as a character.

I think everyone had that issue with Mockinjay. The ending left me feeling a void of emotion that you want from a book and because of that I felt a bit depressed. At least with books like Lord of The Rings and Harry Potter you get a finite conclusion and not a story that leaves people in a position where they don't…

I was just saying to my family after seeing the movie that personally, I'm on team abstinence. Both Peeta and Gale were insufferable for me by the end, and I was desperately wishing that Katniss would tell the pair of them to fuck off and, I don't know, go hook up with Cinna's clone or something.

Well that's not where I saw this article going.

Leila, Nora, Aisling, Katarina, Harper.

I love names too! I’m probably a couple years from having wee ones, so my list will most likely change, but these are my favorites right now:

My girl will be Clover. Pretty to say, not too weird, not too common, and easy to spell.