But he's the same Auron from FFX, unlike all the other FF characters. During the second visit to the Olympus Colosseum it's shown he has all the memories of FFX.Then during the ending of KH2 Auron is shown dissolving into Pyreflies. So yeah, he brought FFX with him
Well that's not quite true, Auron brings the entire FFX mythos in with him
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Riku has an antagonist rival Ansem SoD
The problem is The Hunger Games wants to be a cautionary tale, drawing painfully obvious analogies to various injustices of the 3rd world as well as symbols of 1st world decadence like reality TV. Which reminds me, another thing the Hunger games does is beat you over the head. My teachers would often as the class to look for the hidden meanings in the book, but next to everything is explicitly spelled out for the viewer. The sublest stuff is things like the nation in he story being called Panem, which is Latin for bread. GEE I WONDER WHAT THAT COULD MEAN IN A BOOK CALLED THE HUNGER GAMES You're definitely right about the bland characters, btw, the first thing that struck me is that it's designed to be a teenage power fantasy. That's why the games use kids. It makes no sense, but it means that a kid can insert themselves into this situation. They can be a rebel, they can have a love triangle. They have the power. I've never read books with self insertion, I always keep a distance from the characters in a story. I want a book to tell me a tale, if I want a story of my own I'll make it up myself, y'know?
My college keeps forcing me to write papers about the first book, so I've got an opinion on it The book is incredibly rushed. There's little to no breathing room at all. No time for character development or really anything, it's like going through a list. Characters we're meant to sympathize with when they die are basically sympathetic because the book tells us they are, there's just so little time to develop anything. Here's a minor example: there's a character during the games that Katniss befriends. In a matter of HOURS this person trusts Katniss so completely she's willing to sleep in the same sleeping back as her. The only reason we're given for why Katniss cares about this person is because she reminds her of her sister, who is in turn given no development beyond them simply telling us "Oh EVERYBODY LOVES Katniss' sister" The movie is even worse in many ways, a movie of a book will always be rushed, but the book was already rushed so it almost becomes an abridged series. Yet they add a bunch of scene. I'll never understand Katniss being viewed as such a strong female character. The only really positive characteristic is her maternal skills, which I'm fairly certain isn't generally accepted as a strong feminist type deal. Besides that she's just kinda angry or manipulative all the time. The only reason her character is even able to be the hero is because the story contrives itself in such a way that she never has to do anything 'bad' sure, she kills a bunch of kids, but it's only the one dimensionally evil kids and even then it's almost always self defense or treated as a mercy. The games themselves raise a tonne of questions about the logistics of the story, too. From the question of why these games encourage 12-18 year olds to be constantly prepared for improv combat despite the fact that these games are supposed to stop rebellion. Why it's kids in the first place, when that just makes them more sympathetic whereas an older person would more likely be ignored or justified. And the sci fi stuff introduced begins to raise the question of why they even need twelve working districts Now I've only read the first book and seen the first movie But honestly, it seems like this is something you should be reading/watching, judging by your line of work, and keep in mind I've been forced to go over this stuff a tonne of times, so I'm just sick of it by now, you'll probably like it a fair bit more than me
