Oh no! Your link didn't copy properly, so I still couldn't read it. (T_T) (FWIW, [a href=""]...[/a] with the link between the quotation marks, the link display instead of the ellipses, and the ['s replaced with < 's is the way to hyperlink.
Incidentally, I think Stephen King's writing has about as much craft to it as the dumps I take daily; that review just made me despise him even more, because I think he is an even worse offender in every area where he criticises Collins. (Honestly, his review reads to me as if he is jealous of her success.)
That said, I don't think the tributes are contrivances because they make sense in the context of the world Collins has created. Letting a popular contestant die prematurely would be death for a reality show, number one. Number two, not all of the tributes are particularly useful: the bread from Rue's district being a case in point. And Collins didn't give Katniss a free pass on Peeta either: the sleeping medicine helped Katniss to heal him, but she had to take risks like a mofo to finish the job. And finally, the tributes don't come every time Katniss needs them. And as we all know, deus ex machina are one of my big pet peeves, so I think it says something that I don't feel the tributes count as such.
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Re: GLEE
on 2009-08-22 01:19 pm (UTC)Incidentally, I think Stephen King's writing has about as much craft to it as the dumps I take daily; that review just made me despise him even more, because I think he is an even worse offender in every area where he criticises Collins. (Honestly, his review reads to me as if he is jealous of her success.)
That said, I don't think the tributes are contrivances because they make sense in the context of the world Collins has created. Letting a popular contestant die prematurely would be death for a reality show, number one. Number two, not all of the tributes are particularly useful: the bread from Rue's district being a case in point. And Collins didn't give Katniss a free pass on Peeta either: the sleeping medicine helped Katniss to heal him, but she had to take risks like a mofo to finish the job. And finally, the tributes don't come every time Katniss needs them. And as we all know, deus ex machina are one of my big pet peeves, so I think it says something that I don't feel the tributes count as such.