Oh yay! You are my homegirl. <333 I mean, our shared love for the Winchesters and their CONSTANT HEART-TRAMPLING is sort of a good indicator that we would both appreciate such a scorched-earth ending.
If I think about Gale too hard I do get really sad - they were each other's everything in District 12, and he basically lost her the second she volunteered for the Games. He suffered through watching her "love story" with Peeta, and without Katniss realizing it that was actually pretty real. (I would say that while Gale loved Katniss just as much as Peeta did, in the opposite direction Katniss's emotions were more romantic towards Peeta and more familial towards Gale. Would you agree? I think if nothing had changed, she would have married Gale and been happy, but ultimately Peeta stirs something deeper in her.) ANYway. Her and Peeta together was really the only ending, I agree. He was psychologically altered to fear and loathe her, and he fought through that just to be at her side again. How amazing is that? They really did need each other in the end, as they were really the only ones who knew what everything was like for the other - being in the arenas, the experience of tracker jacker venom, etc - and were therefore the only people who could heal each other's traumas.
I really hope you enjoy the movie! I'm hearing very good things from people who enjoyed the books the same way you and I did, so I'm hopeful! I'm going on Sunday!
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If I think about Gale too hard I do get really sad - they were each other's everything in District 12, and he basically lost her the second she volunteered for the Games. He suffered through watching her "love story" with Peeta, and without Katniss realizing it that was actually pretty real. (I would say that while Gale loved Katniss just as much as Peeta did, in the opposite direction Katniss's emotions were more romantic towards Peeta and more familial towards Gale. Would you agree? I think if nothing had changed, she would have married Gale and been happy, but ultimately Peeta stirs something deeper in her.) ANYway. Her and Peeta together was really the only ending, I agree. He was psychologically altered to fear and loathe her, and he fought through that just to be at her side again. How amazing is that? They really did need each other in the end, as they were really the only ones who knew what everything was like for the other - being in the arenas, the experience of tracker jacker venom, etc - and were therefore the only people who could heal each other's traumas.
I really hope you enjoy the movie! I'm hearing very good things from people who enjoyed the books the same way you and I did, so I'm hopeful! I'm going on Sunday!