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Spoilers for everything.
1. Incredibly minor, grumpy, literally first-page spoilers for The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins.
Okay, so my perceptions are irretrievably colored by the moment when![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
iulia looked up wide-eyed from the end of Mockingjay and said, "Maybe you don't need to hurry up and read these," but, Suzanne Collins, I really do not think the phrase "cocooned in my mother's body" means what you think it means.
2. My totally spoilery CryoBurn reaction post from when I read it, in case that is now of interest to anyone who's just read it.
3. CONNIE WILLIS OWNS MY SOUL, is the thing. And you know why? You know exactly why? Because when we got the first view of Mike, lying in the street in Polly's arms, and you knew it was Mike but Polly didn't know and you thought, oh God, Mike's going to die, Mike's going to die trying and failing to warn Polly not to come to the Blitz--at that very moment I thought, Oh God, this book is one of her tragedies, I didn't realize it was a tragedy, they're all going to die--
And then three hundred pages later Sir Godfrey ASKS. IS IT A COMEDY OR A TRAGEDY.
AND IT'S A COMEDY.
MOSTLY.
And because she can meta-reference her own work like that and HAVE IT GODDAMN WORK, that is why Connie Willis OWNS MY SOUL. AMEN.
Also, I ship Polly/Sir Godfrey in the face of the text to the exact contrary, and I want logistically nigh-impossible Polly/Eileen/Mike, and post-Mike Polly/Eileen comfort, and Polly/Colin and how that even WORKS, Polly and Mr. Dunworthy being resurrected after a decade of absence and I want SO MUCH COLIN FIC. And Colin talking to Kivrin, during the Lost Years--I want Lost Years fic like crazy. And all kinds of fic about Eileeeeeeeen. (I would totally accept Eileen/Sir Godfrey Polly-substitution fic. That would be okay with me. Ohai, Yuletide, I am making a list.)
But mostly, oh my God, that was AMAZING.
And Mr. Dunworthy is the best dad and please JUST DON'T COMMENT IF YOU DON'T AGREE. My love for Mr. Dunworthy is not rational. I have exchanged a lot of text messages with Iulia in the last week that just said &MR. DUNWORTHY;.
And in light of that it was painful but brilliant to see him unable to save his historians this time--seeing him under their care, this time around--and not even really truly knowing what's going on any more than they do--less than they do, in fact, when Polly figures it out. I love that there is no one rescuer--it was Colin, but only because of Mike and Eileen, and Binnie, and the woman at the library who showed him the fake announcement and all occasions informing for everyone. Just this once.
Miiiiiiiiiiiike.
Okay, so my perceptions are irretrievably colored by the moment when
iulia looked up wide-eyed from the end of Mockingjay and said, "Maybe you don't need to hurry up and read these," but, Suzanne Collins, I really do not think the phrase "cocooned in my mother's body" means what you think it means.2. My totally spoilery CryoBurn reaction post from when I read it, in case that is now of interest to anyone who's just read it.
3. CONNIE WILLIS OWNS MY SOUL, is the thing. And you know why? You know exactly why? Because when we got the first view of Mike, lying in the street in Polly's arms, and you knew it was Mike but Polly didn't know and you thought, oh God, Mike's going to die, Mike's going to die trying and failing to warn Polly not to come to the Blitz--at that very moment I thought, Oh God, this book is one of her tragedies, I didn't realize it was a tragedy, they're all going to die--
And then three hundred pages later Sir Godfrey ASKS. IS IT A COMEDY OR A TRAGEDY.
AND IT'S A COMEDY.
MOSTLY.
And because she can meta-reference her own work like that and HAVE IT GODDAMN WORK, that is why Connie Willis OWNS MY SOUL. AMEN.
Also, I ship Polly/Sir Godfrey in the face of the text to the exact contrary, and I want logistically nigh-impossible Polly/Eileen/Mike, and post-Mike Polly/Eileen comfort, and Polly/Colin and how that even WORKS, Polly and Mr. Dunworthy being resurrected after a decade of absence and I want SO MUCH COLIN FIC. And Colin talking to Kivrin, during the Lost Years--I want Lost Years fic like crazy. And all kinds of fic about Eileeeeeeeen. (I would totally accept Eileen/Sir Godfrey Polly-substitution fic. That would be okay with me. Ohai, Yuletide, I am making a list.)
But mostly, oh my God, that was AMAZING.
And Mr. Dunworthy is the best dad and please JUST DON'T COMMENT IF YOU DON'T AGREE. My love for Mr. Dunworthy is not rational. I have exchanged a lot of text messages with Iulia in the last week that just said &MR. DUNWORTHY;.
And in light of that it was painful but brilliant to see him unable to save his historians this time--seeing him under their care, this time around--and not even really truly knowing what's going on any more than they do--less than they do, in fact, when Polly figures it out. I love that there is no one rescuer--it was Colin, but only because of Mike and Eileen, and Binnie, and the woman at the library who showed him the fake announcement and all occasions informing for everyone. Just this once.
Miiiiiiiiiiiike.