Best. Line. Ever.

[commodorified]

Are people seriously arguing that an insurance company should be able to avail itself of a conscience clause? Shouldn't it be made to demonstrate a conscience first?

Also, it appears that someone has produced, and fandom has fallen neck and crop for, a movie which is conspicuously lacking in (or at least lacking in conspicuous) race- and gender- fail.

So of course it has children fighting each other to the death.

*sigh* I'll be over here, listening to Cabin Pressure and rereading Austen. Or writing Now We Are Forty: Eeyore's Lament. Or something.

ETA: AND being genuinely happy for the rest of you. I'm mildly wistful, not actually feeling hard-done-by or wishful of harshing the squee.

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[commodorified]

As above, I lack and will continue to lack my own knowledge.

Most of the fannish talk I've seen about the movie so far seems to fall (in the matters of race and gender) somewhere between "they could have done better for sure but it didn't *suck*" to "based on the first movie, I am cautiously pleased" and pretty much everyone seems to think the books did really well.

I knew about the Fail in the reactions, which is definite Fail but seems, if anything, to have improved fannish opinion of the movie on the reasonable grounds that anything that pisses off that many racists must be doing something right.

[ursamajor]

*nod* I figured I'd give the spoiler warnings for anybody reading commentary on driveby :)

I'm still trying to unpack my own reaction a bit, tbh - because I am still irritated that the casting calls for the main characters of The Hunger Games were strictly "Caucasian," not "Caucasian or any other ethnicity," but I'm not *angry* to the same degree that I was re The Last Airbender movie casting, for example. And these are both series I adore. Maybe A:TLA a little more - I did spend a good part of this weekend watching the first two episodes of Korra rather than go out and watch The Hunger Games ;) And I would've thought that as a person of mixed race, I would be especially excited about the possibility of having a fellow person of mixed race playing a character whose description and background portray her as mixed-race, even if so far in the future that "biracialness" isn't a big deal because the vast majority of people in The Seam look - well, not blonde-haired, blue-eyed, 21st-century-idealized-white. I mean, to get Jennifer Lawrence to look how she does in THG, they're having to do the same spray tan and hair dye things they were doing to the actor and actress selected to play live-action Katara and Sokka. I'm not sure why I've either forgiven or forgotten this to enough of an extent that I'm still considering going and seeing The Hunger Games in theatres, whereas nobody could've paid me enough money to have done that for The Last Airbender.

[sporky_rat]

They didn't spray tan Jennifer Lawrence, she's too pale for that to have been. They did dye her hair and she does look like my cousins who live coal mining country except for her teeth, but whatever on that.

I just want to remember that it could have been far, far far worse.