the whole reason prim died is because it IS senseless. like that is literally the point.Ā
suzanne collins and ka applegate are cut from a similar cloth and that cloth is refusing to shy away from depicting how brutal, how senseless, how cruelĀ war is. prim died for no reason and that is the point. it had absolutely nothing to do with resolving a love triangle.
also YāALL COME ON the presence of romance in a book does not make the book A Romance; theĀ ālove triangleā was literally never ever the point - which is why itās what the capitol focuses on.Ā
also katnissās happy ever after: she fuckin grew up, yāall, come on. listen, I get the knee jerk hate for a baby boomer-style happily ever afters (I will sue jk rowling in court for the epilogue) but the fact that katniss, after everything she went through, felt comfortable enough to settle down with peeta and actually have kids - kids she knewĀ were not going to be thrown into a gladiatorial arena for the entertainment of the super wealthy - is proof that what she did mattered. it cost katniss goddamn near everything she had - her family, her friends, her hearing, her home - but it was still the right thing to do.
the hunger games is about the cost of revolution: itās so, so high, but in the end, itās necessary.