It's not just Deadly Game, it's Teen Deadly Game which is the accusation.
Oy. In this YA heavy market there's no trope which hasn't been rebranded by adding teen protagonists. It is not a great leap of originality. Anyway, the originality of the premise isn't why the books were a success. Collins practically had a cliffhanger in every chapter. And she made you care about the characters.
There were plenty of teenaged girls in Japanese anime and live action who fought demons in high school. None of them were as well written or executed as Buffy.
Like I said, the Battle Royale is to discourage teenage rebellion:
At the dawn of the millennium, the nation collapsed. At fifteen percent unemployment, ten million were out of work. 800,000 students boycotted school. The adults lost confidence and, fearing the youth, eventually passed the Millennium Educational Reform Act, AKA the BR Act....
So it's mildly dystopic, but not to the extent of the Capitol. The sequel (the book has no sequel, but the movie and manga do) does seem to have a bit of "teens rebel against the government."
As far as Teen Deadly Game goes, the Hunger Games takes twelve-year-olds.
Battle Royale sounds like Running Man, to a degree.
Was there a movie about an everyone-for-themselves fight set in a prison, also called Battle Royale?
Was there a movie about an everyone-for-themselves fight set in a prison, also called Battle Royale?
Andersonville! (/joke for Civil War historians)
I don't think there were as many women slinging automatic weapons in Andersonville.
I don't think there were as many women slinging automatic weapons in Andersonville.
Maybe one nurse with a gatling gun? Okay, probably not.
Well, alternative history is a valid genre . . .
I don't have usually have a problem with a story that is all male, if it would be untrue to the period or written in an era when it wouldn't occur to the writer to include a woman in, for example, a combat scene. What I dislike is women whose only roles are screaming, fainting, helplessness and being rescued.
Ditto. I also prefer books with no women to books with terribly-written women. (Neither of which applies to Tolkien, but Kindle keeps telling me I'd like Ready Player One and I have to keep telling it OH FUCK NO so the topic's been on my mind.)
There were nurses in Andersonville?
Okay. To be fair.
There were Confederate nurses in Andersonville?
I'm not a fan of war books/military history as a genre, but when I fall in love with one, I fall hard. And few, if any, war books deserve love more than McElroy's memoirs of Andersonville.
