When I first read katayla's review about HG, that's exactly what I thought; that it sounded a lot like BR. I've only watched the movies, but it was way too confusing and bloody for me so although it definitely gave me long-lasting nightmares, I still don't think it's a brilliant literary work or whatever. I mean, I never truly understood the reasoning behind the whole program.
But did that stop me from reading HG? No, it actually intrigued me because lots of people said HG's awesome. And I had to prove it to myself. And it turned out BR didn't stop me from loving HG either. As far as I'm concerned HG's much better, has way more character depths and so what if it looked like a rip-off? Is it so impossible for two people to have the same idea for a premise despite never knowing each other's works? I read that Suzanne Collins got the idea from watching some news on war and then a teenage competition right afterward and I'm pretty sure she wasn't even familiar with BR. It's just unfair if we condemn her to be a copycat when she simply had the same brilliant idea.
And no book can be 100% original. Maybe years ago, but now? It's all been done before. Just got to work on making an original execution on it.
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Date: 2010-02-20 11:55 am (UTC)But did that stop me from reading HG? No, it actually intrigued me because lots of people said HG's awesome. And I had to prove it to myself. And it turned out BR didn't stop me from loving HG either. As far as I'm concerned HG's much better, has way more character depths and so what if it looked like a rip-off? Is it so impossible for two people to have the same idea for a premise despite never knowing each other's works? I read that Suzanne Collins got the idea from watching some news on war and then a teenage competition right afterward and I'm pretty sure she wasn't even familiar with BR. It's just unfair if we condemn her to be a copycat when she simply had the same brilliant idea.
And no book can be 100% original. Maybe years ago, but now? It's all been done before. Just got to work on making an original execution on it.