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Originally Posted by DrNefario
I feel that's the key with Hunger Games. The setting doesn't really even make internal sense, it's just an excuse to have the Hunger Games. I enjoyed all three books, but they're a bit like a blockbuster film, where you come out thinking "hang on..." having been thoroughly entertained by the explosions while you were in there.
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Exactly, and it drives me nuts. Generally I prefer my worlds to make sense from an internal point of view. Given that x differences exist between this world and the world of the story, it has to make sense that things would happpen as they did.
The story has to feel as though, in some other world where the rules work differently or things didn't happen in quite the same way, that it totally makes
sense that things turn out the way they do.
I find this to be the hallmark of a well-written story.
So I guess it isn't the fundamental concept of a dystopia that I dislike
it is the fact that all the popular and well-known dystopias stink. (In my opinion, at least.)