I haven't read/watched The Hunger Games until tonight, when we watched the fillum because the 46-Year-Old wanted to. The 13YO wandered down to see the Thrilling Conclusion. Afterwards the 13YO offered this Interesting Experiment:
If you could pick 24 Compelling Characters from History or Fiction who would provide a Riveting Spectacle if they were sent to the woods and forced to struggle to the death in the manner depicted in the Hunger Games, whom would you select?
Because why not, here are my 24.
1. John Kerry
2. Indira Gandhi
3. Paul Stanley
4. Clara Peller
5. Leopold Bloom
6. Shelob
7. Plankton (from SpongeBob)
8. Marisa Tomei
9. Larry Csonka
10. Paula Poundstone
11. George "The Animal" Steele
12. Grace O'Malley
13. Pope Pius XII/Bill Buckner
14. Ke$ha
15. Emo Philips
16. Katisha
17. The Good Fairy
18. Lucy (of the poems where's she's dead, usually, not the precocious young Ms. Van Pelt)
19. Cato the Younger
20. Karen (the Computer Wife of Plankton)
21. Mookie Wilson
22. Daria
23. Lord Rochester
24. Dorothy Parker
Mookie Wilson wins, of course, no matter how you go on #13.
And the Plankton/Shelob sex scene always achieves Enduring Internet Success.