Hunger Games - my version

I have not read The Hunger Games.

I have not seen The Hunger Games.

However, since I don't actually live under a rock I know what this dystopian story is about - not the details but the broad brush strokes. Which led me to wonder today how the story plays out - over three installments I assume.

And because I don't know what happens I created my version in my head. So here's what happens in my version of The Hunger Games. The heroine and the hero train for battle and all 12 teen-age warriors are dispersed into the "arena", which I assume is a wilderness area with cameras mounted all over the place. One by one the others are killed off until only three remain: our hero, our heroine and one other boy. Hero realizes that he must do something. He cannot kill his love. So he kills the other boy and dresses in his clothes, thus fooling heroine who kills him, not knowing this is the boy she loves. Naturally, she is dramatically heartbroken but hailed as a hero and brought triumphantly to the capital. There, as she is carried through the streets, she meets one of the top "officers" of the new regime. He is devilishly handsome is a dark sort of way. Heroine has caught his eye almost since the beginning. Since he is in charge of those who train the young athletes every year, and since the trainers are the winners from previous years, he puts her in charge of archery.

As we close out section one we see her hate for him and his lust for her - what's next we may well wonder.

Well - next is that the next year comes around and this time Heroine's little sister is chosen to compete. Heroine continues to deflect dark one's advances. But how does she now save her sister when she can't take her place? In fact how does she save any of them? As the training begins, dark one and other trainers begin to drop oblique hints that not all is at it seems. In fact, the trainers have been doing more than training the 12 - they have been making periodic trips into the countryside, training and slowly arming the population. How is this possible?

Heroine finds out when dark one brings her on one of his trips - it turns out that he is the mastermind - his family is one of the poor ones and he has sworn to work from the inside - restoring justice and democracy. Heroine falls in with this idea and the rebellion moves forward.

The rebellion is slated to begin on the eve of the next hunger games. But dark one is found out and taken to the dungeons on the eve of.... now what. Do the games continue as planned?

End episode two.

Episode 3 begins with dark one given a bow and arrow and sent out with the 12 to fight. No one is there to give the signal to the uprising - the rebels don't know what to do. Confusion. The games begin. The killing starts. Heroine knows it is up to her. She must save her sister, her new love and the whole bloody planet.

Okay - I don't have the details yet of how she does this. Somehow she sneaks into the arena at night (by killing some guards I expect) and manages to free dark one who takes off to the provinces to lead the rebellion. She is caught trying to escape with her sister. And both girls are tied to trees to act as targets. Enter the cavalry. They are untied. A huge battle erupts and the good forces win over the bad.

there

that's it. Now I may have to see the real thing to find out what actually happens.