we are all jumpin on the train that goes to the kingdom/we're happy, ma, we're havin fun

So I saw The Hunger Games and I had lots of feelings but I feel unqualified to talk about them because I thought I didn't really want to read the books and I guess I'm gonna have to. No warnings about Mockingjay are needed, I already know it pissed off a lot of people. Assumptions that I will dislike the ending of something just because most people did make me kind of prickly anyway.
But yeah, I'm getting slightly annoyed about the huge number of people that don't think the world was fleshed out enough/weren't able to take for granted that a dystopia like that would even be possible, like the movie needed to be heavy on pithy exposition-heavy conversations for anybody to read between the lines. Please to be looking up "hegemony" in a dictionary/studying more history. Sure, you probably have to suspend disbelief to an extent, but nobody ever makes that complaint about Brave New World, do they? For the most part I could see some younger audiences having some trouble grasping the politics rather than just accepting that Villains Are Evil, but maybe that isn't giving them enough credit.
And then there's the Team Peeta/Team Gale bullshit that I think probably comes from a confirmation-biased readership that wouldn't have expected a romance and wouldn't see this series as a romance if it had been written by a male. I like both characters enough? Can I just be Team Cinna?
As you can see, I have nothing to say about The Hunger Games.

I am in St. Louis right now and my sister and I are probably going to the Science Center today to check out the Star Trek exhibition. Woo!