Everything seems to erupt at once. The earth explodes into showers of dirt and plant matter. Trees burst into flames.

ex·plo·sion  

/ikˈsplōZHən/

Noun

1.       A violent and destructive shattering or blowing apart of something, as is caused by a bomb.

2.       A violent expansion in which energy is transmitted outward as a shock wave.

Do you know what happens when a shock wave of high pressure hits a human body?  Lungs deflate.  Blood vessels burst.  Organs get torn out of place.  Bones break.  The brain gets slammed against the skull.  Membranes rip.  In other words: GREIVOUS AND FATAL HARM. 

Explosions are deadly because they are explosions, not just because they have the potential to throw projectiles at you. 

If the “earth” is really exploding all around her, either because of bombs in the ground going off or….magic science, then Katniss should be deader than dead.

And as we covered in the last book, the flashover point when trees spontaneously catch on fire is hotter than the human body can handle.  So she should be dead twice over.

But Katniss is a zombie that laughs in the face of your piddly little physics, so instead she lays there and mopes about how she failed to save Peeta.

If it was quiet, and a mockingjay perched close at hand, I would have heard the jungle go silent and then the bird’s call that precedes the appearance of the Capitol’s aircraft. But my ears could never make out anything so delicate in this bombardment.

Um…thanks for that completely pointless aside to describe a situation totally opposite of what’s going on now.  That’s very useful. 

…?

With his thumb and his forefinger, he slides my eyelids shut, sentencing me to the vulnerability of darkness. They can do anything to me now and I will not even see it coming.

Because Katniss is totally incapable of opening her own fucking eyelids.

When I finally, truly, wake up, the restraints are gone. I raise my hand and find I have fingers that can move at my command again.

So, the first time Katniss woke up she ripped all her tubes out.  After that she was restrained.  This time she’s not restrained because…?  She’s confused, she’s a danger to herself, and she doesn’t know what’s going on because no one is there to explain stuff to her.  Why did they unrestrain her?  The only thing that’s changed between now and that second time is…oh yeah, jack shit nothing.  All this here is doing is giving her a chance to commit suicide, and she’s already shown a proclivity towards that even when she’s not been zombified.

I’m naked except for a thin nightgown

So…not naked, then.

“So it’s you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.”

Oh, FUCK OFF.

It’s not like she knew everything there was to know and then thought “hey, you know what would work?  A syringe!”  Her plan was perfectly adequate given what she thought the situation was and given her resources at hand.

You cannot keep secrets from her and then use the results as a justification for keeping secrets from her. 

“Neither you nor Peeta were told. We couldn’t risk it,” says Plutarch.

[…]

“Because once the force field blew, you’d be the first ones they’d try to capture, and the less you knew, the better,” says Haymitch.

1) there’s no reason why the Capitol would go for them instead of the people actually trying to break the arena and get out.  That makes not the least bit of sense.

2) even if they were captured, it’s not like the Capitol would take their word on it once they say “we don’t know anything.”

3) the whole damn thing was televised.  Telling Peeta and Katniss that there’s a plan to get out and that X, Y, and Z are in on it wouldn’t be telling them any more than the audience could figure out on their own.  It’s not like they needed to know everything in order to know to cooperate with the escape plan.

“We had to save you because you’re the mockingjay, Katniss,” says Plutarch. “While you live, the revolution lives.”

BULLSHIT.

If there’s a revolution that’s so weak that it’ll fail if only one person dies, then it’s just straight-up going to fail.

Think back on anything you know about history.  I guarantee you, you could study wars and rebellions for a lifetime and not find a single one that was utterly dependent on one person or symbol.

Even the idea of this is insulting.  The people should be rebelling because the Capitol sucks and needs to be overthrown, not because Katniss tells them to.  They should be doing it for the sake of their own lives, their own loved ones, their own sense of justice, not one silly little girl in a shiny dress.  That she kicked things off, fine.  But saying that she’s the cornerstone of the rebellion takes gravitas away from all the other reasons that people are supposed to have.  It’s basically saying that these people would stop fighting and go back to being oppressed just because Katniss isn’t there to model for them.  Because apparently everyone else in the country is just that lackadaisical.  Not only could you not get a group of people like that to rebel in the first place, it’s a terribly insulting thing to say about people who are currently embroiled in the middle of a war and risking their lives.

Katniss is not that important.  She shouldn’t be elevated to that level.

They probably won’t even bother to question [Annie], she’s so far gone. Gone right off the deep end years ago in her Games.

HOW DO YOU FUCKING KNOW THIS?  You didn’t even bother to watch her Games, you’ve never met the woman, and you haven’t bothered to ask anyone who has met her.

Stop flaunting your magical Mary Sue Knowing Powers.

Even if the rebel forces could somehow overthrow the Capitol, you can be sure President Snow’s last act would be to cut Peeta’s throat. No. I will never get him back. So then dead is best.

Wow.  You would rather he be dead than with you.  Even if he’s safe and just being held in a cell somewhere (since they already decided he wouldn’t be tortured after they figure out he knows nothing), you’d still rather he be dead if you can’t have him.

This is the equivalent of a toddle breaking her toys rather than share them.

You are a sociopath.

I give up. Stop speaking, responding, refuse food and water.

Our hero, ladies and gents.  She can’t be with her boyfriend, so she tries to commit suicide.

I guess as long as there’s no literal blank pages involved, everyone’s fine with that.

But Gale is not one to keep secrets from me. “Katniss, there is no District Twelve.”

I guess the Capitol didn’t really need all that coal after all.

Well, good riddance, it was a shitty place and I’M DONE WITH THIS SHITTY BOOK.