sorry but snow is such a well written iconic villain and donald sutherland performs him so fucking good it's almost hilarious how i start practically foaming at the mouth every time the man opens his mouth to say something deplorable in those movies, like he's so utterly and despicably wrong about almost every crucial thing from katniss and peeta's relationship to human nature as a whole and yet the second he starts talking about how hope is the only thing stronger than fear and how you have to allow a little hope but control it so its spark doesn't grow into revolution and how it's the things we love the most that destroy us you bet your ass i am on the floor screaming crying throwing up because that is my psychotic mustache-twirling villain RIGHT THERE
It’s cute to try to say pseudo-intellectual, playing at poetic things like, “The beauty of this relationship is it’s one of those profound connections that has no difference in meaning between romance and platonic… and really it doesn’t matter what happens… and isn’t that soooo…”
But fuck no, I don’t feel you and that doesn’t even make sense. Friendship at the highest level of expression and romantic relationship at the highest level of expression have an inherent hierarchy. I’m sorry that’s just fact. You can contort it all you want but a friend can be a life partner only to a certain extent. Meanwhile, a romantic partnership can contain all the elements of a platonic relationship, but also include SEX. I’m sorry, it just goes a step further and that step further is hyperbolic, can literally be life generating, can be its own character in a narrative, creates a bodily connection, inspires a primal drive to be with the other person in the most WOW of ways.
Sorry, that’s the truth. And none of that truth diminishes what an epic friendship is… it’s just not the same as an epic love story expressed in all its forms.