Gaby: I feel like Four is more balanced. His character does a total 180 from the last one.
Melissa: The ideas came from Four.
Allyson: I was going to say that Four is like an entirely new character.
Melissa: He’s softer in this. In the book, they have more relationship conflict.
Gaby: In Divergent, he’s all stoic and mean, and the first scene in Insurgent, he’s playing with kids. I was like “Whoa.”
Allyson: I liked him/Theo James more this time though too; so maybe it helped.
Jon: Four is the real hero. She is just the catalyst for revolution.
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Melissa: What do you guys expect to see/explained in Allegiant?
Allyson: Four’s Mom is going to screw things up.
Gaby: Sort of OT, but Naomi Watts looks more like Four’s sister.
Melissa: She does!
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Jon: I love Naomi Watts as a brunette.
Melissa: It PISSED ME OFF that they didn’t cast a woman of color like she’s supposed to be!!!!
Allyson: Yeah, that 16 year old age difference between the actors wasn’t very convincing. LOL
Jon: She reminded of a pirate queen surrounded by all her misfits. Almost every single important character is white. I was not okay with that.
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Allyson: #Hollywood
Melissa: Four is mixed race, and it would have been awesome to see that.
Gaby: I was really hoping for that too!
Allyson: It’s grown so tiresome, and it’s always even more aggravating in young adult films where most of them are in dystopian settings. There’s no excuse not to have diverse casts.
Jon: Then again, so is The Hunger Games.
Allyson: Yeah, the white washing in The Hunger Games pissed me off.
Gaby: I mean this is Chicago; there aren’t just white people here.
Jon: Yeah, I was trying to find someone that looks like my ethnicity. I think I almost found one in the CGI mass crowd.
Melissa: Uriah, Maggie Q…that’s it.
Jon: Maggie Q was such a background character this time around too.
Melissa: Yeah, the secondary and new characters didn’t really spark.
Jon: Making way for Naomi Watts probably. Can someone explain to me what a factionless is?
Allyson: A Squibb.
Gaby: Someone who didn’t test into a faction, like their results were inconclusive.
Jon: I remember the vague movie description, but what is a book reader’s one?
Melissa: They represent the “poor.”
Jon: How are they different from Divergents?
Melissa: Some are Divergent.
Gaby: I honestly don’t remember.
Allyson: They didn’t test into any group, while Divergent tested into all of them.
Jon: So we have to assume they have other character traits that aren’t the top 5? And divergents are exclusively one or more of the top 5?
Melissa: Yeah, you think that makes no sense, eh? WAIT FOR ALLEGIANT. And in the book, Tris is the only person who tested for THREE factions.
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