The first movie and "Fault in Our Stars" both came out in 2014, which meant that we had to see Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort go from playing siblings, to being boyfriend and girlfriend who are both dying from cancer, offering us even more heartbreak and angst.
Literally my stomach was clenched the entire movie!! I somehow own the entire "Divergent" book trilogy and "The Fault in Our Stars" movie and book and I STILL have to imagine different people when I read the books.
It is ironic that everyone thinks the government is tracking us through vaccines when we should worry about people considering using happy serum or the killing serum on us.
Random storytime: I was obsessed with this series in middle school and read the first 2 books a ton of times. But when I was reading the last book for the first time, I was on a super long car ride with a bunch of kids from my youth group. When one of the girls saw me start reading that book, (spoilers ahead) she turned to me and said, "oh my gosh, isn't it so crazy that Tris dies in that book?" She spoiled the book for me right when I started reading it, and I'm still not over it. I still to this day have not reread the third book because I just go into a blind rage anytime I think about this girl spoiling it for me
Omg it was the same for me! Except it was a friends who spoiled it for me and she didn’t even read the books, nor watch the movies! I have no idea where she got it from but I was so frustrated that’s just never finished reading the series.
I love how Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller played lovers in The Spectacular Now, then played rivals (Peter being a fcking terrorist) in Divergent. And Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort playing siblings in Divergent, then playing lovers in The Fault in Our Stars. The crossovers are wild. It’s fr a multiverse with them.
I love Divergent, I think Insurgence is ok, and I don’t like Allegiant! It was definitely a down turn 😂 Also, Peter?! Amanda… it isn’t a love triangle. He’s just a bully
four doesn’t kill tris not because of the power of true love but because tris stares into his eyes since one of four’s fears is looking into the eyes of an innocent someone he has to kill. she used his fear against him it’s BRILLIANT
It would be brilliant in a better story 😭 I'm just never going to get over their "training" being teenage cage matches with no meaningful instruction or conditioning or anything
No one ever believes me when I tell them that most of the third book is them just hanging out at the Chicago Airport basically watching a reality show of their friends inside the city...Like it is a trip man!
When I first read Allegiant I suspected Tris was going to die at the end because the book had suddenly switched to being told by Tris and Tobias perspective and the cover said she must make her Final choice, emphasising the word final in bold. It was the first and only book I read where the main character dies and the first time I predicted the ending correctly.
Not even going to lie the fact that Tris was so insufferable after the first book, I wanted to see her die in the movies. It was the only reason I watched them, since Christina was shelved. THEN SHE DIDNT EVEN DIE 😭
I read the Divergent series in my early teen years and at that point I hadn't read anything where the main character died so I thought she'd survive and then she didn't, which has stuck with me ever since. from then on whenever it looked like the main character could die in the book I got nervous because I'd lost that faith that the main character never dies and I didn't want to see another character I got attached to die.
When I was reading it for the first time I did not notice that Tris died😅😂. I read the part were Tobias is told that she is dead and was like "wait? Whaaat?" I went back and reread it. Main character died and I didn't feel anything 😂
I don't even want to make fun of two teenagers worrying about the age gap of 2 years, when there are so many books out there portraying unhealthy relationships of the teacher - student kind, but 2 years? That's so sweet and perfectly normal
I bought all the books at goodwill a few years ago and read all of them and immediately sold them the moment I finished all of them because I hated the series so much 😋😋
I was a Divergent kid, and even though I’ve since expanded my dystopia palette and can admit that it’s kind of weak objectively, I can’t hate it. Is it basically the junk food of YA dystopia? Yeah, but junk food tastes GOOD- If I want a story with something to say, I’ll go read Hunger Games. But when I just want some mindless YA fun, I go to Divergent. (Not the last book, though. We don’t talk about that book-)
I always thought Al tried to kill Tris with Peter because a couple scenes before he tried to make a move on Tris and put his arm around her, and she rejected him, so he was angry. I loved this recap! Truly brought me back to 6th grade 😂
Yes, and afterwards he tried to apologise to Tris and she didn't forgive him. Which is why he killed himself and Tris blamed herself for not forgiving him and felt so guilty about it.
No, I thought in the book, Al was so homesick and scared that he felt self-conscious of himself and then Tris doing so well in the last first half that Peter tried to accuse her of using her size and limited strength to gain sympathy from everyone and then being pushed out because of her.
I was never a divergent girlie (after reading the hunger games divergent didn't really do it for me lol) but I LOVED the shatter me series.😂I would love to hear you recap it if you read it back in the day😆❤
Oh my God, yes, not enough. People talk about shatter me. I am still to this day obsessed with it. I have my issues with it, but shatter me was everything to my teenage brain
i would like to confess for my sins. as a young 10 year old, my parents bought me the divergent series before the Hunger Games, so needless to say, i was a divergent girly first
I never made it through the farm cult in book 2. It was so boring! Peeta, Peter... I look forward to learning more about the other "Peet" guys you like in YA.
Amanda, it is only right that you take the next logical step in this YA book to screen series and recap Twilight! Or recap the rest of The Lunar Chronicles.
it's the fact that i just watched divergent after putting it off for years just because i saw you made a video about it, deadass just wanted to watch ur video so bad i sat down and watched a whole film. it's literally 03:36 rn and i am so ready to watch 42 minutes and 31 seconds more minutes of you being completely unhinged recapping another book/film series. i love you and your videos ong the way you explain stuff makes more sense than anything my teachers ever tried to teach in school
Maybe this is because I read the series as a jaded adult, but while I liked the first book in particular, I NEVER understood the Factionless rules. If you switch Factions at 16 and then wash out of training, why can’t you just…go back to the Faction you were raised in? You were presumably doing fine there at age 15 & 1/2. Why create a permanent underclass that will never (by design) contribute anything to society? It’s effectively a death sentence. Genuine totalitarianism societies would either wipe out or enslave this type of powerless non-citizen, but this society just kind of shuffles them off into areas right outside the factions? This seems guaranteed to generate an angry rebellious horde that will at the very least invade spaces of the factions to get food, medicine, and other necessities.
Tbh, I think the main incentive behind having a factionless group is 1) reinforcing the need to comply to whatever norms created within a faction. When you're in the faction you're born into, your parents are in charge of making sure you're compliant of the rules. The choosing ceremony is a means to a degree create false sense of individual choice. Although they are encouraged to pick whatever faction interests them regardless of test results, they are also reminded each choice is permanent: from the faction chosen, to the name change, to whether they stay or not in their new faction. If successful in assimilating to the chosen faction, they'll be more likely to comply with what's socially expected. If they fail, then they have to live to regret the choice of exercising free will, and serve as reminders in making the correct choice. 2) It is most likely that the factionless was also in part created to alienate and round up divergents. While some are able to adapt to their chosen faction, others may find it difficult to assimilate and may, to a degree, rebel or break a faction rule. Intentionally or not, they may cross a boundary which then pushes them out of their chosen area. Nobody entirely knows why each factionless is in their situation, but the possibility of them being classified as divergent and unable to fit in is a morbid but curious thought many people may have.
I remember watching it on cable with my dad once and I think we both enjoyed it 😭 Though I never got around the sequels. No regrets though I probably won't like it as much now even if I can't deny the nostalgia.
I was so pissed when Beatrice died, like it was so avoidable, and she died for quite noooo reason. Either way I wanted four to kiss me on the mouth so bad
I was always a hunger games girlie so I never bothered with the divergent series but this recap will do just fine! Never knew what the series was about
Meanwhile here I was, totally obsessing over the Uglies series in middle school... and they are now making a movie. Now. F****** twenty years later. I hope its good at least...
I just realized that I don’t remember the characters at all, like, yeah I remember the stuff that happens in general but who was in this? Tris and four where a couple, that’s easy to remember, but how many friends did Tris had? The brother was evil or something? Although I do vividly remember how when reading the books the four I imagined did look like a teenager as he was supposed to be but then in the movie was 28 yo Theo James and I was so disappointed but all my friends where super into him and I was like “girl, I’m 16, let me thirst over people my age” (I don’t remember exactly how old was Four supposed to be, but Tris was 16, soooo) I just got to the point where you mentioned he’s 18, still a teenager that should look like a teenager
Unpopular opinion but I actually like the series (the books, that is). I genuinely cried when Tris died but like I was so hooked. Not sure if I reread it I would still be as hooked but I’m not as interested in reading a lot of new books anyway anymore
How do I insert "Ah, I see You're a Man of Culture as Well" meme to express my reaction to you love for Miles Teller? honestly, 1st person who crushes on him as well
i didn’t finish the last book, i barely started it, thought it was weird we were suddenly seeing fours perspective and then my friend told me what happened to tris in the end so i am learning some new stuff today 😭 kinda reminds me of maze runner
When i read this in middle school i didnt really care about Tris but i was obsessed with Tobias and like all his trauma that when Tris died I cried so hard no for her dying but that because he had lost another person he loved and he would be alone again
Honestly thank you so much I just finished watching Alligent Part One and I was like wtf is this 😂😂 how did it actually end. Thank you for the book recap
bruhh😭😂😂 i’m so guilty i instantly lol’ed i was a peter girl😭 like in 4th grade after i watched the movie the only person i could think about was miles teller. i wrote i love miles teller on my hand the rest of the year😭😭😭 now i have no idea why peter was my first choice but he jus was 😂😂
Tries went from wanting to die because of guilt but also the grief of losing her family. She was traumatized from taking Will's life, losing her parents and her brother's betrayal. Then she wanted to stay alive because she felt she had a greater purpose. Her forgiveness of Caleb to the point where she put her own life in danger at the end was so incredible to me when I read the books and then the movie didn't include any of it.
Ok I just need to say. I was horribly disappointed when the ending of the trilogy was changed. The original ending in the books in my opinion made so much more sense in a story telling point of view, and left the movie feeling incomplete.
When I read the books I remember being disappointed by the ending and confused the entire time, and then started watching the movies, but wasn't able to make it through. Thank you for the recap! Also, did you ever read the Maximum Ride series? I vaguely remember reading them in middle school, and I don't remember much aside from New York and a line mentioning ground beef (?) and braces. Don't know if you could/would do a recap on them (don't feel pressured), but I thought I could put the idea out here!
I've always wanted to read these books but never got the chance to. I wasn't allowed to spend too much money on books, so I had a limit of 1 book per (insert something here) and the one time I found the Divergent book there was also another book I really wanted to read 😅
