Shailene Woodley: Divergent is NOT Hunger Games

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It’s not shocking at all that critics keep comparing Divergent to The Hunger Games, and considering they are both dystopian YA trilogies, it makes sense. However, the stories are quite different, and reviewers have started to take the comparison WAY too far.

Digital Spy interviewed Shailene Woodley and Theo James earlier this week and asked them about the parallels:

While both series focus on a young woman who rebels against her dystopian society, Divergent stars Shailene Woodley and Theo James were swift to dismiss the comparison when Digital Spy sat down with them earlier this week.

“The storylines are inherently very different,” Woodley said. “At the end of the day, it’s like comparing Star Wars to Star Trek.”

That’s a very astute analogy by Woodley, and we think critics would do well to apply that logic to any future Divergent-Hunger Games comparisons. Sure, they are similar, but they aren’t the only reference points for each other.