#hunger games series

[sameschmidtdiffname]

I personally choose to believe that the Hunger Games series is supposed to be Katniss's memoir/way of setting the record straight about her and her loved ones part in the Games/war. Meaning I think the entire country of New Panem was going into a FIT with every new chapter they read, let alone book. Just imagine the podcasts for a second.

"SO THE STAR-CROSSED LOVERS OF DISTRICT 12."

"YEAH."

"FATED SOULMATES."

"DESTINED TO BE TOGETHER."

"Role model for all of our relationships, I think it's safe to say."

"Mmhmm."

"It was a SURVIVAL STRAT????"

That baby reveal??? Had the country in SHAMBLES when they realized Peeta was lying. Her editors probably told her to just keep that out and she probably just said "why?? I have actual kids now, it's fine." The tabloids are blowing clear the fuck up all day every day. Peeta's hijacking??? People already knew but they didn't know EVERYTHING. God, those podcasts were LIT.

[unfriendly-neighborhood-feminist]

thinking about how when snow died, so did the memory of lucy gray. he was probably the last person alive who remembered her, definitely the only one who thought about her regularly, after he died there was no one left who remembered her, at least that we know of. mags might have remembered her from winning the games right after her, might have even told finnick about her, but they’re both dead. coriolanus snow was probably the last person who remembered lucky gray baird

[achillyscomedown]

[iwouldstay4ever]

"Not all men-"

You're absolutely right. Finnick Odair, victor of the 65th Hunger Games and an absolute cutie patootie, would never do this.

[ibraidedmybootyhairs]

get down with the agenda ?

[shyjusticewarrior]

Jason and Harvey got that Katniss and Haymitch dynamic where they see themselves in each other while they also kinda hate themselves.

[myevilblogs]

Lucy gray: born to perform forced to fight Katniss: Born to Fight forced to perform.

[torisaysyeet]

sitting in my Intro to Shakespeare class, and someone just pointed out that The Tragedy of Coriolanus sounds a lot like The Hunger Games? And it makes sense??

Coriolanus is of course the name of President Snow in THG, and is the name of the tragedy's titular character. Plutarch is the Head Game Maker in Catching Fire, and is also the name of a man involved in the tragedy.

Tribunes are two representatives of those who are not aristocrats, and the Tributes are involved in the Games, two representatives from each district.

It's actually kind of shocking, because I had no idea this existed! I'd love to reach out to Suzanne Collins and see if this originally inspired the series before it became The Hunger Games as we know it today

[iamnotlyne]

Ok ok so im team everlark but yk what really gets me? Taylor’s song “The Way I Loved You” is just oml don’t even get me started. Every time I listen to it I think of Katniss thinking of Peeta, but she could really be singing about Gale as well. I mean listen to the lyrics it’s great

[thanakite]

The Hunger Games movies lost something by not giving voiceover of Katniss's thoughts throughout, like I don't understand why movies shy away from this because it would have helped add so much context

[kittyishere0]

(Falls back in chair in disbelief) what th- HOLY SHIT!!!!!

[achillyscomedown]

these are so hunger games coded

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[neilgaimanlover123]

The Percy Jackson renaissance and The Hunger Games renaissance happening in the same year is something so special to me

[shyjusticewarrior]

You know what about Catching Fire we don't talk about enough? How the movie made Effie's hair the wrong orange but left in the lines referencing it's brightness anyway.

[vivicendium]

i think something that elevates the hunger games franchise is not just the quality of writing but the integrity of it. tbosas isn’t just a cash-grab by suzanne collins in the age of sequels and reboots (though i won’t pretend that didn’t play a part), it’s a character study of the main antagonist with a different structure than the main trilogy. and importantly, it doesn’t just re-hash the same old themes and beats the main trilogy had, it expands on not just the world of the hunger games but the themes as well, it actually has something new to say about the trilogy’s themes about class, capitalism, power, and control, in a way that couldn’t be explored with the main story because the protagonist of that story simply did not have access to the world that’s being explored in tbosas.

i understand the people who call for books/movies to be made about haymitch, finnick, johanna, different years of the games — we love those characters and want to see more of them! i’d kill for a novella on finnick’s days mentoring tributes, or katniss’s parents falling in love. but at the end of the day we probably wouldn’t be very satisfied with those stories being fleshed out if they had absolutely nothing new to say about the world, they’d be enjoyable, but not as interesting and engaging as tbosas has been.