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It's interesting that the people most closely associated with Finnick, likely the most popular and adored victor Panem has ever seen, are kind of outcasts or unpopular.

Annie's Games felt like kind of a disappointing rip-off, and her entire existence bums people out; she's not charismatic, she's damaged in ways that she can't hide and that make people uncomfortable.

Johanna has a certain appeal, in a sharp-edged way for those who find her shtick entertaining from afar, but she's unpleasant and mean and she hates you. So there's limited interest in and tolerance for that.

And Mags, while not problematic like those two, is still an old woman whom the rabid fans of the modern Games almost certainly don't appreciate--a relic of a bygone era, boring and just kind of there.

I like the contrast.

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i keep seeing the take that "Katniss doesn't love Peeta she's just trauma bonded to him" it's making me lose my mind.

First of all, all the superior TikTok and Twitter psychologists aren't even using that term correctly. A trauma bond implies an abuser using the trauma as leverage. Neither Katniss or Peeta are abusive and you can't even make an argument about that so automatically this idea is untrue.

but more importantly- what's wrong with, outside of the abusive context, using trauma as a bond? Why does that mean that they can't love each other? This idea is so ridiculous. Peeta understand best (more than Haymitch and the other victors) what Katniss is going through. Very few people can provide emotional support to her. She has severe PTSD and the most powerful man in the entire country is attempting to plot her assassination because she's been made the face of a rebellion, in an act of defiance Peeta was also present for. Peeta, already astoundingly sympathetic to her (and others), is able to fully empathize with her. They have a shared past and have an experience that nobody else in the entire history of the games has ever had. Like are you saying Katniss feels strongly towards him because he understands and can relate to her? literally what is unhealthy or weird about that? It would be one thing if Peeta was abusive but he's not. In his normal state, he has never used the games or the shared bond they have against her and his basically only used it to help her, as well as himself.

like the basic implication is that people who have similar trauma don't actually love each other, which is just so astoundingly untrue it's really hard to even wrap my head around the idea. and if the idea is that Katniss and Peeta never would have been together if they hadn't been reaped (or she hadn't volunteered) is also not very smart, because it quite literally doesn't matter. These are the events that happen in the book and the alter Peeta and Katniss' understanding of both one another and the world at large. 2 hunger games and a rebellion is bound to fundamentally change a person in some way.

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@pscentral event 15: favourite ships

when I dropped my sword, I threw it in the bushes and knocked on your door, and we live in peace

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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) - directed by Francis Lawrence

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Virginia Gardner as Madge Undersee (2/2)

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peeta tells katniss in book one "i remember everything about you, you were the one not paying attention" and then she tells him all these trivial facts about how he double knots his shoelaces and how he likes his tea in mockingjay like she was noticing guys she noticed everything

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"if it weren't for the baby" is iconic but "i wish she was dead. i wish they were all dead, and we were too" is the best line from the entire trilogy

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i genuinely love that the hunger games is in katniss’s pov bc shes the one character that has no clue about whats going on, clearly does not want to be there, and shes just walking through life in a permanent state of utter confusion. and idk i really relate to that.

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the hunger games soundtrack did not have to go so hard. some of those songs make me want to SOB

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Honey. That thing I did back there for Peeta? That was called “saving his life.“ If I wanted to kill either of you, I would’ve done it by now.

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10 years of The Hunger Games (2012) dir. Gary Ross Released March 23rd, 2012

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Everlark + colors requested by @sulietsexual

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Katniss in the first book is so funny because beyond her being absolutely wrong in nearly every assumption she has of Peeta. Every other chapter she’s like “two can play that game” about him being deceptive and then she utterly fails at it. 

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"It was just a nightmare, I'm sorry."

"It's okay, I get them too."

"Peeta? Will you stay with me?"

"Yeah. Always."

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What I always thought was interesting about the hunger games movies is that we get to see bits of how the Capitol works and moves. The books are all first person pov so all we know in the books we get from gossip and the snippets of what Katniss sees, but the movies let us into Snow’s office and Seneca’s game rooms to actually get to see the way the Capitol works and how it’s manipulated.

I always think an adaptation should definitely stick as close to source material as possible, but the new medium gives opportunities to expand that source material in ways that enhances the experience and I think even the five minutes of screen time we got in the first and second movie about how they work fleshed out our villains not only in Snow but in the government machine itself

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katniss is so funny she’s like “oh i know i care about peeta but i don’t know if i love him” then they have to sedate her every time she thinks of peeta being tortured