#Driven Snow

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“Driven”

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[sydneyofalltrades]

sunrise on the reaping spoilers (question mark?)? mostly talk about the ballad of songbirds and snakes so

but yeah it’s so funny to me how out of all the songs lucy gray sings that are still known to the remaining covey (“the old therebefore,” “the hanging tree,” “nothing you can take”) and the ones the capitol adored (“the ballad of lucy gray baird”), the song she sings for coriolanus is suspiciously absent from retellings and shows

it’s so hilarious to me that “pure as the driven snow” is the only song that isn’t repeated throughout the books, because its message is no longer relevant or true. lucy gray doesn’t love, trust, or need coriolanus at the end of the ballad of songbirds and snakes, whereas every other song in sunrise on the reaping has a purpose.

burdock sings “the old therebefore” as it’s a covey funeral song.

the covey performed “nothing you can take” and maysilee’s grandmother tells her the lyrics to comfort her.

“the ballad of lucy gray baird” is televised to haymitch to taunt him, and he makes the connection between the song and the only little known district 12 victor.

“the hanging tree” is a song of defiance that ends up in the mockingjay’s life, and is used as a rallying cry for the earliest stages of the rebellion in twelve.

but “pure as the driven snow,” a song of devotion for a man who no longer deserves it, is conspicuously absent from the rest of the timeline after its first and only performance.

[valerieofavonlea]

Maybe if we were focusing too much on love and missing the point, just maybe, Suzanne wouldn't have made her big bad's ultimate descent into villainy a complete and utter rejection of romantic love.

[sanjarka]

i get that it's supposed to be funny i do but still lucy gray would not be embarrassed to find out exactly the kind of man snow became. she'd be fucking devastated. and sad.

[onlyvinegar]

on Chloé Bourgeois and the character psychology that the writers put on screen without meaning to at all

(when the reply is three times longer than the post I'm replying to then someone who didn't deserve it was about to be a victim of the hobby horse, so here it goes instead. For context: Astruc has once again stated that the point of Chloé's character is that she "doesn't want to change" and people who believe it are once again displaying the media literacy)

I'm pretty sure there was an episode or two about Chloé grovelling at her mother's feet for a scrap of attention or acknowledgment and it was made very much a point about how the mother who Chloé so adores is like Chloé herself on steroids and it was real funny until it wasn't because even Marinette looked upset when Chloé's mother told Chloé - in full public - that she was worthless and unworthy of her attention.

So then there was a whole deal about Chloé having stumbled over a miraculous and using it to show her mum that she too was exceptional and how that was a huge disaster and Chloé was summarily humiliated (up to and including her mother insulting her on live national TV)

And I could be wrong but I could have sworn it all ended with a scene where a very timid Chloé asks her mother why she doesn't love her. And that's upsetting, because

a) that's just something no child should ever have ask a parent, no matter how privileged or spoiled or mean they are

b) Chloé's mum has spent the whole episode proving again and over that she's such a toxic influence on everyone around her that Chloé is much better off without her around, even if Chloé - like most children with some degree of normal socialisation - loves the parents who have continually failed her

c) the episode has made a repeated point about Chloé emulating her mother to appease her, which recontextualises Chloé's entire character to the viewer

If we were going to spend previous episodes bringing up Chloé's vulnerable side and connect it to her mum having left the family (I'll drop the sarcasm: "Zombizou" and "Despair Bear"), then this new information about Chloé imitating her mother because she wants her attention is psychologising all of the attitude. Behind the privilege and the ignorance is a child abandoned by one parent and neglected by the other to be raised by the staff, and who has latched onto the most destructive option: Mummy is the strong one, so Mummy is right, and to win Mummy's approval I have to be like her

(and by god, the thesis to be written about how Chloé has first row seats to her mother's abuse of her father and intimate knowledge about how the only way to avoid being a victim herself is to be in Mummy's good books. It is so bloody nasty and the show plays it as a joke)

TL:DR: The show spent a whole bloody two-parter on how Audrey is the source and the fuel of Chloe's poison, ends it with Chloé openly confronting her mother about it -

and then Marinette is there, and our hero, officially the nicest kid on Santa's list, the Big Good, future Best Guardian in History, decides that what Chloé needs is for Audrey to stick around. So Marinette interferes and successfully reunites mother and daughter, who promptly start making each other even worse.

I'd say something about it being the most elaborate revenge ploy the show has seen if it weren't for the fact that it sincerely depicted as an act of selfless goodness, and the ending is framed as funny and not as the goddamn tragedy that it is. And the show that supposedly created a cosmic allegory about child abuse for some reason decided that a recurring theme was going to be "abused children idolising their abusers", an edifying lesson for the six-to-ten audience.

[gen-0]

I love the idea of hearing The Hanging Tree again making president Snow crash out BUT

I think it was the Meadow song that probably had him worse off because off the other songs that Katniss sang afterward were songs that the Covey performed and that Snow could excuse as some soldier a long time ago being a big fan, remembering the songs and teaching them(like the valley song that Katniss sings for school when she was 5)

However the Meadow song was a deeply personal one that was clearly only reserved for the Covey and for special occasions(Maude ivory being sick and so on)

So that song would’ve 100% confirmed that Katniss was in a familial way related to the Covey. Not only that but imagine the absolute DOUBLE TAKE he would have as he was brought back to a that lake, at most peace with himself, a time where “love conquered all”

[thelesbianthespianposts]

I like to think that after Snow became President the covey changed Pure as the Driven Snow so that instead of snow it was just a bunch of oh’s. Both because it’s awkward to sing a song that invokes the authoritarian leader sending your kids to their deaths but Also because if you’re gonna erase Lucy Gray from your narratives, they might as well erase you from theirs

[radiantmists]

i love that the bingqiu ship dynamic is just

except by the time they get together they've already involved *literally everyone else in both realms* in their drama

[fyresaber]

“don’t worry. we’ll finish this and go see her, together.” “forget all that [...] zanarkand never sleeps. let’s go to the sea, before the sunrise.”

[housecow]

I remember snow when I was 3 years old we had almost 3 feet in 1998 lol go on ;)

first time i saw snow was in 2011 at mount rainier national park 🥺 and the next time was when it snowed in TX back in 2021 loll!!

you’re so lucky though, i literally can’t even imagine 3 ft of snow??

[xthecaptainssaviorx]

This world, it's dark, and this world, it's scary. I've taken some hits, so no wonder I'm wary. It's why I Need you— You're pure as the driven snow.

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)

[t1oui]

listening to the hanging tree on repeat and thinking about beetee recovering the footage of the 10th hunger games and showing it to katniss

[valerieofavonlea]

No but "believe me, romantically speaking, you're dodging a bullet with these games" is the funniest possible thing because this is a man who was personally traumatized by these games at 18, and now forty years later has come to the conclusion that dying in them is preferable to dating a Covey girl like I CANNOT

[zibiscusinfandoms]

in love with this movie's soundtrack 🐍🐦‍⬛

[chamomile-tea-time]

it's super depressing when you remember that in the book, lucy gray performs "pure as the driven snow" after sejanus is hung.

when snow hears it (and listens to the whole thing, unlike the movie), he's brought to tears. because by this point he's entrenched in the delusion that he made a huge sacrifice for the good of everyone around him. he's tearing up over how she trusts him, and how much she knows who he really is at heart.... but he's about to lie to her face.

any hope of his ways changing is utterly gone after sejanus' death. that truly was snow's final straw.

[spideystyls]

So Lucy Gray could have been the Taylor Swift of Panem, but thanks to crazy Snowflake the world didn’t get the opportunity to appreciate her art.

In conclusion, Coriolanus didn’t want the world to listen to Pure as the Driven Snow (10 minutes version)