r/Hungergames

I just started reading the Sunrise on the Reaping and I'm currently on the part where >!Haymitch tried to protect Lenore that ended up the reason why he became one of the tributes.!< I can't help but be annoyed, please share what you think about this so I can gain more perspective.

Why wouldn't it be feasible for Katniss to be Lucy Gray's granddaughter (through burdock, ofc, since we know he's related to Covey) if we assume she survived and returned to D12 under a new identity? Maybe i'm dumb but, i think i ran the years correctly and it seems feasible.

My boyfriend (M33) has never seen or read the hunger games and I am beyond baffled. How did I not know this? I even told him about the main idea of the hunger games and he had no idea kids were being killed in the story.

SO I'm goin to make him read the hunger games books, but should he start with The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and go forward. Good idea or should I have him read them in release order?

I’m only able to put six options in, so I couldn’t do individual districts. Also, I didn’t put 12 in as an option because in universe, the only victors from 12 are Lucy Gray, Haymitch, Katniss, and Peeta.

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I absolutely love the original movies and watch them often enough. I went into the Ballads of Songbirds and Snakes with little to no context, never saw the trailer and didn't know what to expect. I've also never read the books. But this film just seemed.. hollow? I didn't connect with any of the characters. I especially did not buy whoever played Snow. There was nothing menacing at all about him. I didn't buy his descent into madness towards the end when he's chasing Lucy in the forest. A lot of the plot just felt rushed and empty. I felt Viola Davis played her character inconsistently. I didn't enjoy a lot of the awkward dialog and just how cheap this seemed to be compared to the original movies. The way Snow had a reaction to Lucy mentioning katniss, the plant, when there is no need to at this stage. I get that was "for us" but took me right out of it.

However I will say I've just watched the trailer for Sunrise on the Reaping and that looks more like what I expected. It was just a trailer I know but the world just looked better and the casting seemed better too for some reason. It looks like it has life to it.

I dunno what it was with this movie but I just wanted it to be better in almost every way possible.

So it’s been about a year since I’ve read SOTR so forgive me if I miss something here but I’ve always wondered why snow didn’t just pull a beete on haymitch and reap his brother or girlfriend ( or perhaps both ) as a punishment ? It would’ve been a quite tragic lovestory for the capitol, haymitch being the only mentor for his sweetheart and having to watch her die ( because snow obviously wouldn’t let her win )

The 1st quarter quell was when the districts voted for their tributes but I was wondering, what if somebody volunteered? would they let that happen? Is their anything else that is a loophole?