I randomly thought of the chance of if lou lou even won the games what would happen to her? Would she be sent to Louellas family or killed in secret or something?

Like the book says only female can volunteer for female and male can volunteer for male, but if Peeta just got himself transitioned and become physically female, won't that make him capable of volunteering for Katniss in the third quarter quell and hence make him achieve his goal of protecting Katniss?

*This post isn't meant to be offending anyone, it's just for discussion about this random idea so feel free to tell me if my language makes you feel offended and i will change it if i see the comment

*sorry for anything that you might feel offended about i swear they really dont mean anything and are unintentional orz

I promise I’m not a hater. I’m a Hunger Games stan and rewatch these movies every single month. I’m very hyped for this new addition. However, when reading Sunrise on the Reaping, I never visualized this world having themes from the 70s/80s. Seeing all these colorful trailers, where the poorest people have flashy outfits, Afros and hoop earrings has me very confused I cannot lie. We know the districts are extremely poor. During the 10th hungers games everyone was dirty with ripped clothes and not a bright color in sight aside from Lucy Gray. During the 74th/75th games we get to see the same when we take a look at the other districts during different scenes such as the victory tour. I guess I never pictured the Hunger Games going through similar eras as modern America. It almost feels too campy. The districts were never supposed to be campier than the capital. I do, however, think it’s refreshing and I’m excited to see color come back into film and media, but like it’s not clicking for me for THIS movie just yet. So, without eating me up, could someone please help me understand? I already have my movie tickets and am very excited, but I’d prefer to watch the movie without raising an eyebrow everytime I see someone with bell bottoms. Lol 🫶🏽🏹

I'm partway through SOTR but have noticed a trend throughout the book in which multiple LLM tropes are thrown out in quick succession. This comes between prose much more in-keeping with Collins' typical voice.

As I say, this is something I've noticed throughout, but this section was particularly egregious:

Transparent wings tinted every color of the rainbow flash above me. They catch the firelight, making them shine like the hard candy in the Donners' shop window on a sunny day. It’d be something to admire, except each three-foot-wide pair of wings carries a vicious face and two back feet sporting four-inch curved claws. Genetically engineered bat muttations. Designed to shred me to slaw.
These creatures haven't broken out of a cage; they're a gift from the Capitol.
One hundred thirty-six, one hundred thirty-seven —
"Haymitch!" I hear Ampert cry out. "Catch!"
He releases the torch, which scatters the bat formation for a second, and I somehow manage to grab it. With my free hand, I begin to scale the ladder, waving the fire above my head. But these are no butterflies, simple to ignite and destroy; they are sinewy mammals that can turn on a dime. They evade my torch and begin to claw me, taking painful swipes at my shoulders and back, causing blood to flow. Climb I must, though, because the clock’s ticking and if I’m not above ground, I’ll be drowned for sure.

Genuinely, if this wasn't generated by a LLM, I don't know how it passed so many levels of revisions from Collins and her editors. It is only made more apparent by Collins' natural prose, which I can see clearly in neighbouring paragraphs.

I'm not sure if anyone else noticed this when reading. I understand that LLMs are scraped from popular books and it only makes sense that this kind of passage sounds like gen-AI if models were trained on the original trilogy, but it is disconcerting to read.

I feel like there’s so much potential for a game. What are your thoughts?

Planning my ticket buy. They list 3 screenings for SOTR at AMCs: regular (imax/3D/normal) sensory friendly and this one. This listing is only available at a few theaters near me, not all the AMCs. Any guesses?

Ok as we know the 3rd quarter quell, snow introduced the “existing victors rule” as a personal vendetta towards Katniss, to show all victors they could not revolt like her, and in an attempt to crush any hope in Panem.
So this makes me wonder if there was anything happening leading up to the second quarter quell that SC didn’t write into SOTR (or that I missed hehe) that made Snow want to enforce the super brutal “double the tributes” rule.
Like if there was a similar increase in rebels etc.
was just thinking about it :)

Feels like the perfect format to promote SOTR

Very curious to hear your ideas for her !

😭😭😭 I just want tickets!

SOTR spoilers

in the trilogy, after katniss shoots apple near game makers and haymitch cheers and the monologue where he says " they've already taken out on them , have a drink"

why would he recommend something like that after him acting the same rascal way got his family killed?

ofc there is a big distinction in shooting an apple and him trying to blow up the arena , but my point is that he understand how crazy snow is, why would you want them to risk it as well? especially considering katniss mom and dad were his friends prior to the stones