History of Panem: Origin Story (Hunger Games Explained)

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7:59 "The district went on lock-down, and everyone was forced to stay in their house" - This did not age well.

I liked the fact that Coin wanted (as a totally corrupted president) to have new Hunger Games with the Capitol’s children, because it show that the history is often repeating itself and that, the rebels of the past are the ones deciding in the futur and when they’ve won, they can be as cruel as the previous leaders (even on innocent people)

Katniss made the decision to kill Coin when she realized that she was the one who dropped the bombs. One of her biggest turnoffs from Gale toward the end of Mockingjay was his ability to kill without empathy. Gale was also the one who designed the bombing trap at the Capital gates with Beetee, the same ones who killed Prim.

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Y'all know that Florida man is still chillin on one of the islands with a beer in one hand a shotgun in the other surrounded by alligators

A lot of you miss the subtle hints at Coin from the moment we meet her. She uses Katniss. Even Boggs tells her that Coin never wanted her, but Peeta, because he would be easier to control. Plutarch advocated for Katniss because he knows that she will spot the corruption on her own and he's counting on her to make the right decision. Katniss ends up killing Coin because she had time to observe her tactics and realized she's just as evil as Snow. You could argue she is even worse than Snow, because she's hiding behind a mask of righteousness, while Snow was always very straightforward about what he was doing and why. Katniss figuring out that Coin had bombed a pen full of children and then hearing her suggestion about holding a symbolic hunger games just reinforced her decision and provided the means for her to get close enough to assassinate Coin and break the cycle.

Everyone says Katniss was the start of the rebellion, but in reality, it was Rue. Fly high Rue

Isn't it kind of ironic that this all started cuz Katniss didn't want Prim to die in the Hunger games but then she ended up dying in the rebellion anyways?

Most of the world: "Wow, what a horrible way to live!" North Korea: Takes notes

I would love a movie prequel of Finnick Odair's hunger games, he was really one of my favourite characters throughout the story and seeing him die just left me heartbroken.

I feel like the hunger games has a special connection to the real world we live in that no other series has and a message for humanity that is so much deeper than any other series.

The first time I watched the movies and saw the Capital people, I said “Wow, it’s a town full of Jeffrey Stars”

Jeffree star would live in the capital.

What bothers me about this kind of stories is that they always end after the revolutionaries win. Hunger Games at least show a glimpse of reality when Coin proposes vengeance, but it is never realized. What happens then? Does Panem achieve stability? Are the human rights of capitol citizens respected? Does the new government manage to be more democratic? Do they manage to make Panem more equal or at least raise the living standard of the poorest 10%? Tldr, I's like for once to see a movie/read a book where taking down the evil empire happens half way through the story and the rest is all the troubles of building a stable democracy.

I love getting back into this series. I didn't realize how deep it was when I was a kid, it was just a love story, now I realize it's horror

i wouldn't suprised if katniss saw jeffree star outside her window in the capitol

So the black people are in Atlanta, are one of the poorest, on a plantation, get whipped and have the cruelest and largest amount of police armed in their district. That hit differently.

I think snow made district 12 the poorest with most of the people dark haired because that’s where Lucy came from and also why he was so hostile to katniss because she reminded him of Lucy.

There’s kind of an interpretation of Districts 1 that says that they’re not as rich as they’re perceived. Like yes they’re definitely one of the better-off districts but the story is told from the perspective of Katniss, whose definition of ‘rich’ is basically ‘can afford to eat’