a thing that i particularly love about the hunger games prequels is how it shows that people have been fighting against the games since their inception
when i was younger and read the original trilogy for the first time i was so bothered how it was 74 years of games, i remember thinking how could it have gone on so long without anyone doing anything
these prequels highlight that people have been fighting from the get-go: lucy gray's defiance, reaper ripping down panem's flags to cover the fallen tributes, haymitch's games and how many others shared his ideologies - the capitol just drowns them out, they rewrite their stories so their efforts are forgotten
liberation takes time and it's built upon the actions of those in the past
and that the WHOLE THING was just meant to be a joke, a stupid, drunken idea that was never meant to see the light of day
i think about that often. That the guy who came up with the idea thought it vile. Thought it would just be a joke, a thing both promised to NEVER bring that to the light of day, and then one of them DID anyways
