Show Me Yesterday, For I Can't Find Today

"𝐒𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝, '𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡, 𝐢𝐭 𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞.' 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞, '𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐭.' 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐈 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭." -𝐇𝐚𝐲𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐞, 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 In memory of actress Hayden Panettiere who has sadly passed away at the young age of 36. August 21st, 1989 - August 16th, 2026

May she rest in peace. 🕊️

Modern "punks" have no idea what punk stands for. In other, more surprising news, water is wet. More on this at 11.

Seriously though, kids these days are so eager to lick boot and call it rebellion. If you say unalive instead of kill because you'll lose your funding, congratz, you let them censor you. "They'lltake away our revenue!" And? Rebellion comes with consequences, change is a fight, protecting your values comes at a cost.

both of these franchises talk about the same thing: the wealthy and privileged using their means to make vulnerable people an entertainment source.

The Capitol uses the Hunger Games not only as a way to control the population by fear, but also to keep their citizens desensitized to the horrors.

They do this by making the Tributes kill eachother and televise it, making them esentially a prop for their own narrative. And the Tributes don't have a say in it.

In the end, the Tributes are simply following orders. Orders that sometimes are explicit, and sometimes they're implicit "either do or die".

As explained by Katniss in Mockingjay:

Then, there's this parallel with Carl

Carl also recognizes that he's part of this TV show where his entire class is being wiped out. And the viewers love it. The only difference is that (in most cases) the crawlers don't kill each other, but they die facing the Dungeon (and even that changes from time to time, when the showrunners push for a certain narrative too).

What I'm saying is that Suzane Collins and Matt Dinniman are making the same point here: