I warned you all that I was going to start Hunger Games Posting without irony or shame in 2020 and here it is:
People forget that “there was a romance in this book” was a twist ending in the first one. Like, that’s a surprise to the protagonist in the final pages. In the movies the romance is mostly acknowledged as genuine throughout it but in the books it’s presented to the protagonist and the audience as Fake Dating Trope and it’s not until the very end that they’re like “oh by the way nobody told Peeta it was Fake Dating”

















