Completely not twilight, I don’t have enough interest in hunger games for a hg sideblog, so this has to go somewhere
I think i liked TBoSaS the most out of all the HG books bcus it shows the Capitol as what it was before the “polishing.”
People didn’t give a flying fuck about the tributes, they just kidnapped these kids and sent them off to fight in this strange colosseum, and then it was over, and the Capitol people went back to their lives. They weren’t living lives of extreme extravagance yet, they were still normal ppl- AND IT HITS US IN THE FUCKING FACE WITH THE FACT THAT WE ARE THE FUCKING CAPITOL.
The conception of the Capitol in the original trilogy makes it easy for us to alienate ourselves from them. We look at the Capitol, and we too can think, “lmfao look at Effie Trinket’s hair. Wtf is up with Tigris’ face.” BUT WE ARE ALL FROM SOMETHING/SOMEWHERE. The Capitol is just a magnification of what the world actually is (very Brechtian if that means anything to you). The prequel shows us that the Capitol is a product of circumstance, not in an apologistic way, but in a carefully manufactured way. They’ve MANUFACTURED this kushy bullshit life after the Dark Days, and they’ve actively distanced themselves from district scum™️
The fact that the conception of the hunger games of now weren’t of any particular interest to anyone in the capitol, bcus as Coryo’s classmates even bring up- no decent person wants to watch children kill each other- but they’ve MANUFACTURED a reality where THIS is the HEIGHT of entertainment SLAPS. IT FUCKING SLAPS.
I don’t think Suzanne Collins ever wrote this boom thinking, I should make this Arendtian, bcus her characterisation of Snow is too “bad” to also hold the banality of evil within it, but ignoring what Suzanne Collins wanted to say, THIS BOOK SMACKS OF THE BANALITY OF EVIL
The hunger games were invented by a boy who was drunk off his fucking rocker because of his opportunistic best friend who just wanted a good grade. THE HUNGER GAMES WERE INVENTED BY A DRUNK TEEN WITH AN OVER ACHIEVING FRIEND.
EVIL ISN’T UNIQUE. IT IS NOT SPECIAL. IT IS EVERYWHERE AND EVERYTHING, BECAUSE EVIL BELONGS TO EVERYONE. EVIL PEOPLE ARE NOT UNIQUELY COLDHEARTED; THEY LACK CONVICTIONS, AND THEY ARE FOOLS.
Ofc this is not what suzanne collins was saying at all, but this is what i personally liked
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