he’s so real for not liking gale too much. katniss was just trying to survive and he’s like … “why don’t you love me?”😖 and people say peeta did this too but as we see on the train he immediately comes to his senses that he can’t hold that on her because she was just trying to survive. peeta showed so much growth in 30 minutes while gale just gets worse and worse.

also i understand it’s annoying that katniss had to go through this again, but it’s just very accurate to how much control snow and the system has and wants to target her.

peeta was the one who painted rue to honor her and also as kind of a f you to the judges.

The fact that Haymitch reaped in both quarter quells, 50th and 75th

You could tell the tributes were also protecting Peeta for Katniss. They need her to be physically and mentally well and to be that she needs Peeta alive and safe. That's why that girl sacrificed herself for him.

17:19 I still find it hilarious how they tried to make Gale do something heroic in the movie, resulting in that whipping… in the book, he was literally just caught carrying a dead turkey. 😆

51:18 Snow did something bad to Johanna, when she won her games the Capitol offers to sell her to male elites, she refuses and the Capitol punished her by slaughtering her entire family just like Haymitch.

They’re still in District 12 but moved to the Victors Village where victors are awarded their own houses. It’s a bit further than the Seam where Katniss grew up in and a good walk from Town where Peeta lived. The Victors Village has 12 houses built for the district victors and every district have them. They were also to receive money every month (enough to support 10 families) for the rest of their lives. Which means that when Peeta said they’d give a month of their earning to Rue and Tresh’s family every year, they’d be covered for life.

Haymitchs quell had double the amount of victors and won by bouncing an axe off the force field, killing the last tribute. Bc the Capitol saw this as defiance, his whole family was killed. Then he had to go on and mentor children who he watched die for 25 years.

Annie survived her games bc she was a strong swimmer and everyone else basically drowned. She has immense mental trauma from it and her and Finnick bonded over their shared trauma between the capitol and games.

Mentors of the games often take in a more parental form for the victors bc of how much time spent w each other. Plus w Katniss and Haymitch, he’s more of a father figure bc their trauma and Katniss lack of father figure. He’s one of the few she allows to console her. Who actually understands her. Who doesn’t forget how old she is.

I love this series so much omfg.

This is one of those films where the sequel was significantly better than the first film. I remember watching this as a 12yo and seeing that frame change during the arena scene and being so hyped and nervous at the same time.

Peeta is the one that drew the mural of Rue during the testing, knowing it would make Katniss mad bc that's when she truly shows herself

When Sophie said about Finnick: “That’s him knowing the secrets”

Boom: 🎯

“He. Can’t escape her. He hate her.”
OH YOU DONT EVEN KNOW THE HALF OF IT FR. 10:56

29:16 Peeta actually used his very limited time reserved to impress the judges to paint Rue. He knew Katniss was going right after him and knew that she's the most threatening when something touches her. He witnessed it many times; Katniss does best when she doesn't have the time to think about consequences of her actions and simply executes things. That scene is so perfect because you can see her getting fueled up at Rue's sight. You can see her go "You killed Rue? Well, in turn, with a few berries, I killed Seneca Crane, who was in your seat last year, so be careful for your life." It was definitely a threat which Peeta made possible.

If nobody told you, Joanna and some of the other people previous victors when talking to katniss or being around katniss they were being overtly sexual because they could tell how uncomfortable she was from that in the first games. Like there was some moments in the book where Peeta basically had to disrobe to get at certain wounds and whatever and she refused to look. It was even like that when. Gayle was brought back to her house after being whipped half to death and that was the intention the new head peacekeeper was intending on whipping him to death to send a message. So when they got him back to katnisses house and the mother and sister started taking care of him, they immediately took off all the clothes and started mixing up home remedies and they were told to gather snow from outside which they would mix with herbs to create something called a snow coat that they would put on the lacerations and she refused to look. She's very uncomfortable with that sort of thing. Her sister, who's 13 at this time didn't give a flying f*** that there was a naked man in the room but katniss was very uncomfortable

If nobody told you yet, katniss and Peeta are both 16 in the first book The second book is set a year later right before the next hunger games and the third book is directly following the second, so there's 17 and Mockingjay too. Keep in mind these are still kids. A lot of people forget that when watching these movies

Katniss is in the woods because she still helps Gale s family by hunting despite the fact she doesn t need those resources anymore. Gale refused to take any money from her so the least she does is hunt while he works in the mines. She lived in the Victor s village which is a part of district 12 specifically built for the victors of the games and only Peeta, Katniss, Haymitch and their families live there as of now

"They are about to insert a cannonball!"
"I think they just meant get a cannon ready cause it looks like Peeta will die"
"Oh"

I think the 3 fingers sign was okay to do for district 12 because it's their district's tradition

The problem with these movies is in order to sell the love triangle they upgraded Gale and downplayed Peeta. While the romance between Katniss and Peeta was a show they had to present it was actually real. However, you had a 17 year old who had big feelings she was having difficulty processing that she pushed down under a microscope being forced to be a distraction.  At the end of Catching Fire Katniss says “I trusted him [Haymitch]. I put what was precious [Peeta] in Haymitch's hands and he has betrayed me.”

Gale was never an actual option in the book. He was friend zoned and portrayed as Katniss’ cousin so that her only friend being interviewed during the 74th Hunger Games wasn’t a good looking male..

Peeta had rooted in Katniss’ heart with the bread that saved her and she kept tabs on him. In fact she was upset he was reaped after she had volunteered. Katniss also references several times their eyes would meet at school only to flit away from each other. I would argue if Katniss was the spark then Peeta was the air that allowed it to catch fire.

There is no love triangle in the book…it was always going to be Peeta. A lot of his stuff from the book was cut of the movie.

A sampling of Katniss thoughts on Peeta in Catching Fire.

***He manages to wake me and calm me down. Then he climbs into bed to hold me until I fall back to sleep. After that, I refuse the pills. But every night I let him into my bed. We manage the darkness as we did in the arena, wrapped in each other’s arms, guarding against dangers that can descend at any moment

***I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have chosen Gale and the rebellion, and a future with Peeta is the Capitol's design, not mine.

***So what should we do with our last few days?”
“I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you,” Peete replies.
“Come on, then,” I say, pulling him into my room.
It feels like a luxury, sleeping with Peeta again. I didn’t realize until now how starved I’ve been for human closeness. For the feel of him beside me in the darkness.

***I look up into those blue eyes that no amount of dramatic makeup can make truly deadly and remember how, just a year ago, I was prepared to kill him. Convinced he was trying to kill me. Now everything is reversed. I’m determined to keep him alive, knowing the cost will be my own life, but the part of me that is not so brave as I could wish is glad that it’s Peeta, not Haymitch, beside me

***Peeta and I sit on the damp sand, facing away from each other, my right shoulder and hip pressed against his.

After a while I rest my head against his shoulder. Feel his hand caress my hair.
"Katniss... If you die, and I live, there's no life for me at all back in District Twelve. You're my whole life", he says. "I would never be happy again."

I start to object but he puts a finger to my lips. "It's different for you. I'm not sayin it wouldn't be hard. But there are other people who'd make your life worth living." ... "Your family needs you, Katniss", Peeta says.
My family. My mother. My sister. And my pretend cousin Gale. But Peeta's intension is clear. That Gale really is my family, or will be one day, if I live. That I'll marry him. So Peeta's giving me his life and Gale at the same time. To let me know I shouldn't ever have doubts about it.

Everithing. That's what Peeta wants me to take from him.

"No one really needs me", he says, and there's no self-pity in his voice. It's true his family doesen't need him. They will mourn him, as will a handful of friends. But they will get on. Even Haymitch, with the help of a lot of white liquor, will get on. I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.

"I do", I say. "I need you." He looks upset, takes a deep breath as if to begin a long argument, and that's no good, no good at all, because he'll start going on about Prim and my mother and everything and I'll just get confused. So before he can talk, I stop his lips with a kiss.

I feel that thing again. The thing I only felt once before. In the cave last year, when I was trying to get Haymitch to send us food. I kissed Peeta about a thousand times during those Games and after. But there was only one kiss that made me feel something stir deep inside. Only one that made me want more. But my head wound started bleeding and he made me lie down.
This time, there is nothing but us to interrupt us. And after a few attempts, Peeta gives up on talking. The sensation inside me grows warmer and spreads out from my chest, down through my body, out along my arms and legs, to the tips of my being. Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of making my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.

***As I drift off, I try to imagine that world, somewhere in the future, with no Games, no Capitol. A place like the meadow in the song I sang to Rue as she died. Where Peeta’s child could be safe.

***When I wake, I have a brief, delicious feeling of happiness that is somehow connected with Peeta.

***By late afternoon I lie with my head in Peeta’s lap making a crown of flowers while he fiddles with my hair claiming he is practicing knots. After awhile his hands go still.

“What?” I ask.

“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever,” he says.

Usually this sort of comment, the kind that hints his undying love for me, makes me feel guilty and awful. But I’m so relaxed and beyond worrying about a future I’ll never have, I just let the word slip out.

“Okay,” I say. I can hear the smile in his voice. “Then you’ll allow it?”

“I’ll allow it.

***When Peeta holds out his arms, I walk straight into them. It's the first time since they announced the Quarter Quell that he's offered me any sort of affection. He's been more like a very demanding trainer, always pushing, always insisting Haymitch and I run faster, eat more, know our enemy better. Lovers? Forget about that. He abandoned any pretense of even being my friend. I wrap my arms tightly around his neck before he can order me to do push-ups or something. Instead he pulls me in close and buries his face in my hair. Warmth radiates from the spot where his lips just touch my neck, slowly spreading through the rest of me. It feels so good, so impossibly good, that I know I will not be the first to let go.

***I like to watch his hands as he works, making a blank page bloom with strokes of ink, adding touches of color to our previously black and yellowish book. His face takes on a special look when he concentrates. His usual easy expression is replaced by something more intense and removed that suggests an entire world locked away inside him. I've seen flashes of this before: in the arena, or when he speaks to a crowd, or that time he shoved the Peacekeepers' guns away from me in District 11. I don't know quite what to make of it. I also become a little fixated on his eyelashes, which ordinarily you don't notice much because they're so blond. But up close, in the sunlight slanting in from the window, they're a light golden color and so long I don't see how they keep from getting all tangled up when he blinks.

They surrounded the area in water because they didn't think Katniss could swim because district 12 doesn't have water like that. But when she was little her dad took them to a swimming hole in the woods ( where they technically aren't allowed to go) and he taught her how to swim

Thank you for actually respecting Peeta and what he did.