The Awkward Teenage Years of Katniss Everdeen Explained

The comprehensive guide to the complete complete history and life of Katniss Everdeen: The Girl on Fire or The Mockingjay, from the Hunger Games Trilogy Explained. Taking you through her captivating story through Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games (2012), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014), and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015), as well as The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023).
From the ages of 16 through 18, Catnip was able to survive 3 Hunger Games in a row, the kind of Games that take place in a dystopian future, a game where two young representatives or “tributes” from one of the 12 districts are sent into an arena. Each of the 24 tributes have to eliminate their fellow tributes until one victor remains. During this, all of Panem is forced to watch. We see how Katniss is able to go from a tribute to a victor to The Mockingjay of the Second Rebellion. All thanks to President Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland).
We analyze Katniss Everdeen’s (Jennifer Lawrence) complicated relationship with Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) and Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsworth). Gale was full of fire like her, but she needed Peeta who was a Dandelion in the Spring.
We discuss how much Katniss loves her sister Primrose Everdeen (Willow Shields), enough to take her place in the games and volunteer as tribute. So, of course, we talk about the epic tale of Katniss and Gale acquiring a goat named “Lady” in order to gift it to Prim. Katniss basically became Prim’s mom, and Mr. Everdeen (Katniss’ dad left the world) and Ms. Everdeen (who apparently doesn’t have a first name) checked out.
Katniss was able to find unlikely alliances and friendships with Finnick Odair (Sam Claflin) and Johanna Mason (Jena Malone). How she was able to learn from Johanna how to no longer fear the Capitol's control over her family, loved ones and all of Panem. Also, how Finnick and Katniss bonded over the Capitol taking Peeta and Finnick’s love interest, Annie Cresta (Stef Dawson).
In this reaction, we get to see more character development from deleted scenes relationships with Bonnie and Twill, Madge Undersee and red headed Avox that I completely forgot the name of.
How similar Katniss’ experience with Rue (Amandla Stenberg) in the 74th was to Victor Haymitch Abernathy’s (Woody Harrelson) experience with Maysilee Donner (Stefania Barr) in Second Quarter Quell/ 50th Hunger Games.
I take you through almost the full history of the Hunger Games, from the 10th Games, to the 25th, the 50th (Haymitch’s Games), 74th, 75th and 76th; even President Alma Coin’s (Julianne Moore) proposal of the 77th Games. The kind of games hosted by Head Gamemakers like Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Seneca Crane (Wes Bentley).
In order to help you gain some better insight, I reference interviews with author Suzanne Collins and books like The Hunger Games: Tribute Guide by Suzanne Collins and Emily Seife.
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[@rafaelaoliveira1483]

I find it really interesting how Lucy Gray named the "katniss roots" and the last thing she said she was going to do was to collect the roots and then runs away from Snow. That may also be a reason why Snow hates Katniss. Her name represents the love he lost and everything he could have had

[@Anne-wf1vo]

He doesn't lose shit, Lucy knew he wouldn't hesitate to kill her too if it saved him. He was a backstabbing jerk and she was absolutely right to run away before he found out.

[@rafaelaoliveira1483]

@@Anne-wf1vo absolutely

[@alim.9801]

He maybe thought he loved her, but it felt more like he saw her is a pretty jewel to add to his crown as he ascends to the level how power he feels is his birthright

[@kennyc7501]

😢w

[@applebuttajeanz1920]

@@alim.9801yes! The whole part where he was focused on how "she was his girl" and getting jealous when she sang that song about her ex? He was possessive at best. She represented an opportunity to regain his family's good standing as well.

[@rachelm2657]

Peeta's mom had a husband that loved Katnis's mom...so ... She had to live with a man who loved another woman who loved a man enough to drop into the lower class. Then she watched Peeta her son look lovingly on what her husband wanted. Heck maybe she liked Katniss's father too but Peeta's dad was the best.

[@arianaperez626]

huhh???

[@denisablaskova3269]

​@@arianaperez626 peeta's dad had crush on Katniss's mom, but Katniss's mom fell in love with Katniss's dad as he could sing just like a songbird.

[@kuromi2880]

​@@denisablaskova3269 does peeta have a younger brother who wanted prim too? 💀

[@denisablaskova3269]

@@kuromi2880 i am certain He has only older brothers

[@kuromi2880]

@@denisablaskova3269 damn

[@leila9194]

in the books i feel like it makes more sense that katniss doesnt notice the tracker jackers. She is completely distracted by her wounds and the tracker jackers are not active, because of the smoke of the fire.

[@audreymcneal]

District 12 is not the primary power source, in fact they barely make a dent. As you mentioned, the more efficient district that produced power actually supplied the vast majority of energy. That’s why no one cared about it and they were left alone until after Katniss started inciting the revolution.

[@dionemoolman]

You do get the idea that district 12 was a district in decline over time. Given the peacekeeper numbers necessary in the prequel it gives the impression 12 was a lot bigger in the past, which implies that over time it’s population has been dwindling. I suspect 12 was much more important in the centuries past when Panem was founded and was dragging itself out of post apocalypse, but as they transitioned to clean energy (and the primary power generation being moved to 5), it got economically weaker. I suspect initially many people were moving out before movement was banned, while afterwards it naturally died out due to disease and malnutrition placing them below repopulation level. Also makes sense given just how small 12 is (10000 in the main series despite Panem likely having a population in the millions).

[@benamisai-kham5892]

​@@dionemoolmanI think it's kinda beautiful, because I'm from the Appalachian area and a lot of those big mining towns are either ghost towns or barely populated compared to 50-100 years ago. Even my home village used to have a much much larger population now it's hardly 600. It's just like real mining towns that boomed big and are dying out slowly now. The technology took a while to catch up and still isn't fully there.

[@EmelyPhan]

He then mentioned District 5 and electricity

[@nope19568]

if i remember correctly theyre almost entirely responsible for the tessery rations and district power tho, not the capitol but the districts definitely benefit

[@бронза.вафля.конус]

​@@dionemoolmancoal is for the districts since they don't have electricity besides the Victor's village and the stupid projector TVs.

[@caroladelatorre831]

Thank you for this! I've always felt bad for Katniss not having a regular teenage experience, she was forced to adulthood quickly due to her family and district circunstamces. Loved it.

[@thatbeaatcch9884]

Most of them did except for those raised in harsher districts

[@diy_cat9817]

She wouldn't have a childhood as long as she lived in district 12

[@isabelateixeira3713]

Idk how unpopular this opinion is but here I go: Finnick’s death was the perfect literary device. The stakes were built perfectly. Suzanne Collins built him up as an amazing character, and his death was incredibly effective in portraying the situation the characters were in that moment and how devoted he was to the cause of the rebellion. I just wish the movie portrayed more of their friendship. I love how this YA book series built such a genuine and compelling friendship between a man and a woman, when the genre is known for making female protagonists fall in love with any man they come in contact with.

[@christinestreeter8566]

A lot of people say Finnicks death was pointless or it happened so quick and was brushed over…but imo that was kind of the point. People die pointlessly in war, in war death happens fast and there’s little to no time to grieve or even register the losses happening around you. Finnick knew there was a chance he would die and he was willing to take that chance to be free. His death destroyed me in a way that I’ve never felt before with a book character death, it was crucial to really drive home the devastation and grief of the situation.

[@TheOtherBoobJustDropped]

I agree. Finnick’s death says so much about his character and also about the state of war. If Collins had kept the main characters alive and only killed off the less crucial ones, it would’ve been cheap. That’s not how war works - war doesn’t care that you love someone, it doesn’t care what a great guy someone is. Finnick didn’t have to die, Finnick deserved better, and yet he’s dead anyway. That’s the point.

[@nmoney6655]

My mom was just saying the same thing because Finnick had to die for the story to work and plus: Suzzane Collins dad served in Vietnam so he witnessed firsthand little kids and innocent people dying

[@bethoney96]

I have consumed 100s, maybe 1000s of hours of hunger games content and you have explained things I’ve never understood before. Thank you 😊

[@jito7377]

Like 80% of this video are indirect quotes from the books. It sounds so funny to hear a sentence from first person perspective to third person. How did you feel about it?

[@MsJersey3]

read the books, he gets many things Wrong.

[@IRINA___]

I love that the Hunger Games have become popular again lately. There have been a lot of interesting videos on KZbin over the past few months.

[@genera1013]

Probably because of the new movie

[@JustDuckiest]

I really wish they had kept the bit where Katniss loved Cinna's sketches, and Plutarch giving her the sketch of the Mockingjay battle suit when she is ready to lead the rebellion. It would have been easy to slip in, and I think would give her that extra motivation to fight back, knowing her dear friend believed in her.

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

I'm at least glad that Cinna's sketches made it into the final cut

[@libbyrose2661]

I think it is also interesting how suzanne used the same incident between Dean highbottom and Gale, in the sense that they both proposed a purely theoretical idea, that got used without their permission or consent to hurt people in the most horrific way and they both spent the rest of their lives regretting and unable to take back what that idea brought on. Both characters lost significant relationships to the result of those ideals.

[@lavinder11]

Not quite. Gale pushed his idea. He gave absolute consent and defended it.

[@Gorlax23]

Most monologuing youtubers bore me, but your random interjections of comedy made this a refreshing watch. You played the line well enough to be entertaining w/o straying far from the informative format of your video. Thank you and keep up the good work.

[@yagirl177]

Why would you watch a commentary video if you hate commentary videos? 💀

[@Gorlax23]

@@yagirl177 re read the comment and try again my friend.

[@hotcrazycatladyme168]

Yes he did burn the bread on purpose. At least it said so in the books. It was the only way he could feed her, because he knew his mother would tell him to feed it to the pigs.

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

Yes!

[@sammyc6594]

i think its mentioned quite a bit too in the movies

[@avicadotoasted]

Prim should get an award for being one of the most important characters who are crucial to the story while simultaneously doing nothing

[@clover2739]

Maybe I’m confused with what doing nothing means but doesn’t she not help heal injure people, as well as help katniss throughout her mental breakdowns and tells katniss that she can demand for anything being the mockingjay which allowed her to have the captured victors rescued and have immunity and she also was the biggest help with Peeta’s hijacking therapy in district 13, with suggesting the reverse hijacking instead

[@avicadotoasted]

@@clover2739 yeah but she didn't play a key part in the story until she died

[@clover2739]

@@avicadotoasted that’s still not doing nothing, but I also don’t agree with she didn’t play a significant part until she died. She was significant from the beginning

[@iamalex304]

@@clover2739 omg the person doesn't mean literally, they meant insignificance to the damn story.

[@clover2739]

@@iamalex304 no they don’t? They said she had no significance in the story until she died which is a false statement?

[@solarium1]

peeta burned the bread intentionally, he said it in mockingjay ❤ so cute

[@Skye_Writer]

I came to the comments to say exactly this. And his mother beat him over the head for it.

[@mik1of3]

Me too!

[@Hannah_G]

An amazing analysis! One very tiny nitpick though is that Katniss wasn’t making necklaces of rope with her dad, she was making them with a three year old Primrose and when her mom and dad walked in on them putting the necklaces on each other, that’s when Mrs.Everdeen started yelling.

[@MizMima]

It's crazy how there are people in our present time living in an open air prison exactly like district 12, rather waaaay worse. There's always hope though and a promise of freedom.

[@amana_2002]

@@s.m.a8182 life must be so easy when you believe anything and everything biased news companies feed you. Also, it's very convenient of you to not mention the fact that isnotreal has been actively committing genocide against Palestinians since 1948, but jump at the chance to say "BuT HaMaS". Did you watch the hunger games movies with your eyes and ears glued shut? How can you miss the point so pathetically?

[@nat2002]

@@s.m.a8182 and just like in that same scene, the true bad guy was the one dropping bombs on kids in the first place

[@cult_of_odin]

We all yearn for freedom from Yankee tyranny.

[@MajorJakas]

Rural Ohio is a living nightmare.

[@caramelbilquees]

Palestine reminds me of this especially when the Israeli were stealing all their water for their swimming pools while the Palestinian children died because they had no water to drink

[@allverlife]

Bryce's eyes sparkling while explaining the heck out of the lore of the Hunger Games is just giving me the feels. I just love it!

[@helRAEzzzer]

I can't stop rewarching your two hunger games videos! They are so well done! Peta next, please! I'd love one on Effie, Snow, Gale, Haymitch, Plutarch, Finnik, so on and so forth! The districts and capital, too! And the Dark days! Just keep em coming!

[@michaeloyaski7602]

Weighing here with some facts on bread. So in the time of my grandparents bread was not only a staple but a necessity of life here in the Appalachians. For example my grandmother had to constantly make loaves of bread every week while doing chores around the farm. For her it was filled with seeds and not uniformly cut. On the flip side my grandfather who grewup near the mines and lived with his dad and siblings. Sliced bread was cheap and sold at the company store. To my grandfather homemade bread would have been the equivalent of cake it was a rarety to him and same for my grandmother since she didn't live near a mine but in effectively the woods sliced bread wasn't easy to come by. So when they'd hangout or go on dates they'd bring a loaf to exchange.

[@Skye_Writer]

💖

[@Bugaboo173]

That is the cutest thing ever! ❤

[@CrazyxAngel93]

I died laughing at “oh my carnivorous squirrels.”😂

[@laurelsilberman5705]

Each time you cut off Katniss’s most iconic line, “I volunteer as tribute!” a little bit shorter than the last, I laugh even harder😂 why is that so funny?

[@SoleilandSoul]

I love the interspersed clips of Katniss yelling. I find it warmly funny.

[@chaoticzippy7440]

the way he talks is like listening to your friend ramble it's so funny

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

Rad, I'm so happy to hear that!

[@mzmendy]

I'm re-watching this playlist in honor of haymitch getting his own story. And, I have to say, congrats on coming soooooo far with your channel since I started watching your Black mirror videos. Good job on the hustle buddy. Hope all is well.

[@thereview4694]

Woah, I don’t think I realized how much of a big deal it was for Haymitch to not let his glass be filled until now. Like, it’s an obvious detail, I just hadn’t connected those dots till your video

[@ThatClamWiam]

Playing less of the i volunteer scene every time is so good 36:42

[@sophiaisabelle027]

We appreciate how well you've articulated your insights. Keep working hard.

[@absolutecreature7217]

let’s be real, we all freaked out when we heard Lucy Gray mention katniss roots lmao

[@prezroll]

IMHO, it was pretty on the nose. Not sure if it was even in the book.

[@cupcakkeg3205]

At 6:19 I thought that they took blood samples so the knew that the right person was there for the reaping

[@ThePinkDragon]

Petta is a goldenretriver

[@learnwithrobyn1914]

Yes.

[@ThePinkDragon]

@@learnwithrobyn1914 my favorite dog

[@shilomilne2894]

Petta was concerned that Katniss would choose Gale, then he blew up her sister and the game was over, lol

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

Gale was his own worst enemy

[@anushajain8198]

Peeta was never concerned, and even if the bomb thing didn't happen,she had already choosen peeta,she herself admitted it multiple times in 2nd book and in the 3rd book as well

[@mickeyc2137]

even if he didnt do that I don't think she was choosing him anyway or at least not long term

[@awa__phella2035]

"which are really the worst odds" rue: am i a joke to you?

[@justineharper3346]

My home state is West Virginia, which, fun fact, is the only state completely covered in mountains. I always loved the idea that Katniss could have lived close to where I’m from. You don’t get many heroes coming out of Appalachia

[@benamisai-kham5892]

My home state is Ohio, I grew up along the river right across from West Virginia and it excited me too, just the idea that someone from my general area (even in the future) could be such a cool protag just using knowledge passed generation to generation and having trauma that made her grow up too fast.

[@mushuvfx2093]

i love how you talked about the Theseus & minotaur parallels!

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

Thank you, I liked doing the historical comparisons too, I really want to do that more in the future

[@mik1of3]

At the end of the Mockingjay audio book, Collins talks about in detail her inspiration for this story, and that was it. Very interesting!

[@Kaelinhana]

Watch these videos on repeat all the time and idky😭 never read the books nor watch the movies often but love these videos

[@totokuma9041]

Amazing video! These hunger games videos make me so happy as a die hard fan. Even though the names are technically unknown, the most popular names for them in the fandom are Willow and Rye. I would really love to see videos on Ballad and a more deep dive on Peeta’s life. Those would be fantastic! 🕊️🐍🥖

[@kristenbuchter4915]

I’ve watched this video probably 20 times. Hilarious and relaxing. Thank you! Please give us more.

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

You're too kind, more on the way!

[@sammyc6594]

thank you for your humeros tangents of the hunger games ( my new hyper fixation & favorite new series). it has brought me alof of peace before-during- post breakdowns!

[@joshd6769]

I like that they have black and white photos like 300 years in the future

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

Right, really shows how much they wanted to keep that district in the dark

[@Amanda_Woodward]

This has nothing to do with this video I’m just watching the part where he said, “when he stopped existing“ and the other term KZbinrs use, unaliving yourself“… Does anyone think it’s absolutely ludicrous that we are being treated like children? What is with this censorship? It really is out of control

[@dani.4660]

vids like this can get demonitised or removed for violating guidelines just for saying the actual term, unfortunately :/ a lot of other creators find other ways to say such things or they censor it

[@sammyiel9626]

​@@dani.4660your message was useless. They know that. They're saying how this is stupid. How the censorship is so bad. Why are y'all so dumb sometimes

[@thelastwish558]

Yeah I hate how KZbin and TikTok force creators to censore themselves like that.

[@EspeonMistress00]

Because advertisers hate it so YT hates it.

[@bradyvoyles6101]

It's like walking into Popeyes if they were like aye nigga what u want vs thanks for coming to Popeyes ect they'd go bankrupt

[@creaturexxii]

1:57 Come to think about it, there are barely any cars in the original Hunger Games series (the movies). I only saw one car in the first Hunger Games movie and that was to transport Katniss and Peeta to the train station in District 12. In Catching Fire and Mocking Jay there's military vehicles used by the peacekeepers and supply trucks by the rebels but no civilian passenger cars. Despite the lack of cars, there's a lot of trains in the Hunger Games movies. There's the freight train hopper cars that say "Capitol Coal" in the background during the Reaping. There's the high-speed train that transport Katniss and Peeta to the Capitol. There's the train used by Capitol loyalist in The Nut in District 2. And there's the underground metro train that transported peacekeepers and their military vehicles during the defence of the Capitol. Needles to say, even within the wealthy, high-tech Capitol, the Capitol citizens move around via walking and public transit. So it was strange to see cars in the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes because throughout the original trilogy, there weren't any passenger cares. Ever since getting interested in urban planning, transit, trains, and the negative effects of car-centric infrastructure, I pay attention to the urban design of fictional cities. For all intents and purposes, the Capitol by the 75th Hunger Games is a pedestrian and transit oriented utopia which I guess is the point because as ironic as it sounds, in many sci fi movies, a futuristic city is one where cars and car-centric design is absent. The Capitol could be designed to be car-free to make it look like a utopia as a cover to hide the dark nature of it, to which I believe the designers did a great job. Who knows, maybe since it looks like Snow almost got ran over by a car when he was walking to the statue within the roundabout that's why he banned cars lol. Regardless, it's interesting to analyze the urban design of fictional cities. And ever after the rebels defeated President Snow, they more or less use the same trains and urban design as before as they use the high-speed train to transport Katniss and Peeta back to District 12. So yeah, modern society where even our fictional dystopias have better city design than in real life lol.

[@benlang1678]

It’s also to symbolise how people have little freedom under the Capitol. We know the Capitol becomes stricter and more oppressive as time went on, so it makes sense that when Snow is young, there are a decent amount of cars. In the trilogy when Snow is president, there are almost no cars, representing the loss of freedom over time.

[@creaturexxii]

@@benlang1678 The notion that cars automatically equal freedom is a misguided mindset (what, I'm interested in urban planning, specifically the cycling infrastructure of the Netherlands, how much freedom is there being stuck in LA style traffic and having to drive to do absolutely anything?) but yeah, President Snow definitely restricted the movement of people both within the Capitol and Districts. Though cars, planes, and trains are merely modes of transportation that can be used for good or and bad, and knowing that trains are the most efficient mode of transport, it's not surprisingly that the Capitol uses freight trains to transport coal out of District 12. Besides, it seems like the rebels more or less reuse the transportation infrastructure of the Capitol.

[@amandaravello]

The picture of Madge is what made me like this video and subscribe to your channel 😂.

[@decadenzado]

“the role of mother” and she still on that role to this day

[@SheffKane]

great video, I was hooked! shocked to hear about characters that didn't make it in the movies

[@DailyCommentorr]

I always thought Effie symbolizes Madge’s friendship with Katniss in a way, especially early on

[@thecomplainerdv]

this is amazing. so smart and beautiful and a comforting voice. thank you for your hard work and time to make this video.

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

Thank you so much for watching!

[@reneeott1556]

Thanks for this video. It was a really good watch.

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

So happy to hear that!

[@amandamonacoschaub8101]

So glad this was recommended to me! Amazing content! 🎉

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

So glad to hear! 🥳

[@amber9830]

I've been a huge fan of thg for the last like 7 years and i learned so many things i didnt know or noticed before from this video

[@AfricanGoddessAmericanPrincess]

Hollywood so full of it, they can make movies like this and in real life be clueless. They wud call Katniss a terrorist and say the bombing is self defense, all the kids dying in the hunger games would be ignored and anyone standing up for them would be shunned.

[@fodonogue3]

Seeing similar things happen right now with a specific “Ohio” location… 75 years of oppression, manipulation, lies, starvation, senseless murder, bombing, endless atrocities.

[@surun9392]

Thank you for your great videos! I just came from your last video and had so much fun watching both! :D

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

I'm so happy to hear that!

[@bailatwerski2951]

Thank You for another imformative video

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

Thank you for watching, more on the way!

[@authormdluna]

Got so excited when I saw this in my feed! Thank you!

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

Thank you for watching!

[@catmar123ful]

Thanks!

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

Thank you @catmar123ful!

[@neoream3606]

Thank you. I wish that their way a full book that went into the full history.

[@ehe2707]

awesome video! i watched the whole thing i really love how you explained everything

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

That's incredible, I'm really glad to hear that!

[@davidmducc]

Love these Hunger Games videos :)) KEEP IT UP!!!

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

Thank you! More on the way!

[@elalala576]

wow she was only 11 when her dad died and mom checked out mentally? I wonder why they used an obviously much older katniss in that scene

[@Masha_Sulym]

Because it was not quite a memory but rather hallucinations and dream. She is even wearing games jacket in that scene.

[@m.r.1677]

​@@Masha_Sulym I always thought, that the movies just didn't want to cast a jounger Katniss and Peeta, thanks for the explanation.

[@Skye_Writer]

@@m.r.1677It is actually possible that they didn't want to in order to keep down expenses. The budget for the first movie is only $78 million, which isn't as much as it sounds like it is; the 2nd film was given almost twice that amount. Remember, at the time the books were acquired for film, they weren't household names like Harry Potter or (God help us) Twilight, where people were lining up outside of bookstores for midnight releases. Additionally, it might have been very easy for audiences to not understand who the Katniss and Peeta were in those flashback scenes. As someone who saw the first film without having read the book, I was a little confused about the family dynamic myself, wondering why Katniss seemed cold towards her mom. Watching Jennifer Lawrence in that scene begging her mom to speak to her helped me understand that she had been forced to take over the mother role because her mom had checked out mentally and emotionally. But had they used an actual 11 year old, I don't know that I would have known that was supposed to be Katniss without an even younger Prim hanging on to her and saying her name.

[@m.r.1677]

@@Skye_Writer I guess your right about that, because other movies have expensive techniques to make the audience understand flashbacks, like casting younger people but putting the older actors face on them in editing (just like it was done in stranger things) but with some changes in writing like taking the exact same spot, blending over from the older actors face to the younger one's and writing '5 years ago' on the screen would have been enough and not been too expensive. But you're probably right about the popularity and the money.

[@izzieluv]

It was like 5 seconds so they probably didn't want to hire and pay another kid.

[@amaryxxx3738]

Okay now i gotta rewatch the whole series now

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

lol

[@ArcticViper]

The humour in this video is gold

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

Thank you 🥹

[@dmvmeu7140]

'I volunteer as tribute!!' 'I volunteer--' 'I vo-' 'I-'

[@Jake38nine]

It's not F'ed up that GReasy Sae sold wild dog meat. You do what you have to do to survive. Katniss would've killed their pet cat for food if it wasn't for Prim pleading for her not too. Saying it's F'ed up is privileged and unempathetic because these people were STARVING TO DEATH. I would NEVER call someone F'ed up for eating an animal we see as a household pet just to survive. Plus, they're WILD. What's the difference of Katniss selling a wild rabbit over a wild dog? Literally nothing.

[@XanderMatthews-nv9zf]

If you were to drop dead in your house, your dogs would have very little reservation towards eating you too

[@xfirefeather]

Logically I know the kids never had their names mentioned, but I can only see Katniss' daughter having the name Willow. I was writing a book report on the Hunger Games books for school and I made mention of her kids. I thought for sure I read that her daughter's name was Willow, but I couldn't remember her son's name. So I went back to the books and spenhalf an hour reading and rereading the epilog, trying to find where the kids names were.

[@lindseygarciafreiberg]

oh my gosh and Prim was played by an actress named Willow that would be so perfect

[@xfirefeather]

@@lindseygarciafreiberg I actually didn't know that XD

[@lindseygarciafreiberg]

@@xfirefeather oh my goodness!! yeah her name is Willow Shields :)

[@trumpetmom8924]

When I was reading Of Snakes and Songbirds, I drew the conclusion that Katniss’ father is/was related to Lucy Grey Baird’s family. I thought he was likely the son of one of her siblings or cousins. That could be where he learned the songs and passed them down to Katniss, especially The Hanging Tree.

[@chanbang378]

Yeah, I thinking Maude Ivory would make the most sense!

[@mik1of3]

I believe Collins confirmed that Maude Ivory was Katniss’ grandmother.

[@chanbang378]

@@mik1of3 nope. She didn’t confirm anything at all.

[@Wargatron]

In the books it’s implied VERY heavily that Gale and Madge started a relationship while Katniss went into the games.

[@alim.9801]

Omg I don't remember that??

[@hadleymalfoy315]

How? I'm genuinely curious.

[@Wargatron]

@@hadleymalfoy315 honestly it’s a bunch of little things. I’d just Google “Gale and Madge relationship.”

[@hughduffy213]

It’s not “very” heavily implied at all. Haymitch remarks that there might be something between them when Madge brings morphing for Gale after he’s lashed in the square in Catching Fire.

[@Swerv0.]

You sure we read the same books???

[@jazziered142]

I'm surprised that the people in the districts weren't given test and then assigned to the region they were best apt to serve. I mean it would be a shame to waste a mathematical genius to be relegated to go down into the mines.

[@modanislove]

Isn't that the whole plot of divergent

[@clover2739]

That would require actual giving everyone more knowledge of a wide variety of things in their childhoods and having them know more about other districts. The whole point is always keeping them separated and having each district only know certain things to keep them all apart. People are only knowledgeable of what their districts knows and teaches them and that’s it

[@Blake1720]

It’s a situation of where you are born, that’s where you belong and no working your way up. It’s like being in a cast system.

[@EspeonMistress00]

Divide and conquer would be harder if you do that

[@lizzybeary]

​@@modanislove I immediately thought,"Like Divergent!"😂

[@melissaisloud7404]

Personally I feel that Snow saw a bit of himself in Katniss when she volunteered for Prim at the Reaping. His mother passed giving birth to his little sister who also passed. I think unconsciously he saw in Katniss the sibling he intended & hoped he would have been to his own baby sister. Thats why he takes such a special interest in Katniss. He sees a better version of himself in her. A version of who he could have been had he had a baby sister to care for.

[@nmoney6655]

One thing about that: the age doesn’t add up so you telling me that a 17 year old girl reminded Snow of his sister when his sister died when he was around 12-14 years old come on I’d rather say he saw Katniss as a granddaughter

[@melissaisloud7404]

@@nmoney6655 No, I’m saying the type of sacrificing sibling Katniss was is what Snow thought he would be for his own sibling. Katniss reminded Snow of himself (or who he could have been) had his sister survived. Prim gave Katniss something to put ahead of herself and her ambitions. Snow could have very well felt the same about his own baby sister, that feeling of protective ownership, and that would have changed his viewpoint and trajectory completely.

[@chickenwaffle8]

If you at least watched the movies, you would know that district 12 is not the main source of power. For one, they have dams that generate hydroelectric energy to power Panem.

[@w4lk3r_vsp]

THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FOR THE GREAT INFO

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

THANK YOU FOR WATCHING

[@Plan__Z]

Katniss Everdeen: The girl who…climbed trees

[@nmoney6655]

Yess!

[@artisticplant5987]

Wasn’t district 12 filled with 10,000 people? Because in one of the other movies after the district is bombed and almost everyone in it dies, Gale makes a comment about how our of 10,000 people 9 thousand something died. There are so many small inconsistencies in this video that tend to add up..

[@nuhuhuhhhhhhh]

Yeah he got district 13 wrong as well, they supplied graphite not nuclear power

[@sp8cescience433]

I thought district 13 was nuclear weapons? It's been awhile since I've read the books but I rewatched the movies recently and it's pretty heavily implied.

[@niebxszczyk]

@@nuhuhuhhhhhhh the capitol said that graphite was the main industry as a propaganda, they wanted to conceal the actual purpose of the district

[@returntosoilgumiho]

the book and the movie are very different in some aspects. He is very accurate actually and one can tell he has read the books a bunch of times and also watched the movies.

[@faithgoga3983]

@@nuhuhuhhhhhhh according to the songbirds and snakes book, the Snow family had invested in nuclear power in district 13.

[@ethanlackey8048]

Finnick was my favorite character! His death shook me hard.

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

Same! I don't like watching Mockingjay Part 2 specifically because of that scene

[@TheAshleyShadow]

I lost it when you said Katniss' mom was afk.

[@klvfu]

Wow I never realized we don’t know the name of Katnisse’s mom 😮 Loved your video and charisma

[@citigirlcountrified1927]

It's mrs everdeen 😅

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

Thank you so much!

[@ceyx1201]

Katniss was born Dec. 8, 58th Hunger Games. 😅😊

[@zorahswan]

Knew she was a sag duh ♐🏹

[@vicious5367]

No, she was born on may, 8th

[@XanderMatthews-nv9zf]

I love when Thread goes into District 12 and immediately is like “Why the f*ck isn’t this fence on?!?”

[@бронза.вафля.конус]

No, they knew she was in the woods, there are cameras in there

[@XanderMatthews-nv9zf]

@zvezdoblyat I mean yeah, mine was mostly comedic Also there are not cameras everywhere in the woods, they’re on the outskirts of 12 and they catch Gale kissing Katniss right before he goes to the hob

[@бронза.вафля.конус]

@@XanderMatthews-nv9zf sorry, I'm talking about the books. There are cameras in the woods. Not everywhere, but much deeper than just the outskirts. I'm pretty sure that the Avox girl that Katniss knew was caught in the woods running away with her boyfriend because of that.

[@XanderMatthews-nv9zf]

@@бронза.вафля.конус that sounds a like a good fan theory, but as far as canon goes I believe Lavinia was already fleeing as an enemy of the Capitol It’s never explicitly stated if the Avox girl was a criminal prior or because she was fleeing the Capitol

[@бронза.вафля.конус]

@@XanderMatthews-nv9zf I guess we'll never know since she can't speak. I always thought that she ran away into the woods with her boyfriend like Gale and katniss were talking about. But I don't think that the Capitol would overlook that possibility, which is why I think there are cameras in the woods. Even in the first movie, the arena is completely normal looking, but there's that scene of katniss up in a tree and she hears the sound of a camera refocus coming from inside the tree. I think they would have put surveillance everywhere in the districts like that just in case the peacekeepers don't do their job. Also, I just remembered in the second book when Snow visits her house in the Victor's village, he explicitly mentions her frequently hunting in the woods with Gale, and she starts to worry since he says treasonous things often when they're hunting. Even after all these years, the theories about the series are always fun and interesting!

[@WinchesterxNL]

This video is the reason why I'm going to watch the Ballad of Snakes and Songbirds

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

That's amazing to hear!

[@AbbeyWeston]

I put off watching this video because I thought it would be bad, but after watching it, it’s one of my favourite vids from this channel ❤

[@ellipszilonq]

I'm honestly shocked by how well this tribute from the algorithm could hold my attention so well

[@gcfkm]

THE BREAD WAS INTENTIONAL HE TOOK A BEATING FOR HER 😭😭

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

YES haha

[@TheMiddleOfFourteenSidlings]

29:47 lol I still cry every time and I don’t know why I know it’s coming but it gets me every time

[@whatdoiputhere9618]

Bruh “awkward teenage years” 😂 More like traumatizing

[@ceyx1201]

This. It's like the grandfather of your grandfather teenage years battling wars, innocent and detemined

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

lol

[@Ardentbluesky89]

What if Clerk Carmine was the goat man?? Lucy Gray said they were thinking of starting a herd and he was the youngest! 🤯🤣

[@marysartorius5751]

That's an insane thought crazy dude

[@candelariagarlot8666]

This is the Ultimate HG summary

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

You're too kind!

[@AlaskaBoyAlex]

Hey I'm sure this video is great but I haven't rewatched these movies since they came out, so I'm gonna come back to it. Just wanted to make a cheeky little comment asking if there will be more Black Mirror episodes at any point? The ones you made on Joan is Awful and Lock Henry were so good!!!

[@RoundYellowThing]

0:08 *Rue with 60-1 odds sitting in the corner* 🌝

[@Ella-g5g7k]

Can I just say, I love how the play button's just stuffed in the corner 🤣

[@mr.science.451]

It makes sense putting a drug factory in 12, the coal district. The first synthetic organic chemicals were made from coal derivatives. Those precursors would be handy for drug manudacture.

[@Ahoykatieee]

I feel like the birth rate would plummet if something like the hunger games existed. Why have kids if there’s a chance they’d get murdered before the age of 19??? Is that ever covered in the story?

[@kristinoatley4710]

this is a really good point! i'd never thought about it before but yeah!

[@maggiecramer8154]

It's implied that that is a reason why the population is so depleted but they also don't have any access to birth control

[@Inthepotwithdiogenes]

It is slightly addressed with a few of katniss's lines, at least in the ways that affect her. I think she says she's never going to have children at some point, with the games being the motivation. Even when she does have kids, its takes over a decade for katniss to feel safe enough that any children she would have would not have to live through reapings (at least thats how i take the "after x years i finally agreed to have kids with peeta" part of the epilogue as an adult. absolutely hated it as a kid 😂). I dont know if we know anything about birth control access in the hunger games, but i expect a lack of access to birth control methods would be why people still have kids-- but its worth keeping in mind that there are people in awful circumstance who do make the intentional choice to have children and they will have their own reasoning behind it. It also has not been that many generations since the hunger games began-- we are only on number 75 by the end, after all. But, man, thats such an interesting question and asks so many others. Were birthrates worse during the first dozen hunger games when it was an unglorified execution? How does the previous war skew that data? On the other side of the coin, wasn't there like one line in the series that alluded to some career tributes coming from families where multiple children are born with the goal of one of them becoming a victor?

[@samuquinhaplay5708]

I'm glad Geasy sae survives in the movies because it was really sad when Madge died. We mostly care about Peeta, Gale, Katniss family and etc but I feel like Madge's character despite not appearing much was important, she was part of why Katniss had some happiness in earlier life and its also sad that the family of someone like Maysilee still died in the end despite the horrors Maysilee had to endure.

[@bobatea3474]

The fact that I watched this movie without ever reading the books and knew that the fence was, essentially, meant to be a prison for the people in the district.

[@ripof365]

Bro tailbone time is my new favorite phrase.

[@lexxwippel]

i made a.. v e r y long comment and ALL OF IT GOT DELETED when my computer died.. but with a huge bage of honer i place on this video and depth of it. Fucking respect. As someone who has this world picked apart to the blood cells of it. You did it justice. fuck im so mad the text is gone

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

So glad to hear you liked it, thank you!

[@Evelyn_347]

Has anyone else realised this? Its a small detail but it caught my eye. When it's talking about Cinna and how he made stuff for Katniss and did the stitching on Annie's wedding dress. However, Annie's and finnick's wedding is after the 75th hunger games and Cinna gets beaten to death (WHY CINNNA WHY?! R.I.P CINNA 😭😭😭💀💀💀) before it as Katniss is getting risen up on the podium. So the question is, Was Annie's dress premade before Cinna died, was it a store brought one with the designer being Cinna or was the piece saying cinna did the stitching on Annie's dress incorrect?

[@mik1of3]

I believe it was one of Katniss’ wedding dresses he made for everyone to vote on in Catching Fire.

[@thesuperviewer3226]

Great video

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

Thank you!

[@starbasednews5830]

47:02 Wait that’s the Mariot in Atlanta I’ve been there

[@lizzyholt]

she sang the hanging tree after finding out he murdered three. the symbolism is overwhelming

[@lucasO3032]

Best movie KZbinr is back 🔥🔥 loved this vid, you should do a avatar recom/RDA video, just an idea :)

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

You're incredible for watching, RDA and plant videos coming soon!

[@gemmaohagan7518]

Not me getting a “Just Eat” ad when Bryce is talking about district 12 un a living from starvation

[@imperialraider1158]

It would be interesting to see you explain and compare other ya series to the hunger games such as maze runner and divergent

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

Maze Runner would be fun, how is everyone feeling about Harry Potter?

[@imperialraider1158]

@@BryceEdwardBrown I just realized WCKD’s Last City and The Capitol are both in Denver (or the Colorado area nearby) so I wonder if WCKD is just The Capitol in The Maze Runner Series/universe

[@imperialraider1158]

@@BryceEdwardBrownis it just me or does everyone notice parallels between Katniss’ character and journey and other ya protagonists such as Thomas from maze runner. And not only are Katniss/Thomas seemingly linked in character style and personality but also the crowds they attract and specifically how they react to the people following them. Peeta/Newt try to keep the protagonist from overworking themselves and stop them from running into suicide missions without some sort of plan. Meanwhile Gale/Teresa try to completely unhinge the protagonist into going down a darker path on a more “The ends justify the means” mentality. They are also supported by a younger companion who falls in the first act and becomes their primary reason to continue on in their legacy (Rue/Chuck) The sequel also brings in new characters who help influence the main cast as they proceed along act 2 and prove to be useful allies throughout the rest of the story and possibly more in a worst case scenario (Beetee and Wiress/Jorge) (Finnick and Johanna/Brenda)

[@TheRealWattz]

What song is that playing early in the video when twilight is mentioned???

[@hamzaharmadan6270]

Imagine if the new book main character is Maysilee and not Haymitch

[@nursenova3366]

That would be a super interesting perspective!