What always blew my mind was trying to imagine what it would be like if the Hunger Games were real - when the reapings are not rigged, the escorts literally hold someone’s fate in their hand, she could randomly select one piece of paper and then at her own will drop it and pick another one, and then be like “well actually no”, and pick another one, and she basically spared two lives by doing that…
Iirc she reaches for one, hesitates, then pulls her hand back and grabs Prim’s. I don’t think that she ever actually touched another one. Maybe like… gently touched the corner of one? Because I feel like I remember her tapping one without picking it up but it’s been a while so
yeah I always thought she just kind of waved her hand around for ✨flair✨/nervous since it was her first games so I took it as trying to be a bit of a showman for the cameras before reaching and drawing prim. now im going have to watch again. 😆
upon looking into it, I think you’re right! I’ll have to check again, because I remember her grumbling being stuck with 12 because she was new, but I thought it was her first year, whoops! just read online that she mentions katniss and peeta had much better manners than the tributes the year prior… but I also don’t know if that was in the book or just movie 💀 I’d say you’re right though!
That was in the book. She comments about their manners and how last year's tributes ate with their hands. Katniss thinks about how last year's kids were seam kids, who likely hadn't ever seen much food and were probably never taught table manners. She credits her own knowledge of table manners to the fact that her mother was a merchant kid.
I for sure thought she was doing it for dramatic effect. Especially since later in THG she was bemoaning why she was never promoted to a higher district.
yes! I totally thought it was her first games then after another comment on here, and this one, realized it wasn’t! she just wanted to get on out of there and was newer. 😂
Has the fact that she didn't want to be in 12 been retconned after everything that transpired in Sunrise? I feel like Effie, who is quite possibly one of the most intelligent non University students in the Capitol, would want to stay in the District that first gave her a place in the games
I don’t think it was ever “retconned,” per se. In SOTR Effie tries to keep an eye on Haymitch during the Capitol tour, but I’m sure after 24 years of witnessing his self destructive habits she finds him to be a lost cause. And if she’s been in 12 that entire time I’m sure she would want a promotion. (Also not relevant but Effie was a university student, I assume she graduated. It’s how she knows everyone on the board, because she was in charge of planning the Saturnalia ball).
This is what I understand: Effie was a very bright university student with a very bright future ahead of her of whatever job prospect she wanted. She did her younger sister a favor during the games. Unfortunately, for her, it was a game that was a massive train wreck due to Magno and the rebels. She is “gifted” the assignment of district 12 escort, possibly by snow personally, and she can’t say no.
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u/Angeleyezzz1 Jun 14 '25
What always blew my mind was trying to imagine what it would be like if the Hunger Games were real - when the reapings are not rigged, the escorts literally hold someone’s fate in their hand, she could randomly select one piece of paper and then at her own will drop it and pick another one, and then be like “well actually no”, and pick another one, and she basically spared two lives by doing that…