I’m excited for TBOSAS to come out! (Spoilers below).
However, I am disappointed that they’ve turned the beginning of the 10th Games into a bloodbath. In the book, most run away, and even those that don’t go grab weapons, and then run. Not only does this fall into the sensationalization problem of the Games, but it also defeats the purpose of the movie. We’re supposed to be learning how the modern Games came to be (because of Snow). One of the “problems” in the early Games is that the tributes weren’t so willing to fight each other. It’s what makes Snow’s suggestions more “genius”; coaxing and bribing the tributes to attack each other or do obscene things (think what Lamina happens does to Marcus) in order to receive sponsor gifts. If they were doing what the Capitol wanted in the first place, fighting each other, they wouldn’t have had to make it a school project at the Academy in the first place.
All I’m saying is they better not cut all the anti-Capitol bombings and activity going on during the lead up to the Games.