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What if I told you that Prim's Reaping in the original Hunger Games was not random and

instead part of a much, much bigger plan?

Today's episode will contain spoilers for all of the Hunger Games books including a ballot of songbirds and snakes.

Hey brother! Oh man you guys, I will be the first to say that we do not cover Hunger Games a lot here on the Super

Carlin Brothers channel, but that does not mean that we're not big fans.

I personally just finished my latest past of the series and have just been so pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoy it from start to finish,

and that's including the latest

installment the ballad of songbirds and snakes. That being said though I feel like

for the first time I was really starting to ask big questions about the

overall narrative like getting into the minds of the individual characters themselves.

And possibly even more importantly, the deep overarching themes of the whole story.

And as I worked through each installment of the series, I started to realize that all of my deepest questions all seem to be neatly tied together, all of which ultimately brought me to one really huge question.

Was everything planned from the very beginning?

A massive chess match being played behind the scenes

by Alma Coyne of District 13 and Cori Lanus Snow of the Capitol.

And I do mean everything from prim being selected at the reaping all the way up till the ultimate decision

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