Catching Fire: Assume spoilers in comments.

[countermoves]

I'd like to point out that [His voice alters slightly, taking on a higher pitch and tone.] "Oh my gosh I have the best journal name and everything and it'll be great." [He resumes his normal voice instantly]

Not a good reason for doing anything.

In fact it's a very capitol line of thinking.

[He spreads his hands] I can work with that. [And he does, all the time. repeatedly. But. It's hard to tell if that's a compliment or not.]

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[hijackedbread]

You can work with a lot of things.

[countermoves]

[No emotion. No emotion on his face at all]

...You know it's not about me in the end. It's about the audience. What the audience wants to see.

[hijackedbread]

That doesn't make it right.

[countermoves]

...there's nothing right about it son. [Again no emotion. He folds his hands in front of him]

We're the only. creatures. that create. theater. [Each word is emphasized.] It's an aberration.

[catnipped]

Maybe she doesn't want to work with you. [My, someone's bristly tonight.]

[countermoves]

Maybe I don't want to work with her.

There's a lot of people who make common cause with people they don't like here isn't there.

[hijackedbread]

You know, normalizing the Games is the way to make sure they go unopposed, I'll give you that. But that can only last for so long. People are getting tired of being used.

[catnipped]

Looks like it. [Yeah, that was nice and blunt. This is why she would make a terrible figurehead, guys.]

[catnipped]

Yes, they are. [She contributes so much.]

[countermoves]

...People got tired of American Idol too, but not until the seventieth season. [things you know as a game maker that no one else does.]

Truth be told it could be a lot worse.

[countermoves]

from what I've observed? that's kind of the essence of this whole hobby don't you think? These guys try and lure one of us in, to throw us against monsters or indulge their twisted fantasies...

What brought you to yours Katniss.

[catnipped]

I'm not going to tell you.

[countermoves]

...I bet it's a hell of a story. Who could get the mockingjay complacent. [when the revolution didn't even manage that thank you SO MUCH.]

[hijackedbread]

[His voice quiets.]

Be careful. Let Haymitch and I fight right now. You need to take care of your family.

[catnipped]

I'm not complacent. [Yeah well YOU GUYS DIDN'T SAVE HER BOYFRIEND, SO FUCK YOU.]

[hijackedbread]

That show didn't kill 1,726 children.

[catnipped]

I want to take care of you. [Gale will take care of her family. He promised.]

[hijackedbread]

I'm fine, Katniss. You're the one that needs to live.

[vainqueurdeluxe]

You do stress quite a bit of difference between the Capitol way of thinking and your way.

As though they are two different things, game maker. With all due respect? You are the Capitol.

[countermoves]

[squint] Go back and review the archived internet records and double check those figures. Maybe not a thousand but I'm sure a few died of being...well...bored.

[countermoves]

[HARD OKAY. SERIOUSLY HARD. NOT COOL.

He smiles] ...You haven't shot your writer yet?

[outexecuted]

I would say that people have done worse for worse reasons, wouldn't you?

[countermoves]

The capitol is like the human body. There are the people like you, the heart and the brains. The beauty, the skin, the perfectly formed hair and features. Then there are the people who protect all of that. The hard bones.

Then there's the blood. The people who keep things going. Who sometimes have to get a little dirty. That's me.

[someone is question dodging]

[catnipped]

No, I -- [She just bites her lip a bit.] You saved me. Let me save you.

[countermoves]

[YEECH. OW.] ...I wouldn't call what you did worse.

First rule of the job. Give them a show. That's really all that matters.