New Catching Fire Trailer and Posters

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Of all the books, Catching Fire is my favorite, so I'm almost vibrating with excitement over the release of a new trailer yesterday at San Diego Comic Con, and the chance to see our named victors in their arena costumes.

Some thoughts I had watching the new trailer:

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District Three Headcanon, Part the First

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As I noted earlier, my headcanon's pretty rough. I haven't tried to work it out with anyone else; in fact, today was my first stab at jotting it down. Basically, it's definitely not up to the standard you and azelmaroark have set.

General District 3 Notions

* District 3 is the most densely populated. As I understand it, D3 is tasked with the design and manufacturing of electronics and other technology for the Capitol and the relatively high-technology districts. Presumably this involves the basic level technology that you'd expect for at least 1, 2, 5, 6, 8 and 9, plus higher-level support for 1 and 5 (which I imagine have special needs based on the relatively higher level of technology that's probably involved in power generation and luxury manufacture--though 5 may do some manufacturing), and of course, the almost-indistinguishable-from-magic level of technology required for the Capitol. While you make some gains from automation, I don't think they're as many as you get in our civilization, because I expect that a larger proportion of the

Re: District Three Headcanon, Part the First

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District 5 is the one that has the least number of children claiming tesserae, and while it's not clear whether that's via numbers (which could just be small population) or percentage, even so I'd say that's a pretty strong hint that it's well off enough. Especially given that after the Dark Days they no longer had D13's sekrit nuclear power, so suddenly D5 would've gotten a bit jump. Their privilege I think goes to everyday living, not so much with bonuses for the kids in the Games, and I think a pragmatic district like that would rather their all kids eat than have more victors. SORRY THAT WAS OFF-TOPIC

Re: District Three Headcanon, Part the First

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I'd say that's a pretty strong hint that it's well off enough. Especially given that after the Dark Days they no longer had D13's sekrit nuclear power, so suddenly D5 would've gotten a bit jump.

I buy that. Power is the most immediate and fundamental of the Capitol's needs. Food can be stockpiled, but it's a lot harder to store power. That has to buy some leverage.

if you want to play to type, a district full of engineering nerds doesn't need fresh veggies or want anything that requires too much cooking. ;) Just give us ramen, please.

I hadn't thought of that, but what the heck, that does sound about right; all D3 really needs is a healthy supply of Twizzlers and Red Bull. :D

CLASS DIVIDES YES LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT, I see that the most in D1 randomly, between the ones who make the pretty things and the ones who do the mining, but I think D3 would have a pretty sharp intellectual divide on top of that. You'd have engineers who look down on the menial jobs and then a kind of anti-intellectualism from the ones who actually do the