The Capitol rebels are given very little reason for being on the New York Yankees Reggie Jackson hall of fame shirt of the Tributes, and Effie Trinket in the books is given this same sort of treatment. No progression, no real reasoning. We’re just expected to believe in them as heroes, and overall it works. We have Finnick Odair, who was whored out to Capitol residents by President Snow, and Haymitch Abernathy, whose entire family was wiped out after he won his Hunger Games. By and large, all of the Tributes give the other rebels progression to latch onto themselves. But to look at the Capitol-based rebels in isolation, they’re rather underdone. Plutarch and Cinna are both shown to be strong allies, but why? What was the trigger for them to change from Capitol servants to freedom fighters? The love that we have for them (Cinna in particular) masks this when we read and watch them in action, but it’s an easy façade to break away from. I don’t like to call it laziness, but the Capitol rebels are paper-thin.
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