Rose’s Reviews > The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes > Status Update
Rose
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Looked up the actual Lucy Gray poem to compare and I love that the first two changes to the original words are to make the poem more geographically accurate to District 12, which we know is in the Appalachian range of the US, and to prevent the Covey from singing a slur at full volume on stage--
— Oct 28, 2026 02:16AM
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Rose
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Corionalus has the media literacy and pattern recognition of a wet sock
— Oct 28, 2026 02:37AM
Rose
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"Who names their child after a ghost girl?" asks man named after a man known for being kneecapped by his own hubris
— Oct 28, 2026 02:20AM
Rose
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Heinlein vaguely gestures at genetic testing and mutation so that Collins makes it DEEPLY relevant to every HG installment with one hand while eating Heinlein's lunch with the other.
No I will never let Heinlein be now, I Want My 10 Hours Back, Heinlein.
— Oct 28, 2026 01:57AM
No I will never let Heinlein be now, I Want My 10 Hours Back, Heinlein.
Rose
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Coriolanus continues to be surrounded by people who are much too kind for his nonsense.
— Oct 28, 2026 12:38AM
Rose
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I haven't seen the film since it was in theatres but I will give it props that it changed "The Old Therebefore" to be the finale of the games, instead of a spike in adrenaline *near* the end.
— Oct 27, 2026 10:37PM
Rose
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The deadpan reading *really* takes the oomph out of the songs.
— Oct 27, 2026 10:30PM
Rose
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The agony of watching it take just a bit too long for Coriolanus to figure out what the hell Dr. Gaul is planning with the snakes like she didn't all but say to his face what she's about to do--
— Oct 27, 2026 08:06PM
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Tigris Snow I love you you don't deserve your cousin and his nonsense
— Oct 27, 2026 04:15PM