What Became of Caesar Flickerman

I haven’t had a chance to read or see “Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.” It’s the prequel to the “Hunger Games” series. Why was it needed? You bought the series and accepted that was the world of the story. Did you need to know what made Snow into a tormentor of Katniss ?

It was a really successful book so I guess you did.

Perhaps there will be a market for sequels to The Hunger Games books. The capital fell. All those glamour people didn’t just go away. Did they run? Did they hire lobbyists to protect their interests?

Caesar Flickerman was a reporter celebrity type that interviewed Hunger Games contestants and did voice over during the games. This character knew what the hunger games were. He cheered murder. As flashy and campy as he was, he was terrible.

He may have been so blinded by this world that he didn’t see what he was doing. What happens when he is faced with his own journalism? The things he could’ve said but didn’t. The things he allowed to be said. He saw broken former games survivors try to adjust. Flickerman believed it was fine.

It wasn’t illegal so Flickerman wouldn’t be arrested and brought to trial. Would he ever know what he did?

If he did face some form of justice, would he apologize? Would he become bitter and resentful of the new government?

It’s difficult to write a novel about that without being boring. What would be the conflict? We may never know what became of the Caesar Flickermans.