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What are your thoughts on the yellowjackets finale?

i have a lot, omg. i re-watched it before answering this to see if i picked up on anything i'd missed previously or if anything new ideas/theories/observations sprung to mind.

all in all, i think it was a good episode. i feel like we're rly leaning into the supernatural, but i'm enjoying it bc i think it's being done effectively. i was wary of the show going into supernatural territory that it maybe wouldn't be able to pull it off, balance it with the other elements, or tonally shift too much away from the girls as agents making choices to survive and cope with the trauma of being stranded. but i'm actually liking the way they're playing with the otherworldly elements thus far, upping the eerie factor, but not dominating the whole story.

gonna put the rest of this under the cut bc i'm gonna ramble on a whole lot, bud, hold on tight!!

going off of the above, i appreciate that the more mundane dangers of being stranded in the wilderness are still ever-present and frankly crucial to the narrative. i've seen a lot of mixed reactions to jackie's death. tbh i thought it was well written. and even foreshadowed. i'm paraphrasing here bc i don't remember the line verbatim, but before she took off on her expedition, taissa pointed out that the stakes were becoming so dire, "freezing to death will feel like falling asleep." that's exactly what happened to jackie. she fell asleep and froze to death. it's heartbreaking. it's realistic. shauna screaming and desperately shaking her to no avail gutted me, oof. i can defo understand where some ppl are disappointed that jackie is dead at all, and even more disappointed bc it was such a nondescript kind of death and jackie is a major character. jackie is in the promotional art with a bloody nose and the reflection of the antler queen in her eye. it feels dynamic!!

...and her death was very much not dynamic. she got snarky with her teammates, it turned into a bigger fight with her best friend, and then she left the cabin to her own detriment. she was mad at them, and they were mad at her, and a tragic accident happened bc of plain ol' teenage stubbornness and bc no one predicted the weather. well, lottie could've predicted the weather, i suppose, but. mm...we can circle back to lottie.

one question i do have abt jackie's death tho, is, uh, what abt nat and travis?? like, how long was jackie out there by the time they came back?? did they notice something was wrong?

bc they did come back. when shauna rushes out to find jackie frozen and everyone followed, nat and travis are there in the background. u see natalie standing behind some other girls and then travis is off to the far left. so they *did* come back at some point. so i wonder abt that, if they just ignored her, or if there was a conversation of some kind, how cold was it when they returned, etc.

i knew her dream was a dream as soon as shauna apologized. errything shauna said to jackie in her dream, even outside, before it got weird, sounded like things jackie would want shauna to say to her rather than how shauna actually felt. on that note, jackie's dream did break my heart. she could be an asshole and she wasn't always a good friend to shauna, but she was a human teenage girl who just wanted to be wrapped up in warmth and told she was loved. so that hurt and was also creepy af?? uh, that shadowy dude?? was that dead cabin guy??

that had to be dead cabin guy, right? we're seen him in the intro.

oh, okay, that brings me to more thoughts abt the episode and speculation abt s2. so i am still leaning toward believing there are other ppl out there. the symbol existed before the girls arrived. one of the guys who kidnapped nat at the end (which, btw, WTAF) was wearing it. and we never found javi!

i think javi might've found the other forest cult ppl. nat and travis seemingly didn't find him. they didn't find a body either. shauna told him to run, maybe he ran off into the cult's territory. and i'm thinking dead cabin guy must've been part of the cult. the symbols were in his attic and it's unusual that three of his fingers were cut off.

so abt the cult stuff, okay, uh, yeah, this episode had more of that. it looks like lottie is rly becoming fully realized on her path to prophet-hood or smth. i kind of love it and yet it also feels kind of lacking??

i hate to say it, but i want to love it more than i do. i stili just feel like we haven't had enough focus on lottie for this to have the impact that it should? not that it has no impact at all, i mean, i am engrossed, i am, and i rly enjoyed the brief subplot between her and laura lee while we had it. i wish we had more of it, tbh, but yk, i might be being a little too harsh. after all, she hasn't officially donned the antler queen getup yet. we have all winter to get there, plenty of time to focus on lottie come s2. we're just beginning when it comes to the ceremonial aspects of all this and the end scene seems to imply that lottie still holds a lot of power.

i think the finale subtly outlined where we can expect alliances will fall. van and misty are lottie's first followers. travis was confirmed by nat awhile ago not to believe "in that shit," and sadly, natalie seems loyal enough to ally with him, even tho he's. travis. taissa and shauna have been getting closer all throughout the season, whatever side of it they end up on, my guess is it's going to be together...

idk where i see tai and shauna ending up when it comes to cult stuff. shauna *was* going to kill travis, but she was also high off her ass (and who doesn't want to kill travis?? don't we all want to kill travis??). tai begins the show vehemently opposed to simply the suggestion of the supernatural, but we see her coming around a lil for van's sake. and then it appears she sacrificed the family dog in 2021, so...okay, let's talk abt that, that was freaky!!

i had supposed tai might've killed biscuit, but i did not expect it to be like that. i thought she might've done it while sleepwalking, or if she mistook him for a wolf while dissociating. but he was decapitated and the forest symbol was painted in his blood. poor simone, my chest started tightening the moment she went downstairs.

so now i have a lot of questions abt tai, uhhh...lordy. i'm assuming it was tai who killed biscuit, anyway. i mean, in all fairness, it could've been someone else. other cult members broke into natalie's hotel and kidnapped her, so they could've been the ones to sacrifice biscuit. but rn it appears that it was tai and i want to think she didn't do it on purpose (again with the sleepwalking/dissociation) BUT idk how accidentally u can ceremonially enshrine ur dog's decapitated head, yk?? plus the cut to her triumphant smile after winning the election. that was a sexy smile, too, god, even if it was on purpose, i totally forgive her.

on that note, i wish we could've seen more of shauna dismembering adam's corpse bc that was also hot. i would've loved to see her actually pulling his guts out, i'm v disappointed we weren't treated to that imagery. the whole scene of our core four getting down to business in adam's apartment was pretty cool tho. i love that the first time we see them all reunited in 2021 is to dispose of a corpse. would enjoy seeing more tai/misty interactions since they're such opposites. and more shauna/nat ones too. i appreciated shauna trying to comfort nat (even while dismembering a body) abt travis, even tho i believe she's wrong.

i don't think travis killed himself. i do think he was murdered. it would be rather uh...odd, at the least to commit suicide at ur workplace by hanging urself via construction vehicle. and odd things happen, okay, yeah. but that combined with the candles being burned around him, the fact that someone emptied his bank account out, and that natalie was literally kidnapped after asking her friend to dig into it rly makes me think he was murdered.

so anyway, i'm rly worried abt natalie!! but also intrigued. wtaf is lottie up to these days??

uh, okay, i'm sorry i'm rambling on and on but i do have a lot of thoughts abt the finale, it's just a matter of organizing them. and it was a jam-packed finale. there's a lot to touch on here...

the reunion, okay, the reunion. errybody was smoking hot. allie grated on my nerves, jfc. shauna and randy's confrontation was...weirdly funny? we know shauna's serious abt the death threats. randy's so stupid he needed clarification that she was even angry, oof. poor dude. one too many concussions, maybe??

i was slightly disappointed no other survivors were at the reunion. i strongly believe there are more survivors out there. given what happened to travis and what happens to natalie at the end tho, i realize they might be off the grid and hiding out not just to avoid the press or preserve their privacy for their personal comfort, but uh...to keep themselves safe. safe from lottie???

i'm leaning that way. the ending seems to imply that lottie is (still) in a position of leadership and potentially dangerous. also, whatever clan nat and travis end up in, it's most likely going to be as a package deal and not going to be with lottie. travis has almost certainly been murdered and natalie was just kidnapped. i'm thinking the folks who weren't in lottie's clan/cult might be at higher risk here. why, or why still since it's been 25 yrs, i am mystified. but ig that's a mystery for s2.

so misty is our only confirmed present survivor who was in lottie's clan/cult and i'm wondering why/how she ever defected. bc it seems they are no longer in contact come 2021. wtf has misty been doing all this time tho??

i rly don't think jessica roberts is the first person misty has killed post-wilderness. she was so at ease cleaning up adam's body, she was even making jokes abt it. her basement was all set up like a mini apartment. the multiple locks on the door. she doesn't need the wheelchair in her basement, so what is she using it for??

(it terrifies me that this woman is allowed around the elderly. i do not like it, i want it to stop. 😬)

even tho we never got to know jessica particularly well (that's not even her real name) i was kinda sad to see her go? i thought she was an interesting character. i'm left wondering what exactly it was that ensured her death, at which point misty decided she wasn't going to let her live...her face when funny when jessica brought up the presumed cannibalizing in ep9. i think it might've been that...but why??

wow, i'm rly still rambling. gosh, dude, i'm sorry. this episode gave me so much to chew on. it almost gave me more questions than it answered. think i've mostly got it covered now tho, did i miss anything??

uh...okay, there was that scene with jeff, shauna, and callie at the end. it was kinda cute, before adam's face popped on the screen and uh, yeah. p sure callie knows it was one of her parents. wonder how that's going to go...

mm. overall i thought it was a good episode. i'm gonna go at least a lil bonkers waiting for s2 tho!! hbu, friend? what're ur thoughts on the finale, @foxgirlontherun?

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