Opinions on Yellowjackets from a writing POV

[EmilyMiller]

I started watching season two and got confused .

So I re-watched season one and then kept going, made a lot (Lottie?) more sense.

Any other AHers watch / like it?

Happy to battle anyone over whether Sophie Thatcher or Sarah Desjardins is cuter (obvious answer: make it a threesome).

Em

 

[alohadave]

I'm waiting for the season to finish so I can binge it.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I'm waiting for the season to finish so I can binge it.

Yeah, know what you mean. That was another motivation for going back to season one. But we just got caught up and now we have to wait .

Em

 

[ruddygore]

They have a TV show about wasps?

 

[EmilyMiller]

They have a TV show about wasps?

https://www.sho.com/yellowjackets

 

[EmilyMiller]

https://media.tenor.com/ZPidDrjZH-AAAAAd/sophie-thatcher.gif

 

[EmilyMiller]

https://64.media.tumblr.com/905021b7653c1fdb7a42fa6342903ffd/6990651fcc73e77d-4f/s540x810/d21a03fb38286705f19663d3acf0e5ba9b1f6313.gif

 

[EmilyMiller]

My two favorites - YMMV

Em

 

[djrip]

https://media.tenor.com/ZPidDrjZH-AAAAAd/sophie-thatcher.gif

A good chance to practice my lip reading. She's really enunciating!

 

[EmilyMiller]

A good chance to practice my lip reading. She's really enunciating!

That’s why I picked it. Nat is so potty mouthed - a bit like someone I know .

Em

 

[djrip]

That’s why I picked it. Nat is so potty mouthed - a bit like someone I know .

Em

This may be more literal than usual

 

[EmilyMiller]

This may be more literal than usual

That sounds like an innuendo, but I’m too to tell.

Is it an A2M reference?

Em

 

[djrip]

That sounds like an innuendo, but I’m too to tell.

Is it an A2M reference?

Em

A PPnM reference

 

[EmilyMiller]

A PPnM reference

Now I’m totally lost. PM me.

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

Has there ever been a worse season finale to an otherwise excellent show? And I don’t just mean the obvious “shock” event at the end. Though given [spoiler] was my favorite character in both the 1996 and current day timelines, it didn’t help.

But nothing made sense. It was all gibberish. People did things they had no motivation to do, with no explanation offered. Their actions were inexplicable. It was like a fever dream.

I demand a do over. Can we please retcon the finale and spend a year writing something consistent with, oh, I don’t know:

1. The established characters
2. The arcs and central plot to date
3. The law of probability
4. The laws of physics
5. The credulity of the audience

I enjoyed all the rest of season two, but the finale seemed like they lost the actual script and went back to a rejected writing room brainstorm.

Awful. Made season three of The Mandalorian look good.

Em

 

[TxRad]

Could be connected to the writers strike or did they cancel that. I never heard anymore after the fact that it started.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Could be connected to the writers strike or did they cancel that. I never heard anymore after the fact that it started.

It’s like they fired all the writers and replaced them with chimps from a remedial writing class.

I actually enjoyed all of season two a lot. But the finale was nonsense. Just really, really bad writing (I should know, I’m an expert in really bad writing).

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

I'm waiting for the season to finish so I can binge it.

Were you desperately disappointed?

Em

 

[alohadave]

Were you desperately disappointed?

Em

I'll tell you in a day or two when I watch it.

 

[EmilyMiller]

OK - interested in what you think.

Em

 

[alohadave]

OK - interested in what you think.

Em

The Walter subplot was kind of interesting, but too convenient (they have great chemistry, and Elijah Wood is great. Watch Willard if you haven't seen it yet). He's conveniently just as much of a psycho as Misty is, and swoops in to solve the whole Adam/cop situation, and he did it without fanfare.

The rest felt consistent to me with S1, writing-wise. Information is being revealed in dribs and drabs, and with a 5 season planned run, we probably won't get the big reveal until S5.

Unless there is something that actually unifies them in the past, I really don't see much reason why they would be friendly with each other in the present. I get that they have repressed a lot of what happened, but in general, they seem way to well adjusted in the present for being in a death hunt cult in the wilderness and eating most of their fellow survivors.