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I dont think ill ever forgive the yjs writers for changing season 3 to villainize Shauna just to preserve everyone else’s innocence, how tf do you miss the point of your own fucking show

“nat doesn’t match misty’s freak” babe we are talking about a woman who got out of rehab, immediately grabbed a rifle, drove to her home town, followed her ex-teammate to work, checked if she was going out, and then proceeded to break into her house and sit on the coffee table in the dark, waiting for her to get home JUST to have a dramatic entrance. if you didn’t notice this freak4freak idk what show you’re watching.

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the reason so many people struggle with whether Travis is “passive” & that’s why he survives & not Ben (even though he literally tries to murder Lottie the most untouchable & worshipped of the girls & builds the famous spike pit from the pilot that kills Mari) is that they can’t accept that Travis chose to become one of the girls when he ate Javi’s heart. Travis is always building toward becoming one of the girls. he’s misogynistic really only in the very early episodes & yet people harp on & on about this trait without considering how it’s mostly directed at himself in a harmful way. when Shauna is in labor it’s Travis who slits his palm as a sacrifice to the wilderness to protect her while Ben retreats. the girls are all immediately onboard with this idea. I’m not saying it’s wrong to parallel Travis & Ben but I am saying you’re missing a lot if you talk about masculinity & these parallels without at least treating trans femme coded Travis with some level of seriousness. in this essay I will

i feel like this is an unpopular opinion bc everyone is hating on it, but i liked season 3, even if it has some flaws and things that i don't like, i really enjoyed it

like i find it crazy that the only ones that truly wanted the hunt in the finale episode were shauna and lottie, bc some part of me wanted the whole group to go nuts, like the pit girl scene exist to show us how crazy they went out there to the point where they were hunting each other and EATING each other with those cult customs so i obviously was excited to see them get to that point of craziness, but no, only lottie and shauna were excited to do the hunt, so that was kinda disappointing for me honestly, idk what do y'all think?

Simone and Lauren have every right to be pissed about the direction their characters were taken in. They got cast to play these complex characters and accepted their roles hoping to expand on said characters, just to be written out after the strike with no personal character development. There’s so much more they could have done and could still be doing with the adult characters, specifically Lottie and Van who never really got a chance to grow and find their footing.

i think the answer to why didnt they all gang up and jump shauna is also the same answer as to why travis made a whole spike pit rather than stab lottie with a knife and why taissa couldn't shoot ben even after helping to condemn him. passive violence is always easier than active violence. no matter what malice was in their hearts, none of these other kids had directly killed anybody and it's no easy thing to physically murder someone you were close to. this is a classmate and teammate theyve lived with for over a year whose hands some of them held while she was in labor before they all then watched her cry over dead babyboy jackie. melissa was the only one angry enough to attack bc shauna had just made her piss herself after narrowly missing shooting her arm, and she still couldn't finish the job bc she did love her crazy ex no matter what lies she tells herself 25yrs later. akilah couldn't do that much nor gen either. gen, who could be kind of bitchy but had done no more violence than pushing nat in anger, which is a far cry from say, mel's previous experience cutting their coach's achilles tendon.

god yellowjackets writers get off reddit and support characterizations you made important in season one. why the fuck was shauna so upset about travis's death in the adult tl if teen shauna did not care about him at all and wanted him dead. what happened to fucked up toxic on-and-off again insular trauma bond travnat cause they did not speak basically at all this season. why would you add MORE characters to make the audience care about instead of develop current favorites in a show with an already HUGE ensemble cast. why the fuck was she wearing that stupid fucking hat 25 years later. why is shauna's character like irreparably fucked now because they made her an evil wilderness dictator. what happened to group delusion and psychosis as way to disassociate from the horrors they committed and why was that scrapped in favor of making shauna bully everyone. dear god.