#summarization

“Burn

it

down!

All

of

it!”

this contains heavy spoilers as well as my complete review and thoughts on the episode.

all tws are (hopefully) tagged.

its the most disturbing, by far.

shauna dealing with jackie makes me almost vomit. the way shauna acts, in every single way, that jackie is alive. i was terrified by the sight.

tai's sleepwalking also getting progressively worse and worse plays into so much more of the episode. she is even able to cut herself free from the rope she and van tie around each other and almost stumbles off a cliff trying to follow the man with no eyes.

lottie having to reveal the way travis died to nat, i was throughly in tears at this point. nat's reaction and travis's trauma makes me want more of their interactions.

as well as that, laura lee's ghost, which is essentially the anti jackie. instead of being there to remind shauna of what she has done, laura lee is there as an omen of death and rebirth.

nat and travis' hunting expedition also made me cry like a bitch, but i got quite upset at nat. they split up in opposite directions. nat to hunt and travis to find javi. nat fakes finding one of javi's jackets bloody to get travis some closure. it's sweet in a genuinely fucked up way.

but, that gesture eventually leads to them having sex, which nat has a perfectly fun time doing. but travis imagines lottie walking him through the whole thing. the entire time as he has sex with nat, lottie guides him. which leads into jackie's cremation failure, which i will get to.

lottie knows what shauna and jackie are doing in the shed, well mostly shauna, jackie can't do much. shauna is losing everything she has out there i cant even explain how sick to my stomach i felt watching her burn jackie.

"jackie, i'll never have another friend like you. i don't even know where you end and i begin. i'm sorry. and i love you." - shauna to jackie as she cremated her.

along with jackie they also cremate javi's jacket.

callie, sweet callie. she is going through it. she broke up with kyle. so her and her bestie go to a bar, eventually callie meets this guy and spills it all about shauna cheating on jeff.

turns out the guy is kevin's partner, you know nat's old detective friend, that is on adam (shauna's mistress's) case. it's a moment. kevin even comes to question shauna.

now modern day tai is going through it. she hallucinates sammy coming to her house, and then after she calls her ex wife, they find out that sammy has been at school for 2 hours. tai later gets in a car crash with simone in the car.

anyways, back to our old 1996 crew. jackie's cremation doesn't go through. some weird force sets out the fire right as she is perfectly cooked. so all the crew eat her. they imagine they are in ancient greece, feasting on foods of the past, the gorge themselves on jackie's corpse. like wild animals.

the only one who doesn't is coach ben, and he is terrified. that man, i worry for him. genuinely.

and that is how we wrap up season 2 episode 2 of yellowjackets.

it was an amazing episode, and it felt like a season premiere more than the last one. the pacing was great, and the cinematography had me in shambles. i felt sick to my stomach, yet entranced the whole time. nothing could have prepared me for it.

...That Genos is going to ignore the one rule Saitama gave him early in the series and he's going to feel like what he is saying is unimportant and ignorable because nobody can listen to him for this long.

Even though there are gravely important facts hidden in what Genos has to say.

Genos would do well to learn how to tl;dr his own thought processes. But he's probably just going to get very frustrated with everyone, because he thinks they just aren't listening. It'll feel like an insult to his high intellect that nobody cares.

Not even readers care to read about what he has to say, which is doubly ironic.

The interesting part is that it's not that he does not know how to summarize. Hell, he apparently wrote a report about this and he could have written a coincise one, but he could not apparently fit this into his report. But he seems to have just forgotten since he got the new core. Or maybe he's just...being too passionate about the subject and too lovestruck, so he stopped having a filter altogether. This poor autistic borg is just falling to his old, uninhibited ways haha.

Not having any kind of filter might become interesting and problematic though. Saitama is just incapable of focusing for that long on any kind of speech and if Genos takes an issue with something Saitama cannot help with, because he thinks Saitama is not listening to him either...there will be an argument.

And ain't that going to be fun misunderstanding between two characters who have high difficulty understanding emotional contex and social cues in the first place? That neither is truly listening to what the other is saying?

It hasn't been a major issue before, that Saitama for instance, explained to Genos the origin of his hero suit and Saitama is annoyed that it seems like Genos wasn't listening at all. Just annoyance, nothing major, Genos is just being Genos.

Felt like... two different films in one? Hm. Yeah. Something like that.

Fantastic performances. Gorgeous cinematography. Guillermo del Toro is a wonderful visionary director. It’s nice to see him return to roots similar to Pan’s Labyrinth, which was my favorite del Toro film until this one. 

Also, those special effects? Were... immaculate? What in the world? That creature looked completely real and I know it’s a combination of computer graphics and prosthetic makeup, but... wow. Wow. Wow.

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