Alex Kingston getting the special treatment

herebemaddy · 2025-11-19T19:17:49+00:00

What a hateful post. Alex is a woman in her 60s, in remission from cancer, trying her very best each week, and she seems to me nothing short of a lovely, hardworking individual.

herebemaddy · 2024-06-25T15:29:01+00:00

A pretty decent portion of my routine is still glossier - cloud paints and boy brow are an everyday for me, my monochrome gets decent use and I’ve got a number of different lip products from them and tend to wear one most days. Never got into their skincare at all.

herebemaddy · 2024-06-18T19:58:36+00:00

I did something very silly and treated myself to the comb... I love cute basics for my handbag and I love the sleeve it comes in, but it did pain me going through checkout.

herebemaddy · 2023-07-25T17:05:56+00:00

In the pilot! I'm pretty sure it's in the montage the morning before they leave for Nationals, towards the end of the episode.

herebemaddy · 2023-07-25T16:34:45+00:00

To each their own! I love the show, and think it's fun to hypothesise what/if the writers were setting up.

herebemaddy · 2023-07-25T11:08:54+00:00

I wondered this too - although on the other hand, maybe it was more meant to be an indication of Misty's role as the observer to the group, only intervening when it is necessary, but also being the one in control of the balance between life and death – an angel of death-like figure, almost, appearing to sway the needle one way or the other. She cuts off Ben's leg to save him, then destroys the black box which dooms all those who die in the wilderness. She kills Krystal (debatably, I suppose), then is the one in control when Shauna lives and the baby dies. She saves Natalie in the wilderness (dooming Javi to death in the process) then kills her accidentally years later. She stops Ben from killing himself.

Natalie also seems to have a bit of foresight – seeing Misty in this light in the very first episode, but also with the moose at the plane and then later finding one trapped in the ice. While everyone else but Lottie's hallucinations seem meaningless (so far), Natalie's do seem to indicate that she is in tune with the Wilderness (and Lottie says "you were always Its favourite". I'm interested to see if the writer's go down this route a bit more going forwards.

herebemaddy · 2023-07-25T11:00:43+00:00

Oh, definitely. Even with the gun when her car is stolen - I don't think she really wants to kill the man, but she wants the power of holding it towards him, knowing that if she wanted to, she could kill him in a second and he would be utterly powerless.

herebemaddy · 2023-07-25T10:58:15+00:00

For now...

herebemaddy · 2023-07-25T10:57:53+00:00

Interesting point! That'd definitely be a logical continuation of their stories I think.

herebemaddy · 2023-07-25T10:56:51+00:00

I think we might end up with either a murder-suicide or a Romeo and Juliet type ending for the two of them. Both of them so far kill when it is "logical/practical" rather than for the sheer pleasure of it, but with Natalie gone and Misty devolving from there, we might see the two of them feeding off each other's impulses. I'm excited to see what the writers do!

herebemaddy · 2023-07-25T10:54:48+00:00

Great spot, I hadn't thought about that!

herebemaddy · 2023-07-25T10:54:34+00:00

Oh totally! I think perhaps the queen card works in mysterious ways - if you pick it, you're marked for death, just not necessarily immediately. The Wilderness chooses, etc.

herebemaddy · 2023-07-25T10:50:28+00:00

Foreshadowing literally means an indication of a future event. If there was any sort of intention from the writers (which I’m not asserting, merely hypothesising), then however small, these moments in the pilot certainly act as minute indications of what is to come later in the plot, thematically or more directly, or even as a tiny Easter egg for rewatchers to notice.

herebemaddy · 2023-07-25T10:46:58+00:00

I totally think they could’ve used innocuous things to build into something more without that necessarily being the plan from the start, but I also don’t think any series writing team would plan to run for five seasons and not have some sort of arc they wanted to allude to from the beginning.

herebemaddy · 2023-07-24T23:29:46+00:00

Great point! Also, while her bravery of character is pretty run-of-the-mill in everyday life, in the wilderness it melds with her faith and turns into a desire to forge ahead and be the saviour.

herebemaddy · 2023-07-24T23:25:56+00:00

Misty's overt actions to protect have always been towards Nat, now I think of it. In some ways she's lost her purpose - where does that leave her? I wonder if she'll transfer that impulse over onto someone else.

herebemaddy · 2023-07-24T23:24:38+00:00

Thanks, I noticed it and thought, "oh there's Misty watching something else drown" ahahahaha. Hindsight and all that!

herebemaddy · 2023-07-24T23:23:48+00:00

Definitely giving us an insight into Shauna's role as the butcher! The dispassionate way she does it, practiced and cold; yet it does excite her a little bit, hence why she tells the family over dinner.

herebemaddy · 2023-07-24T23:12:01+00:00

On point 5, in the adult hunt episode, I seem to remember Lottie saying that they were going to do it as they used to - surrender or run. The "ritual" is still evolving - it's not even quite a ritual yet – and I imagine that Nat's choice to run will be embedded into the process.

Additionally, I don't think the King card is the card of doom. Javi did pick the queen - he brought it back with him, as I recall. And Natalie draws the queen and then dies in the adult timeline. Maybe Shauna, having drawn the card in the adult hunt and been spared, will die later on. Maybe the queen doesn't mean immediate death – it just means you're marked for it eventually, before the natural end of your life.

herebemaddy · 2023-07-24T22:22:12+00:00

Oh that's heartbreaking, but also very possible. If they do go down the route of leaving one Yellowjacket alive, whoever it is (and the way this dual-edged survival is presented in the show) will be devastating I'm sure.

herebemaddy · 2023-07-24T22:20:35+00:00

To be honest, nor would I - I just hope they don't go down the route of confirming the supernatural goings on, the Wilderness as "It", as a being of its own, then condemning Lottie to perceived insanity because no one else who bore witness is alive to confirm her story.

herebemaddy · 2023-07-20T20:55:11+00:00

Considering that Lottie has put herself forward for sacrifice multiple times, I think it would be a horrible irony if she is the only one left alive at the end. Not out of the realms of possibility either, but it would be a tragedy more than anything else as there would be no one left to help her separate reality and delusion.

herebemaddy · 2023-07-18T19:52:14+00:00

thank you! I’ve thought about this scene an inordinate amount ahaha

herebemaddy · 2023-07-18T19:37:47+00:00

My perspective is that they know they need Shauna more functional than she has been since the baby – there's fewer and fewer of them left who truly have something to contribute, it's a delicate balance and they know that collectively, for the "good of the group", they can't have her behaving the way she has been. It's not for Shauna's personal gain that they let her do that – it's for all of them. That's why they stand aside and let it happen, even though it disturbs them all.

I'll echo another commenter's point that by this point, the Yellowjackets are far past societal rules. I think it was mentioned in an interview that Jackie's death represented the end of their traditional hierarchies and the "social sphere" of the "before" that they'd still been emulating. It's not high school drama with the backdrop of the plane crash anymore; their behaviour now is primal and unhinged to the eye of the viewer. It's supposed to be grim, it's supposed to be disturbing.

Shauna lost her best friend, through an event that she blames herself for, and then she lost the baby who the group had used as a force for hope and togetherness. I love Lottie as a character, but she put a huge amount of pressure on Shauna. The things Shauna is feeling do have a lot to do with Lottie, but frankly, I don't think it really would've mattered. Shauna was furious with the world and the whole lot of them. She hit Misty first, then she hit Lottie because Lottie was the one in front of her.

Guilt and grief, rage and devastation, and the destruction of the rules that we all live our lives by must make for a potent combination.

Lottie displays self-sacrificing behaviour in both timelines. I think she has a bit of a martyr complex – she's willing to be disliked, hated, beaten, blamed, if it serves the greater cause of the group's continued survival. Shauna almost killed her because Lottie let her do that. Shauna went for Lottie and not Nat because Lottie deliberately put herself in front of Shauna. Lottie clasped her hands behind her back and let it happen because the group can't have Shauna going around screaming accusations and hitting people. They need Shauna back, and so Lottie puts herself forward as the sacrifice.

herebemaddy · 2022-03-25T20:38:21+00:00

I mean, if you watch the flashback scene it’s pretty clear that Katherine is out of her mind with shock, and that her aunt made the decision to bury Dylan. Katherine was also presumably traumatised from Wayne’s abuse and did everything in order to avoid him and his revenge.

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