#which is very easy for that plot to slide into . and honestly with lottie i feel like it already has

[july-19th-club]

i think it's my own if-i-can't-see-it-it-doesn't-exist excatholic sensibilities but when it comes to the paranormal elements of yellowjackets i'm one hundred percent taissa. why can't lottie just be a kid lost in the woods without the means to control her mental illness, latching onto whatever feels realest in the moment? why can't the cultishness that later resulted not have been all of the other kids doing the exact same thing? reaching for whatever they could eat when they needed it? why does there have to be some creepy old ghost in a cabin when the human fears and exhaustion and needs of the characters are already carrying the entire plot easily? i think in the case of yellowjackets, like so many survival dramas, adding an extra element like that winds up overcrowding the story, especially when it's already playing around with how linear it is and juggling multiple dynamic characters and actors

#or maybe im just a cranky skeptic in real life so i have to be with tv too lol #like not with shows that are Obviously About Magic or whatever . but shows that don't LOOK like that kind of genre #but are sort of vaguely hinting at it. no just say yay or nay and get on with it #it's not that i want to know from the outset how to think about the show. just that i think it might be one thing too many here #also: IF there is a supernatural element it leads into two considerations for me: #one) the fact that supernatural element + north american wilderness survival story often winds up dipping its toes into #indigenous mythology and similar subjects . and too many shows/books do that Really Badly Actually #two) the lottie thing again: if she's actually a psychic whose medication is just 'suppressing her visions' i hate that plot #feel like it's overdone and then there's the whole 'medication is unnecessary; you can always trust your brain' concept #or a sort of fear/dismissal of a) mental illness b) getting help for mental illness #which is very easy for that plot to slide into . and honestly with lottie i feel like it already has #yellowjackets #q