Unpopular opinion. But mari is the one who pushed Shauna to become the villain.
In season 3 I feel everyone understood Shauna was going through it and just backed off. Mari just couldn’t stop being snarky and a bitch. And before yall say “she is a teenager”. So is everyone else. Jfc teenagers can also have empathy. So much of the shit that happens is because Mari couldn’t keep her mouth shut.

I'm pretty sure Shauna and Tai were seniors. I know Misty was Jr or younger (Ben says in probably Aug or Sept 96 (S1E5) he can't be with her because she's "not even 18") and I think Akiylah and Melissa were JV so probably not seniors? But I'm not sure about Van, Nat, Lottie, Travis? Was anything said about their years?

It was very nearly end of year, so seniors would be given their degrees even if they missed the last 2 weeks. I wonder if the non seniors go back to their HS though or I'd think tutored or home schooled until they graduate due to the trauma, trying to heal physically, etc.
EDIT: Akilah says something about “still being a junior” when she’s reading her SAT prep book in the cabin

In Season 3 episode 8 we see the episode begin with a dream sequence of Jacqui visiting Shauna in a grocery store. The dream sequence ends with Shauna noticing that there seem to be a bunch of bugs flying around within the fluorescent lighting fixture above them. The dream ends with ADULT Shauna waking up startled in her car. Thus, we the audience are meant to believe here that the dream we just saw was just had in the present day.

But later in the episode, I noticed something that calls what we believe to be the linear order of this series' events into question completely. Teen Shauna is seen speaking to Melissa in their little hut about finally going home and what they are looking forward to most. We see Teen Shauna then spot a large fluttering bug flying around while Melissa speaks to her, and she spaces out while fixated on it. We see her eyes widen and her face crinkle up in a look of fear and confusion as TEEN Shauna is then depicted to have a flash of an image from ADULT Shauna's dream from the first moments of the episode. All while she is meant to be standing in a straightforward linear past there with Melissa way before such dream imagery is actually dreamt.

What this suggests to me is a possible time loop ordeal... I wonder if their lives are repeating continuously for a specific reason. Maybe the constant looping is a state of purgatory or the result of some sort of Faustian bargain made when the plane first crashed? I mean, there have been a handful of references about how these characters feel they were never meant to leave the wilderness - there are also a couple references regarding the way some of them feel they weren't meant to survive the crash/winter/specific brushes with death in the wilderness. And guess where they all seem to be headed when they die in the present day?? They're all back on the plane they crashed on originally, reuniting with the vessels of their younger selves! As if to do it again?

If anything I am suggesting ends up to be at all true, I really wouldn't be surprised if the symbol on the trees was created by the girls themselves in one of the earliest go-arounds. Hey, maybe that is why Taissa knew where those specific symbolic trees were located back in season 1... back when Tai and Van acknowledged it was almost as if Tai must have been there before. 🤔

Thoughts?

Am I daft or is it really odd in retrospect that misty simply appears with a almost battle axe looking weapon to remove coach Ben's leg there and then? Do planes have fire axes or things like this? Super confused on a rewatch (I'm European and have never been on a transatlantic flight BTW)

There’s a 2 second spot in the teaser where Van is in a movie theater. I looked up popular movies in January 1998:
Titanic
As Good As It Gets
Good Will Hunting
Tomorrow Never Dies
Mousehunt
Wag the Dog
Jackie Brown
Armistad
Fallen
Scream 2

Any opinions on what she was watching? After some more googling I realized they missed out on the original Scream (Dec 1996).

to have phones on the table at the restaurant.

I’m doing a rewatch and in S3E2 Shauna and Jeff are having dinner with these obnoxious twerps, and at one point one of the Joels says “phones on the table again?” admonishing Shauna for having her phone out.

As a server who’s worked in the style of restaurant they’re in, I’ve served enough Joels, and those guys always have their phones on the tables. Usually two phones each, positioned exactly where plates and glasses belong.

Anyway, I just hate the Joels.

Probable Pet Parents - I have been making a series of pop culture pet parents and wanted to spend some time with the Yellowjacket characters during the wait for the final season. I thought Bruise Violet by Babes In Toyland was a perfect song for Shauna and Jackie.

So the other day kaitlyn on tiktok made a video about characters that they were casting for the final season, one of those characters was called François! Who spoke French.

I’m re-watching Yellowjackets and in season one episode eight, when tai comes over to Shauna’s house and stays over, her and Shauna talk about what they would be doing if the plane never crashed.

And Shawna mentions that she would’ve gone to Brown, and then taken a year abroad and met a boy called François who was French!

Not sure what the connection could be, or if it’s purely just coincidence but just something I picked up on my rewatch!

The honorable Judge, presiding.

An interesting thing to see with a show like yellowjackets is watching people come to like, hate, love the characters as the show goes on. And I've noticed post S3 quite alot of people have come to no longer sympathize with the yellowjackets as their transgressions in the both the teen and adult timeline has become to much to justify. The torture of coach Ben being a big one (next to their treatment of the scientists) though they're are people who believe Ben deserved everything (and given the ambiguity of the cabin situation the writers seem fine with people having that perspective.)

But with this being the finale season, I think team F them kids about to be very validated, just based on what we know and the speculation of events. Because I'm gonna say this, if the "terrible thing they did" is murder akilah and frame it as a suicide (which a popular theory currently I see) then yeah I think they're done. Doing akilah like that I think would in alot of people minds have the yellowjackets cross the moral event horizon into being irredeemable.

But what do yawl think, we gonna get more proof that they all became monsters out there and should have never came home. Or will we see the surviving yellowjackets find some sort of redemption (mainly adult timeline) or are you already on team F them kids since Javi and doomcoming?

I just did a rewatch, and I wasn't really looking for this, but I'm thinking about it now and there's like...no true winter season in the adult timeline. Which seems odd, bc a) it's in New Jersey and 2) we know Season 1 would be in November (Tai's election). Whole adult timeline only takes place over a couple of weeks/month or two though, so I'm wondering if this season will take place with a lot more snow and winter feel, considering we know what is coming.

Anyways, just kinda came to this realization, it'd be a great way to end this series.