Spoilers under for anybody who isn’t caught up with the most recent episode of Yellowjackets through Showtime or Paramount+ subscription, so be warned!
As a normal horror fanatic who very particularly adores the trials and tribulations dealing with the titular Yellowjackets group within the darkly comedic thriller, I most likely spend extra time than the typical particular person involuntarily crafting theories concerning the myriad mysterious occasions plaguing the survivors. From Tai’s No-Eyes Man visions to the overarching Pit Woman thriller to questioning what truly occurred to Crystal. Understandably, most episodes fail to resolve such theories, however they do often debunk hypothesis.
Or at the least they’ll seem to, and that’s roughly what’s occurred to this point, with Yellowjackets’ second and third Season 3 installments seemingly rendering one among my larger ongoing theories moot. However with out upending it solely, and in a manner the place I’d truly be all good with being flawed.
My Earlier Idea: The Moss Rising In The Wilderness Is Sentient
Now I am going to admit that I knew from the leap that it was absurd (bordering on asylum-worthy) to voice the idea that the ’90s timeline’s tree moss had achieved a symbiotic sentience that was a root trigger (pun meant) of all of the bewildering occasions we have seen to date. However when all else fails, you go together with no matter sounds proper…ish. For no matter cause — masochism or lively ignorance — I moderately loved holding out hope for that guesswork to play out. However now I can take step one in admitting I used to be flawed.
Yellowjackets Has Sadly Been Fairly Moss-Free In Season 3
Right here in Season 3, a time leap has changed the moist winter snow with nature’s hotter tones and vibes, and the quantity of moss I’ve seen may match on the pinnacle of a pin. Which is not to say it is all gone, however that nothing we have seen makes it nonetheless wise to proceed considering that moss was actually in charge for Javi’s and Natalie’s deaths and Laura Lee’s airplane crash and Shauna’s being pregnant woes.
By all means, I am going to proceed holding sturdy to the notion {that a} small patch of clever moss exists someplace in these woods, however I am advantageous with letting go of the idea that it is malciious and lethal. It is most likely simply an harmless cutie, li’l sentient moss patch.
New Idea: Every little thing In The Wilderness Has Naturally Psychotropic Results
Yellowjackets beforehand launched the teenager survivors getting crazy with mushrooms, though their experiences weren’t precisely in step with conventional shroom journeys. However now that we have seen Lottie virtually force-feeding Travis her psychoactive concoction in Season 3, regardless of him lashing out violently whereas underneath the affect, it looks as if a very good time to reconfigure a few of my ideas about this present’s ecosystem.
Enable me to generalize issues fairly a bit: for so long as Yellowjackets characters have been subsisting on components native to their surrounding wilderness, bizarre and unexplainable shit has been occurring to them. And by the point they get rescued, they may have been consuming that water and consuming these crops and numerous…animals (gulp) for a really, very very long time.
So what if the whole group and its closely bearded former coach have all been basically microdosing on any variety of psychotropics thriving in no matter they’re consuming and consuming? And that unwittingly imbibing hallucinations and psychoactive chemical compounds each day normalizes these emotions and makes the idea of mass hysteria that a lot simpler to fall into. Which may play into the screeches and screams that everybody is listening to from the timber.
Certain, I understand that Mari and Coach heard these disturbing noises whereas in a very completely different a part of the forest from everybody else. And should you thought this is able to be the purpose the place I re-introduce the concept of plantlife being sentient, you would be proper. It might be like taking LSD that has intentions, which is horrifying in and of itself.
And I additionally understand that the characters are nonetheless dealing with points from that point within the current day, many years after the airplane crash. However I believe TV science would permit that consuming nothing however hallucinogens for two years or so, with human flesh being key to that eating regimen, may make it so the women began producing the wilderness’ psychoactive DNA naturally inside their very own our bodies.
This idea actually is not all that removed from Lottie’s plainly said beliefs concerning the space wanting sacrifies. However as an alternative of a supernatural power who feeds on demise, it is one thing far much less summary-friendly. An entire-ass trippy forest that maybe needs to unfold its branches into the outer world at giant.
But when it does prove to only be sentient moss, I can say “Aha!” whereas smoking the persistent out of a Sherlock Holmes pipe. Simply no one rat me out to Jeff.
Yellowjackets airs new episodes Sunday nights on Showtime at 8:00 p.m., and stream early on Fridays with Paramount+. Hopefully new forged member Hillary Swank reveals up quickly earlier than I’ve to start out theorizing that her character is in actual fact made out of artificailly clever fungi.