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eveningsandcoffeespoons · 2 years ago

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I’m too late to the party so I can’t find an appropriate opening scene gifset to tagmeta on but. my current pet theory is that the pilot pit girl sequence is not actually a hunting party; it’s a ritual trial with cannibal side benefits.

the most dangerous game with full attention to the play on words in the title: either side can--in theory--win.

it’s like the Lottie/Nat hunting challenge: righteousness will out. the wilderness powers that be would never let an innocent die. not with so much at stake. If a witch sinks/drowns/burns/falls into a trap, she was guilty. something would have intervened if she weren’t. Javi came back, didn’t he?

#every time this trope shows up on a police procedural the victim is naked and barefoot and running for her life #we rewatched the pilot recently and all of a sudden it felt like watching cold case or criminal minds #I don't think it's as simple as 'this week your assigned chore is being lunch'#or 'your punishment is to be hunted for sport'#she's wearing the good luck necklace #there are eyes carved on the trees and talismans in the branches #for the group of 7 or for the running girl?#hope she picks correctly #hope she's guided correctly #hope she makes it through the wilderness #hope somehow she makes it through #the group of 7 don't even have to be the remaining survivors #there's a clear hierarchy already #who doesn't need a group of ruling elites?#yellowjackets #yellowjackets spoilers

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