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nat in every episode: 2x02

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Honestly I think I’m fully a part of the Antler Queen is a manifestation of the Wilderness/a hallucination team now because I just think having it be one of the girls will be a letdown/anticlimactic no matter who it is. I think it would mean so much more if the AQ was just a representation of the girl’s descent into insanity and wasn’t really there all along. The AQ is inside all of the girls, an amalgamation of all of them and now a ghost of their past that will haunt them forever.

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yellowjackets cast behind the scenes

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#people don’t talk about them enough#I’m a coach Ben defender he was just trying to not be a cannibal

God I will never be over Natalie & Ben’s friendship. They were the two most mature, moral people in the group & they were one another’s Allies for so long - each other’s normalcy in a world gone crazy. They were the two adults in a lot of ways. Natalie was only 17 like the others but her life experiences made her wise beyond her years & in the event of chaos she took a leadership role. She was always going to betray Ben as he remained stuck in society & his fantasies of a happy & normal life & she was dragged ever deeper into the wilderness & the wilderness’ way of doing things. The moment he realizes she’s the newest antler queen is a shattering moment for a reason & it’s the little moments, like Natalie showing Ben the map she’s made while Travis searches fruitlessly for a brother everyone thinks is dead & she tries to be logical & the two sit & have a moment of respite. They were each other’s rock for a long time. But Ben couldn’t cope with the new reality & Natalie will always choose the greater good, to help the most people. “You don’t belong here anymore.” Like I guess I get why a lot of people don’t like Ben or whatever but sometimes it’s like. You need to at least try to empathize with him in order for the story to hit the way it’s meant to.

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I visited the WGA library to read Yellowjackets scripts and wanted to share some of my findings! (Pt. 1)

So as some of you may know, scripts for the latter half of Yellowjackets Season 1 have already been released to the public (you can find 1x05-1x10 here: https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1FctrMniXqWRFJOe-rX6dSgvmXEO2KyLE?usp=share_link) and the Pilot script is pretty easily accessible on the internet if you look it up.

However, I have never been able to find the scripts for the rest of S1. An old draft of 1x04 can be found on Script Slug but A LOT has been changed from this script to the final product (Van is dead, Nat actually killed her dad, Javi is called Cody?!). It’s an interesting read for sure but it seems the actual final script of “Bear Down,” along with “F Sharp” and “Dollhouse,” are not accessible on the internet. So I headed over to the WGA Library and checked out those three scripts to read! It was super interesting (highly recommend going if you’re in the LA area!). I was not able to get any pictures of the scripts due to the Library policy, but I took lots of notes and saved some of my favorite lines!

I’m going to start with 1x02 and make two separate posts of 1x03 and 1x04 because otherwise this post would be way too long!

1x02 “F Sharp”

•The episode starts with Misty’s POV of the crash, and there’s this line that I love:

“Across from her, Lottie reaches forward to desperately clutch Laura Lee’s hand in the aisle. Their shared terror making it all the more clear that, in this moment, Misty is all alone.”

This shows Misty’s longing for companionship and affection. Even in what she thinks might be her last moments, she is utterly alone. I think this moment is part of what tips her over the edge into obsession in her relationships with Coach Ben, Crystal, and Natalie.

•In the final product, we don’t really see what Nat’s POV of the plane crash is (other than her nightmare in 1x03 but I’m not sure if that actually happened or not?) but in the script she gets knocked unconscious and buried under a bunch of luggage and equipment and the other girls have to dig her out.

•Misty and Taissa are the ones to pry the exit door open for everyone to escape.

•Jackie doesn’t even try to save Van in the script, she just immediately runs over and tries to drag Shauna away from Van from the get-go.

“Jackie runs after Shauna and starts clawing at her, trying to get her to move toward the exit.”

•After Shauna and Jackie make it outside the wreckage, Jackie and Shauna “begin fighting angrily in the dirt, Jackie clearly still desperately afraid to remain so close to the fiery wreckage” as Shauna tries to go back in for Van.

•And I just thought this descriptor was a cute little addition; after Misty chops off Coach Ben’s leg, we get this line:

“And as we realize this little show called ‘Yellowjackets’ is sick, unexpected and awesome, we smash cut to—

MAIN TITLE”

•“Laura Lee trying in vain to hold and comfort a struggling, hyperventalating Javi.”

A nice little moment of Laura Lee comforting Javi as he’s trying to find his dad.

•”Jackie: For the record, I was trying to save you. I thought…

I was going to lose you. Jackie bites her lip, a little teary. Shauna glances at her and nods, I know—but we also get the sense that Van isn’t the only one judging Jackie right now.”

A little Jackie/Shauna moment. You can see how much Jackie loves Shauna, but Shauna is still conflicted over Jackie’s choice to leave Van behind.

•Some things Caligula says when Natalie breaks into Misty’s house:

“Hello, pretty lady!”

“Hells bells! My dogs are barking!”

Love this.

•The information Misty has in her secret file: articles and magazine covers about the crash, press clippings, a local wedding announcement for Shauna and Jeff, Taissa’s campaign flyer, and a brochure for Natalie’s rehab clinic.

•When Nat asks Misty why she has all of this information, Misty says:

“You guys are the most important people in my life.”

Just another reminder that Misty’s whole existence revolves around the Yellowjackets, even after 25 years.

•Nat is hyper focused on looking at Travis’s drivers license in the bar scene when Kevyn walks up to her. She totally ignores Kevyn, just focused on Travis’ picture. She is described as looking “pale” and “like she’s seen a ghost.” Just shows how hung up Nat is on Travis and how much that relationship fucked her up.

•Misty says “Holy macaroni” when she sees Coach Martinez’s body. Insane.

•Okay brace yourselves for this one guys, in the script Coach Martinez is STILL ALIVE when they find him impaled on the tree.

“The coach’s eyes pop open. He suddenly grabs Travis. Eyes wild with pain and fear, the coach tries to speak but only makes raspy sounds as blood bubbles at his lips.”

“Travis: Dad! Let go!”

Travis’s dad won’t let go and there’s a scene where Travis is trying to claw him off of him, then the tree branch cracks and Travis shakes his dad off of his arm, “knows it’s his dad or the both of them” and the tree branch falls.

Wow. As if the scene that ended up making it in the final product wasn’t traumatic enough, Travis has to actively let his dad fall to his death when he’s still alive and desperately clinging to him? Ouch. I’m glad they cut that scene honestly poor Travis.

•Shauna is holding Javi and comforting him during and after this scene.

“We see Shauna still comforting Javi, we can’t hear what she’s saying but her body language is very giving—a maternal streak she didn’t know she had.”

Love the nod to Shauna’s maternal nature here. She’s naturally very nurturing and caring, but after she loses her baby she becomes more cold and distant with her other child, Callie, in fear that she will lose her too. I just love seeing the before and after here, we get to see what Shauna was like before all of the trauma. Shauna wants to nurture Callie, it’s a natural part of her personality as this scene with Javi shows, but she can’t get too attached after what happened in the Wilderness.

•In the adult timeline, there’s another deleted scene in which Nat drives to Shauna’s house and spies on her from outside.

“She seems to be fighting an impulse to get out of her car, but her feelings are unclear. Does she look uneasy? Vindictive?”

Another hint the conflict between these two that we still haven’t seen yet? Maybe this is lingering resentment from Shauna challenging Nat’s leadership as the new Antler Queen?

•When Nat hands Travis her flask to drink from after the whole Coach Martinez incident, there’s this line:

“She wants to tell him there is nothing he could have done. How guilt like this is poison, and if he’s going to blame himself she will punch him in the face”

I think this is clearly a nod to Nat’s own guilt around her father’s death. She knows that Travis is likely tearing himself apart inside because she did the same thing after her father’s death. She blamed herself, as Travis is doing now. Also love the punching him in the face line, it’s very on-brand for Nat and honestly wish she had punched him in the face a few times when he deserved it.

*1x03 and 1x04 notes to come!*

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I visited the WGA library to read Yellowjackets scripts and wanted to share some of my findings! (Pt. 3)

Here are my notes for 1x04! Quotation marks indicate direct lines from the script, whereas everything else is me paraphrasing.

Note: You can find an early version of 1x04 on Script Slug, but this must have been a very early version because many things are different. The notes I have here are not on that version of the script, rather they are on the final version of the script that ended up being used for the episode, so there will just be some new details and deleted scenes but no major plot differences between the script here and what we saw in the episode.

1x04 “Bear Down”

A lot of this is going to be about Nat because this is kind of her episode!

•During Nat’s plane crash nightmare in the opening scene, the script says that Adult Nat briefly appears in the seat next to her father before being replaced by Teen Nat again. I thought this was interesting, I wonder what the writers are trying to say by having a flash of Adult Nat here, does it contribute to the whole “We’ve been here for years” line when Nat dies? A representation of how Nat is essentially stuck in this place even 25 years later?

But also, the dream is Teen Nat’s dream, not Adult Nat’s, so is this would mean the dream is prophetic in a sense because Nat is seeing her future self for a moment. Maybe that’s why they cut it out? Or was it just because Juliette wasn’t available for such a small scene?

•Also in the dream sequence, the rifle Nat sees on her lap is noted by the script to be the same one she eventually uses to hunt in the wilderness. Another prophetic piece to Nat’s dream.

All of that combined with Nat’s dad’s line of “It’s been waiting for us” shows that, even though Nat is the biggest skeptic in the wilderness, she is one of the first people the wilderness speaks to and gives prophetic visions to.

•Nat is said to be 14 years-old when her father dies. The script says she and Kevyn are 14 in that scene and the year is specified as 1993. I have always wondered how old she was supposed to be in that scene!

(But it’s worth noting that they might have aged her up a year in the final product because, in the script, the cassette she pops into her boom box when her and Kevyn enter her room is the album Where You Been by Dinosaur Jr., which came out in 1993. However, in the actual episode, Nat puts in the song “Feel the Pain” by Dinosaur Jr. instead, which came out in 1994. So this scene might actually be in 1994 in the final product despite what the script says.)

•Teen Kevyn Tan is absolutely hopelessly in love with Nat in the flashback scene. He’s described as “clearly nervous to be in the bedroom of his crush” and starts coloring his nails with Sharpie just to distract himself from his anxiety.

Then Nat pats the bed for him to sit next to her and Kevyn is “thrumming with hormones and anxiety.” When Nat takes Kevyn’s hand to start painting his nails, we get this description:

“For Kevyn, her gentle touch, her careful attention…he’s in heaven. And simultaneously deep inside the hell of his own desire. Should he kiss her? Would she hate that?”

Nat is described as “oblivious” to Kevyn’s feelings in this moment.

I think these descriptions help us understand how much Kevyn idealizes Natalie in his head. He has this unrealistic, romanticized view of her even 25 years later when they meet again as adults. He likes the idea of her, but when he actually sees her trauma (and sees her as an actual person) he distances himself.

•There are some…interesting descriptions of Shauna and Adam getting freaky in the script. This girl is scratching him hard enough to draw blood, choking him, putting her fingers in his mouth, etc. This shows how Shauna is using Adam to relive the adrenaline she felt in the wilderness.

•When Travis points the gun at Nat, the rest of the girls scatter and run away in fear, but Nat stays perfectly still, staring him down.

•While Taissa is talking to Diane about her political campaign and Diane asks her what “really happened out there,” Tai hears wolves howling in the distance. Poor Tai is more traumatized by Van’s wolf attack than Van is.

•When Kevyn and Nat meet for dinner as adults, they reminisce about breaking into the chem lab at school and stealing equipment to make bongs. My fun little headcanon is that Nat got caught during this incident and the principal put her on the soccer team to set her on the right path.

•Also in this scene, Kevyn notes that he last saw Nat “twenty-two years ago,” which means he and Nat were in contact for a year or two after the rescue. I’m thinking Nat probably stayed in Wiskayok for a year after they were rescued and just decided to cut all ties at some point and leave town, ghosting everyone she knew there.

There’s this line as well:

“Kevyn: You were my best friend and you just…

You fucking ghosted me.”

•There’s another deleted scene (which they did film and we actually got to briefly see it in the trailer for the episode but they took it out of the final product for some reason!) where Adult Nat is looking in the mirror after her date with Kevyn, having mixed feelings about her grief over Travis and her new feelings for Kevyn, and she sees her Teen self behind her in the mirror imitating her movements. A little trauma regression moment and I’m not sure why it was cut. I’m just salty because I love when Sophie Thatcher and Juliette Lewis are in a room together. But here’s a photo of it:

•There’s an interesting part where Shauna finds Javi’s journal and looks through it. The journal has a bunch of drawings in it (wildlife sketches, comic book characters, etc.) that are described as really good; Javi’s talent as an artist is emphasized by the script.

I think this some subtle proof that the writers initially intended for Adam to be Adult Javi, with the obvious nod to the artist talent and I feel like the scripts for these early episodes highlight the closeness between Javi and Shauna in the wilderness more. The writers did confirm that they originally wanted Javi to be Adam, so I think you can see some details that support that in the scripts.

•Before Nat pulls the trigger on her dad, she feels “years of humiliation and thwarted rage” and she automatically “stiffens” when he steps towards her. Just a reminder of how much this man traumatized her!

•When Shauna butchers the deer for the first time, she is described as feeling a “thrill she’s never felt before.” This goes back to her sexual relationship with Adam in the adult timeline, that adrenaline from her role as the butcher that she misses and is trying to recreate.

•When Shauna returns home from her antics with Adam, Jeff asks, “How was book club?” and Shauna immediately vomits all over the floor🫢

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#Becky Monroe walked so Natalie Scatorccio could run

Sophie Thatcher as Becky Monroe

WHEN THE STREETLIGHTS GO ON

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i love the implication that lottie sees natalie as a harmless and kind person at heart while natalie approaches lottie like she's a ticking time bomb able to hurt others despite not meaning it.

because, in truth both are not wrong, since they serve to be one of the few (if not, only) people to understand each other to their core, because they see themselves in each other;

they get to understand that there's something more sinister and more righteous that they truly (at their core) have (whether or not they intend to)

because they're portrayed to be polar opposites they also serve as parallels to the other

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I read an interview recently that Kevin Alves did with The Hollywood Reporter about Season 2 and he basically confirms that Travis doesn’t know that the girls let Javi die, he thinks it was just an accident. For some reason I always thought that Travis just knew that they let Javi drown but I realize that, unless they explicitly told him that, he would probably just assume that he fell in the ice and drowned/froze to death before they could save him.

So the fact that he doesn’t know what really happened adds a whole new layer to Nat and Travis for me. Does Nat ever tell him? Or does that secret just hang over their relationship and further her guilt, shame, and self-destructive tendencies? Is there some part of Travis that suspects she might have let Javi die in her place but pushes down the thought because she’s all he has left and he can’t bear to lose anyone else? It reminds me of Misty’s secret about breaking the black box, it’s something so wrong and dark that it’s probably in everyone’s best interest that it stays a secret but it still hangs over the narrative and weighs on the person holding it in.

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Nat looks so skronkly in all of these🫶

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Could the teenaged Yellowjackets beat their older selves in a fight? A very autistic post.

Young Taissa Verses Adult Taissa:

Listen this is so easy. Like, so easy. Young Taissa would destroy her older self. Her older self would have no idea what was happening before it was over. Young Taissa is the wolf slayer and the strongest Yellowjacket in terms of both body and spirit. Young Taissa has supernatural resolve like goddamn Spider-Man and older Taissa has amputated those parts of herself to be try and rejoin society. Young Taissa wins, I will die on this hill.

Young Misty verses Adult Misty:

This is close. This is so, so close, because Misty left nothing behind in the wilderness. She still has everything she learned out there, so her Adult self is every bit as vicious and lethal as her younger self. Young Misty, however, is much more volatile, and I feel like Adult Misty might fall for the younger one's manipulations. I think this ultimately goes to Adult Misty, just because Adult Misty would turn to poisons, which young Misty isn't yet skilled enough in to both avoid and sneak into the older one's food.

Young Natalie Verses Adult Natalie:

This doesn't come to physical blows. Every time Young Natalie tries to start shit, Adult Natalie says something something so mean and devastating that her younger self freezes in place and dwells on it for hours. This repeats a dozen or so times before Young Natalie has a nervous break down.

Young Lottie verses Adult Lottie:

This also doesn't come to physical violence because young and adult Lottie terrify each other. That type of self reflection is simply too emotionally intense for both of them and they just keep avoiding each other. If you trap them in a room they're just very awkward and then they're passive aggressive and then they have a terrible argument that makes both of them cry

Young Shauna verses Adult Shauna:

Adult Shauna takes this because she's gotten meaner. She'll attack Young Shauna emotionally WHILE beating the shit out of her but in a relatively restrained way. When Young Shauna calms the fuck down, she just follows Adult Shauna around going

Adult Van verses Young Van:

My god young Van eviscerates this woman and its with much less skill than Taissa displayed. This is because adult Van is basically a sock monkey. She has zero offensive or defensive skills. She will simply die.

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#yellowjackets is ultimebtly about a lot of freaks who hate each other#a bunch of haters who love nat#<- REAL!!!!!#the specific wording here inadvertantly implying that they all share a bed is also very funny can you fucking imagine#horror

they all have a framed photograph of natalie on their bedside table x

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Each Yellowjackets character’s last words (because something is wrong with me)

Laura Lee

“Oh my gosh, we’re really going to save them.”

Jackie

Shauna: You’re the best friend I’ve ever had, you know that right?

“I know.”

Javi

“Natalie, please! Help! Natalie!”

(Ouch this one hurts)

Travis

“If it tells me what it wants I can make it go away. Just a few inches off the ground for a couple of minutes.”

Then, to Lottie:

“Do it.”

Natalie

“No, I’m not supposed to be here.”

They all break my heart in different ways. Laura Lee was so hopeful. Jackie just wanted Shauna’s love. Javi was so scared. Travis was so desperate to find answers. Natalie was so terrified and not ready to give in.

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SOPHIE THATCHER

MaXXXine 2024

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Doomed Yuri and long homoerotic stares

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Sophie Thatcher🤝 Characters with dad trauma

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#THIS IS NOT A SHIP POST DONT GET MAD AT ME#I just feel like Nat and Travis’s grief and codependency is so important for both of their characters

Kevin Alves on shooting Season 1 Episode 4:

“We had this one scene where we were sitting there with an animal, and Travis calms Natalie down, she shoots it, and then we sit there.”

“Deepa Mehta [director] came up to the two of us and said, ‘This is not about the animal. This is the two of you grieving your fathers.’”

“What we did was we really wanted to root their relationship and their mutual grief of their parents and their mutual feeling that they don't belong with everybody else. I think when you have that, that's what the relationship is built off of.”

“It was really messed up because when you're connected to somebody via that, there's no way that you guys don't become ridiculously reliant on each other. I think that that's just going to keep happening to them for 20 years. We see where things end, and it's tragic, but there's no question that there's love there between the two of them. It's tons of love.”