#edible complex

[mytvjunk]

The girls and Travis at the end of episode two:

[honeycomblattice]

I saw a critic writing about how the choice to cut from the girls eating Jackie to a grecian feast was the show thinking we couldn't yet handle them actually eating Jackie on screen...and I just don’t think that's true at all

I think the scene must be a reference to the Bacchae, a play by Euripides, performed in ~200 BCE. In revenge for spreading lies about his birth and claim to godliness, Dionysus drives his aunts mad, and leads them into the mountains to worship him and participate in his ritual festivities. King Pentheus of Thebes, the son of Agave, one of Dionysus’ aunts, bans Dionysian worship in his kingdom. The women do not obey, and continue to terrorize villages, tearing apart cattle with their bare hands. King Pentheus of Thebes, encouraged by Dionysus in disguise as a woman, spies on the cult of women, led by his mother, Agave, to gain information. In their madness, they discover Pentheus, rip off his head, and tear his body to pieces. Agave believing that it is a mountain lion’s head, she brings it on a stick to her father, who forces her to see that it is her own son she has killed as her madness wears off.

Tell me that Pentheus being torn apart by his own mother, who does not see him, but an animal, is not exactly the scene at the end of the Edible Complex. The girls (and Travis) in madness, in hunger, see not Jackie’s body, but a feast, a cooked animal. Jackie’s body is not hers, it is consumable, Jackie represents that which did not commune with the wilderness, which didn’t belong, which tried to stop them from worshipping how they wanted. Jackie is Pentheus, torn apart by a mob of women he thought was disobeying him, his relatives, who thought he was an animal. They don’t cut away because they aren’t ready to show us this transgression on screen. They are telling us about the dissociation, the madness, showing us what Jackie represented once again, authority, normalcy, otherness. 

[veggiesforpresident]

in the woods

[notwhatiam]

I know this moment probably portends to something more sinister, but I’m so obsessed with Coach Ben seeing the girls and Travis viciously tearing apart and eating Jackie’s burned body and just being like, “yeah… actually, I can’t handle this. I’m out 😎✌️”

[racklejackets]

if you hate yellowjackets you just hate girl dinner

[cadeswater]

i love yellowjackets edible complex because of course eating jackie would be imagined as a bacchanal feast! in doom coming they literally already had a bacchanal where they lost their minds , kind of maybe had an orgy, and tried to make an animal (travis) sacrifice , but there was ultimately no sacrifice that night, so of course eating jackie would complete the ritual!

[sweaters-and-vertigo]

[ggardengirl]

i have a feeling this will be one of my favorite episodes

[ghostface-knight]

yellowjackets is a lost shakespeare play

[tabithatwo]

I’m gonna have more thoughts on this when I rewatch and it isn’t late at night but I’m really like wow that episode was NOT IT for me and that’s the first time I’ve felt like that about Yellowjackets and it’s a scary feeling!!

like why have we established shauna as being so possessive over Jackie for 11 episodes just for her to cave immediately, why was the MAKEUP of all things the trigger like I know Tai wanted to be done with the Jackie Barbie and she was stressed by her own sleepwalking so she lashed out but the dramatic point and yell and SHAME her and everyone panics about makeup??? MAKEUP?? She’s been out there all day and half the night for months, did we think she was sitting quietly in a corner?? The line about “for the baby” fucking bizarre to me??

the focus on the MEN suddenly like so man heavy!! The long fucking spirit threesome I need to rewatch but like idk idk.

The 96 and 21 plot lines felt super disjointed to me especially for shauna. I’ve just never ended an episode and felt like…what the fuck was that.

The reverting to “you did it to BE me” I can’t even get started on, literally THE line I was dreading happening the most, the gay they planted so heavily being YANKED back, after promos and scenes in 201 very intentionally setting up a moment of either solidification or at least postponement. Like truly that line is what I feared the most but hopefully the show proves me wrong and doesn’t do this shit indefinitely.

I did love adult lottie like that’s my comedic relief amazing ass rich bitch I love her crazy, snarky ass. And I thought Ben was gonna shoot himself at the end there fr fr lol like the kids are NOT alright. Also, 2 month old corpse?? Like I see rabies girl coming soon bc that cannot be good.

I’m hoping and PRAYING I rewatch tomorrow and have a new take and see the light but I was distracted from even really grieving Jackie which I assumed I’d be doing a LOT of by just a sense of…what the fuck is going on here.

Maybe no one needs my long winded decompression BUT *I* needed it and if you’re also feeling a sense of wtf you’re not alone lmao and if you loved it I am so happy for you I’m not coming for you enjoyment of it I’m just…processing a meh feeling about a show that has never made me feel meh before!

[yj-as-precrashsonglyrics]

yellowjackets as pre-crash song lyrics

team x hole/gutless

i wanna drink the honey blood // i wanna drink the honey blood

[martyrnextdoor]

[castielsparkle]

my yellowjackets meme

[canary-prince]

So Regarding The Feast In Edible Complex--

There's the initial of interpretations of exaltation and dominance. To consume a creature's flesh as fuel is the ultimate act of subjugation, or conquest. Jackie has become a burnt offering and her gods are consuming her, affirming their holiness through the act.

HOWEVER--

Greek Gods were far from keen on offerings of human flesh. Cannibalism and the offering of human sacrifices often drew their fury and led to eternal punishment in Tartarus. So while in the team's minds, their exalted and lauded, in the metanarrative, they're condemned. They have fallen by consuming an unclean offering.

[monathedefiant]

[edit by: @monathedefiant ]

[warningsine]

“We hope that the audience doesn’t necessarily interpret that, or doesn’t absolutely interpret that, as a love triangle. It’s not just like, Travis is having sex with Natalie but thinking about Lottie. That’s not it at all,” Lisco told The Hollywood Reporter when speaking about the episode, which released March 31. “It’s actually a battle between faith and pragmatism.”

Specifically, the battle over faith centers around the disappearance of Travis’ younger brother, Javi (Luciano Leroux), who went missing after Doomcoming and has yet to return. Lottie has connected with Travis on a spiritual level, telling him to have faith that his brother is alive, while Nat has tried her hardest to get Travis to accept the harsh reality that Javi could not survive for two months on his own.

“Natalie loves Travis, so she doesn’t want this faith to become toxic and even more painful for him in believing that Javi is still alive,” says Lisco of what motivated Natalie to plant a piece of bloody clothing for Travis to find and assume that Javi was dead. “That’s a really beautiful relationship [Natalie and Travis] have. But something in Travis is still responding to faith, and Lottie represents that.”

In support of Lisco’s vision, Thatcher and Alves both agree that Lottie serves a specific purpose for Travis. “I feel like Lottie’s appearance, she kind of serves as a motherly figure. I don’t think there’s anything sexual about it. That’s what I remember Ben saying,” Thatcher (who admits she did not watch her own sex scene) tells THR of the episode’s director, Ben Samanoff.

Alves says that when he read the script, he questioned Travis’ feelings for Lottie. “How does he see Lottie? Is it in a way that replaces Natalie, or is it a way that supplements Natalie?” he tells THR. “We had a lot of questions, and when I talked to Ben about how we wanted to shoot it, we started to dive into the fact that all those flashes that we see have a very motherly nature, the way Lottie handles Travis in those visions, and we started to understand that he’s going through the same confusion that I was as I’m reading it: What do I see in this other person that really has an impact on me? As we see in episode one when she helps him, and he has to cover himself up, there’s a lot of confusion.”