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misty destroyed the transmitter because she desperately wanted to be a part of the team and two decades later as the final survivors of the disaster she manufactured are picked off one by one by the consequences of the time they spent in the wilderness she’s going to end up being the only one left and for all the trauma and death that she set in motion she will never get her wish
No but imagine losing what's left of the sanity you've been clinging to by your fingernails only to be immediately met with your teammate piecing together the plane's black box. Like even if she's not mad at misty. Even if she never tells a soul, nats gonna have a freak out for the record books.
You know what for all the admittedly fascinating theories about Kodiak I'm actually so glad he turned out to be insignificant plot fodder because this show is ultimately about the girls and the girls only men are here to advance the plot and die except for Travis who's here to show that when guys try hard enough they can become interesting girls too but if they go back to the real world and get socialized as men again they die offscreen because again this story is for girls and women and I fucking love it
Sort of feels like the writer’s strike gave the team a lot to ruminate on and a lot of pivots came out of that. Want to be clear: I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing. It bums me out that we’ve lost characters and actors I adore, but that was always going to be this kind of show. And they’ve proven they were willing to let the narrative breathe from the start: that’s why we had Laura Lee so long, it’s why Adam wasn’t Javi, it’s why Van got to grow up. I love that. I love writers that don’t get so cemented in their initial plan that they can’t evolve.
Where I do get a little finicky is everyone insisting it’s a “trade” for Swank, or that “a background character did this!” Melissa’s been getting fleshed out all season. You think that was an accident? Shauna’s paranoid murder of one lover looked crazy in season one, but now we’re in season three and we find out this is a pattern. Paranoia. Hard-and-fast ill-advised love affairs that turn vicious. Building her own enemy out of an innocent. Adam truly couldn’t see it coming, but Melissa gets decades to dwell. Melissa, who was introduced as someone who thought cannibalism wouldn’t be the worst thing. Melissa, who stood at Shauna’s back until it proved bad for her specifically. Shauna’s always been the heart of the story, the teammate whose eyes we stare through. Of course it’ll all come down to her. And of course she needs someone to go head to head with. She thinks she’s only haunted by Jackie, so obsessed with this ghost that she forgot (well, I guess didn’t realize, due to Faked Suicide) she fully crafted a very-alive haunting of her narrative. You don’t escape the awful shit you’ve done. It will follow you. That’s the whole point of this character. Do I want her instead of Van? Obviously not. But for this story of never forgiving, of carrying your sins home and being eaten alive by them? Yeah, I get it.
Hannah's quick action to attack Kodiak was to me about real womanhood. How people socialized to the woman's role are adapted to live in constant survival mode. Always in fear someone can attack us, psychically or verbally, so we come prepared even when danger isn't here. She comes with a fast solution not because, women are "impulsive" but we know what it takes to be alive. He would ruin everything, as soon as he would speak because not even for one second he understood what took these girls to survive. He would take all of the efforts, infantilize them and make them "just stupid crazy girls". Hannah sees that it's extreme but maybe this is only my point of view - she has an understanding of how much they sacrificed. She has knowledge of what it takes to survive for many organisms on this earth. As an adult woman, also with a young child at home - she will take the risk.
