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I haven't watched pluribus yet, but isn't basically a rip off of TGWDLM?
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I watched the new "Wuthering Heights", and here are my thoughts.
Spoiler warning, obviously.
Sex sells better than accuracy
Okay, I know we are all mad about 2026's Wuthering Heights adaptation, from the change of genre to the visual aesthetic (I'm not a fan of the costumes or the set design; to me, it looks like everything was thrown into a blender and came out here. Everything has a fake, plastic-like appearance. Not a fan.).
But what people are most pissed about is the casting. Margot Robbie as Catherine is already a bad decision, she too old for the role, and when you think Heathcliff hate blondes because of the Linton's, but even that could be twisted a bit, Catherine looking like Heathcliff's enemy, like she is one of them, could fuel him with this deep need for revenge for Catherine's rejection. But even the Linton's changed and now they are dark-haired, which... it is a choice, I guess.
But by far the most jawring casting was Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, who in the book is described as "gypsy", and even through this word means romani today, back when the book is set in, it simply means someone tanned, or mixed race, someone not white. And in the book most of the conflicts Heathcliff goes through are because he is someone different from the other, a visual difference, and Jacob Elordi doesn't have that.
But as Emerald Fennell said during interviews "she didn't saw Heathcliff as poc man, she was more focused on the possible erotic subtext in it".
Which reminds me of another movie in her curriculum "Saltburn", also with Jacob Elordi, the poorly ripoff of Mr. Ripley. Saltburn is a souless movie, it catchs the audience attention through shocking scenes, it isn't grotesque, that would be a compliment, it is gratuitous.
And like the Emerald herself said, "Wuthering Heights have scenes inspired in Saltburn".
Which makes me think she does fetish content, her movies are porn with a very thin, superficial layer of plot. It's very difficult to make sex serve a purpose in the narrative, other than satisfying the director's fetishes. And in Emerald's career as a director, the only reason to have a story is to move the plot to another sex scene.
But I also do believe that her adaptation of wuthering heights will be financially a success, because now days, thanks to tiktok, the most talked, and sold books are the ones who enter the "dark romance smut" genrer, just like the new wuthering heights.
This movie wasn't marketed to the fans of the book, but to teens and young adults who will consume anything a 1min video recommends to them. The reviews to the movie are starting to appear and the call it "erotic", "a diferent level of sexy", some even calling it "perfect". And that will just help to sell the idea.
I kinda just wanted to see a faithful adaptation.
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something to be said about how so many of shauna’s paranoias get confirmed. even in like. such small ways. shauna is scared of plane rides, it crashes; shauna is scared of being vulnerable, jackie dies because shauna attempted to be honest; shauna tells jeff that she will raise a child to kill him if he gets her pregnant, he gets her pregnant; shauna thinks people are plotting against her in season three, they are!!!; shauna thinks nobody will love her for who she truly is, melissa leaves her and calls her crazy!!!!!!; shauna doesnt want to go home because she knows she doesn’t belong there anymore, she becomes an entirely different person when she goes home!!!!!!!!!!!!! fuck if i was shauna id be tweaking too
I think it may be the opposite, kind off. I don't think Shauna is necessarily afraid of being vulnerable, but she is afraid of conflict (and she wants Jackie so much that she wants to be her), so she spends the whole season avoiding conflict, she doesn't tell jackie about jeff and the baby, and she doesn't confronts about the "affair", so she bottle up until she explodes, and that leads to both Jackie and Addam's deaths.
Shauna getting pregnant was an accident, but it only happened because she was pissed at Jackie not saying she loved her back in the car scene.
People weren't plotting against Shauna at the start of season three, Melissa's tape was her way of saying, please don't come after me, and that's what Shauna did. People (Tai, Misty and Melissa) only startes plotting against Shauna because was becoming feral, she was reaching the point of no return.
Shauna is afraid she won't be loved, the she was, she was loved intensely, by Jackie, in a toxic first love way, and by Jeff, the man who was willing to go to jail for her, he forgave her betrayal and defended her from everyone who spoke ill of her behind her back, he only left her was because he knew she didn't loved him back. And she didn't loved Melissa, the same way Melissa never did, she just wanted to feel like jackie.
The reason why Shauna didn't want to go home, wasn't because she didn't belong, that was Lottie's reason, she didn't want to go home or let anyone do it, because she would lose the little reing of terror she created. She goes home, and no longer can be a dictator.
It's not that Shauna's paranoia was confirmed, she was so entitled, so self-centered, that she made every thing she feared happen, because she needed to be in the victim role, she needed to be the good girl, she needed to be Jackie, seem and adored, and incapable of doing anything wrong.
The plane crash It was simply a matter of script convenience lol
i dont think there’s a difference between being scared of vulnerability and scared of conflict. to be vulnerable is to risk starting conflict. for shauna, to be open about her feelings she’d have to admit her resentment, her fear, and basically everything that causes conflict over jackie in shaunas head. shaunas a pushover because she won’t risk being herself. i will say in my original post that “shauna attempted to be honest” is a gross understatement but it’s a tumblr post.
secondly, just because her pregnancy was an accident doesn’t disprove anything, if anything it helps prove it. it was something that could’ve easily not have happened but shauna was right in fearing it would. Regardless, it isn’t a huge piece of evidence, it's just another small brick in the whole wall.
furthermore, people WERE plotting against shauna in the wilderness. melissa and, presumably, gen were actively planning to kill her. travis and akilah were planning to kill lottie, and tai and van fucked with the cards. they all had their own little plots that, while not all actively against shauna, were very true and shauna clocked it. adult shauna is a whole other package to break down there.
side note but i dont think jeff owning up to the fact that all of this, the cheating (which callie didn’t require any evidence to believe (what a high standard she must have of her dad)) and adam’s death, only started because of him. because he got that shady loan, because he blackmailed (and never tried to pay it back) natalie, and because he breached shauna’s privacy to read her diaries of the most traumatic experience of her life (and didn’t even try to comfort her, or tell her to get a therapist, or anything he would actually do if he truly loved her and not only with her because of guilt.)
im assuming you meant to say shauna wasn’t afraid to be loved. if you did, shauna’s afraid she won’t be loved as the person she is without jackie attached to her. the resentful, real teenager she is without jackie completing her. teenage jeff only ‘loved’ her because she gave him the sex jackie wouldn’t, and adult jeff only stayed with her out of a guilt-induced marriage because of jackie’s death. everything in shauna’s life leads back to jackie.
there’s no real reason to say shauna never loved melissa, or vice versa, other than demonizing a teenage girl for demonizing’s sake, honestly. the whole point of the yellowjackets team is that they all love each other, that’s why it’s a gold mine for multishippers as every single ship is plausible and feels like it could be real. they’re fucked up but they’ve lived through this together. so when mel reaches out to shauna, telling her how strong she’s been and how melissa wasn’t afraid of her, shauna feels like maybe she could be loved as the ‘actual’*, gruesome person she is. maybe it wasn’t normal love, but it was it’s secret fucked up other thing under the love umbrella.
*(not that i think season three shauna is the “true” shauna, but rather that her insecurity of not being able to be herself, that every single teenager has, has been intensified through the horror of the pain and trauma of everything she’s been through.)
moving on, i think it’s both! shauna didn’t want to lose her power because when she goes home, without the power of the wilderness, because of how much of a shell of a person she’s become, defined by her trauma and it’s effects-- she will become a whole different person, forced to deal with the trauma she’s been dealt with. she would lose all of her power, and consequently her entire sense of identity (becoming a completely different person), if she left the wilderness. which she did. i love butcherqueen parallels so much
shauna’s paranoia was confirmed. whether she was what caused it or not, it was confirmed. it doesn’t matter if she caused it, because either way it confirms at least one suspicion. she’s unlovable, or she’s unfixable, or that everything’s just a huge shit show, or etc.
shauna evidently doesn’t want to be the victim. that’s her whole thing in the wilderness, to become the oppresor rather than oppressed by the fucked up events that she was forced against. she wanted to be adored, but she definitely didn’t want to be the good girl jackie was. she wanted to drag down everyone to her ‘horrible, cruel’ level until they all felt the same pain and self-hatred she felt. she needed them all to commit the same wrongs she did.
and exactly. that’s exactly the point. the plane crash was simply a matter of script convenience. it was always going to happen no matter shauna’s feelings about it because she has no control over it. shauna is smart enough to clock what can happen, but too much of a teenage girl to fix it.
and at the end of the day i think the most important thing is how shauna is very much a character based on contradictions and being a hypocrite to herself. she is a broken person. and i love her!!!! livelaughlove shauna shipman continue being hated on the fandom. i hope she gets worse
Okay, let me explain myself better, because I feel like I may not came across as adding an alternative point of view to what you originally said lol.
First place, yes, fear of vulnerability and fear of conflict are different things, although they can be connected. I say shauna is afraid of conflict more than vulnerability because she is willing to be vulnerable before, during, and after the wilderness, she opened up to tai very easily, because they were friends and they could trust each other, she opened up to Adam, a guy she just met, in the moment she wanted she was able to connect even to callie, the daughter she hated because she reminded her too much of herself. But I do think she is afraid of conflict because every time she tried to stand up and say what she thinks, something went wrong, the fight at the party on 1st ep, the voting to go to the lake, the fight with jackie, not confronting Jeff about the affair. She just hold all inside, and make a bad decision after the other, and then blame the others for it, she refuses to take responsibility for her actions, like adam's murder, were first she justified because she thought he was the blackmailer, and when she found out she was wrong, she kept quiet, because it wasn't her fault in her head, or when she mutilated Melissa, she thought she was threatening her, and when she found out she was missing the letter, and a lot of context, she didn't back down, she still insist on blaming her for her poor decisions.
About the pregnancy, every teenage girl is afraid of pregnancy, and that's okay, the quote about raising a murderer kid, was more of an edgy joke in the scene context, while in a storytelling sense was a bit of foreshadowing, because callie becomes a murderer. Meanwhile, for the character, this is a situation where she is living her worst nightmare, I think she dealt with it pretty well, within the show context, she was scared, yes, but a part of her loved that child more than she could tell.
Yes, people plotted against Shauna in the wilderness, because she was a tyrant who destroyed their chance of returning to civilization, but they only started plotting against because she was afraid of loosing control. Same thing in the adult timelime, she was so paranoid, and took so many bad decisions, that lead to people plotting against her again.
I didn't said Jeff was a good person or husband, I said he loved Shauna for who she truly was. And even though I don't agree that invasion of privacy is fucked up, if you force someone to do something, even if it is for their good, like searching for help, they only pull away more, they need to open up to you, so you can suggest those things. Jeff knew Shauna didn't trust him, that she didn't open up to him, and he didn't want her pull away more from him. Yes, he was wrong for taking the loan, and the blackmail, but he didn't decide to confess to a guy's murder because of that, he did it because he loved his wife. Shauna is with Jeff because of guilt, because she didn't had other option.
Yes, I agree that everything in shauna's life leads back to jackie, that she is still stuck on her dead best friend's shadow, but she is there only because she choose to stay there. She had other connections beyond jackie, but she always circle back to her, and that is because she was in love with her best friend. If you ever watched "Jeniffer's body", you know how that can fuck someone up, shauna was in love with Jackie in the way she let jackie walk over her just to stay closer to her, shauna didn't cared about being someone without jackie, so when jackie died, she didn't knew who she was, that's why she keeps going back to her. She loves jackie, she hates jackie, she doesn't feel like a person without jackie. She isn't afraid about not being loved for who she really is, because she doesnt know who she is.
And now on the topic of melissa and shauna relationship, it isn't demonizing a teenage girl saying what the show already said, melissa said she didn't loved shauna, i not saying she didn't liked shauna, she must have in a away, the same way shauna did. Shauna wasn't in love with Melissa, she was in love with an idea, she wanted to live the fantasy she couldn't with jackie, because in my IN MY OPINION, if they wanted a somewhat toxic relationship that could turn out to be a very interesting plot point in the adult plotline, shauna and mari was right there (and honestly, it would be more interesting), but they choose the blonde girl that could bear a bit of resemblance to jackie. In season one, lot of scenes of shauna and jackie, shauna was always positioned in the shade, while Jackie was in the light, possibly representing how Jackie is the light of Shauna's life, in season three, they recreated this, but shauna was on the light, she was the "jackie" in melissa's life. Even the hot and cold type of relationship, where shauna gave melissa crumbs of attenttion to get her coming for more, like jackie did. Shauna saw jackie as cruel, a mean girl, her visions and dreams prove that, so she was cruel to melissa (the piss scene).
I personally have a different point of view about yellowjackets, for me it isn't a show about love, it is about how fragile human nature can be, how when away from society, imposed customs are abandoned, when facing life and death morals become undone, because the girls aren't good, they aren't bad, they simply are, they do what needs to be done, no matter how much it pains them, the scene that represents the show for me is when van says "i'm not ashamed of what i did, i'm glad i still alive", because even hating what she done, she needed to do it, and she doesn't regret it.
I think the whole antler queen goes back to jackie again, I know I sounded repetitive, but i say this because of the scene when hannah asks if she is the captian she replied yes, because shauna was in jackie's shadow, and season three teen shauna is desperately trying to be Jackie, because before wilderness she made herself into "jackie's best friend", jackie died, but she was pregnant, at least she would have a baby to define who she was, she would be a mother, but the baby also died, she doesn't know who she is, she only knows jackie, so she will try to become that. Jackie was a leader, someone with influence, so shauna would become that, but like i say, shauna saw jackie as a mean girl, so she also becomes mean. So yes, that is something that trauma build in her, but the seeds were there before the plane crash, she was always empty, a shell of a person who doesn't know who she is, and she only have this one obsession that defines her. So in a twisted way, in the wilderness, she could be and be with jackie (and the baby), and in society she would be the survivor, a victim, a poor girl, and the one that would hurt the most, the best friend of the (dead) perfect american girl.
Teen shauna wants to be an oppressor, Shauna hated herself, she always did, she felt shitty, so everybody around her should feel as well, she lost her baby, the love of her life, she felt like she was the one who took on the most, so everybody should suffer too.
She didn't liked the person she was, so she thought nobody must do, every insecurity became fuel so she would become the person she used to worship, and therefor, she would be owned worshipping too.
Her speech in season one, where she said what she thought of jackie, in the end was who she end up becoming, so for better, or for worst, in the wilderness she became who she wanted
But not adult Shauna, adult shauna makes herself the victim of every bad thing she brought onto herself. Because that's the problem with inconsistent writing, both things can be true.
And that's the beauty of it, with or without plane crash, that was bound to happen, because in the end, it wasn't her paranoia, it was always her obsession with jackie, and how she will alway haunt the narrative.
In sum, if we talk about shauna teen timeline, i think she is a beautifully crafted character, her grief, her loose turn her into the wild creature that the wilderness wanted. But I still stand by what I said, it isnt she was paranoid with a reason, her paranoia made her act in ways that push others to do the things she was afraid of, like "people are plotting against me, i will turn their lives into hell, they start plotting against me" or "nobody will like me if im not jackie's friend, i will keep in jackie's shadow after her death, i have no personality, people dont like me", this type of shit.
She is the architect of her own downfall.
Adult timeline, in general, it is a mess, just bad. I'm not say I hate shauna, i really like her, but i do think her actions, and her not taking accountabily for them, are the reasons everything she was afraid of happened to her, so yeah, i think blame shauna's actions on paranoia is oversimplified.
And I know people can have different point of views in midia, everybody are entitled to their own opinion, and this is mine.
Part of me wishes that by the end of the show everybody meets again on afterlife wilderness, and shauna is left behind, living with the same emptiness as before, because it was never about the power, because a queen can't rule without subjects, but about accepting she was a person outside jackie, and she could had been happy, if she had allowed herself to be.
something to be said about how so many of shauna’s paranoias get confirmed. even in like. such small ways. shauna is scared of plane rides, it crashes; shauna is scared of being vulnerable, jackie dies because shauna attempted to be honest; shauna tells jeff that she will raise a child to kill him if he gets her pregnant, he gets her pregnant; shauna thinks people are plotting against her in season three, they are!!!; shauna thinks nobody will love her for who she truly is, melissa leaves her and calls her crazy!!!!!!; shauna doesnt want to go home because she knows she doesn’t belong there anymore, she becomes an entirely different person when she goes home!!!!!!!!!!!!! fuck if i was shauna id be tweaking too
I think it may be the opposite, kind off. I don't think Shauna is necessarily afraid of being vulnerable, but she is afraid of conflict (and she wants Jackie so much that she wants to be her), so she spends the whole season avoiding conflict, she doesn't tell jackie about jeff and the baby, and she doesn't confronts about the "affair", so she bottle up until she explodes, and that leads to both Jackie and Addam's deaths.
Shauna getting pregnant was an accident, but it only happened because she was pissed at Jackie not saying she loved her back in the car scene.
People weren't plotting against Shauna at the start of season three, Melissa's tape was her way of saying, please don't come after me, and that's what Shauna did. People (Tai, Misty and Melissa) only startes plotting against Shauna because was becoming feral, she was reaching the point of no return.
Shauna is afraid she won't be loved, the she was, she was loved intensely, by Jackie, in a toxic first love way, and by Jeff, the man who was willing to go to jail for her, he forgave her betrayal and defended her from everyone who spoke ill of her behind her back, he only left her was because he knew she didn't loved him back. And she didn't loved Melissa, the same way Melissa never did, she just wanted to feel like jackie.
The reason why Shauna didn't want to go home, wasn't because she didn't belong, that was Lottie's reason, she didn't want to go home or let anyone do it, because she would lose the little reing of terror she created. She goes home, and no longer can be a dictator.
It's not that Shauna's paranoia was confirmed, she was so entitled, so self-centered, that she made every thing she feared happen, because she needed to be in the victim role, she needed to be the good girl, she needed to be Jackie, seem and adored, and incapable of doing anything wrong.
The plane crash It was simply a matter of script convenience lol
Sadly I've run out of stories to post and as life's about to get busy, there won't be much chance to convert all my terrible ideas into perverted fiction. I'll be back at some point, but in the meantime, enjoy yourselves.
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I really should stop with self-deprecating humour. Thank you so much for reading and I'm so glad you like it! ☺️
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