Incoming spoilers below for the 3rd season of JWCT and i don't know how to cut!!!!
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I'm still on Yaz' side. Like, respectively, i can 100 per cent see where Sammy is coming from, but the more I think of it the more I'm like...
Both of them seem to have the toxic trait of being avoidant, except Yaz is like an anxious avoidant and Sammy is an angry avoidant. Most of the arguments Sammy has boils down to her trying to put blame on someone else and I don't mean in the normal "Oh, it's your fault", I mean "I can't take the blame for one more thing and pretend to be positive about it" kind of blame. We see this in the whole "Brooklynn chose where she is, who she's with and she doesn't want us, she didn't tell us she was alive - or it's her fault and we don't have to deal with it". We also see it in the backstory with how she and her family fell out. There's a whole lot more on that as well but going back to the shifting blame thing.
For Yaz, who even in track had so many people relying on her - and probably took a good amount of blame because of it - and now feels guilty because of how her PTSD has affected everyone around her (AKA going to Wyoming), both of them can't really seem to be able to deal with how to process every bad thing that happens.
Since the series started it's obvious that the timing between these two just hasn't been the same because to be real, their arguments have been pretty justifiable and most of the time true. The trauma that Sammy went through with her family is still prominent and it's clear she's still very deeply hurt about it. Yaz still has the mindset that she has to be able to fix things and doesn't really take other's intentions or emotions into account much like she did back in JWCC.
The only difference is I feel like Yaz is actively trying her best. She starts all of the conversations where she's trying to see Sammy's side in the least aggressive way she can and it ends up escalating. Of course she makes mistakes, but it's clear she is at least trying to see Sammy's point of view. But Sammy doesn't see it that way because Yaz doesn't agree with her and Yaz for the life of her literally cannot figure out how to be there for Sam on an emotional level.
For this season specifically, Sammy is also super passive-aggressive to completely blatantly aggressive in the way she talks and repeatedly ignores Yaz even when we see multiple shots of Yaz being concerned for her.
I do think this was a catalyst season for all of the characters' plotlines and emotional connections and hopefully everything will be resolved by the fourth season. lowkey don't think Netflix and DreamWorks would handle the backlash if they "buried the gays" and had Ben and Gia be the only standing ship after (or even Dinostar and Kenji/Brooklynn) although I do like those two a lot.
Anyway, this is just my thoughts, I still love both of the characters. Yaz will always be my girl, Sammy will always be my favourite Texican. Let me know your thoughts as well if you want!
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