Up at Midnight

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[outinthewildspodcast]

Welcome back to Out In The Wilds! It’s time to cover Season 2 Episode 1 (aka Day 30/Day 1 on the island). There is a lot to cover this episode, as we meet a whole slew of new characters and reunite with our favourites.

We’ll discuss Rachel and what she feels she can and cannot mourn for, the importance of names, and the struggle to balance the things we want versus the things we believe we deserve. We’ll also do a comparison of two very different Plane Crash Days, and how we can’t believe that no one else is impressed Leah waited AN ENTIRE WEEK before asking Rachel about Nora. Team. That’s impressive.

We’ll wrap it up by doing some of our favourite special segments (Field Notes are back!) and sharing some overall feelings about Season 2. We’re excited to be back, and can’t wait to share this with you!

[upatmidnightstuff]

Hey! Have you watched season 2 of the wilds yet? I would love to see your new ranking👀

Hi yes I did watch it and I actually loved it so much! Thank you for reminding me to post this. Here's my post Season 2 ranking of the boys:

1. Kirin/Josh

2. Henry

3. Ivan

4. Raf

5. Bo

6. Scotty

-1000000. Seth

Kirin and Josh are my favourites and I can't choose one over the other (which I'm very shocked by)

And Seth is a repulsive person who I do not care for and will never care for

[upatmidnightstuff]

Right thought I'd make a ranking for the lads before s2 drops and then see how it changes after I watch the season, so this is what I got:

1. Raf

2. Ivan

3. Josh

4. Henry

5. Bo

6. Scotty

7. Seth

8. Kirin

[outinthewildspodcast]

WELCOME BACK TO OUT IN THE WILDS! It’s time to shout about the trailer and HOW EXCITED WE ARE TO BE BACK!

Please join us for a ridiculously long foray into a minute and thirty seconds of content, and for theories, jokes and just genuine joy! We’ll pose questions like:

- where’d you get the dirt to fill that pit, Gretchen?

- Why do we always talk about monsters?

- How many copies of Jeffrey’s book does one ocean need?

- Did Gretchen murder both of the confederates?

- Who is actually going to cut off Rachel’s hand?

+ obviously a lot more. Welcome back to new and old friends. We missed you and are excited to meet you all.

[upatmidnightstuff]

THE WILDS FANDOM ARE YOU SEEING THIS!? NORA IN S2 SO FUCKING TRUE

[iguanamouth]

Can you draw a tiny lizard dragon that secretly hoards pennies?

[nightkunoichi-deactivated202111]

I will never not reblog this little cutie

[the-affectionate-boy]

This is pretty adorable, I wonder f this little bugger takes my socks too?.

[boo-ni]

He does take your socks. And he loves them. Very warm.

[outinthewildspodcast]

Episode 1x15: "I Don't Want You to Forget You" (Rachel and Nora)

Listen to this episode from Out In The Wilds on Spotify. Welcome back to Out In The Wilds! Episode 15 is the fourth of our “duo” series, whe

Aaaaand, we’re back! We’re sorry for the spontaneous absence and definitively late episode. We hope it’s worth the wait! We had a bit of a tricky/messy week which is why we have been MIA. If you have an ask/message in, Aly will be back at it soon!

But here’s Episode 15! An Ode to The Reid Twins! We will discuss the concept of self-isolation and the ways that Nora and Rachel other themselves from the group, the role that self discovery plays in growth, and the difference between seeing end monitoring. We’ll also discuss regret over who you align yourself with (especially when it leads to loss), why Leah scares Nora the most, what Rachel is really seeking and why Dot sees more value in Rachel than Nora. Rachel and Nora represent duality in such a pervasive way, so we are excited to unpack how they push and pull on each other. Plus! Fire! Water! Blood!

[upatmidnightstuff]

Okay but what are they gonna do with naming the episodes of s2? Cause s1 was however many days the girls were on the island for. But I doubt the boys and girls islands will be on the same day each episode, so what are they gonna do?

[upatmidnightstuff]

I can't wait for the soundtrack of season 2 of the wilds!

The music in season 1 was done so incredibly well, I just know season 2 is gonna serve

[upatmidnightstuff]

Is the wilds tag messed up for anyone else? I can only see posts that have nothing to do with the show

[iwouldlovetoeatyourtoast]

ryan… hey, ryan… why did you cut this?

[upatmidnightstuff]

Can't believe Dani never got to meet Hannah when she was alive

[upatmidnightstuff]

Starting a rewatch of bly manor 😙✌

[outinthewildspodcast]

So weird detail I’ve been thinking about a lot. When Jeffrey confronts Leah in the car about her age, he says that someone sent him a copy of her birth certificate by certified mail.

Think about that for a second. They sent it by certified mail. Why? It’s a copy, it’s not an official document. You would only do this if you needed proof that it was delivered.

Which means that if Gretchen did send it... (and she did. I will not be convinced otherwise)

She’s not worried it could be traced back to her.

She needed to verify that it was delivered specifically to Jeffrey (because you can see the signature) and to no one else.

Let’s talk about the second one. Why? Well, if it was given to someone else, they might not have known the significance and thrown it out. OR they would have known the significance and possibly reported Jeffrey. Gretchen didn’t want that to happen. She needed a situation that she could control— something would implode but just between the two of them. If it had become a public case (like Martha’s), it might have limited Gretchen’s access to Leah, or created a situation where Leah was able to actually get tangible help for her mental health.

The goal wasn’t to break the two of them up because the relationship would was wrong, but to create a stressor that would cause Jeffrey to break up with Leah and then for Leah to spiral. To do that, she would have had to know that a. Leah was going to struggle and b. that Jeffrey would be scared enough to panic, immediately end the relationship and tell no one. She also needed Jeffrey to know there was a record and further implicate himself, driving him to try and keep it quiet. She didn’t want a huge media case. She wanted Leah to silently suffer, for her to not know who the threat was and for her isolation to increase exponentially.

The end result is the Leah we see on the Island. This version of Leah who is distrusting of even the people she is closest with. Gretchen carefully built a network of scenarios to ensure that Leah was right on the precipice of her darkest place when the plane went down. Because Leah’s paranoia, her skepticism and her suspicions are essential to the experiment.

[unhinjed]

I like to think that Dot becomes Fatin’s personal alarm clock on the island, since Fatin’s always the last to wake up. The others make a game out of it. They take bets on who can wake her up in the weirdest way. One time Dot takes the laminated itinerary and fwubawubawubas it until Fatin snatches it from her hands. Rachel straight up dumps water on her face (“What the fuck, Rachel?!” *pointed look at Dot* “Thin ice, Dorothy! You’re on thin fucking ice”). Leah waits until everybody else wakes up and just screams briefly once, and that’s enough. Nobody expects Nora to be the winner until she starts humming Brahms in her ear and Fatin wakes up screaming “Nooooooope fuck no absolutely not” and makes a rule that only Dot can wake her up from then on.

[upatmidnightstuff]

School finishes in a week so you know what that means!

I'm gonna rewatch the haunting of bly manor

[upatmidnightstuff]

Thinking about how amazing 'hope ur ok' is and how incredible of an end song it is for the album