Yeah, that’s a criticism I’ve heard about the show-- the area they supposedly crashed in (northern Ontario I think?) just isn’t that remote. Even without a signal beacon they would have been found, or been able to hike out, without too awfully much trouble. It’s not like the Andes Mountains wilderness those soccer players crashed in, in real life (which I think the writers based the idea of the Yellowjackets crash on).
Exactly. They found a cabin. A cabin with windows and stuff from the real world. And a Cessna (I’m not gonna get started on that or where that might be going). That stuff didn’t just spontaneously generate there. It had to get there somehow. I don’t care how long its been out there, there will be some tiny fragment of trail or road, or in the case of the gah-dam airplane a runway! But do they even attempt to find a way out? Nah. Let’s play house and have seances.
It’s just dumb. No solid foundation for anything to be built on. Just seems so lazy and exploitive to me. LIke somebody said, “Hey, let’s put teenaged girls in soccor shorts out in the woods and have them do weird stuff. We’ll make a ton of money!”
I’ve only watched the first episode or two, and they were flying from New Jersey to Seattle for a soccer tournament. For some reason, the plane had to cross into Canada, so I assumed the crash location was somewhere in the western provinces.
I’m really enjoying this show. It’s been a while since I’ve watched a trashy drama like this.
When that mother explained to her daughter what life is going to be like if she narcs on her for cheating; cracked me the hell up.
FYI…there are no high school soccer national championships that teams fly to from across the country. They don’t exist. The highest level of championship in high school soccer than can be achieved is a State championship.
Ha, yeah, I was OK suspension of disbelief-wise with a group of people being stranded in Canada for 19 months, I was dealing with the supernatural element, but as soon as I read this, I thought, that’s right- who ever heard of high school national titles? Whether it’s soccer, football, etc., it’s all state.
RE: the supernatural element, now that Taissa has been revealed as the mysterious ‘woman in the tree’ that her son saw, I’m holding out hope that the supernatural element will be contained to the visions and possession during the Ouija session of the clairvoyant girl, therefore only tangential to the overall plot. Some of the stuff, both in the past and modern day, like Taissa’s dirt-eating fugue episodes and evidence of spells being performed (like at the site of Travis’ murder) can be explained in non-supernatural ways. As @Eyebrows_0f_Doom put it,
Isn’t there like a world cup? I know when I worked room service as a young man. Once a year our hotel would become full of teenaged soccer player girls.
Not sure where they all came from. Or maybe it was called the Dallas cup? I can’t remember it was so long ago.
They could be on a team that isn’t affiliated with the school. Also, there’s this.
What you are describing is club/travel soccer. It is not high school, though it has high school players. Usually the better players from the high school level play in tournaments on travel/club teams that operate outside the traditional HS soccer season. In CA, HS soccer is played from November through early March. Club games and tournaments are played in the Summer, early fall and any time not part of the HS season.
Anybody still watching? I watched the latest episode last night, and I just read the AVClub recap. In those comments people are speculating that when Laura Lee decided to fly the old Cessna, and her teddy bear in the co-pilot seat caught fire not long after takeoff, causing the plane to explode over the lake, the teddy bear catching fire was a supernatural thing-- the demon in the woods or whatever not letting her get away.
Did anybody else think that? I just kind of assumed maybe the gas tank was situated under the seating area, had a leak, and maybe the co-pilot seat cushion acted as a wick or something. The fact that the teddy bear was the first thing burning I just took as irony.
Just curious because as of yet, there’s been hints of the supernatural, and people practicing supernatural rites, but not much actual paranormal activity, other than the psychic girl. Still wondering how much the supernatural is going to figure into this show.
I cancelled Showtime a week ago, so I guess I’m not anymore. Not much of a loss. I was kinda hating it anyway and only watched out of sheer Sunday Night Bordom. After reading your post about someone flying that plane, I’m really glad I missed it. I would have been yelling at the TV.
But…she studied the flight manual for weeks!
Honestly though, given a working Cessna (a big given in this case, granted, since it had been gathering moss in the woods for God knows how long) even I could probably get a Cessna into the air. Landing it, however, would be a whole different story.
Not without a runway. No, I don’t wanna know how they did it. That show was just so wrong!
Sorry, I’m going to tell you how they did it. I mean, there was a plane on-site, so clearly there was a makeshift runway already. That’s not the craziest part. There was a big montage scene where the girls all pitch in to clear the moss and vines off the plane, and pull the small seedling trees and other growth from the runway area.
Now, I’m pretty sure a plane needs a pretty good amount of regular maintenance that goes beyond just keeping it clear of roots and moss to keep it airworthy, so the fact that it could take off at all is silly.
There was a runway.
That’s my point. Just how long were they out there, in a cabin next to a runway, without managing to be rescued??? I sez, That show was all kind of wrong! I stand by it.
This is one thing that took me out of it more than a little bit. It seems like they recovered psychologically from the plane crash a little bit TOO quickly. It doesn’t SEEM realistic to me, but then again I have no idea what typically happens to people in this scenario. Do they manage to get their wits about them (and then their sense of humor and ability to have fun) within a few days, or do they spend weeks agonizing over their predicament, shivering with fear and anxiety and sullen with hopelessness? The activities of trying to hunt for food and care for the injured might give them a sense of purposefulness, but would they really be in such high spirits in the aftermath of what is objectively a horrifically traumatic experience?
I get that you hate the show but I don’t see why this is so wrong. The runway & plane belonged to the cabin owner, who died. Why would that lead to them being rescued? No one came for the cabin owner after he died.
I didn’t find any reason to see the fire as supernaturally-set. My assumption was that none of the castaways knew enough about planes (despite having a manual to look at) to do a really thorough check of the fuel lines, etc. Damage that they didn’t know about was what caused the fire.
I’m not inclined to see the “psychic” girl as proof of the supernatural being part of the show’s plots, either. Didn’t they say she had been diagnosed with schizophrenia? Or something similar. So she might believe she had powers, but might actually simply be making guesses that turn out to be true. It’s human nature to remember the guesses that hit, and forget the guesses that miss.
Or maybe the showrunners ARE going for ‘supernatural doings.’ I hope not, but I’m willing to wait and see.
My chief reservations about the show are a) the aforementioned unlikelihood that the characters could not be found for 19 months, and b) the fact that the story is intended to be spread out over several seasons. The latter is the more worrisome, as I’m willing to suspend disbelief at least to some extent.
Here is why: Runways and cabins don’t occur naturally in the wild. Now, I can come up with scenarios as equally implausable as the rest of the show (parachute in with chainsaws, drop all building material from a helicopter, whatever…), but those things had to be built. Meaning there will be a path, trail, something leading to the site, and more importantly away from the place. They all could have walked out in a week. Or two or three, to get help. Or, start a huge bonfire on the runway. Smoke visible for miles. Rescued in days, if not hours.
It’s just… dumb. The episodes I did watch, they made no attempt to be rescued or go for help. Instead, they had slumber parties. 19 months? Anyway, I can’t watch anymore, so I guess I’m out.