{"id":232746,"date":"2021-12-06T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/?p=232746"},"modified":"2023-01-29T21:24:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T02:24:30","slug":"themes-and-clues-in-the-yellowjackets-opening-credits-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2021\/12\/06\/themes-and-clues-in-the-yellowjackets-opening-credits-buzz\/","title":{"rendered":"Themes and Clues in the Yellowjackets Opening Credits — Buzz!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following focuses on the opening credits\/title sequence of Yellowjackets<\/strong> as it appears in S1E3 and S1E4, and includes spoilers through Episode 4 of the series (“Bear Down<\/a>“)
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As of this writing, I have seen the first four episodes of Yellowjackets<\/em> and have been thinking about the opening title sequence since it appeared in Episode 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That this was withheld until then is itself noteworthy. The pilot<\/a> hits with “Today<\/a>” and Episode 2<\/a> with “Mother Mother<\/a>,” right where opening credits would go. So one might even argue that these episodes were before the beginning, and it is with Episode 3 that we’ve really begun.<\/p>\n

Regardless, my intention here is to set myself to interpreting what we see in these frames, noting that of course there is no guarantee that what we see will happen in the show, just as the poster promo doesn’t necessarily mean Jackie will get a nosebleed or have a bee land on her face.<\/p>\n

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Nonetheless, there are a number of shots included on the grainy VHS footage-type montage that seem worthy of discussion, so I am going to take them and jump right into the deep end of speculation.<\/p>\n

Some might prefer to just go along for the ride and not engage in this kind of theorizing, which I totally respect. I find myself somewhere in the middle on the question. I can’t help but obsess over the details, but don’t care a lot if I end up being right or wrong. I love opening title sequences<\/a> and care more about interpreting their thematic significance than I do about finding clues, though I will be doing both.<\/p>\n

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In many ways, my starting point was in noticing the Man With No Eyes at the end of the opening credits. The most significant thing is simply that he is there, shown in the woods. His first appearance diegetically was later in Episode 3, as the young Ty attended to her dying grandmother, so we might not have noticed his presence the first time we watched these titles. At least, I didn’t.<\/p>\n

It’s a cool trick the creators of Yellowjackets<\/em> played, as on a second viewing this image jumped out to my consciousness and frankly terrified me a bit.<\/p>\n

But so, if he is in the woods and we take this seriously then it is a strong indication of a supernatural element in Yellowjackets<\/em>. Alternately, we might speculate that he is a vision that only appears to Taissa—some indication of her creeping madness, not actually seen but also imagined as her nana cried out in fear. Being a phantasm wouldn’t make him any less real.<\/p>\n

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