Dye_Harder t1_jdyczaz wrote on March 28, 2023 at 2:13 AM

Reply to comment by LostInStatic in ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2 Premiere Draws Nearly 2M Viewers, Breaks Showtime Streaming Record by MarvelsGrantMan136

what are you talking about, there were always extra people in the crash and they had no story last time, but they were there, and shit happened to them too

waiting to have them be brought into focus was great, and it was already too many people to memorize season 1, even more was pushing it

Bill_Sandwich t1_je01aci wrote on March 28, 2023 at 1:16 PM

Yeah, I was listening to a recent interview with the showrunners and they acknowledged there's no way they could have introduced the core group the way they did while still giving time to the background survivors. With some of the season one stars frozen or exploded, they have more space for others.

LostInStatic t1_jdz4v4u wrote on March 28, 2023 at 6:47 AM

The tension is kind of lost when they don't define how many survivors there actually are and if most of the narrative engine driving the flashbacks is "Who will die?" it loses meaning if we can just pull new people out of thin air.

APDLS t1_jdzbic8 wrote on March 28, 2023 at 8:23 AM

We do have numbers though, 15 on the team of which 13 are currently accounted for.

preppytarg t1_jdzxfcz wrote on March 28, 2023 at 12:45 PM

Season 1 was shot during the height of Covid restrictions. That, plus budgetary issues, I think led them to doing a LOST trick where they just focused on the principal cast, and occasionally had background extras moping around.

I remember there were scenes where it was supposed to be the entire group, and you only saw principals with no background actors at all. That was definitely a Covid thing.