Some Jersey Lore I can't stop thinking about
EDIT: I don't believe in Central Jersey. I've lived in North Jersey since I was 3, this is an opinion that I literally have always held. So that's why I say South Jersey. Truly it's not that deep, this debate is huge in Jersey, same as Taylor ham vs. pork roll and Eagles vs. Giants.
Okay I have a lot of theories about Yellowjackets, as we all do, but I also have a lot of connections to them as a fellow resident of New Jersey. And there are a few things I wanted to talk about:
The Land of Make Believe commercial: TLOMB is an amusement park in Hope, NJ. The entire concept of the park is that you enter the fairytales you grew up reading as soon as you get into the park. There are plays, rides, and I believe a fairytale village (I haven't been since I was 12, but I went multiple times as a child). When I saw that commercial, it made me think of how the wilderness is this terrifying place for the girls until they're in their own "fairytale village", where they have animals, story time, and fun activities. It's like they're at their own theme park which helps them escape the reality that they are indeed trapped in a forest, just like how TLOMB makes you escape reality into a fairytale while you're still stuck in South Jersey.
The girls are specifically from South Jersey. The reason why this is important is that they grew up near a haunted woods. They have been told stories their whole lives (as I was and every other Jersey resident) about the Jersey Devil, a deformed goat headed creature who lives in the largest forest in New Jersey, the Pine Barrens. It's main "crimes" (idk a better word) are that it kills animals (especially livestock meant to sustain families), destroys crops (keeping people from being able to feed themselves unless the Jersey Devil spares them), and terrifying people through its blood curdling scream and speed.
There are sometimes when I watch the show where I'm like "how were so many of them able to believe Lottie so quick" and then I remember they grew up with this legend about the woods and all of a sudden they're trapped in a woods and animals are dying around them, there are constant terrifying noises outside, and they have to depend on the wilderness to give them food. If I was still in high school, starving, and terrified, I'd most likely go "omg that story wasn't fake, it's real, and it's here". And I especially felt this way with their obsession with horns, which the Jersey Devil has.
I know these are all silly conjectures that the writers, who are most likely not from New Jersey, intended, but I just wanted to share some silly NJ facts with y'all. The end!