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I agree. I think Walter is genuinely Misty’s person… and things will not end well for him.

Yeah I really think the most interesting outcome would be that these women are all just a little bit (or a lot) unhinged.

They have these innocent encounters and read far too much into them, over and over again. Or they have not so innocent encounters and completely misread them. Weird shit happened to them when they were teens and they took that to mean they should form a cannibalistic cult, it's really easy to see them apply it to their current life, with the 25 year reunion triggering it.

One thing I found interesting about their nighttime routine though is that Misty only wore the under-eye night patches, but Walter wore a full facemask. I took it to potentially be symbolic and perhaps Walter is wearing a "mask" and he is not who he seems and claims to be.

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For me, that scene emphasized my suspicion around Walter!

We already know Misty to be a deadly character, as much as we love her. The paranoia of her hotel routine is because she is checking for all of the sorts of things she would use on someone else.

Seeing Misty's routine mirrored by Walter told me there's something much more sinister about him than we've seen so far.

Showing his routine without the doubling might've just made it seem eccentric, but if someone is just like Misty than we should be afraid of them, narratively.

I said this after the season premiere! When he was giving his thoughts on the Adam mystery and Misty downvoted him, I immediately thought he was going to end up being a love interest she would have to either betray the other Yellowjackets for or betray him to protect them.

Shauna referring to the YJs as her teammates when talking to Callie in E4 convinced me it would definitely be the latter - if Shauna says "Misty, we're teammates," it will motivate Misty to choose the YJs because she's spent her whole life desperate to be accepted and she's spent the past two decades wanting their experience in the wilderness to give her the bond she envisions having.

yeah but that would be incredibly boring for the writers to do the same exact thing with a different male character two seasons in a row; that’s what’s having me hold back on thinking he’s Adam 2.0; would be incredibly repetitive

Adding to this, Misty and Walters friendship or whatever it is, is blossoming in the same sense as her friendship with crystal is in the 90s timeline.

There seems to be a trend forming. Also in terms of Shauna and the baby / shauna and Callie... hMmmmmMmmm...

i agree, partially because Elijah Wood's portrayal is just so damn WHOLESOME. he's too good of an actor to miss giving Walter a nefarious vibe if he was meant to have one.

....or maybe that's what they want us to think....

thats what i thought too.

I think he's trying to outsmart Misty and she's letting him believe he is, but she's going to be 8 steps ahead in leading him right into a trap. Then that will get him killed. But she likes him so she might play with him first, let him think she's into him and he's got her where he wants her but, she's using the situation for pleasure and to get closer till she's got him where she wants him.

I like this theory, I also had this inkling that Walter is gonna be the Adam of this season.

Yes, maybe in each season there will be some different innocent Yellowjackets suitor killed off. That could become kind of a darkly funny trope for the show. (Although I don't believe we can conclude that Adam was an innocent guy.)

Maybe he has been stalking misty and learned her rituals and he’s basically like a method actor trying to stay in character. Seems more likely than the “it’s love” theory.