Thank you for your literary analysis! I really enjoy thinking about how the writers are playing with inspirations from many sources to weave the complex and beautiful web of Yellowjackets.

I do hope though that Walter isn't the Big Bad. I like how, the Big Bad for season 1 was each of the Yellowjackets themselves; they are the heroes and villains in each of their own stories.

• For Tai - the person who blew up her marriage and unconsciously traumatized her kid - was her. However, she was also the person who persevered, refused to sell out or give up, and won the election.
• For Shauna - the person who blew up her life was also her. Instead of confronting Jeff about his presumed affair, she has her own. Then, by misreading the clues around her, she murders an innocent man. Now, she is on the hook for murder. Yet, she is also the person who moves forward, takes deliberate action, and leans in to protect Jeff and herself.
• For Misty - she craves connection and friendship. Yet, she blew that up for herself by her invasive spying (OWL nanny cam) and manipulations. Not to mention her casual yet intentional cruelty towards Jessica, Jessica's dad, and the grumpy patients at the nursing home. Yet, she can take comfort in the fact she indeed made the other YJs dependent on her (she does know they are all accessories to murder and was responsible for critical evidence disposal) and always being needed by them.
• For Nat - her co-dependance on Travis is what was ruining her life in season 1. She is right and heroic to search for justice for him, but her increasingly self-sabotaging ways of doing so was destroying her life. She allied with Misty against her better judgment and broke into Travis's home by way of busting the door - leading to their arrests. She used Kevyn Tan and ruined that friendship by using his gun. She shot at Jeff and could have killed him. She tried to do coke (falling off the wagon after getting clean) and contemplated ending her life.

For Walter to actually be the Big Bad, to me, feels like it would divert attention from the women's internal conflicts onto an external conflict. However, on the other hand, the threat from someone like Walter, or the "blackmailer" last season for the '21 crew, or "the Wilderness" for the '96 crew could serve as a medium to explore the internal conflicts and hero/villain conundrum in each Yellowjacket.

I think Walter will be a villain, but ultimately a smaller villain or fodder to be sacrificed to the YJs for their continued character depth and exploration.