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How dare they drop both of these on one of the busiest days I've had lately! I have a couple of thoughts on the trailers, but... for the most part they're incoherent lesbian ones, especially for WoT.

(As usual I had trouble with video embeds eating the text between them, lol, so sorry if anyone saw this before I gave up and just used links. If anyone knows why that happens with seemingly fine HTML I evidently need some tips.)

Yellowjackets (Trailer link)

I am hesitant to over-analyze and speculate much on this one to be honest. It's exciting! I'm excited to see where they go from here and how the tensions in the teen timeline are going to pan out after the cabin fire and cannibalism beginnings. But season 2 was a bit of a let-down to me because of how much of the trailer focused on hallucinations and other fake-outs, so... I'm just going to avoid theorizing and see what happens.

I hope we get more post-crash teen timeline flashbacks, more ghost Jackie (yay Ella Purnell clip!). I'm also super interested to see what Hilary Swank is doing and how Callie comes into play with adult Shauna's story more.

Oh, and I guess we might be getting that Cabin Daddy bonus episode at some point? Not sure what happened to that.

Wheel of Time (Trailer link)

THIS ONE BROKE ME. I love YJ a ton but as I said, I am keeping myself more restrained about it... however... I CANNOT contain myself in the face of Lanfear straddling and choking out a mostly naked Moiraine, sorry. The trailer itself also thankfully does state how quite a bit of the flashes we get could be from alternate realities Moiraine peaked into, and of course with Lanfear anything could be happening in the dream world. So I know how to manage my expectations on that front. But holy shit I am still so hyped to get these scenes at all. Lanfear being cunty and Moiraine getting hurt are both very catnippy things to me and this seems like a stellar season for both of those things at once.

I am particularly excited to see what Liandrin has been up to and to get more of Moghedien. I have not read the books so I really don't know what to expect and, while I never mind spoilers much and there are a few divergences from book canon already, it is nice to go in without expectations.

OUgh I'm just so hyped for all of this and would love to hear people's thoughts on either or both.