Who Is the Girl (Seemingly) Hunted and Eaten in the Yellowjackets Premiere? - Vulture

Is Lottie, revealed in “Doomcoming” as the Antler Queen from the premiere episode, really clairvoyant, and are her visions actually the future?

A girl runs through a snowy forest, bleeding from her foot, wearing what looks like a thin nightgown.

(It’s giving, very bleakly, Wind River.) As she sprints, crying and panting, the young woman passes various symbols carved in tree trunks (including one that looks like a watchful evil eye) and totems made of bones, feathers, and bark.

(Samantha Hanratty, who plays Misty, was the only cast member on set in Mammoth, California, during the filming of this sequence; everyone else is played by stunt doubles.) We now know after “Doomcoming” that Lottie is the Antler Queen, but we’re no closer to knowing the identities of the six non-Misty girls — or the one they kill.

This is what we do know: The girl is tall-ish, has dark hair, and is wearing the gold heart necklace worn around Jackie’s neck in her first official moment onscreen (receiving unsatisfying hand stuff from Jeff in her New Jersey bedroom pre-crash).

2 girl in the popularity hierarchy (like Courtney and Whitney in Bring It On, from Jackie’s curiously anachronistic favorite movie characters list) whose purpose is cruelty.

Think of how quickly she slides up next to Jackie at the lake once she realizes Jackie and Shauna are sparring, and how easily she suggests that she and Jackie move their lockers together when they get back to New Jersey.

She’s a follower, not a leader (she joins Tai on the attempt to find help; she agrees to turn back once things get rough; she supports Lottie in hunting Travis), and she’ll never be queen bee.

Yes, we know Lottie is the Antler Queen.

But looks-wise, with her height and her beachy waves, she could be the running girl, right?

Does someone come for Lottie and claim the Antler Queen mantle for themselves!

We see the heart necklace on Jackie first, then she gives it to Shauna, then Shauna gives it back to Jackie, and now Shauna and Jackie are in the awkward spot where the latter knows the former was sleeping with her boyfriend, but she hasn’t said anything because Jackie is a messy bench who loves drama and psychological mind games.

(Van is definitely the girl standing over the pit wearing that co-ed soccer T-shirt, right?) And Jackie slept with Travis, who “doesn’t belong” to her, according to Lottie?

I do wonder, though: What happened to the necklace the girl was wearing.

Maybe this necklace, like the ring Travis gives to Javi, is a piece of jewelry to watch for in the 2021 timeline.

They certainly seem like they’re just sticking around to serve as meat!

In my heart of hearts, though, I 100 percent believe that they ate that girl, and that they’re going to eat again!