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* Why were Tai and Shauna pissed at Nat for trying to shoot their blackmailer as he was driving off?
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[[folder: How do Natalie and Travis not pass out?]]
The two of them exert a lot more energy than the others by going out hunting everyday but no one is allowed any more food than the others, not even the pregnant Shauna. Like in season one, Tai estimated that the lake was about four or five miles away from the plane and Natalie estimated it was longer on their trek to it. Even if Nat and Trav figured out the most efficient path and cut it down to four miles, that means every time they go to the plane they're walking a minimum of eight miles a day. Not counting all the extra walking they might do if they go off the path for an animal or the energy they exert carrying what they catch. And then again in season 2 when Natalie said that they were covering seven miles a day, in snow and at higher terrain. Yeah Natalie and Travis are the best shots but you'd think that they'd need to tag someone else in sometimes because they need to recuperate.
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* They crashed in the late spring, found the cabin a few days later, once they realized rescue might not be coming why didn't they try to farm? We can see when Nat and Trav come back with the first deer that the girls did find some leafy greens and at one point berry picking was so plentiful that Mari was able to fill up an multiple jars with berries in an attempt to save them for winter. We see they've set up snare traps and fish nets even if they don't catch anything, it just feels weird that none of the characters ever thought to take the edible plants they found and start a produce patch near the cabin.
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* First of all, DNA exists and would be able to confirm that the torso was Adam's. Second, Adam is repeatedly shown to have a very specific tattoo on his back that friends could use to identify the remains as his. Sure, no one finding it until well after decomposition would take care of the latter but the others give plenty of examples as to how someone might stumble upon it in the park. For someone as intellegent as Misty, the handling of the torso feels weirdly unthought by her.
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** Lottie was the one whose prints would be on the mechanism, so it's her they'd be looking for if they were trying to find persons of interest.


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** It's a holdover from when he was planned to be an older Javi, where then it would make perfect sense for him to hide everything, so obviously they had to do a bit of hand waving when they changed the plans.


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** The rule back then was one adult for every twelve children. So Coaches Scott and Martinez were it. There was a third adult in the pilot script but she was cut.

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* That was way too big of a risk sending a journalist to Misty. Tai knew that the journalist was murderous

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* That was way too big of a risk sending a journalist to Misty. Tai knew that the journalist was murderous murderous.
** Jessica Roberts was resourceful; ''Misty'' is murderous. It is likely Tai has suppressed memories. If she remembers things Misty did back in the past, she has to confront ''her'' own actions (eating Jackie, hunting down Natalie, letting Javi drown, whatever happens on Season 3). Either that, or she told herself that Misty has outgrown that aspect of her personality.
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*** It's a valid point that they don't try and seem to be unfamiliar with it.


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* That was way too big of a risk sending a journalist to Misty. Tai knew that the journalist was murderous
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** I mean, do we know that there are fish in the lake? The place is weird enough that while anoxic or limnically active lakes would be surprising given the location, I'm not actually willing to rule it out. Either condition might result in a minimal or extinct fish population in the lake, and some causes of anoxic conditions would make the lake water repulsive to animals that might come to drink.
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*** The 90s was a different time, where there was less emphasis on hands-on parenting, and teens in that era were expected to be left to their own devices and behave like adults. The majority of the team are on the older side, and so would be expected to be like adults. Not like today where parents keep track of their kids with various technologies and devices.


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** And Lottie says her father paid for the plane, meaning the school otherwise wouldn't have had the resources to fly more people out (even considering the plane, they have hotel rooms and other transport like buses to cover).

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** Episode 8 of Season 2 reveals that they let Javi drown after he tried to stop them hunting Natalie down to cannibalise her. They murdered a 12-year-old so they could eat him, and one who died trying to save another girl they were also trying to kill. And the bottom line is, whatever hasn't been revealed about them yet, the likes of Shauna and Misty are most definitely ''not'' good people (the jury is still out on Taissa and whether her sleepwalking alter ego absolves her of some of the worst crimes), and bad people often don't want their dirty laundry exposed so as not to ruin their reputations.

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** Episode 8 of Season 2 reveals that they let Javi drown after he tried to stop them hunting Natalie down to cannibalise her. They murdered a 12-year-old so they could eat him, and one who died trying to save another girl they were also trying who had been picked to kill.die in a LotteryOfDoom. And the bottom line is, whatever hasn't been revealed about them yet, the likes of Shauna and Misty are most definitely ''not'' good people (the jury is still out on Taissa and whether her sleepwalking alter ego absolves her of some of the worst crimes), and bad people often don't want their dirty laundry exposed so as not to ruin their reputations.

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