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ofmd 2x01, 02, 03
discussion of suicide, murder, more rotten piratey stuff
Yeah, I mean, I'm coming at this from an Ed and Izzy angle – for me, Stede is a character who's important because he's important to Ed (Ed meeting him is a major turning point in Ed's life) (and by extension Izzy's). I'm willing to play ball with the show's OTP but the Ed-Izzy dynamic is a thousand percent richer for me.
UNRELATEDLY, one of my favorite tropes is "character hanging on by this much and looking for an excuse to kill themselves at any fucking moment." or, even better, "codependent pair winding up in a horrific murder-suicide situation."
basically I can't think of more wish-fulfillment they could have written for me, specifically.
more iddy Ed/Izzy/Stede based reactions in no particular order:
and at some point Izzy fashions himself the saddest peg leg – balanced on a spindly chair leg – and a crutch cushioned under his arm with disused netting, for maximum Wet Tiny Tim. it was fucking unbelievable. I'm such a pervert for The Toe Thing, I paused to cackle REAL LOUD at "take your boot off" and have been bursting out laughing like a loon at random points all day.
ed getting everyone wearing his self-effacing ghoul makeup ghghghhhghg
(Frenchie and Jim's hot-ass goth outfits GJGKGLKJG)
that, uhhhhhh, murder-suicide spiral?
because the rest of 2x01 and 2x02 is Ed doing the most reckless shit he can think of every day of the week and making the crew come with, culminating in Ed STEERING THE SHIP INTO A STORM classic classic classic classiccCCccCc
Yeah, I mean, I'm coming at this from an Ed and Izzy angle – for me, Stede is a character who's important because he's important to Ed (Ed meeting him is a major turning point in Ed's life) (and by extension Izzy's). I'm willing to play ball with the show's OTP but the Ed-Izzy dynamic is a thousand percent richer for me.
UNRELATEDLY, one of my favorite tropes is "character hanging on by this much and looking for an excuse to kill themselves at any fucking moment." or, even better, "codependent pair winding up in a horrific murder-suicide situation."
basically I can't think of more wish-fulfillment they could have written for me, specifically.
more iddy Ed/Izzy/Stede based reactions in no particular order:
- 2x01 cold open: man I don't care about Ed/Stede wish fulfillment, lol. The trope of "season opener that's shocking and A DREAM" is fine, whatever (definitely enjoyed it in Sherlock 3x01 where Jimmy Mo got to make out with Sherlock a bit), but this particular iteration: not my jam! I acknowledge I signed up for things to be this cheesy when I tuned into the Pirate Fairy Tale Romcom. But it was also why the Kate Bush merman rescue just made me giggle.
- 2x03 merman rescue: WHAT, STEDE DIDN'T EVEN KISS ED IN REAL LIFE?? WHAT KIND OF SLEEPING BEAUTY IS THIS, DAMN
also codified some of my least favorite Stede fanon tropes: Stede is golden! Stede is light! Stede guides the way! going to need him to be more of a fuck-up and an asshole to Ed and for Ed to demand things of him too for the rest of the season, thx in advance - my god. the Toe Thing. I fucking cannot
- 2x01 – Ed took two more toes in between s1 and s2
- 2x01 – Ed orders Izzy to take his boot off so he can take another, WHICH APPARENTLY HAS WORKED IN THE PAST
- 2x01 – Ed blows his leg off
- 2x02 – more or less. Jim and new pal Archer amputate it ^_^
- 2x02 – Izzy to Ed: come to take another?
- 2x01 – Ed took two more toes in between s1 and s2
and at some point Izzy fashions himself the saddest peg leg – balanced on a spindly chair leg – and a crutch cushioned under his arm with disused netting, for maximum Wet Tiny Tim. it was fucking unbelievable. I'm such a pervert for The Toe Thing, I paused to cackle REAL LOUD at "take your boot off" and have been bursting out laughing like a loon at random points all day.
(Frenchie and Jim's hot-ass goth outfits GJGKGLKJG)
- 2x01 – Ed shoots Izzy with absolutely no warning, tells the crew at large to get rid of him
- 2x02 – having survived in the hidey hole (IZZY LIVES IN THE WALLS, NOT LUCIUS. INCREDIBLE), Izzy spends any waking moment he has screaming at the people hiding him to kill him already
- 2x02 – Ed introduces a pistol into a tete-a-tete in Izzy's sickroom, implicitly threatening to shoot him. before...
- 2x02 – ...Ed hands Izzy the pistol and begs Izzy to shoot him right between the eyes
- Ed: just what the doctor ordered.
- 2x02 – Ed gives him another chance, moving further so Izzy can execute at a distance without having to see Ed's face
- 2x02 – Izzy refuses, telling Ed to clean up his own fucking mess (kill yourself on your own asshole)
- 2x02 – Ed leaves Izzy with the pistol. Gunshot from offstage. A flashback later reveals that Izzy legitimately tried to shoot himself in the face but the gun misfired.
- 2x02 – The moment we see this flashback is when Izzy appears on deck to shoot Edward again.
- 2x02 – so that the crew can mutiny and crush Edward's head with a cannonball.
- 2x02 – Ed, staring up at the cannonball: Finally.
because the rest of 2x01 and 2x02 is Ed doing the most reckless shit he can think of every day of the week and making the crew come with, culminating in Ed STEERING THE SHIP INTO A STORM classic classic classic classiccCCccCc