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Normalize this response

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Feeling extremely grateful that now when I say “hmmm I think I’m going to rewatch all of OFMD,” my last shot of Ed won’t be him sobbing, heartbroken, trapped in the Blackbeard persona, and instead he’ll be happy and reunited with Stede as they start a new life together. 💕

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Via Samba's twitter

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CON O'NEILL as Izzy Hands in OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH (2022— ) Episode 2.08

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Ed + Stede Moments Per Episode: 2x6 Calypso's Birthday (Part 1)

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if "izzy is kind of a father figure to ed" is something you didn't see coming you should not feel bad at all, because that was genuinely pretty subtle. but it is objectively not true that it wasn't there in the narrative, multiple people DID catch hints about it ages ago and you can verify this. @batsarebetterthanpeople was posting about izzy being paralleled with ed's father as abusive white men in ed's life back during the hiatus over a year ago. i have a post from november (photosensitivity warning for the gifs in that one) where i pointed out there are exactly two scenes in s1 where ed chokes someone while a lighthouse is visible behind them, although i wasn't sure at the time what it meant and looking through the tags nobody else seems to have quite put it together either. (the cut dialogue we now know about where ed's dad accused his mom of "making my son soft" would have made the parallel much clearer: in both scenes ed is driven to violence by someone who had physically attacked a person ed loved and claimed that person's influence had made ed weak and effeminate.) after the first drop of episodes this season i had discord conversations with multiple people about how we'd all noticed it seemed like they were trying to draw parallels between izzy and hornigold (they both call him eddie in 2x02 & 2x03 respectively; ed calls izzy "old chum" and then hornigold calls ed that; both izzy and hornigold tell ed he's too scared to kill himself; ed tries to get izzy to do it for him and then hallucinates hornigold throwing him off the cliff). it was absolutely always there. people saw it.

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So from what I've gathered from interviews, it seems like before anyone had been cast in Our Flag Means Death aside from Blackbeard, David and Taika were talking about the role of Stede and David said something like "He should have the same vibe as Murray from Flight of the Conchords, who could we possibly get?" and Taika was "Literally there's nothing stopping you from calling Rhys." Meanwhile, Rhys knew about the project and was like "Wow that sounds great! I can't wait to see it :)" and was surprised to get the call, doubly surprised when it was for the lead. David and co. auditioned more than just him, but the other actors, while talented, all played Stede in a way that was kind of unlikable? Before taping his own audition, Rhys called Taika like "I really want this, do you have any advice?" and Taika was like "Calm down it's literally perfect for you." So he did, and the rest is history.

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Someone said that Ed seeks out relationships with abusive men (Izzy, Hornigold) because of those deep seated daddy issues, but who is the third in the rule of three (ignoring Dad Teach, since he’s the one that started it all and Ed is consistently looking for a replacement for the father he killed).

The third is Jack. Jack is the abusive man. And Jack provides the bridge, and the alternative, to Stede. He’s the relationship that Ed would be resigning himself to if Ed rejected the better, healthier masculinity offered by the Revenge.

We really seem to ignore that Jack is not just abusive to Stede but TO ED.

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Okay, the thing about OFMD is it is fully redemptive. The main theme is that living life as your authentic self is an act if healing and redemption, not just for you but the world around you, the people around you. It applies to all of the characters that buck societal and social expectations. It applies to any character that reaches for authenticity.

It’s about loving and embracing everything you are, and everything the people around you are, and looking at the world through a more accepting and reparative lens, and I just want to sit with that a while and bask in it.

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you know what???? ouizzy neighbor au-

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You ever think how Izzy literally tries to take over and define Ed’s identity, refusing to call him by the name he wants to be called by, then denying that he’s Blackbeard too? Ed says that he’s both Edward and Blackbeard and Izzy denies BOTH - he won’t call him Edward and he won’t acknowledge that he’s Blackbeard.

Really interesting coming from a white dude who tried to purchase Ed an episode before.

Really interesting.

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La vie en rose

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#cinematic parallels

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redraw of the best scene in the whole damn show

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I think it’s that I’m almost 40 and I’m so used to seeing LGBT+ representation but only for the young and teens but Ed and Stede are closer to my age and it makes me realize that I’m not too old to find love is just so comforting.

That’s why Our Flag Means Death is so special to me.