#Cool Hand Ed

[userarmand]

edizzy + glimpses of their prior dynamic

[izzyhandsy]

me when i wanted to make him worse but not THAT much worse :(

[fuckyeahizzyhands]

S2 scene that was in the trailer but not the show

[sarucane]

Why did Ed shoot Izzy then?

Figured I'd go ahead and rant about this because once I started thinking about it, it took a bit to unpack, and someone might be interested? Eh, anyway

So the reason this is actually an odd moment is this: it comes across as careless, but Ed's real violence is never careless. Ed's violence is actually really precisely targeted. He has a reputation for violence, total strangers call him a "fucking madman," and he does do some stuff offscreen ("I have seen you maim a few people") but in terms of what we actually see on our screens Ed becomes violent himself very, very rarely.

But here, he shoots Izzy. A very violent act, done casually and to someone he knows personally.

Why? Izzy thinks it's because of Stede, says himself in this scene that the source of the poison on the ship is Ed's feelings for Stede, tells Stede Ed shot him "because I dared to mention your fucking name."

But that just doesn't track. Ed is clearly brooding over Stede at several other points, and he doesn't get remotely violent. He doesn't join in the fighting at the wedding when he sees the figurine that looks like Stede or throw it against the wall later, or even become violent in any of the scenes that figurine appears in. If anything, the evidence rather suggests that Izzy has mixed up "poison" and "cure": Ed gets notably more chill when he's looked at that figurine recently.

So why does Ed shoot Izzy here? And when Izzy came to him a few minutes before with "I have love for you, I'm worried about you," why did Ed blow him off, then get scary at something that did invoke Stede?

Well, because it's Izzy who's saying this. It's not Stede himself, it's the combo of Ed having Izzy and Stede in his head at the same time that's provoking violence.

Izzy set the terms for this relationship. Ed was vulnerable and open, and Izzy said that was a fate worse than death. Ed thought he was in a safe space, and Izzy threw shame and threats at him.

Ed conformed to Izzy's expectations, directly and completely. Izzy was clearly happy that Ed was cutting off his toe and making him eat it. Izzy set the rules, and Ed followed them. That's right down to the scene before this, when Izzy says that the crew are refusing to throw away the treasure and Ed says "and that's another toe." There are rules, they're being followed.

And then Izzy goes and tries to change the rules. Tries to encourage Ed to be vulnerable. Invokes the original source of the pain that made Ed vulnerable in the first place.

It's actually kinda admirable that Izzy does this. What he's doing is beginning to acknowledge how wrong he was before. But it's too little (he still thinks of Stede as a problem, not a solution) and far too late.

Ed's not going to take anything that hits him where he hurts from Izzy. He followed the rules--hell, he's still following the rules when he shoots Izzy, hits him on the same leg that was losing toes. He doesn't owe Izzy one iota of vulnerability. And more importantly, he can't become vulnerable with Izzy. The relationship is absolutely and completely entrenched. This story ends with one of them killing the other. And just like Izzy's the one who started them on the path of that story, now Ed's the one who's going to push it forward.

[asylumdream]

inspired by a post from @thatwavephenomenon that has Not left my brain about link not getting saved by Rauru and instead falling to the depths. Comentary version under the cut

[sunnibits]

IZZYGIRLS (GN) WAKE THE FUCK UP ONE OF THE OFMD CREW JUST CASUALLY DROPPED THE FUCKING RING BACKSTORY IN AN INTERVIEW LIKE IT WAS NOTHING. THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!!! 🚨🚨 🚨🚨‼️‼️‼️‼️

WATCH IT HERE

OH ALSO IT JUST HAPPENS TO EXACTLY CONFIRM THE SAME FUCKING HEADCANON I’VE LITERALLY HAD SINCE DAY ONE. I’VE BEEN FUCKING RIGHT THIS WHOLE TIME BECAUSE I’M LITERALLY SO HUGE BRAINED AND HOT AND SMART AND SEXY AND MY BRAIN IS SO WRINKLY. IT WAS HIS MOMS THIS WHOLE TIME AND I FUCKING CALLEDDDD ITTTTTT

[izzysillyhandsy]

Just a reminder of relaxed S1 Izzy before it all got complicated

Look at him with his loose tie, talking to weird men on beaches, just hanging out with Fang and Ivan

He seems so at ease here - I forgot

Rewatching S1 and seeing windswept Iz and his men appearing on that little hill - it kinda hurts but also...

I love him so much <3

[bougiebutchbitch]

man it'd be real nice if people kept their Shitty Uncharitable Takes and Blatant Character Hate out of the character tags, but this is the fandom where 'Ed physically mutilating Izzy over and over, and torturing the crew, is actually all Izzy's fault because Ed has no agency and Izzy said A Mean Thing to him once' is a genuine popular take. so I don't know what I expected

[kojoty]

proper wash tucker is super super super slow burn because on one hand you have Mr. Trauma Holder Who Even at His Most Stable Fundamentally Thinks There's Something Too Broken About Him To Be In a Relationship And That's Not Even Getting Into the Internalized Military Homophobia He's Had to Operate Under to Avoid Discrimination. Mr. I Don't Know How to Conduct an Interpersonal Relationship Even if I Want It. And on the other spectrum you have Mr. I'm So Sexually Liberated For the Joke and Normalcy of It but I Actually Have Intensely Avoidant Interpersonal Behaviors And Internalized Homophobia And Also Trauma Surrounding Literally Everyone I've Ever Met and This Guy DID once Try To Kill My Best Friend And Also It's Cringe to Show Emotion.

so it takes them like 6 months to like admit to each other that they're even friends let alone bone

[gaypirateslife4me]

I loved you.

Best I could.

[bougiebutchbinch]

still can't get over how there is SO much hot debate regarding the moralities of Ed and Izzy

who are objectively my least problematic blorbos. Izzy especially has committed The Least Crimes out of any of my favourite horrid little guys. He was just a bit of a cunt to everyone and tried to murder his ex's shiny new boyfriend out of jealousy. Nothing wrong with that.

And Yet, The Drama.

[immamapletreekid]

ok movie thoughts time

[boomthemoon]

I think Ed needs to find balance between being good and going on murder sprees because he looks really good while killing people

[who-the-fuck-knows-blog]

actually, ed did shoot izzy because izzy said he loved him. because ed was trying to prove the point that love always dies and was hastening the process as much as possible. he was trying to get izzy to a point where he wouldn’t forgive or love ed anymore. hope this helps!

[blood-ology]

No thoughts… only edizzy la cage aux folles au

[sskk-manifesto]

What a good episode. Maaaaaan