#Ned low attacks they both go into defense mode

[blakbonnet]

Really? You wanted an episode where Ed and Stede were shoved together by the others instead of coming together by themselves?

The entire show is based around the plotline of them wanting to "come together" so much that one of them signed their life away to the British and the other basically went human shrug emoji at being told that the original plan was to burn their face off. And that was after weeks of having just met each other - so I don't get the "shoved together by others" angle.

It is a romcom tho and after the super heavy first couple of episodes, it would have worked so wonderfully to see the crew betting on their captains' love lives and trying to get them to hook up just so this sexual tension would end and I can't even imagine the hilarity. Wee John taking Stede through his entire stash of beautiful fabrics - and Stede picking the most aquamarine and glitteriest of them all? Yeah, it would have been gorgeous 😭

See, me personally - I love the writing of the show s1 + 2 and I know they'd have done something amazing with it that would've been a very natural conclusion to their 2 seasons of sexual tension - which is what it's been lmao - and I really don't see it as the "being forced together" trope that a lot of people have convinced themselves it would've been.