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ofmd s3 and the impossibility of predictions

I don't tend to speculate what happens in any show's future seasons other than the broadest strokes, like if it's gonna be a happy ending or not. I love being surprised by the plots. I mean, who could have EVER predicted mermaid-stede or izzy in drag?

So I don't also really know what I would have expected of OFMD s3. The big plot would have been about the end of piracy, I think. The crew fighting for their place in the world. Pirates vs empire. I don't know how that would have played out, because in history, the pirates lost. Could OFMD sailed to a happily-ever-after if they went through that plot? I don't know.

More than that, I don't know what would have happened with Stede and Ed. They were in a peaceful place now. Would we just have gotten to see them live together, happily getting to know each other better and better? That would have been revolutionary in a way. How ofter do we see couples actually get to BE together instead of just getting together? But I think more likely they would also be swept in an adventure with the Revenge. There would have been dramatic fight scenes, maybe a proposal... There would have been exploring their roles as pirates and not pirates. Is Stede okay leaving piracy behind already? Can Ed truly leave it behind after a lifetime as a Blackbeard? I don't know.

And my personal biggest questionmark is about Izzy. "There is no version of the show without Izzy Hands." Would they truly have pulled a gravy basket and brought him back? Personally I would have loved to see them do it, it would have been so ballsy and the whimsiest thing the show ever did, truly a fuck you to all TV rules. Would they have given Izzy more time? Or was he truly dead? I don't know.

I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.

AND NOW I WILL NEVER NOW.

There was no predicting what happened in s2. Mermaids and drag. I am equally unable to predict anything about s3 other than the very broadest strokes. Because there would have been its own equivalents to mermaid-stede and izzy in drag, just totally unhinged batshit crazy and ballsy moves that no-one could have predicted.

But they are gone. Never to be found out.

Fucking devastating.