#izzy's death

[riotgere]

"Curb your enthusiasm" would've been really good advice prior to October.

[cuddyclothes]

I deleted my response to a discussion post about Izzy's death being queer-coded and wrote my own post instead. I'm sorry for raining on folks' parade and suggesting their opinions are wrong. I put myself in their shoes and realized it could be interpreted as mean and hurtful. I didn't mean it to be but it's how it came across.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and feelings and I wasn't put on earth to be the interpretation police.

Sorry.

@justusmice

I need to learn to be soft.

[goodsirs]

Our Flag Means Death 2.06 "Calypso's Birthday"

[djarin]

#he got the Izzy Stamp of Approval™!!!

[elrem19]

This. OFMD is a show about healing and "you are able to change. Always. It's never too late to live happily" just to completely ignore that when he was about to heal by killing him

Saw someone justify Izzy’s death as “his entire purpose was Edward and Ed was leaving. So he needed to die”.

Or maybe s3 Izzy’s arc could have been him finding himself outside of Ed - as Ed has been able to do???? But noooooooo let’s just killing at the end of the season for The Drama of it all

Yeah, I mean, the first season is a little of Izzy being defined by and for his relationship with Edward (although obviously with a lot of resistance to that and you can see him struggling with that role).

But in S2, I mean... Why create all these new relationships for him to define himself by, to establish him as a very eager protector of others when he's shown even small amounts of care in return? Why make such a thing of Ed continuously going off on his own and trying to be independent?

I don't know, like... As I was saying before, what's frustrating about Izzy's death even if I wasn't invested in Izzy is that like... Almost pointlessly, his death overshadows so many other characters' arcs and their relationships, and that includes Ed and Stede's!

I would be curious if DJ's tweet when he was upset about being criticised, about "there's no show without Izzy Hands," is because instead of planning to resurrect him with the Buttons implication, is that they plan to have Izzy following Ed as a ghost to parallel Stede's Nigel issues, which like.

Would be pretty fucking stupid, honestly. Especially because they brought in fucking Hornigold just to toss away everything of use with his character.

Yeah, it's annoying. OFMD has always had its flaws and been a bit messy, but S2 is obviously so much worse than S1 and seems to toss away a lot of its philosophy of kindness but also just... throws away so much of the stuff that makes it great and different to other shows? Such is life, I guess.

[kitkatkey]

Izzy singing a song from the 1940s in the 1700s is peak historical accuracy, no notes

[samuelroukin]

"Hiya, boys"

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH (2022— ) Episode 2.07

[loumandivorce]

is anyone else seeing this

[izzy-hands]

#they're bbfs now your honor

[toboldlymuppet]

here in the storm, i found peace in you

[nicostiel]

OFMD S2 + text posts

[cliopadra]

Apparently it’s #IzzyIsThriving day, so excuse me while I pause my mental health break to throw a tipsy doodle of a crew cuddle pile at you guys

[magniloquent-raven]

SO SEASON TWO HUH HOW YALL DOING

✨here be memes✨

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

"killing off izzy after he went through all this growth and finally got to be happy means all that healing was for nothing"

goddamn that is a bleak way to look at life. we all die, man. healing is still worth the effort.

[bizarrelittlemew]

Our Flag Means Death 2x6 | I'm working on my look.

Bonus:

[ulgapodatkowa]

I have so many thoughts but I at least want to address the "for the new unicorn" note. because first of all it's so incredibly gratifying for izzy to finally be accepted into a community. it was shown before that the crew cares for him in some way but it was the first time he really saw that. that he isn't useless and alone, that he still has a place on the ship. even more so the crew WANTS HIM to be on the ship. and also that they want him to embrace his disability which doesn't make them think any less of him.

but also the choice of words. because inherently it rings queer, unicorn as a symbol of queerness. and even if it may have a negative sound when you use it differently here it is extremely positive. izzy is not only accepted to the crew, he's also accepted to the queer community, to the family. the unicorn on the revenge was also the one that was leading the ship, so one can argue that they want him to take that role in their dynamic.

and you can see that he does so immediately. he puts himself together and starts helping the crew. he's still bitchy but no longer violent and cruel. he helps stede and lucius immensely because that is what he does now. he's part of the family. twat.