#ofms season 2

[verkomy]

silly little guy

you can get a print here: inprnt! 

[chrrispine]

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH

Man on Fire (2x07)

[lumintsu]

[ortofosforico]

"So, we're innkeepers now?"

YES. GET THE FANFICTIONS OUT. GET THESE COTTAGECORE GAYS THE OBLIVIOUS IZZY GHOST, AND SEAGULL BUTTONS. I WANT A SITCOM OUT OF THAT INN.

[mon-ster-chen]

💫 i call this ☆~girl dinner ~☆🍷❣️

[floofmymoo]

[sethmacenzie]

Two times in my live my favourite character died and I did not shed a single tear.

I cry about pretty much everything in movies and television, if it's sad or if it's happy. I've cried about Beth in the Walking Dead, and I don't even watch the Walking Dead.

The second the Prince and Izzy had their conversation I knew they were going to stupidly killing him off, when I got shot I was like: yup there he goes. And he dies. I didn't even care anymore, it was so badly done and this season was so far from the first in terms of quality, but some stuff was still fun and I knew they got their runtime cut, so I was willing to cut them some slack.

But I had a bad taste in my mouth since episode one when they killed Ivan off-screen and only mention him once. Then they made Button turn into a seagull and it's only adressed once by Roach and then never again. Crew is family my ass, we got a tiny funeral scene and then the wedding, there is no emotion behind this anymore and it sucks.

The other one was Theon Greyjoy btw, the second he said, that he's protecting Bran in the show I knew it was over and there was no emotional impact anymore about any death in season 8, just blandness.

A blandness I would have never expected from Our Flag Means Death.

[toxles]

I started to get nervous about the final episode of ofmd, that my mom and I decided to do a little "bingo"

My mom always had a bit of a strange imagination, she also wanted to write about the fact that Steed would have a lover, but I asked her not to spoil my rose-colored glasses...

We came up with it together, I wrote mostly, but you can also see her handwriting here 😁

I didn't translate, but if you need to let me know

[frog-person]

ITS HERE

[ldrmas]

This this this this

Can we say it louder for the people in the back, maybe then they'll understand why we are upset

imagine killing an old queer disabled man when he was finally breaking free from his 20+ year abusive relationship & finding his own identity outside of his partner and then making him:

1. die in the arms of his abuser while apologising to him for the state of their relationship

2. be buried like a pet on his abusive ex’s property while ignoring all seafaring traditions

He was never his own man, not even in death.

[bumidoodles]

Practicing for calypso's birthday

[ortofosforico]

No guys GUYS.

Pirating gives you a family after you've lost everyone else and all- I THOUGHT I WAS FINE BUT THAT'S THE RING.

I AM NOT WELL.

[hang-on-lil-tomato]

I always thought Izzy was the grouchy muppet anyway.

Mostly Jenkins gets it right, but I have to disagree with him on a couple of things.

I don't think we've had a real human in the Muppet movie moment until Ned Low showed up tbh

Like motherfucker was playing so serious and everyone around him was doing bits. Like Ed and Stede have been Ed and Stede this whole time until Ned Low came along and then it really felt like Bronson Pinochet had Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog tied to a couch on the revenge. We waisted our muppet comparisons on Izzy in the first season. I can imagine that whole scene in the captains cabin playing out with Miss Piggy as Blackbeard telling him he tortures like a bitch and threatening to karate chop him when he turns the poker on her beloved frog and then it cutting to animal screaming in glee as his head gets compressed

[tvxqmylove]

Let's raise our glasses to Izzy and OFMD creators

I just have to get it off my chest, I understand Izzy's death came as a shock and very upsetting event for many, and a lot of people are going on and on about how he deserved a better fate and how he was not just some tool to serve someone else's story. Please try to calm down and see the bigger picture. 

It is now clear that he was always meant to die. It was foreshadowed in the first minute of the second season, a ridiculous, villain's death. Being the symbolic obstacle to Stede and Ed's happiness. 

Of course that was the wrong way for him to go. When he confessed to his crush Blackbeard he got shot by him, almost died, begged to be killed, and then he even tried to kill himself. Still didn't work. It wasn’t his time yet and that was the wrong way for him to go. When he learned that he was loved and cared for after all, just not in the way he expected, he changed. He became positive, he became forgiving. Then he stopped being miserable he started genuinely wishing for the happiness of others as well, instead of being bitter about it. His death might not have a point but his life did. He had the crew's and Ed's and even Stede's back, and they knew it. As David Jenkins stated, he played the role of a wise mentor that was passing along his life experiences to others. Then it was his time. Also, as foreshadowed, he symbolically took away Blackbeard, and opened a way for Stede and Ed as well.

A happy ending is not only walking off to sunset with a lover, taking up a new job or walking into a house of your family and petting your dog before you close the door. A good death, and a life well-lived is a happy ending. Leaving behind people that loved you is a happy ending. This was a happy ending for him. 

He lived the way he wanted, as a pirate, an infamous one that has received respect and recognition. Then he resolved the parts of his life that became problematic and toxic, he repaired the relationships

that was broken, he forgave the people he needed to forgive. After going through hell, he was basically a bubble of positivity, going around giving solid advices, encouraging people and partying. He was done. He gave the best damn speech of his life at a bar like giving his own eulogy and it was awesome. He died at the arms of the person he loved the most. 

Yes he could have had more, everyone that ever died could have had more. But he died gracefully and complete, surrounded by people he loved and cared about, knowing that they will be fine. That was his story. I am sad that he died, but he died beautifully, best you can hope for in a pirate life. And he will live on, in the hearts of the people he touched by his existence. 

Finally, never harass the creators. It is their hard work that gave us Izzy in the first place. Trust their creative process, and afterwards take it or leave it, do not harass them and try to put them in a box of your personal demands. If so, what kind of 3rd season can we even expect?

[lumintsu]

you wear fine things well

[postsfromthedark]

If you didn't love Isreal Hands at his season 1 jealousy arc, you don't deserve him in his season 2 self-growth arc