#s1 with its one-episode main plots was more balanced and just Worked Better. compare s2e6-7 to s1e5! ed loves being popular but both we | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

leatherbookmark · 1 year ago

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ssooo my early s2 impression's confirming itself: the show is at its best writing-wise when it's about the crew faffing around and low-stake Events that can be summed up in one sentence. ie, s1 episodes 5-8, they don't have much going on in terms of plot, the premises are basic, so everything that happens feels organic and unhurried. now we have Events and Beats that Need to happen, we have more characters that Need Screentime, and it just... doesn't work as well? the episodes aren't even a little bit longer, like 40 minutes instead of 30, so while in s1 scenes where the characters went "okay, so here's the situation and here's what we're doing!" were fine, in s2 it just feels grating and i kind of feel like the writers have bitten off more than they can chew :/

mannnn ep6 is a bit of a mess tbh? giving off strong It Was Written vibes, not really a fan tbh

#idk maybe it's the pre-breakfast me but. yeah #also the izzy stuff. i'm not saying we should get a whole long sequence of him coming to terms with shit but ALL we got before #he did drag was a tiny shot of him looking into the mirror. we're moving too fast baby!#if the episode was a slower one ALL about the party and the preparations we could get idk. more shots of izzy looking at wee john #and The Gears In His Head Turning. instead we got even more drag izzy than we got drag wee john which is ???#AND on top of that ep6 introduced a whole new character with a Specific Vibe who had to both appear as a threat AND be finished off in one #episode. except the way they did it just doesn't work for me because the crew already hated him! we know pirates mutinying against their #captains is a thing so why didn't they do it earlier? they sure as hell didn't need stede to Realize they're being mistreated because they #KNEW IT. and the guy had SUPER “is strong one on one but can't do much when overpowered” vibes so like Why.#ep 7 also suffered from the same problem. back in s1 shit like 'the swede's got mad scurvy even though we haven't seen him develop it'#was okay because ofmd was a Problem Of The Episode kinda series. but when they're trying to have some continuity they're not very good at i #'olu has been talking about zheng yi sao non-stop' yeah but he... hasn't... really...? prince ricky also appears and disappears in ep1 and #NOW he comes back... it feels very “oh okay” compared to the badmintons last season #re: stede and ed i didn't think they would actually fuck! which uh. good for them? ish? except again it all felt very Written #ned low appears! stede kills him! stede feels bad! ed goes to talk to him about it but oh! instead of talking it through stede pounces on #him! they go too fast and stede's super into being a popular pirate now so ed freaks out and runs! the pacing's all over the place babes.#s1 with its one-episode main plots was more balanced and just Worked Better. compare s2e6-7 to s1e5! ed loves being popular but both we #and stede know that it's not going to last because the 'popularity' is paper-thin and the people are fake shallow and clique-y.#if this was s1 we would've gotten more than a quick shot of stede's stricken face after killing ned! but we have Things That Need To Happen #on our heels so we can't afford that. which. ughhhhhhhh #if the show gets renewed for s3 can it PLEASE go back to the s1 formula. or at least have ten episodes again. or both #ofmd spoilers

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