#s3 complete with izzy ghost

[classycoffeecat]

season 3: desperate house-pirates

(inspo)

[cloud-based-and-rainpilled]

Not to “ummmm fake and gay/sources??” but I’m seeing nothing about this lmao (coping)

terrible news everyone

[justins-1-justan]

Doing spooky activities with total drama characters!

It's spooky season! ^=^

Dj!

Horror movies?

Hahahahah. No ♡

You both stay in and cuddle while watching the Simpsons Halloween specials while eating candy.

You also wear matching halloween pajamas!

The moon has long been in the sky this Halloween, younger trick or treaters had already gone home and the older ones which stayed were met by the cold autumn breeze. But bundled up in soft throw blankets, wrapped in each other's arms as the fire roars, is you and Dj. An old episode plays, you feel your eyelids grow heavy, you rest your head against DJ's shoulder as you slowly drift off to sleep.

Geoff.

You can probably already guess,

Of course you're both going to a Halloween party, if not throwing one yourselves!

Matching costumes!! This year you're the grim reaper and a ghost! Geoff is the ghost & you're the reaper ofc!

Laughter, music, and a cheerful energy paints the party. The flashing lights reflect in his blue eyes, he twirls you as the monster mash booms on the speakers. The two of you party all night, for a holiday that's supposed to be scary, it made such joyful memories.

Izzy!

You both scare the daylights out of trick or treaters.

Your job was to stand on the porch with the candy bowl, candy bowl which is filled with fun sized candy bars disguised as full sized ones.

Izzy's idea of course.

Meanwhile Izzy would hide in the bushes in her 'franken-izzy' costume waiting to jump out at trick or treaters.

You successfully made six kids, three teenagers, and one adult man cry. Congrats?

From your peripheral vision you can see a child in the horizon approaching, you stand in position on the porch. The child, dressed like a minion, steps onto the porch. Per Izzy's instructions you hand them the 'full sized' candy bar. They smile happily and thank you and then.... "BOOOO!!" Izzy yells out at the child. After causing the child to subsequently drop their candy, earning a glare from the child's parents, Izzy practically dies of laughter while holding onto your shoulder.

Scott.

Hehehahaha, he took you a grave yard.

Yep.

A grave yard.

The scheme is that you'll get so scared you'll fall into his arms.

.. Let's just say that doesn't go as planned.

The moon shines brightly down upon you and Scott walking hand in hand in this abandoned graveyard. Boredom creeping over you, an idea dawns. Holding back giggles, you loudly let out a piercing howl like scream, causing Scott to quickly jump and whip his head back towards you. He glares at you and let's go of your hand when he realizes you're fine, he continues the pace of walking you were formerly at, you quickly chase after him and grab his hand, giggling with murmurs of apologies.

Area fifty~one alien Cody~Clone from S3 EP15 & briefly S5 EP7!

Breaking him out of area 51 for the holiday wasn't as difficult as you would think!

After convincing the guards you were a trick or treater, they left to go grab something to give you, then you simply walked to where he was being held and busted him out.

Since he had been in a government facility for years, he's never seen a scary movie before! Oh no!

So you decided to take him to the local AMC and see the latest horror movie.

You bought him popcorn and a slushie.

The two of you sat in your seats, interlocking your hands as their movie starts. The first jump scare happens and instinctively, you grip his hand tighter. Only to hear him let out a whaling scream. You turn towards him and your face pales as your boyfriend's arm turn completely into green goop.

Bridgette!

You both go pumpkin carving!

She carves a sailboat meanwhile you carve a classic jack o' lantern.

More matching costumes!! She dresses as a mermaid meanwhile you're a prince/princess!

The smell of pumpkin surrounds the kitchen you are both sat on the floor of, you look up from carving your pumpkin to see Bridgette dead focus on carving the perfect pumpkin, to the point she doesn't notice the pumpkin guts on her cheek. Giggling to yourself you wait for the next time she's turning her pumpkin around to scoot closer to her. You wipe the pumpkin guts off of her cheek, she turns her attention towards you for a brief second and you take the opportunity to sweetly kiss her cheek. Successfully catching her off gaurd.

[laststandx3]

if Izzy had to die, like it was inevitable for the plot then I wish he died when he shot himself. then the only person who sees him is ed, and izzy literally turns into the symbol of blackebeard. Ed struggles to leave everything he was behind because backtracking after he caused izzy to kill himself makes him feel like he could have saved him. during the season izzy follows ed in every scene except the ones ed's with stede (so it's the perfect metaphor for ed to be at peace) and after a while finally when ed is alone. and ed mourns and then at the end we find out izzy was a ghost all along, and when ed lets go of izzy's ghost then he's ready to leave blackbeard behind.

it would still hurt and izzy's purpose in the story would still be about ed's arc, but at least izzy's death has consequences.

and in the meanwhile if you want to headcanon him as alive in the background bc ed's not very in touch with reality and in some scenes izzy interacts with people then there's the plot twist at the end that ed's guilt materialized as izzy (and you can put so many implications about their relationship here) but when ed finally lets go of his past then izzy can be his own person, have his own arc.

because we didn't even need so much izzy screen time this season (i loved it) but we didn't need izzy to have so many interactions with the crew and stede and everyone and have him grow. he could have stayed in the background slowly fitting in. and if they got renewd for a third season they could've explored his character more. and this season could've been really about ed/stede relationship instead of having them getting together -> breaking up -> getting together -> breaking up -> getting together... s2 focused on the main characters' realtionship and if they got renewd for s3 then background characters is fine. but like this, they tried to have everything and instead we got half-completed story-lines that feel hollow

[loumandforyou]

S3 plot dropped (by me): since Ed went to the gravy basket now he has the ability to see ghosts at the Inn (like the British and American Ghosts shows!).

And since Izzy is buried there, he can see Izzy (Maybe he already did the moment they moved his body there and that's why he was chill at his funeral and about revenge) and maybe a couple of other people that used to live there. So now Izzy and Ed can have more of the many conversations they need to have, Izzy can be his lovely twat self too and be around Ed and not just Blackbeard.

Imagine Ed trying to convince Stede that he hasn't lost his mind completely though and ghosts are real and yes Izzy is here too.

And then one day, Buttons finds a way to bring Izzy back and the dude probably runs back to sea to his ship. Maybe Ed and Stede follow him who knows.

[o-wild-west-wind]

I understand the concerns, but yeah, I completely agree with this.

I remember being pretty nervous that he’d given into fan pressure by giving Izzy such an outsized role in s2 and putting him in more of a sympathetic lens…and then he ultimately confirmed the father figure role and died. David Jenkins and the rest of the crew seem pretty smart with their relationship to fandom in the writing process; they did a pretty brilliant job of toeing the line and feeding into fan expectations while also providing a wholly unpredictable story that fit with the original narrative all along, and ultimately regained my entire trust as a viewer.

I also interpreted his comments as a likely Izzy as a ghost narrative—I’d expect something akin to Badminton s1 for Ed, since he still needs to finish his paralleled arc to Stede in finally coming to terms with the whole death and grief and killing thing. But that’s just working with the world that’s already been set up and still centering Ed as a character.

I can say with almost full certainty that Izzy would never have come back as an actual character. The show obviously toys with reality, but death is death��even ghosts are established as “not real,” and just figments of a person’s tortured imagination. Buttons is a bird because Ed says he’s a bird, but not because we actually see him turn into a bird (I really don’t think he’s ACTUALLY a bird so much as it’s a funny and kind of wholesome joke to assume he just turned into a bird).

For a show thematically about death and grief, they wouldn’t cheapen death by bringing anyone back from the dead. Characters we don’t see die have a chance of being alive, but anyone we’ve physically seen die on our screen is unequivocally dead. Bringing anyone back would functionally nullify basically half the point of the show (“we only get this one life”) and would mean walking back on the entirety of character and world building that’s been established to this point.

Tl;dr I think the canyonites may have gotten into our heads a bit (I know they did mine in s2) but I really don’t think there’d be any cause for concern in s3. Izzy wouldn’t be a non-entity entirely, but like the rest of the show, he’d ultimately be an entertaining vessel for Ed’s character development at the end of the day.

you know, I’m just gonna come out and say it. reason 182639302 why I’m sad ofmd was canceled: I would’ve liked to see a post-Izzy world.

you can stab me in the face now.

[sunalsolove]

I’ve got a question! How would you rank the 5 seasons of AOS, and also how would you rank the 5 seasons based solely off Fitzsimmons moments? I did this for myself today and my FS chart was almost the complete opposite of my general season rankings!

I think my answer is exactly the same for each? Since it’s mostly those FS moments, good or bad, that drive how much I enjoy the season?

Season 3: I liked S3 a lot (barring space rando as a Macguffin). It was a pretty tightly woven plot from start to finish, I really got a massive kick out of HIVE, there were still funny parts, it was pretty epic in scale, FS finally got together, and I didn’t like Lincoln enough to feel *that* bad that he sacrificed himself. (Sorry, Lincoln) I was more upset on Daisy’s behalf. There were so many good moments. It turned into Buffy for a moment. (Seriously? Squidface is a senior partner, i.e. the Ram? REALLY??? I was screaming. Loudly.) FS boinked. 

Season 1: Besides having the EXACT same damn twist as S2 of Buffy (more or less) I really liked the first season. There was so much humor! Human ingenuity and skill saved the day, some of the episodes linked back to the larger Marvel universe. There was a flying car. Fitz and Simmons were cute little beans. Daisy was totally the newbie that needed everything explained to her so that the audience would know what was going on. The pink dress. Coulson right at the end. The pod scene that was heartbreaking, beautiful, and that destroys me every time. 

Season 2: Huntingbird! Daisy gets her powers! Everything is bigger and scarier than S1 and friendships and relationships are much more complex. Way more complex. Kind of too complex at some points. May dances. Fitz wears glasses. I think the season ended up being too complex and fell apart under its own weight. To many intersecting plotlines and too many new characters. Also way too many overly dramatic deaths. Trip? Really? Izzy? Ugh. 

Season 5: Too many villain side plots (sorry to everyone that likes the blues). Space and time travel were not that exciting to me. I don’t know what they were reaching for, but it all seemed to end up a muddied mess. Kind of like the lighting. There were some retrod themes and some moral point making that I did not agree with. The writers seemed to forget everything we liked about the show by the end. Screw found family and friendships, don’t you want to know how being overly attached to your freaky daughter will unbalance you and make you try to destroy the world? The wedding was the only bright point (literally) and now it doesn’t matter because watching one of my favorite characters bleed out because there’s a back up version somewhere is rewarding cinema. 

Season 4: Well, I like how it starts? But wait, no I don’t. Jemma isn’t in the lab. WTF???? I don’t care about power or whatever the hell with pulled out of the writer’s arse’s Mace. She’s a laboratory scientist with two doctorates, she’s NOT A FLIPPING ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT. I like Robbie. The 4a Ghost Rider arc was a highlight. Only GHOSTS? Okay, why they wanted to make a whole season with endless daddy issues that is basically sideways Hamlet I don’t know. It sucked. I hated it. 4b with it domestic abuse torture porn is disgusting. The framework flat out makes no sense. Yeah, yeah...darkhold blah, blah, blah, but there was a million different ways that could have gone and all it did was do things like give Mack false hope (which you should’t cling to), let us know love can’t conquer shit (thanks for ZERO emotional payoff for my faves, btw, that was great) and literally ended up with AIDA going off the rails because she was a woman scorned. WTF?? It what universe it that an acceptable ending? It was all overly pretentious shite. I really have no idea why I kept watching. Or made it to S5. It destroyed the thing about the show I love, that science and people can save the day just as well a magical super heroes and tossed in the trash. We got the darkhold and well I love Robbie and Quake, that we needed good vs. bad wacky magic super pissed me off. 

[editoress]

#so real!!!#ignore this tag essay OP i'm just going through it <3#literally all the resurrected izzy posts where he is not fully alive and well can choke#they also completely miss the point#which is that no amount of bringing izzy back from the dead fixes what this awful writing did to kill him in the first place#no amount will wash down the awful taste it's left behind and tainted the rest of the season's izzy scenes#izzy didn't experience the queer joy scenes for the sake of those scenes#they wrote those for his character because the end goal was his death#they were only meant to serve in justifying his death#that's also why izzy did an apparent speed-run to reconcile with every person that he could#the 'i think you're good for him. you balance each other' scene was so ill-timed and now i know why#because the clock was ticking and the writers needed to check all their Izzy Character Arc boxes so they could get to his death scene and g#[dusts off hands] 'well! we did it folks! arc done! nothing left to do! fire the shot and cue the death scene!'

#if izzy comes back it also makes all the bullshit of his death stick#that it was for ed's arc; that izzy apologized to the guy who made him eat his toes shot him lost his leg tempted him with a double-suicide#while all the while izzy could never bring himself to kill edward not for anything#the crew who loved izzy standing stock-still and removed from him dying in ed's arms while izzy tells flat-out lies about the crew loving e#when everything from their hero worshipping of blackbeard to respect for ed teach went down the fucking drain with no reconciliation#when even izzy's fucking grave is only to remind ed and stede that their love if you can call it that is worth it uwu#and now people want to disrespect his death even further and act like ghost! or undead! Izzy is the move? fuck off with that#i don't want a ghost izzy that just says a bitchy quip in the corner and is ed and stede's fucking marriage counselor#i don't want an undead izzy that will be ~a funny idea to chucklefucks for all of 2 scenes before it gets stale#i honestly don't want a resurrected izzy at all for myself for all these reasons but cannot blame fans who want some sort of closure#resurrecting izzy is a band-aid on a severed limb; it doesn't cover up the rot underneath or make the injury magically healed#but if he should come back it should be ALIVE with the ability to experience the full brunt of human love and touch and warmth#and to get as far away from ed and stede as fucking possible because they've not made me believe in their relationship for 2 seasons now#i won't be watching S3 regardless#and that sucks because for a good solid week? i thought to myself that i genuinely loved the show which i hadn't felt in S1#and then immediately after that thought 🤡🤡🤡 literally told my other friends who don't watch to disregard every nice thing i said lol#ofmd

Also!! I don’t WANT a ghost Izzy. I don’t WANT undead Izzy. I want alive Izzy, warm and full of love and life. Able to experience an easier life with the crew he lives and who love him back!