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Okay! You made such good points, though!
I love Stede and Ed snarking about Stede opening a restaurant ("Well, you might not get in; it'll be very popular." "You'd save me a seat, wouldn't you?" "Maybe, if you weren't being a dick.").
Someone surely wrote an AU of this 30 minutes after the episode aired.
I love how readily people take to Oluwande and wonder what his captaincy would have been like; Ed trying to get Izzy to look at the clouds ("if you'd just put some fucking imagination into it, man"), that Jim's grandma is fine with their being non-binary but absolutely furious about only one of the seven men on the vengeance list being dead. Ed going from composing wretched heartbroken songs in the blanket fort to reestablishing the chain of command with Izzy was terrifying and glorious.
I could live for a week on Stede's expression quiet glee, in the moments after the curtain bursts into flames, at the scale of the catastrophe he passive-aggressively caused at the fancy assholes' party. He's been treated so shittily by all his peers for so long, and the one time before that he lashed back at a bully before he almost had a nervous breakdown over it. This one time he allows himself to just bask in the malicious afterglow for a few seconds, and it's delicious.
And Ed is surprised by Stede's calm "No, you're in over your head, I've got this", ending with the two of them being calmly rowed away from the boat burning behind them. Which leads to "You wear fine things well" and me staring at the TV with my hands over my mouth whispering "Is this happening?"
Yes, they escalated very quickly to Meaningful Glances.
And Ed is surprised by Stede's calm "No, you're in over your head, I've got this", ending with the two of them being calmly rowed away from the boat burning behind them.
It did occur to me to wonder on a rewatch whether Stede will ever stop to reflect on this evening--he was so sincerely aghast at Calico Jack retelling the tale of the ship Blackbeard set on fire and sailed away from with everyone burning up inside, and at Ed mumbling, "Well, technically, it was the
fire
that killed them." I mean, hopefully it was just the stateroom curtains that went up, but it sure *looked* like a lot of that ship was burning.
I mean, hopefully it was just the stateroom curtains that went up, but it sure *looked* like a lot of that ship was burning.
That's a good point. But would they really use Nick Kroll or Kristen Schaal on a one-off?
But would they really use Nick Kroll or Kristen Schaal on a one-off?
True, but they're so heavily made up that it would be perfectly easy to reuse them somewhere else later on.
One last burble for the night, about that moment with the feet, which I've watched probably thirty times: things like that hit me so hard in all my feels, no matter the genre or the gender combination: everything all around is chaos and panic and violence, and the only thing these two characters can give each other in this moment is that intent focus, that small gesture, that stillness in the whirlwind, that bearing with-ness.
Feet touching, hands held under a table, looks across a crowded room that say to each other, Do you see that? I do, and I see you.
Augh!
JZ, here, go read this, I read it and thought of you.
JZ, here, go read this, I read it and thought of you.
I read that one last night, and have heart eyes feelings about it.
