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Thank you, Caitlin. So let's get into season 2
episode one. So this episode opens with a
dream sequence of Steed dueling Izzy on a beach.
And I love that Steed in this opening sequence looks pretty
burly, like he's got a beard, he looks ragged, he's like more
traditionally masculine looking. And he basically stabs Izzy for
betraying him and Ed, which it must have been very satisfying
as like feels long overdue for Steed.
And in the dream, Izzy said, quote, I never made you leave
him, you did that yourself. So it's like we come to find
like this is Steed's dream. So Steed is clearly, like very
guilty over the fact that he, like abandoned Ed, like he
abandoned his family. And like this is basically
haunting him and manifesting in this as this dream of Izzy.
And after he slays Izzy, Steed notices Ed running towards him
down the shoreline, and so he immediately, like, bolts and
like, chases ass for him. And then we get this romantic
running towards each other on the beach moment and Steed just
flat out tackles Ed when they meet in the middle.
And I find this amazing, and also really sweet because
they're both like, giggling and stuff.
It's just so cute and precious and like, I love that it's in
here. And we should have had a a clue
that this was a dream because in the dream Ed already has like
his full on Blackbeard Beard back, which like OK, Steve, that
says a lot about you and what you prefer on Ed because the
last time we saw him he had a naked chin.
So interesting Steed and also Ed's like I need you to find me
babe. Like it's almost like terms of
endearment being thrown at Steed undeservedly.
And even if you couldn't tell that it's a dream, Steve just
rips like massive fucking ass. Oh, my God, Oh my God.
The way he gets pulled out of the dream is wild.
Like, but OK, Steve over and over again keeps asking Ed,
like, if if he forgives him. And he's like, you're sure
you're OK with everything. So like, basically Steve is
guilty and he's hoping the next time they meet everything's
gonna be fine. More on that later, as when they
eventually be. But OK, this is delusional steed
still, so he gets pulled out of the dream by the crew farting in
real life because that's the reality of living in close
quarters. It's a bunch of dudes.
And just people in general. And it's we John, apparently
that has pulled Steed so unceremoniously out of this
dream. And so then it ends up like
showing the crew like in this like very close quarters and
they're just all sleeping together.
Some in hammocks them on the floor.
And he tries to call out Steve, tries to call out Weejohn and
he's making all this noise and like waking people up And then
black geek calls out Steve and he's like, listen, is this
really as bad as you waking us all up 'cause you're moaning Ed,
oh Ed all night. That's just so funny.
So like the crew's been going through it with Steed and and in
his post Ed era so. I love that part of the scene
that was my favorite, that that one line just made the whole
scene. But I have a question 'cause I
can't figure it out. OK.
Did Steed intentionally leave Ed because I thought the whole
thing was that he couldn't find him Looney Tunes?
I mean, yes and no, just because like he couldn't find him, but
at the same time it was him essentially and not learning
anything from when he abandoned Mary the first time and he just
he realized the gravity of the situation and what like the
implication of him running off with Ed would be.
So that scared him. So inadvertently, he
intentionally left Ed for to go back to Mary because he felt,
like, safe there, and then that got shattered because they
didn't fucking want him there. Yeah.
And then he realized, oh, I'm in love with Ed when he was talking
to Mary, basically. So like, yeah, he had to do some
growing before they can get reunited.
So yeah, main take away of the dream sequence.
Steed is super haunted by the guilt of abandoning Ed now that
he's gone through all the character growth of Mary and he
desperately wants Ed to forgive him.
And Ed is clearly 100% on his mind all the time.
So much that he's dreaming about Ed and how he's dreaming about
Ed is in a super romantic manner.
So I love that Thank you riders, for giving us this other thing
that's happening in the interim of like the crew trying to move
on and without their ship, which is interesting.
So they're they're basically stranded on the Republic of
Pirates. How?
How is Steed? And that one dinghy got them all
to the Republic of Pirates Looney Tunes piggybacking.
It. He know he just like made
multiple trips back and forth I. Imagine something like that.
But that's what happened and the the Steve's like we're doing
great and in the interim he's writing letters to Ed like Dear
Diary letters. Basically he'd be like we're
doing great, we're moving along and blah blah blah.
And he basically does the message in a bottle thing and
like, is like, I hope it gets to you, oh.
Bless you. Thank you.
Which is such a steed thing to do, 'cause he's like, look, I
know the the odds of this letter getting to you is impossible,
but like, we met, so anything is possible.
So I I, I love this impractical but romantic thing that he is
doing. It's very cute.
If they are able to find anyone in the ocean, these bottles can
make it to Ed. It's true.
And while writing this, apparently I had a theory for
season three. Or a good reboot story so all
the bottles show up at once. It's just like this collection
of like all these bottles and it is Ed reading it.
So when they show up, Ed is reading it next to Steed before
bed. So they're just like laying in
bed together after a long day working at the end.
And we flashed back to what was going on for Steed while he's
writing these letters, but while Ed's reading it.
And we just keep getting pulled back to present day because he
keeps making fun of all the shit that he writes.
Because Steve's so love stick. Love stick?
Oh, Caitlin. And then he tells his own
stories of what was happening at the same time.
And my vision for this is kind of like How I Met your mother of
the explaining this past that. 'D be really, really cute.
Yeah. Hey, anything can happen on this
show? Why not?
Landy tunes. Landy tunes.
That's the least looney tune out of everything.
I agree. So Speaking of Looney Tunes,
apparently the crew is just working for Spanish Jackie now,
so Spanish Jackie's over the nose jar enough to be like,
yeah, I can use extra help. My business is booming and I
love that. Like the way they get their in,
like with Jackie is she thinks the Swede's hot.
Yeah, I also think, oh, go ahead, finish with.
That I was gonna say, their plot point is really cute actually.
It really is. I shipped the fuck out of them.
But I do think it's funny that I cannot remember his name for the
life of me, but it's it's one of the main husbands that we see
that's like the barkeep. I think it's hilarious how like
in season one he was like insinuating or not even
insinuating. He was wanting the idea to come
true of them having like a restaurant.
And she was like, fuck no, I'd have to pay for more staff.
And then we see them working for Jackie and like, she's still not
paying them. All the money is given back to
her. So like, it's just it's funny
how like her husband got his way, but not in the way he
wanted. Yeah, exactly.
And he would like, be pissed if he knew it was the this crew in
particular she hates. Them Fiora, could you do me a
favor and say this so I can say my punchline?
That's definitely not gonna be funny anymore.
Spanish Jackie is courting the Swede, which is a sweet plot
point. Don't you mean it's a Swede pop
plot point? I sure do.
Thank you. OK.
I love it. OK, go ahead.
I was just gonna say, I just know for a fact, when Caitlin
was writing that she was like, giggling her fucking.
Ass. Absolutely.
I think I was in the middle of work doing this actually.
God, I love this plot point though for a lot of reasons, but
like it has so much. It happens over the course of
basically one episode mostly, and the amount of character
growth the suite has is crazy in one episode, which I I love that
so much 'cause even the side characters are very 3
dimensional in this show, which is something I really
appreciate. OK, all right, so on on on that
line. I like the scene where Steed is
acting like the greeter. So like it we kind of like a
scene of like basically them working for Jackie and Steed is
acting like the greeter for the bar to like the pirates who are
like fuck off and stuff. But to me it reminds me as like
almost like what the greeter at an inn would do.
So it's almost like foreshadowing, like where this
is all headed, which I I like that that little thing is in
there. All right.
So while Steve in the crew are doing that, Ed has become a real
life pirate wedding crasher. So he takes his crew and they
totally demolish basically this wedding that's happening on a
boat because rich people have nothing better to do with
themselves than have crazy elaborate weddings.
And so, like, they're like, let's get married at sea.
That still tracks for today. Exactly.
So Ed's like, fuck love on the ocean.
And so he crashes the wedding basically.
And so while the crew is like murdering everybody, he takes
the there's a cake Topper of the dude who's like getting married,
who's looks a lot like Steed and then the the bride.
And so he takes the cake stopper, cake Topper that looks
like Steed, which again is showing us like at the end of
season one while he's got the, he's in the Blackbeard persona,
human Ed is still in there pining and sad about Steed.
So hence why he's crashing weddings.
He's basically like love is not real.
No one's allowed to have love. If I can't have it, I'm gonna
burn your love to the ground, which is basically what he's
doing. Which makes it so impactful when
he goes I am, when he's like like the priest is like, are you
a demon or what is this type of demon or whatever?
And he goes, I'm the devil. Yeah.
And yeah. Thank you for the setup, because
right after I am the devil, Ed says.
And these are the kids. And I couldn't help but think
that it really is like Steve and Ed are divorced and had to split
up the kids in the settlement. I mean, it was really only Ed's
choice to do that. But anyway, Steve got the
leftovers. But it's kind of like some weird
Parent Trap type stuff, Like they have to get them back
together. I know it's highly wrong to
separate twins, by the way, because like, why do that?
That's that's for The Parent Trap.
Oh yeah. It's just.
A weird the drama of it all. It is fucked up.
I'm not going to lie. Everybody needs therapy in that
movie. I think for real, I will say,
though Ed's further descend to madness is wild, but it's even
more wild that like like he still tries to find like the
simple things like with like the whole like cake Topper of Steed.
Or like looks like Steed and like him just kind of being
like, all right, goes to my little pocket.
I love that. Yeah, it's very cute.
And also like, I think it's a character quirk of like Eds in a
way that he's like, he does like having mementos that mean
something to him, You know, like he carried the silk around like
a tangible memory. And he's doing the same thing
here. So he does do that despite being
like, fuck all this. He's like, no, but this is my I
keep it. It's my emotional support cake
Topper. I'm so sorry for anybody who,
like, hates eye touching. My eyelashes are just, like,
poking in my eyeballs, so I apologize for that.
I know some people are grossed out by that, but like, I
apologize. It's OK.
Don't worry, Zoe. It's.
OK, we have an audio version only of this podcast they can.
Go. They don't know what's going on.
Just listen. Don't look.
I mean. It works.
It works for YouTube as well, just don't look at the screen.
Don't look at the screen. All right, so in this in this
wedding crashing during the fight, we see Jim and Frenchie
who were force adopted into Ed's crew, have basically adjusted to
being part of like his. You know, Blackbeard's pirates,
and I love that when they show them fighting, Frenchie's weapon
of choice is like claws, where he looks like Wolverine.
But I know I like to us like the X-Men character with the claws,
but like to him I it's a cat. Because he thinks those are.
100%, Yeah, No, 100%, It's a black cat.
Well, no. Now, today, it's just he's
shredding pork. They have those things to shred
pork. I love that he's.
Just helping Roach in the kitchen.
Oh my God. Because, like, and you know, at
the beginning of the parallel of, like, demons and he thinks
that they're witches. So I just love that.
He basically thinks he's a giant cat and that's how he's being
scary. So first.
Donut, if you will. I love it so much and basically
like the crew is just they're just being savage the way they
just go after like no holds barred against this like group
of rich people. But later we cut to like below
deck where like they're having they're getting to eat the cake.
That's their reward. And just like the reality of the
crew just being dead inside and super traumatized, like they're
not OK with all this murder and pillage that, like Ed is putting
them through and it's just like too much even for like the
veterans like Fang starts crying like.
Like a Fang's. Also a teddy bear.
So, I mean, come on. He's so sweet, but they they got
soft and that's not a bad thing. But the way that Steve was
running the ship, they got used to that.
If you're not in the constant fight or flight of being the
pirate in Blackbeard's crew, which you don't really have the
choice to flight, but. It's it's a whole different
atmosphere. I mean, yes, but the the reason
why I'm bringing up veterans like Fang is because like they
they were used to like being a part of Blackbeard's crew where
they were traditional pirates and it's showing that what
they're going through now is too much for even then.
So, like, this is atypical. Like, he's gone off the deep end
with how much he's like working them basically.
And how like ruthless Blackbeard as being.
And like, we find later that he's like, not doing this
because they need money. He's just doing it to do it.
So like, it's like, it's it. Well, he's running from his
heartbreak and he's dragging these people along with him and
like emotionally trauma and like physically traumatizing them.
So yeah, it's a lot. This is atypical what's going on
And to go back to the, the part you talked about where the the
devil my kids seen. So Ed's the one that calls
himself the devil, which I think is another indicator of his
headspace. Remember, I am the Kraken, the
monster. And if you look at Ed's like
outfit, it's atypical for Blackbeard too.
He has multiple pistols strapped to his front.
And recall in season one where Ed and Seed were looking at the
books and Ed's like, oh look, it's Blackbeard.
And Ed got offended at the photo, 'cause he's like, what
the fuck is this? Why do I have so many pistols?
Why are they showing me so many pistols and so many knives?
He's like, I have one pistol and one life, like a like a normal
person. And here's again, he's like
playing into the myth of Blackbeard and the monster that
people expect him to be like. So it's like he's not even
really Blackbeard anymore. He's he's he's he's being like
very over the top in all aspects.
So he's like it shows me that like Ed is trying too hard to
even be like the Blackbeard everyone expects him to be,
which like adds to like the sadness and like that I feel for
Ed cause like he's really lost basically.
Well, I mean, to even take it a step further, it's purely, he's
gotten so used to being just Ed that he doesn't know how to be
Blackbeard, and that's why he's acting like all over the top and
Shin and essentially cosplaying Blackbeard, yeah.
No, that's a really good way of framing it for sure.
So just and it's not working for his crew, 'cause they're like,
this is not the Blackbeard we used to work for.
This is crazy. This is Looney Tunes in a bad
way. So back to Steed's crew on the
Republic of Pirates. So here we meet the soup vendor,
Susan. We love her, who is absolutely,
100% flirting with Olu Olu. Did I say it right?
God damn it. Every time the next note is just
my own stupidity. We can skip it.
OK, so. We'll come back to Susan.
Susan's important, All right, So then eventually things don't
work out with Spanish Jackie, because they're trying to save
up money to get their ship so they can get out of there.
And Jackie's like, no, I own you.
Give me all your money, Here's a bunch of feet I love.
This is like a modern twist of just like, no, there's fees, so
many fees. Swede come up with this fee and
he's like ongoing job training. She's like, absolutely.
I'm like. Takes all her money.
Which is such a roar and. They're just like Swede.
What the fuck? He's being a good future
husband. It cracks.
Me up purely how like how like the Steve and the crew is like
trying to rebel against her and she's like Oh yeah so that's my
20 husbands and seed's I'm like Sweden's like oh I've had
breakfast with them yeah you'll have a lot more breakfasts with
them as well I. Love the Yeah, Swede doesn't
know he's being courted, which is really funny.
He's like, OK, OK. He's like, I'm getting attention
from a woman. Oh.
My God, it's so funny. He's adorable.
He's adore. I love this episode for him.
So anyway, so they the crew gets kicked out of Spanish Jackies
and they're like trolls living under a bridge basically after
that. And so it starts raining and
Steve's like, I need a moment. So he stalks out into town and
he finds The Wanted poster of Blackbeard and he starts talking
to it and basically mentions that he's afraid.
His big fear is that Ed has moved on and he's having a much
better life without him because like look at all like the
pirating he's doing. He's like he didn't do that with
me. He's, you know, he's better off
kind of thing. So while he's wallowing, we meet
Richard Baines who or Ricky as we come to learn later And he's
a nose dude. Yes.
Not yet but he will be. So he's trying to talk to Steed
but you know the whole time but Steed's like this creepy weirdo
whatever. But later we he tracks him down
and they actually talk to me find out that like basically
like Richard is trying to essentially be steed.
He's like, oh, I was very inspired by the gentleman
pirate. I was a rich boy who and a minor
Prince who was bored with my life and now I want to be a
pirate just like you basically. So Steed is like ego boosted by
this. And he's like, OK, let me try to
low key mentor you, but it doesn't work out.
And we'll get to that. Later in the conversation with
Ricky, Ricky mentions the existence of a Roman puzzle
chest that Jackie has at the foot of her bed.
And being learned men, they're like, oh, that means that
there's hidden, you know, there's treasure in there and
it's locked up. That's important.
You can only keep valuables in that thing.
So Steed makes a plan to go steal that.
Meanwhile, the Steed is in a very the Steed, the Swede, the
Steed in the Swede. There's a dial in son.
Steve is our Swede isn't a very happy relationship with Jackie,
but he does help the crew pill for this chest because he owes a
life debt and he is a pirate but an honorable man.
Who helps the crew? The Swede.
It also cracks me up because
this is another example of a scene where it sounds like
they're fucking, but they're not actually fucking.
Oh my God with Jackie. Was when you're trying to give
her a massage. 'Cause I think they're trying to
play on the fact that he's Swedish and like a Swedish
massage, she's never had one. She's like, why are you so good
at this? Yeah, I thought about that
immediately. I thought it was a really like.
I did not get that. Yeah.
Oh my God, that scene is so funny.
She's I love that she's so distracted by him that they,
like, managed to get a whole ass chest out of her room.
That like, I must have been like a hell of a massage, dude.
I I just want a nice little massage where I just conk out.
I also love that he he's the one who's turned around for
plausible deniability, but he could have had her like, face
the other way as well, to not have her see them take the
chest. Well, she would have saw them
come into the room, though. From the side eye, yeah.
So that was the right way to go, Swede.
And it just kept her very distracted, fucked them hammies
up. That was great.
OK, so while that's all happening, basically Izzy, we
get more more context of like what Izzy and Ed's relationship
looks like right now. Because where we left off it was
Blackbeard taking some toes. And things have gotten a lot,
lot worse in their relationship because Ed at this point is take
has taken more toes from Izzy every time like Izzy displeases
him. And it's clearly taking its toll
on Izzy. Like Izzy is basically like got
what he wanted, right. He has Blackbeard back.
But this is like, like your said, Zoe a cosplayed over the
top demon version of Blackbeard. And like Izzy's like trying to
be like, yeah, this is great yeah, this is great, but we can
see that it very much is not it's not healthy like any of for
anybody including Izzy. And I really love the scene
where he's alone with the crew and Fang notices that Izzy's not
OK and he's like, Izir, you OK? And Izzy's like, I'm fine.
Whatever, whatever. And then Fang hugs him.
And that's where, like this, like, Izzy's like emotions come
out and he starts getting really upset and like, 'cause he's safe
in like Fang's arms. And it's just a very sweet
moment. And I really love that moment
of, like, camaraderie where it's like, we see you.
You're suffering too, Izzy. Even if Blackbeard won't
acknowledge that he's making us and you miserable.
I will say a very impactful scene was when Izzy walks out to
Blackbeard treating the crew kind of shittily and he decides
to call him out for it and he's like what you're doing is not OK
this, that the other. And then like.
In hindsight, Izzy should not have done that with everything
Ed's put him through. But then like the fact that like
Ed just like kind of comes to the like a quick split decision
and turns around and fucking shoots.
Izzy is just like that just shows, like how shitty their
current relationship is. And it's very weird seeing like
Ed being on like the other side of the stick with like because
like Izzy was like betraying and like manipulating being
narcissistic. And then now he's on the other
side of that and getting mistreated by Ed getting fucking
tortured and shot and borderline like trying to get killed by
him. Like, it's just so weird, like
seeing like the dynamic flip with that cause.
Again, like you said, he got what he wanted, but at what
cost? Yeah.
And it's one of those scenarios where like everybody's right and
everybody's wrong. Like, you know, Izzy thinks he's
doing what's best for Ed, but really he, like, he betrayed Ed.
And then Ed, like is doing the exact, the, the reverse of that.
So like, it's toxic on so many levels.
And part of what makes Ed like, ramps him up basically to shoot
Izzy is that when they're alone And Izzy's trying to be like,
because he he doesn't just confront him out with the crew
before that, he confronts Ed privately.
He's like, I'm worried about you, I care about you, Which is
weird coming from the guy that like basically is the reason
we're in this scenario. So like, Ed's like, yeah,
whatever is he? And then Izzy makes the grave
mistake of quoting Steed where he's like, we should really talk
it through. And then Ed finishes as a crew
and you just see the darkness, like, go over his face.
And so 'cause that's really the crux of all this.
Like, Steve's not here because of Izzy, Really.
So yeah, it really boils down to the fact that like.
Yeah, sorry, I was trying to figure out why.
Because of Izzy. Because he betrayed them.
He betrayed them and sold them out you know to the to the
English. And so it's it's interesting for
a lot of reasons because Izzy wanted Blackbeard so badly but
not like this. Like it's like expectation
versus reality again going awry And Ed is really taking all of
his frustration out on Izzy most of all hence why he's taking his
toes and nobody else's. Because Izzy was somebody who
who is, who's sang in the scene like I care about you Ed, but
like he's like do you you took away my happiness like you're
the one that betrayed me. So in a lot of ways, like Izzy
is also the stand in for Steed and like Blackbeard is taking
out his hurt feelings towards Steed, on to Izzy.
Especially when Izzy quotes him, that's when he's like it's over.
And I think that's what that's what made it really easy for Ed
to be like, shoot you in the leg like.
Yeah. And I will say I think it's very
important to note that not only is Ed filling these emotions,
he's also going through the stages of grief.
Oh yes, absolutely. And like I thought that was
really well played cause like he he like he's mourning like a
lot. Like he's mourning like the life
he could have had like retiring, getting the end.
He's mourning the fact like his relationship with Steed because
he doesn't know if he's dead or if he just left them.
Like there's so many things that he's just dealing with and like
like we established before, he's dealing with it by himself and
giving Izzy like the benefit of the doubt.
He did try to like, like he did try to like have Ed kind of open
up to him and confront him and like just kind of comfort him
and be there for him. But Izzy already did so much
damage that Ed didn't think he was sincere enough and just
thought he was going to make fun of him with his feelings and
everything kind of just twisted and shit talk Steed.
So like it. It definitely like going back to
the talking through as a crew line, like that was absolutely
the breaking point for Ed, just because he's like you caused us
so much trauma in our relationship and you have the
audacity to fucking quote him. So, like that was, that was
purely like the final straw that it like drove him further into,
like the madness he's going through.
Yeah, it's like too little, too late kind of stuff.
But don't worry, we'll come back to them.
So, OK, so back to the Republic of Pirates.
OK, so the crew successfully gets the chest out into the open
and the and they get caught by Jackie.
And the reason they get caught is because Ricky, who was
supposed to be keeping watch, but he's like, that's boring.
He comes into the bar and has this conversation with Steve
where he's like, hey Steve, where you weren't wrong as the
gentleman pirate is you didn't brand yourself, which I do love
this because it's like the the fatal flaw with branding, right?
It's like such a commentary comment on real life now.
Anyway, so he's like, I'm gonna my signature is that I leave
this weird drink so they know they got rickied, freak rolled
or whatever. That's really kind of funny.
So anyway, so he starts making this drink and Steve's like,
fuck this and he goes outside. And so the clinking at the bar
is what gets Jackie's attention. They would have gotten.
Away with it, exactly. This is the fatal flaw.
Well, I'm trying to be a brand and it's like, instead of a
person and like, OK, so that's what ends up getting them
caught. And she gets a fancy nose for
her nose jar when she catches him, 'cause this man has already
been banned from Jackie's. And then she finds him back in
the bar and she's like, absolutely not.
So she takes his nose. And so Jackie then comes outside
and finds Steed's crew with the chest, which they now know
there's Indigo in it, and they're the crew doesn't know
what that is. But Steed, the fancy man's like,
I know what this is. This is expensive dye.
Like, anyway, so Jackie's out there and she's like, what the
fuck? And I love my favorite line from
Steed is Jackie. This this isn't what it looks
like. Depending on what you think this
looks like. Yeah, that's such a good lie.
What else did she that he think that she would think it was?
It doesn't matter. It's just such a good lie.
Knowing Steed, there's the the delusion of a possibility that
she might think that they were just cleaning her chest.
Right, exactly. Knowing it out, like he, he
purely could have, like just done that and then like, oh, we
were just, you know, polishing. Exactly.
No, there's a benevolent reason for this.
So, OK, OK, and just and then OK, so Jackie's obviously not
pleased with this. So just when things start
escalating to nose jar level with Steve's crew, Susan shows
up in like war regalia with a golden sword and Susan Sweet
talks her way into getting the chest of Indigo 'cause she just
throws some money at Jackie throws a little bit more money
and Jackie's like, whatever, take it.
So, good job, yes. I'll have Suit Fish, Pirate
Queen. Yes.
So then when she gets that and like the Swede ends up going
with Jackie, we get a happy ending for them.
Oh, part of the deal is that Susan's like, I'm buying these
people like Steed's crew and Jackie's like, whatever, they're
annoying. They're the worst.
Please get them off my island. OK, so Susan walks away with the
trust of Indigo and then the crew and auntie's like, you work
for her now. Get this fucking crew, get this,
get this pile of Indigo on to our ship.
And Olu, who's been befriending slash authority with Susan,
comes up for her and he's like, why didn't you just pay all that
money for that indigo? What the hell?
And she's like, oh please, that shit is worth three times what I
just paid for it. Like I just got away with a
sweet deal. And she's like, I've noticed.
I've noticed here with you guys that, like people here don't
really know anything. And it to it's the first tip off
that, like, she's very worldly and actually is a very savvy
business person compared to like everybody else, 'cause think
about how she got away with that.
Like, she, she has an army. She could have just taken that.
But she's like, I'm making allies and friends, not foes
where I don't need to. So like, strategically, she's
like, I'll underpay you to get what I want versus like taking
it by force, which is what Jackie was just trying to do to
the crew. So, like, she's a smart woman.
She's the smartest out of everybody.
Correct. I don't know.
I feel like Buttons is is a sleeper agent and he's like,
really fucking smart. He just feigns ignorance and
plays onto the crutch of the Sea Witch.
Buttons is not of this world. So like Buttons, his
intelligence doesn't translate into he's for.
Sure. Like he's for sure.
Just like a a land, Like a a a lost at sea alien.
Yes, yes. And I love him forever for that,
OK, So meanwhile, things are getting worse with Blackbeard's
crew. Fang is super upset, like on top
of the ship and just like sobbing.
And Jim is trying to console Fang and he tells and tells Fang
the Pinocchio story and like Fang's like Tooth the voices.
Tooth the voices. So.
Jim does the voices do it. He's Fang.
And it's so cute. Oh my God.
I just. I love the way that that's a
recurring thing. It's just the voices of the
stories like. It's like toddlers, like the
voices. It's not the same without the
voices. I do the voices.
Don't be care though, if I couldn't read and I didn't have,
like, pictures in a book, I would want somebody to do the
fucking voice. Oh, absolutely, absolutely.
But it's really sweet existed. Back then, either it's like this
is their only form of entertainment and hearing the
story act out. They invented voice acting.
They did good job steed, which is very like.
Sorry, I didn't mean to cuss you off.
It's very ironic that, like, Jim is the one doing it, because
Vico's also a voice actor. An actor.
I just, I just love the the the point being driven home is that
everybody missed the Steed, even like Blackbeard's OG crew.
So I do love that. OK, so now that Izzy's been
shot, as we talked about, and like basically Ed was like,
Frenchy, you're the new first mate.
Go kill the old first mate. Get rid of him, 'cause that's
that's how the turnover works on pirate crews.
And Frenchie's like, uh huh, Sure, whatever.
And like, we never see, we don't see the end of that until, like,
next episode. So put that aside for now.
So he now fully being the first mate or whatever he goes to find
Ed for an aside. He's like, I feel like I'm
supposed to be doing stuff like he's on the job training.
He's like, I don't know what I'm doing.
Tell me what to do. Captain.
My captain, it ends basically on the on one of the ends of the
ship. I don't know what they're
called, 'cause I don't know nautical things.
But he's basically like looking out at the sea, being sad in his
fields when Frenchie finds him and he tells him this story
about a bird that never touches land.
Like, it's born in the sky and it doesn't know anything else,
but just like constantly being in the air.
And it like never, ever, ever stops.
And it's like, Frenchie's like, that seems impossible and
obviously that's not a thing, but it's basically a story about
how Ed feels like he's afraid to touch land, IE like find steed.
So basically he's like, I'm gonna be we're gonna constantly
circle. We're just gonna be at sea
forever and just like destroy. He wants to burn the world down,
basically I. Wanna watch the world burn?
But despite all that, he still keeps the little steed figurine
showing that, like, there's, you know, it's his little secret
he's keeping from everyone else. But like, they all fucking know
why he's upset. It's not really a secret.
I'm still over here trying to figure out how that would even
be possible for a bird to never touch the ground.
It's impossible. It's impossible.
I mean, technically the tree isn't ground.
But he's saying it's constantly in the air and never touches
anything, which is insane. Anyway.
So see, you know, so that's how it's going with Ed.
It's it's going by not going well.
And then at the end of the very end of the episode, we get the
resolution with the crew of the Revenge.
So they're in a dinghy being LED, or like I have not LED.
They are rowing to a different vessel, 'cause they're now the
property of Susan. And they find out while they're
actually no sorry, the the the the two scenes cut together.
So what the the end of Ed scene is basically he's looking at the
moon going fuck you steed. And then it opens with Steed
looking at the same moon saying good night Ed, so like and then
we transitioned into like what the hell happened.
So the crew learns that basically they are now the
property of Zhang the pirate queen.
So they're about to have a great old time being part of her fleet
of like 80,000 pirates. 80,000 times more than one ship.
Yeah, 'cause we yeah. I'm not the smartest person.
Leet is multiple ships. I do just want to point out,
just so we don't get roasted for not knowing this, there is a
bird that doesn't touch the ground.
It's called the Common Swift and it's been recorded to not touch
the ground for upwards to 10 months is the longest flight
that has ever been recorded for this bird.
OK, but it's not its whole life. It's.
Still, that's the bird that he's.
Talking about, I mean, I also thought he was talking about
like an albatross, because those birds like are at sea flying for
like a really long time. But it's not their whole life
that I'm aware of. They do that for.
Sounds awful. It does.
All right. Anything else about 201 before
we move on to 202? No.
I. Know you're good.
I think it's absolutely hilarious and like, really well
done. How they like, announced that
Susan is Zing Zing the Pirate queen.
Just good old Zingy Sal. I was like, oh, it's amazing.
And especially how Auntie was like.
Avert your gaze. This is zingy Gay the.
Pirate Queen. And they're just like, I don't
know what the fuck that means, but they're gay.
Oh my God, I love later where they can't.
They're like, they can't say China, and they're like China, a
place called China, 'cause these are all illiterate people who
don't know any. Like, pirates are usually like
people who had horrible prospects.
So they're like illiterate. And they don't, they don't know
what the hell China is. They've never been to it.
So yeah, I love that. So Steve's the only person who
actually knows, yes? He's like, holy shit, yeah.
He's like, he's right, it's. Like that big thing on the map.
Yeah, that's why he's the one who knew what Indigo was and
that it's valuable. And yeah, exactly.
He's like, oh fuck, she conquered China.
That's a big fucking deal. OK, so 202.
So 202 opens with Steve dreaming about Ed again and we're
reliving the You are fine things.
Well, moment. And then we cut to Steed like in
the present. So thank you Gypsy for pointing
out that like, we go from like the red silk that Ed has to like
this red piece of fabric that's around Steed's neck.
And it's apparently a piece of fabric from an old couch because
he wanted to feel fancy cause all his fancy clothes are gone.
So I love Steed being. Steed because he wants to be
fancy as well. 'Cause that's his character.
So I love. I love that he made it work.
He made it work all right. So in the beginning, Ed is also
in his fields. He's staring at the cake Topper,
and then he's got a second cake Topper.
I guess he took both of them and painted one into a Blackbeard
slash Ed cake Topper. So he's got like this.
So he's got figurines and like, you know, makeup kiss and stuff,
but that's not what he's doing. That's what he should be doing.
But he's too sad. So it's basically too it's it's
getting to the point where it's too much to have this like
reminder of Steed and Ed and like what could have been.
So like he gets to like the the like a window and like basically
like pushes them sequentially out.
And it's like that's him giving up on his dream of like Steed or
like moving on from the hope that like, they can.
I don't know the hope of that being a thing again, I guess.
So this is a really sad moment because it's like the it's
representing to the last bit of humanity left in him and when he
throws it overboard, he's like, all right, that's it, it's gone
and he's fully Blackbeard 2 point O.
Yeah, 'cause the next time you see him, he's like cleaning up
the place and like, doing his version of moving on by, like,
like you said, beating Blackbeard, which is sad, OK?
But what's not sad is the red flag.
So we jump. We shoot on over to the crew,
who's getting used to Zhang's leadership style, which is a lot
like steeds in a way. Like she's considerate of
people's feelings and isn't too overbearing, and she, but she
has Auntie, her like, first mate to be like the tough enforcer.
It's kind of like how things went with Ed and Steed.
It's kind of like presenting as good cop, bad cop in a way.
But Jang Jang will do, will do some, do some violence if she
needs to, but it's not her go to, you know.
I will say I'll go for it. I was gonna say her her
leadership style is purely suck around and find out like, yeah.
No, it is. I love that they have her be
considerate of other people's feelings, like they could have
done the very stereotypical version of a powerful woman who
is just like mean to everyone, only looks out for herself.
But they want to show that it actually is possible to be a
decent human being and powerful at the same time.
New concept, I know it right. Yeah, 'cause, like the the
version of, quote, a powerful woman that you're describing is
basically just like a woman trying to be powerful in a man's
world. Like, that's what men are like
as leaders, right? Like ruthless, only looking out
for themselves. That's like the captain
mentality of like Blackbeard, especially right now where he's
like, fuck with the crew on. So we're doing this, 'cause I
said, so Regen is is smarter, she's she's very, she's more
strategic and is playing the long game, which is more of like
an Eastern thinking versus Western thinking in a way.
So she's always playing the long game.
She's like, if I kill you, I can't use you later.
So I'd rather like make an ally and then call upon that allyship
when I need you versus like just kill you and burn that bridge,
you know? She's very smart and I just love
Auntie and just she's the iron fist on the on the ship though.
Yeah, no, I absolutely adore Auntie and Button's voodoo sea
witch conversation. Yes, like.
She's like, that just kind of shows that like she's not all
like Stern and serious 24/7 it she she also has her own
delusions. So it's it just and like the
fact that Buttons was just, like, eating that shit up, too.
Oh my God, I love that scene so much.
Yeah, there's a lot. Again, there's like in the show,
the side characters have their three-dimensional, which I
fucking love. Like I love it so much.
OK, so then we get to the crux of like, OK, why is the crew
even with Jang if she has like all she she conquered China, she
has a fleet of pirates, why does she need them?
And basically she took a chance on them because they have soft
energy, AKA they're weak. But really, she took them to get
closer to Olu because Girls girl caught feelings.
And one of my favorite scenes of just like this is Jang's
delusion where she she orders. So basically everybody gets
divided up what, you know, assignments of what to do.
Like a lot happens in towels apparently.
And Olu's. Olu's assignment is cleaning
Jang's office because she wants eye candy, basically.
And she has him, like, organize her books, which are scrolls
basically. And he's illiterate, so he
doesn't know what he's doing. And so I love that Auntie calls
her out and she's like, I know what this is.
I know what this is. I love that Olu goes through all
the ways he could possibly organize these scrolls.
Just like being like, which, how do you want it?
And Zane was just like, Oh no, don't worry about it off.
The thing is most important off the floor.
And he says OK and then throws a scroll on the floor right?
'Cause he's organizing them by weight and he's like, that's the
wrong weight. So he throws them on the like,
it's so funny. And he's like, oh for God's
sake, Jang. Yeah, I think it's funny how
like he chose to do it based on weight and not by color.
That isn't, Yeah. Like that would have been like
the smarter way to do things, not like, especially cause of
like the book aspect like some books like they'd usually tend
to be around like the same size and.
Like. So like color coding would have
been far more easier. Were they different colors?
I thought it was just like scroll.
It was Scrolls and then I believe like actual books as
well. Yeah, like, apparently this
makes sense to Olu and this makes sense to Auntie.
She's like, listen girl, you don't need this distraction like
you're gonna get, you know, you're the queen.
You have to be like in charge of shit.
This is this is a distraction. And then like 3 seconds later
they she discovers that oh, fucks up the the war map where
Auntie so diligently is tracking the entire fleet of like,
Jiang's fleet and just the murder murder coming off of
Auntie Jiang's like, oh, Lou, let's get out of here.
Like on her Breathe where she kills you.
If Zheng wasn't falling for Olu, I feel like she would have also
been upset because that's their tracker.
Like she's you can't do anything now.
Olu would not have been in that office.
That's the only reason he isn't that.
That is true. That's what that's the point.
To be fair, when you're looking at it, it just kind of looks
like a board game that they didn't have time to clean up.
So like. Yeah.
To be fair, like pirates aren't usually armies.
They're not armies. Like, that's what made Jiang in
real life so unique. Like she basically was like had
her own Navy, which is atypical. It's usually just the one ship,
so there's nothing for them to track unless they're like trying
to track other vessels and like, pillage them, basically.
So like, why would a pirate have a war map?
He's probably never seen that before in his life.
So he's like, I don't know what this is.
Let me color code like, let me color-coded.
He's like, I put the little ships, they color-coded them.
I tried to do a good job, which is why that was tracking
everything. But she was watching him clean
up, so I don't understand how that happened.
Not to mention it's about how he color-coded the ships, but not
stuff he's right. Olu Logic.
But anyway, like, OK, so then
they end up on deck. Jiang and Olu so so Auntie can
redo the map. And that's when we get the
You're the Break in My day conversation.
And like, it's so cute. Why am I shipping a heterosexual
couple in this show? I love them so much.
They're so cute. Honestly this this is my
favorite hetero couple. Like, I don't find myself
shipping them very hard, but both of these characters are
amazing. They're so cute and their
dynamic is cute. Oh, 100%.
I love seeing like a powerful character become soft with
somebody. It's adorable.
Just. Like a bad ass.
A bad ass girl. And then like her soft teddy
bear. It's what she deserves.
She's gone for China. 100%. OK, I love them.
OK And then another thing we learn on the red Flag is that
Lucius is Lucius has been here the whole time and that's 'cause
where we left off with him is Blackbeard tossed him overboard
and then he end up on this ship cause Looney Tunes.
So we get a lovely. Every time we say Looney Tunes,
like, Oh my gosh, I've never said Looney Tunes more in my
life than I have this past month.
But yeah, thank you, Gypsy. OK, well, we get this lovely
reunion. I don't think he comes in and
he's like, yes, Queen, which is great.
And then but like, then we get this lovely reunion with not
only Black Pete, but just the whole crew of the Revenge, just
like, excitedly screams and like tackles him out of joy.
And I love Auntie and Jane are watching this.
And Auntie in the background, she's like men are so emotional.
Which is so funny. I I love this.
Scene. It's so cute.
They're like look of our own. We missed you.
It is. They do miss him, but then they
want to know what the hell happened to you.
But Rat Boy isn't super forthcoming with the truth about
what happened. Like why he wasn't on the
revenge. Yeah, he is so traumatized.
And like, I think that he's just like doesn't want to relive it
at the moment. So then he has this.
But first he wants to express his frustration at Steed,
because Steed is the reason he was manhandled by Blackbeard.
So basically he finds Steed in towels, 'cause that's where he
was assigned. And he's not helping.
Instead of helping, he's diligently reviewing The Wanted
poster of Blackbeard and trying to figure out where the hell
Steed is. Not Steed.
Ed is by, like tracing all of the pillaging.
And he's like, is he in Cuba? I don't know where he is.
And let's see, Maria. Oh, I skipped something.
That's OK. I'll come back to it.
But basically, like, these two have to talk is the bottom line.
And in the scene, Steed is so again.
Once again, Steed's fate of flaw is becoming so entrenched in his
own bullshit that he can't see the people around him and what
turmoil they're going through. So, like, Lucius calls him out
on it. He's like, do you even?
You're not even asking how I'm doing, what happened to me.
You're asking me no questions. You're just immediately trying
to, like, rope him into, like, the Help me Find Ed stuff.
And so in his frustration, like Lucius tells him off, which I
love. But eventually the person that
he opens up to is steed about how he kind of, like, survived,
basically because he won't tell Black Pete, 'cause he's afraid,
'cause that's a lot to, like, unload on your partner.
Like all the horrible shit that he just went through.
And Steed's like, I'm low stakes, you don't care about me.
Tell me, unburden yourself. So I do love that he does that.
I also feel like it's it was very needed for Lucius, Lucius's
character in general, because he's very much so like a like,
for the most part we've seen him acting like a doormat.
Yes. Like when it comes to Steed.
So like the fact that he actually, like, decided to say
like, enough's enough. You're either going to fucking
listen to me or we're not talking because we're not doing
this bullshit where you cut fucking confide in me but I
can't even talk about my fucking problems.
We're not doing that. I'm done.
I'm over it and like it it. I feel like the last straw for
him was either getting pushed over the edge or the reasoning
behind the name Rat Boy. That was a fucked up fucking
story. But yeah, he's so pissed when he
gets back when he's alone with Steed.
And I think partially why it hurts so much is cause like
Lucius has been super ride or die for Steve.
Like he's he's the one that like on the treasure hunt was like
the one that talked to Ed and was like, hey like can't you see
what he's doing like? And the reason he ended up in
this situation is because I broke Steve broke Ed's heart and
then Ed took it out on Luscious. So like yeah he has every right
to be super, super pissed. So I do love that it is Steed
who's the one who's like, hey, don't be like me, look at the
state of my relationships, go take my advice and go talk to
Black Pete about this. Like, don't end up like me.
So I do love that he just, he does like make it up to Lucy.
This in a way by like giving him actually good advice and like
forcing him to see the advice for like what it is, you know if
you wanna say this here Caitlin. We're down there.
Oh, we skipped. I skipped something.
I'll come back to it. OK.
All right. Sorry.
Yeah. That's my bad.
So I find it quite interesting why Steve doesn't seem to care
or hear Lucius out because Lucius starts talking about all
the things he went through. And Steve is like, I can't hear
any more of this when normally he wants people to talk it out
no matter what it is and it just doesn't make sense.
Like, I understand that he's all about Ed now, and I guess it's
just showing that he's one track mind, I guess.
It's it's again, 'cause like Lucius has been like his like
assistant, basically. And so he's like, you just do
what I say, you just do what I say.
So in a way, he, like, really didn't acknowledge the, I guess
what his crew wanted in a way. Like he was just trying to get
them to be a cohesive team, but not really, like individually,
get to know what they wanted or needed.
So maybe that's the reason 'cause that that that was his
fatal flaw with his family too. And it took like Mary, like
forcing him to see reality for him to be like, oh.
That's essentially what Lucius was doing, was forcing him to
see reality again. Yes, exactly.
It's just, yeah, it's. Very much so.
Deed's favorite accessory is rose colored glasses.
Yes, no, exactly it is. And Lucius was like, let's throw
that overboard, See me anyway, I think I already talked to that.
OK, yeah. So yeah.
So anyway, so he. So Steve encourages Lucius to,
once he recognizes the trauma for what he is, he encourages
him to talk to Black Pete. And then yeah, basically is
like, hey, I know that's Gary. Talk to me, Which is cute.
So, like, once, once Steve, so Steve's growing.
Once he sees that, he does pivot into like, OK, let me be a good
friend to you and let me like actually, like, console you and
help you. Like he almost plays therapist a
little bit here. And so we get the in in the
scene, we get the story of why he's called Rat Boy now, 'cause
he the first ship he ended up on, He ended up as the rat
catcher for that crew when they forced him to catch rats with
his teeth, which sounds terrible and really dangerous because.
How do we do that? I don't like.
Dangerous to the fact like you don't really have that much
leeway with your mouth. Like you would just keep running
into things with your nose and stuff.
That, and they carry plague, so, like, dangerous for a number of
reasons. But that's how we got the name.
It's 'cause the dog that used to do it.
They ate the dog and they're like, you're our dog now, Catch
them the same way. Don't hurt the doggy.
The reality of being at sea. Look, the poor doggy.
I think the best thing is there's actually a website
calleddidthedogdie.com and it talks about media in which there
is a dog in it and you can like go and like look up what movie
you're like watching to see if the dog actually dies.
I can't handle. It that's great.
It's sadder when pets die than humans especially.
Dogs, for me at least, like those little faces.
They just love you unconditionally.
And then if they just it's cute. But it's one thing for them to
naturally go. There's another.
Yeah, that's one thing. Where do them and eat them?
Yes, well, desperate times, but I what's nothing.
Oh, sorry, The the one thing that I kind of dislike is, and I
I definitely feel like this was unintentional by the writers,
but it definitely feels like they're kind of playing off the
Asian stereotype of sipping dog eaters.
So I didn't quite like that. I felt kind of icky.
Like, I get like they're at sea, they don't really have an
option, but like. Why a dog?
They should have stuck with birds.
In in the context of saying that while they're on Zhang ship, I
totally agree. If that was in isolation and
they were talking about like European ship people, it
would've been less weird. But yeah, I agree.
I also had that thought and I was like, I don't love this
placed here in JJ. This feels bad.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking while we're talking about it
right now. I was like, oh wait.
Yeah, that's a whole rant for another day, but that's fucked
up, some fucked up shit. What's not fucked up though is
Lucy's finally talks to Black Pete and comes back to see and
he's like, yeah, I told him like some of it until he started
getting nauseous and then I stopped talking.
But like we're we're working it through basically.
And I like at the end. He gives Steed advice about
coping with Ed, basically, and he says something like some
people are broken no matter what you do.
Oh my God, that line hits so incredibly fucking hard.
Like, Oh my God, yes. And then just like before that
with with the the fact of Ed wanting to wanting Archie and
Jim to fight to like the death. Oh my God.
Is that just ties in that like with that quote being said and
then like this like the Archie and Jim fight happening
beforehand. Like it purely just shows as
mentality of if I can't be happy and if I can't have love, nobody
can. Yeah, it's very.
We all fight or everybody dies, 'cause I'm not happy, so y'all
won't be there. And then like that line gets
delivered of some people are broken no matter what you do.
Like Oh my gosh, it just ties in so good.
And like you're going to relate to that so fucking well.
If you have like toxic family or like toxic relationships or like
just relating to the fact of no matter how hard you try to like
kind of grow with a person, if they're stuck in their ways,
they're stuck in their ways. It doesn't matter how many
chances you give them, they're going to still continue acting
the same way because they know that you will accept that type
of behavior no matter what you do.
So it. Astronomically hits hard.
And it's fitting for a lot of relationships at this point in
the show like very much like Izzy and Ed like that is a broke
at this stage it's a very broken relationship and can't continue
as the characters are. But Speaking of Ed so I kind of
looped all the I grouped all the revenge stuff together so let's
get back into that. So meanwhile, on the revenge,
like Ed, in the wake of like, getting rid of the figurines, he
is going cold Turkey on the steed stuff, like, and just
getting his shit together. No more booze, no more rhino
horn, No Izzy, Izzy's gone now, right?
That was something super toxic because he's under the
impression that Frenchie has killed Izzy, which of course he
hasn't, which is good for this opposite.
Yeah, yeah. So the crew basically has been
hiding him in a secret passage and trying to, like, help him
now that he's been shot. So they leave it to this is I
don't know how they got this assignment, but he it's left to
Archie and Jim to amputate Izzy's rotting leg.
And I love the scene. I think it's really funny.
Jim is clearly nervous and holds out basically like an axe and
like I think it's a saw. I don't know why I'm celebrating
the amputation of. His Oh my God.
Fireworks just went off. Perfect.
Absolutely perfect for. Example.
I think 'cause it looks like this and I think that might have
been it. I don't know.
But anyway, Axe and like, I guess it looks like a cleaver,
but it's like serrated. So maybe it's a saw.
I can really tell. Anyway, Jim's like, I've never
done this before. Which one?
Which one do I? Which one basically.
And Archie, it was like pop listening and basically like the
fucked up one, obviously. I I really love Archie and all
the chaos that they bring to the ship this season, but also how
are they amputating a leg? How is he not bleeding out?
A tourniquet. So if you look at him later,
he's got, they made a tourniquet, which is basically
where they took a belt and they like on his thigh and they like
make it as tight as possible to stop the blood flow.
So it like steals it off, kind of like at the upper thigh.
So when you amputate more distal to that, like the lower leg, it
won't bleed through that so. Not to mention, depending how
far like necrosis or sepsis is, that can also like just clot
bleeding. So 'cause it's just dead tissue
at that point, there's no cells going to it to revive and revamp
the the blood flow. So there's multiple different
like ways. I did think it was kind of funny
though, how how Ed makes the comment of like something along
the lines of like you. You don't think I can smell my
my best mate? Rotting?
Yeah. Even even without the
implication of him knowing that they didn't actually kill him,
there's still the fact of the matter.
His body would have fucking rotted if they if Frenchie
actually did the job anyways. Yeah, exactly like he was
fucked. So Archie and Jim figure out the
amputation, and afterwards there's this cute moment where
Jim is reminiscing after Archie asks why Jim seems to care so
much about Izzy. And Archie's like, he's kind of
a Dick and Jim's like, he's our Dick.
And Jim has this really beautiful set of lines where
they say there was a time when life met something on this ship,
when we lived for each other, not just to survive.
Guess you never know when you're in the middle of the good old
days. And I love the montage of just
like the crew with Steed. And just like like everything
we've said before where like they didn't realize how good
they had it with Steed until it got really fucked up with
Blackbeard. And so I love that Jim still is
holding on to like what they gained with Steed, which is that
they they were a family. They were a crew that like loved
each other and like saw each other as people.
And Jim is still like, clinging than that, despite Blackbeard
basically trying to create this hostile environment where
humanity is gone from everybody. They're just bloodthirsty
pirates. Like there is no humanity like
so I love that Jim is still clinging to that hope and Archie
sees that as really sweet and like ends up kissing Jim and
basically saying it's 'cause you have hope.
And I find that really cute cause like Archie is basically
the typical pirate who's like this.
It is what it is. So like later when Ed catches
them and has the whole fight to the death thing, Archie
immediately switches and is punching Jim and is like, this
is what being a pirate is like. It was cute that you had hope
and all but like this is what life at sea is like.
It's fucking brutal. And you know.
But it's a great moment for Archie to kiss Jim.
Like with rotting flesh near them.
A. Thing is, up her nose, they were
covered in blood. Like, hey, when the moment
strikes, the moment strikes, you know.
I do not. OK, one thing I want to note
about the scenes with Ed later in the scene is Ed has his hair
up, which is interesting and that's not typical for him.
So like to me it almost gave him an air of like being more
serious than normal. And sometimes with like wardrobe
and hair like somebody when they have their hair up or tied, it
can indicate that like the character is hiding something,
which Ed is definitely hiding his heartbreak, but also can
indicate that like the character is trying to be perceived as
like in control, which I think are all things that Ed is trying
to absolutely 100% project in his Blackbeard cosplaying.
Basically. OK, so after the amputation, Ed
Ed finds it out. Ed ends up under, you know,
below deck with Izzy and they basically quote make up.
So Ed tells Izzy about this dream he had where Izzy shot him
in the back basically. And then he produces a pistol
and he's like, here you go in case you're feeling inspired by
the story I just told you. And Izzy, like thinks about it,
like he does point the gun at him and thinks about it.
But Izzy is somebody who despite the bullshit, knows Ed really,
really well. And he figures out what Ed is
doing and he starts laughing and he's like, you fucking clean up
your own mess. I'm tired.
I've done that my whole life. I'm tired of it.
Meaning that like, he's like Ed, If you wanna, like, take
yourself out of this equation and take yourself out of this
world, you're gonna have to fucking do it yourself.
I'm not doing it for you. Like he's he's almost like they
keep bringing up the doggy heaven.
It's kind of like Ed is being like, put me down without saying
it. And Izzy's like do it yourself,
which I love. Like, good for Izzy.
Yeah, I didn't think about that. It was like, I hate to say the
easy way out because that then that opens up a whole another
conversation, but. In Ed's brain, he only sees two
options. It's like be Blackbeard and be
miserable, or just end the misery.
Basically that he only sees two options right now, which is
unfortunate. Which I can definitely like
relate as somebody who deals with like chronic pain as well
as like having celiac. Like I I'm in a state of
constant fucking annoyance. So I get where he's coming from.
It definitely is like a different take considering that
like I am not one to one dealing with what he's doing.
But like as somebody who's like in constant pain, I definitely
understand. And like that's a very grim
thing to say. But like it.
I I get. I get where he's coming from
because like I personally can't bring myself to do that because
like I have like my my pets and everything.
Like, yeah, I've tempted before, but now that I have like my
sweet little little peanut and like her owner passing away
before, I can't do that to her again because I'd be the
shithead go peanut. So, like in this situation, Ed's
peanut is steed. Yeah, yeah.
And it's just like sentence in general, though.
Ed's Peanut is steed. Peanut is steed.
And like it's. A.
It's a. Very fitting like analogy
because like Steed is very much so a golden retriever.
Yes. Oh my God.
Yes, one. 100% I I yeah I think they are.
You have an analogy for them that has golden retriever.
I I will save it for the later episode.
But I loved it. Great.
OK, so base, the bottom line is like Ed wants the misery to stop
and he's too. He's not strong enough to do it
himself. So he's like, I counted on Izzy
to do it. Izzy said no.
All right, so he leaves the room and then we hear the pistol go
off and the assumption is that Izzy shot himself and Ed's like,
goodbye. I loved you, I guess.
And like, I wonder about that line.
Like is when he says I love, I loved you.
Like was Ed being sincere? Cause like nobody's in the room.
He's saying this basically out loud to himself.
So I wonder like was Ed being sincere?
Like I think he. Was especially with what we see
later. I think deep down he knows that
he did. He might not show it, but like
they were together the most out of everybody.
So there there is a bond there. It's not a healthy 1, but that
was his person. Someone's at.
The Someone's at the door, yes. The fucking, the fucking
mailman. He I'm because I know it's.
I know it's UPS because he always presses the doorbell.
Let's kick the fuck out of me. I was not expecting this here.
Do you need to go get it? No, my my mom and little
brother's home so they can do it.
It's very sea wish of you, Caitlyn.
OK, all right. So then after that, yeah, I
agree. I agree with you guys.
You're saying? I think that.
I think that it was said with an air of insincerity the way he
delivered the line. But I think he was being sincere
and like, 'cause he says later. Like Frenchie gave me closure
with Izzy, and I think that was his like version of closure in a
way, or what he felt. Like it's also.
It's also very like ironic that and like it shows.
It further shows like what Ed's mentality is that he's like
actively wanting the crew to kill Izzy when he's like most
vulnerable. And it it's very like
interesting since like as we said they have, they have
history. They've been together the
longest out of presumably everybody.
So the fact that he's just so carelessly like, all right go
kill him, that's your job. Now go kill him.
So, like it's it's very telling about like how fucked his mental
state is. Yeah, like so many signs of just
the fact that he is 100% not OK. And like in the power dynamic of
Captain Verse crew, there's not much the crew can do if the
captain is shutting them down unless there's a mutiny, which
is where this is ultimately headed.
So after he Ed fails with Izzy, he's like, I have to get the
crew to mutiny. That's 'cause they'll kill me.
And that's, that's that's how I'm going to get this done.
So what does he do? He goes up deck and he steers
the ship directly into a storm. They're in the Caribbean.
So, like, that is a tropical storm.
Those storms are no fucking joke.
As somebody who grew up in Florida, so he's like, fuck it.
Right into the eye of a storm, right into the storm.
Not the eye of the storm. Eye of storms are calm into the
storm. And then he removes the steering
wheel. He's like, that's where we're
headed, fuck it. And he's like, and I'm gonna,
I'm gonna shoot a cannonball into the mats.
So we have a 0% chance of surviving this.
And the crew was like, what the fuck are you doing?
What the fuck are you doing? But it's still like boss versus
employee situation. So Ed's like, OK, all right, I
won't do it. If Archie and Jim fight to the
death and Jim's like, absolutely not.
But then Archie punches Jim and it's just like this is life.
This I, you know, it was the hope was cute and all, but like,
this is what being a pirate is. And then all hell breaks loose.
The storm is, I like how they shot this.
And then with the song and it's really like powerful, like
basically the storm is raging and then a mutiny starts to
happen where they just turn on Ed.
And it really the tipping point is when Izzy emerges because
he's not dead. He's humbling on his leg or
hobbling. And he basically like, I forget
if he shoot, he shoots something to like scare.
I think he uses the pistol or something to shoot at Ed to like
stop him from like shooting the cannonball into the mast.
And so Jim takes the cannonball and they're all like around Ed
and Ed is on the ground at this point and he's you just see him
laughing, being like, yes, it worked.
They're gonna, they're gonna do it for me.
They're this is the mutiny I wanted.
He's like put me out of my misery and like it ends with
basically like Jim, like the cannonball comes over Jim's
head, Jim's screaming like, and he's gonna like crush Ed and
just like black fade to black, basically.
I I just, I We still don't know where this cannibal actually
ended up, though. No, we don't know what happened
actually. Like we know.
Like that they killed him to the brink of.
Death, right? Do they know they didn't kill
him? I have no idea.
I don't. Because also, where would you
keep a dead body on the ship? Yeah, if they were trying to
hide the mutiny, they would have thrown him overboard.
I mean, honestly, like they could have just kept him because
they wanted to give him like a proper burial even though that
he fucked him over. So that could have like a large
thing to do with it. I don't think that that's what
they would be thinking of at that moment though.
Not in that moment, but I feel like that's something Izzy would
do. Because like, I feel like Izzy
is guilty over the fact that he did this.
Like he's the one that pushed Ed into being this crazy version of
Blackbeard that was just the devil.
Basically he he's, I think he feels a sense of responsibility
for like, how Ed's behaving and how far gone he is.
So I wonder if that was a sentimental decision from Izzy
to like, keep him and like, or at least for the time being,
cause like in the next episode when they find the crew, like
basically like the storm ravages the ship to the point where,
like, it can't sail. So like, they're stranded.
So like, I guess they're like, well, we need to figure out what
the fuck we're gonna do. And they, like Ed maybe just got
hidden and like left there for the time being.
'Cause it? It could have easily been like a
panic thing, but I just looked it up, so like it could also be
like my theory of it. This is based on the sea
accounts read from around the Golden Age of piracy, 1672
through 1728, which specify A burial location or from which
can be inferred from the context.
About half the bodies of men who died on a ship at sea were
buried on land, and half were buried at sea.
So it could have simply just been like, another historical
element. Or it could have also been a oh
fucking shit, we just killed Ed. What the fuck are we going to
do? Holy shit.
Why? Right Post panic?
Cause like in, in the aftermath of whatever they do to him,
they're still in the middle of a storm with no steering wheel and
they have to like survive this now.
So like, yeah, I wonder if it's a combination of all those
things and then they're. Like, for what it's worth, we
never actually see Jim slamming the cannonball into him.
We see them raising it but we don't see unlike like going
down, but we don't see where, like they hit the cannonball.
On the AP? So it could have been
survivable. They might have just wanted to
fuck him up a little bit to, like, get him to kind of come
back to reality so he stops acting fucking insane, yeah.
Yeah, and then then maybe like we'll see if he lives or not and
just left him in that, you know, area.
In the crypt in the. Crypt.
He's now the Crypt Keeper. That's Izzy's new role, Crypt
Keeper. All right, so that's Season 2
episode one and two. Do you guys have any final
thoughts before we close out this episode?
Oh, Hail Soup Bitch Pirate Queen.
I love me some Zhang and Auntie. And like I know I said the
season one outfits for Kuntie, but like knowing like which.
If you want to know more about the Zhang's pirate crew outfit,
definitely go check out our Gypsy interview.
But Season 2 outfits for like even more cuntier, especially
cause of like like Zang's Aspect and everything.
Like, I love it. They did an amazing.
Job oh. My God, I love the details.
I love the red flag. I the poor unfortunate makeover.
The revenge goes through like it's all good.
I love it. I don't know if you saw Gypsy's
post, but she did post a picture of the Wee John Socks and that
made my heart so happy. My God, they're so cute.
Go check out Get Gypsy's Instagram if you haven't for
context. And the the visuals, it's very
adorable. All right, so that was episode
one and two again. We try to cover everything as
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