Forever changed on a spiritual level by Lucius. He’s just thotting and sketching across the seas with his neck scarf. He survived Jim’s wrath and wound up thirsting in the end. Mans got slutshamed with a dash of homophobia by Blackbeard’s first mate and just went “yeah that’s my pirate polycule. want in, little man?” Fucking iconic.
This is just me but I also hope in season two that Izzy has a small backstory and continues to be the antagonist. I think we all notice how the villains in shows or movies often get sympathisized by some fans and honestly, it’s tiring. Like just let villains/ antagonist be the antagonist without having to excuse them. Yes, we can sympathize and understand why they’re the person of who they are now, but to go through such lengths to excuse their wrong-doings is a lot. Or go through such measures to want the antagonist a redemption arc like Zuko.
Like no, Izzy should lie in the bed that made for a while longer. I want to see him plot many downfalls on Stede just to fail in the end. I pray the revenge crew + Ivan & fang successfully throw his ass overboard. Or do a vicious evil laugh when stede and ed are fighting each other, he’s thinking ed put an end to stede but it’s the opposite. Instead, he watches ed just grab stede by his shirt and kiss him roughly because of how much he missed him and fall into a complete heartbreak.
It’s coming off as cruel towards izzy but the man brought it on himself when he didn’t disclose to stede that his boss was the legendary blackbeard. It was over from that point on.
I think what made the show more hilarious was how someone in the background would say a funny line or insult. I think it was Frenchie called izzy “Jizzy” and I had to pause from him speaking truth.
I know a lot of people expect Stede to be righteously furious at Ed for tossing Lucius overboard but have you considered:
1) Stede has forgiven Ed for everything up to and including mass murder and planning to kill Stede
2) When the possibility that Lucius was dead came up the first time, Stede thought it might be “bad for the general vibe around here” and only seemed fussed insofar as Lucius’s death would be a mild inconvenience to him
Has Stede perhaps improved as a person since the beginning? Sure. Could a murder rampage by Kraken Blackbeard put Ed’s past sins in a less forgivable light? Maybe, I guess? But this is still Stede we’re talking about whose whole arc completion has only redoubled his conviction in his love of Ed (like, it was literally the point of his romantic emotional arc).
All I’m saying is, if you’re Lucius expecting your boss Stede to have a rupture with the man he loves over your attempted murder I’d maybe consider the evidence up to that point and accept that, if you’re lucky, it’ll represent a minor speed bump to their relationship at most.
i have one need, david. cut gag from the fix it comic that had to be a standalone
Ed: I killed lucius, stede. Stede: oh! yes, he’s very upset about that. Ed: [sniffle] what? Stede: See! No need to fret. Ed: No fucking way… Lucius: I lived, BITCH
Finding out there’s actual shipping discourse between the Izzy/Lucius and Pete/Lucius fans is wild. Pete and Lucius in a very open relationship and Izzy should get railed by Pete too
