yeah I caved pretty early on
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WHAT THE FUCK!? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!? YOU MADE ME CARE ABOUT SOME FUCKER I GAVE 0 FUCKS ABOUT PREVIOUSLY JUST TO KILL HIM SHUT UP FUCK
what happened to it's fine if it's on the left side!?
what happened to muppet logic!?
what happened to the fact that this is a comedy!?
i'm wailing
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I know people are upset about Izzy being killed (I am too) but the truth is I don’t think it was bad writing or even them diminishing Izzy’s character, I actually think everything about the last episode has to do with production and I think Izzy lovers will feel a little better about it if they see it like that (it helped for me).
Basically, if you look at it like this, I think 2 important things came into play. Budget and how the showrunners assumed this would play out. Which is to say that they probably assume HBO will either renew them for season 3 and cut their budget again or they’re going to be cancelled.
Both are very likely, so assuming they had this in mind, removing Con, who I’d guess is the 3rd highest paycheck after Taika and Rhys was probably their best budgeting move, especially if they’re thinking of having an all out war in the final season that they probably want to be a visual spectacle, so each season feels like it’s getting consistently larger in scope.
On the other hand, if they do get cancelled (which they probably will because the HBO CEO is a weird little conservative goon), they left the ending in a way that could be considered an ENDING while still being prepped for a 3rd season. So in the time they had left (which was 2 episodes less than their first season) they gave Izzy an entire completed character arc.
I 100% understand the sadness and anger, especially after all the shit he went through during the beginning of the season, I felt gut punched when I learned he died and was bitter as hell through my whole first viewing of the season even though I’d had more than a month to process it. But after having thought it through, I genuinely don’t think it’s simply them treating Izzy as just an extension of Ed’s character growth and I sure as shit don’t think it’s because they wanted to conform to Izzy haters.
I think if they had all of the resources and episodes they wanted, had a guaranteed season 3, I think we would have gotten the character growth we got with better pacing and he probably would have at minimum made it to season 3 (I also think he would have had a love interest, but that’s just what I wanted for him tbh).
I think they did the best they could with what they had, allocated a lot of budget and screen time towards his character despite having less of those 2 things than the first season, and at least let Izzy have a completed story and arc, even if the ending was deeply disappointing.
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i probably could have enjoyed season two if the finale had been really good and wrapped up character arcs and given us some feelings i feel like we’ve been waiting out on, and not killed izzy so randomly and pointlessly. but the finale literally makes the rest of the season bad. it could have been good if it were resolved properly but it just wasn’t. the season has been ruined for me by the finale.
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Izzy Hands: a not particularly well-organised essay
(Season 2 spoilers ahead)
I love seeing Izzy accept Stede as a captain, maybe not as his captain yet, but definitely a captain, by the end of episode 5. He's moved on from all this talented guys ending up dead but this utter buffoon is still standing by whatever luck and starts seeing him for his behaviour when the guy gets up to come stab him (and screams, my guy that's not how you sneak up on someone) and he fires a warning shot and threatens him to not try him again. Part of it feels like it's because Izzy has started to see himself as part of the crew and not an outsider or last proof of Blackbeard's crew. Since the leg was left by the door (for the new unicorn), he's come off the alcohol and started to act alongside the crew instead of against them or just being a bystander - he coaches Stede to respect that the crew sees the suit as cursed, a threat, and gets him to apologise to them, see it from their perspective, and get rid of it with the crew in a way they deem fit. The gift of the leg to Izzy shows him that this crew, as angry as he made them and how much he's pushed them around and been cruel, ultimately are willing to respect him and invite him in to be one of them and by calling him the 'new unicorn' and using what remains of the ship's figurehead, he is part and parcel of the ship now, essential to it. This is furthered by Jim saying that “He’s our dick” about Izzy, when they talk about life on the ship meaning something because, as much as he wasn’t nice to them and isolated himself, he was already part of the crew even if he didn’t want to be or act like it. As mentioned above, this becoming one with the ship through the leg, may be part of why he's more willing to treat Stede as a captain and put trust in him to lead without immediately taking over because he is, too, part of the ship where Stede is the captain and trusted to lead the crew. When he's speaking to Lucius, Izzy says that it's a shark that took his leg when he was sitting on the edge of the ship and that he got what he deserved. This feels like a way of saying that he put himself in danger, standing up to Blackbeard when he was more volatile than ever, and that getting himself hurt was an inevitability. He put himself out to protect the crew, ultimately, and it got him shot. He lost his leg to Blackbeard, as much as he didn't personally amputate it, the crew did. Sitting on the edge of a ship isn't the safest thing to do as is standing up to a heartbroken, angry, volatile man with a history of violence that you are also a victim of. Izzy diced with a shark and got himself hurt. He uses the fiction of a shark taking his leg to distance himself from what really happened. This also displays the dichotomy between Blackbeard and Edward that comes up so much in season 1. Now that the crew have Ed again (as much as they clearly aren't all that happy about it), Izzy doesn't see the same man who took his leg - he sees a happy Edward who would've never done that to him - and so Blackbeard becomes Izzy's 'shark', a figure of violence and cruelty as he can no longer reconcile Edward and Blackbeard as one person since having seen what he really can become if pushed too far. So, it's a shark that hurt him, not his captain because his captain wouldn't hurt his first mate so severely.
The crew didn't know what kind of captain they were dealing with once Blackbeard was that gone - making them fight because he didn't want to see people in love, steering them into a storm that could kill them and getting rid of the wheel only to threaten to take out the sails which would've killed them all and who stopped it? Who allowed the crew the chance to mutiny and save themselves? Izzy. In shooting Blackbeard, Izzy gave the crew the opportunity to save themselves and put a stop to the man making their lives hell. “We cannot let this crew suffer anymore for our mistakes.” is what Izzy says to Stede when they meet again. Izzy watched the whole crew suffer under Blackbeard because of how he kept trying to get back the Blackbeard he was used to before he met Stede, and long before Stede broke his heart. Izzy himself suffered under an angry and heartbroken Blackbeard. Izzy sees dragging back up all of Blackbeard’s original behaviours, when magnified by heartbreak, as a mistake caused by him and Stede and has led the crew to suffer extensive trauma from raids, and fights, and surviving at sea instead of living like they had before everything went wrong. Izzy seeing what happened as a mistake supports the idea that he is truly a part of the crew and cares about them and what happens to them. Izzy is not innocent, of course, as he, initially, did try to follow Blackbeard as a first mate should. However, the cracks in this show early on, where the crew have to comfort him and talk to him about how Blackbeard has been awful to him as well and that it’s an unhealthy relationship and this leads to him standing up to Blackbeard about the state of the atmosphere on the ship and how it’s “fucked”. He actively took a stand to the man he wanted to be his captain to support what remained of Blackbeard and Stede’s original crews despite knowing how dangerous Edward was in his state which resulted in him losing his leg.
He lost his leg for the crew, and in return they gave him a new one and solidified his place onboard The Revenge and as a part of the crew.
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The Coffe Theory is not it, because for the Jane Austen References to make sense, Aziraphale and Crowley need to fal apart not because of some poiseness cup of coffee but because of who they are.
Jane Austen wrote - as Aziraphale said - about misunderstandings. Even more, Pride and Predjudice whole point is, that the only thing that's standing between you and happiness is yourself.
Mr. Bingley doesn't leave Jane because evil Mr. Darcy drugged his tea. He leaves because he's way too easily persuaded by others and believes Mr. Darcy, when he said that it would be for the best.
Mr. Darcy doesn't manipulate Mr. Bingley for his own gain, but because he genuinely thinks Jane doesn't care for his good friend and wants to protect him. Why does he think that? Because Jane doesn't show her feelings openly and plays her cards close to her Chest.
Lizzy hates Mr. Darcy, because she sees hin being unsocial and jumps to the conclusion that he must be an arrogant asshole. Then Mr. Wickham comes around and tells her sweet little lies and she believes him, again jumping to conclusions based on first impression.
And the reason Mr. Darcy is so hated, even though he's actually a sweet guy who's just bad at social interactions? Because he's too prideful to leave his circle of people and assumes that it's the job of everyone else to proof that they are worth his time.
All of them need to realize those flaws and fix them before they can live happily ever after.
Aziraphale made this decision all by himself because he still thinks in black and white. Because Heaven is good and Hell is bad. Angels are good and Demons are evil. He gets that Crowley isn't evil, but he draws the wrong conclusion: Crowley isn't evil therefore he belongs in Heaven (with him).
In Season 3 he's going to realize some things. And he's going to come back.
And Crowley? Well he really needs to stop to run away everytime he smells conflict.
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