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The parallel of Ed saying he could fake his death. And also that scene where he said he’d thought he’d have a cooler death than this. “Like being eaten by a tiger…”

And Stede faking his death with a jungle cat.

i NEED someone to get married Elizabeth Swan and Will Turner style. PLEASE

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I think Mary and Stede really do love each other. Not in a romantic way of course. But they definitely love each other. In an unconditional, under the surface kinda way. They hated being with each other because they didn’t make each other happy in the roles that they were playing.

Them talking it through (as a crew).

I think that if they met under different circumstances and played different roles in each other’s lives, it would have been different. Good different. Really good different.

That’s where they’re going. They figured out why they made each other so miserable. And the fact that they want to make it right, to make each other happy. Shows that they love each other.

I like to imagine that they stay good friends. That Mary and Doug get married and have a good life together with the kids. The kids love Doug.

Stede goes off and finds Ed. They realize they love each other. They stay together. They sail the seas.

Every once in a while, they come back and visit Mary and Doug and the kids. The kids listen to them tell stories. Alma is fascinated. They take them on the ship.

Everyone is happy.

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Stede not being cut out for the pirate life when he was on the ship out at sea, b e i n g a p i r a t e.

But Stede handling himself perfectly and being all feral and pirate-y while back on land. Him being able to talk about death without exploding. Him putting a knife to Doug’s throat without a second thought. The oomf. The oomf that Blackbeard taught him. The “Now that’s a fuckery.” LIKE COME ON

Vico Ortiz said on their tiktok that in an original draft, Jim’s favorite color was going to be purple, but it was changed to teal. There’s also a little detail of Olu’s earring being teal.

Stede and Ed are also shown in teal and purple.

I like the idea of Olu and Stede being teal. And Jim and Ed being purple.

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The parallel of Stede at the beginning, leaving Mary and his family to sail the sea. Alone on this big ship with all his things. Nervous and scared about how he’ll fare as a pirate.

Then Stede at the end, leaving to find Ed and his home, where he belongs. Alone on this tiny boat with nothing. Confident and determined. Happy.

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It’s not the kraken and the lighthouse. It’s the ship and the lighthouse !!!!!!!

Stede and Mary got married in front of the lighthouse, and they were told to be lighthouses to each other. Mary gave Stede and lighthouse painting for their anniversary. Stede gave Mary a ship for their anniversary. These little gifts represent who they are to each other. Stede is the lighthouse. Mary was supposed to be the ship, but she didn’t like it. She didn’t want it.

Stede goes off to sea, and he takes the lighthouse painting, and the model of the ship, and the ship itself. Along the way, he meets Ed.

Ed is fascinated by the model ship and the big ship. Instead of thinking it’s ridiculous like Mary and everyone did, he thinks it’s incredible.

When they realize the Spanish are into them, and they need a plan, they say, “We need to be lighthouses.” This goes back to choosing Ed over Mary. Except Ed isn’t the lighthouse. Stede is the light of the lighthouse which the Spanish avoided. Stede is still the lighthouse. You can’t have two lighthouses.

Everything happens, they get caught, Stede goes back to Mary, etc. Mary is living fine without Stede. As Ed said, you’re supposed to avoid lighthouses so you don’t crack up on the rocks. That’s what Mary did. She avoided Stede She wasn’t the ship that goes with Stede’s lighthouse. Ed is.

At the end we see Ed, a mess, looking at the lighthouse painting while on the ship. He went back to the ship. He chose the ship. He’s the ship. And he’s a mess because he didn’t avoid the lighthouse. He cracked up on the rocks.

By the time Ed realized he was the ship, he had already crashed.

Hope my rambling makes sense.

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