I Really Hope Lucius Walks In On Ed And Stede Cuddling A La Jim And Oluwande. I Need That Callback! I

I really hope Lucius walks in on Ed and Stede cuddling a la Jim and Oluwande. I need that callback! I even wrote it into a fic I never published. It would be so goddamn funny!

Oh, no. Oh, shit. Episode 7 gave me the same pain in my chest Good Omens episode 6 did. I'm freaking out. I swear if they reunite in the next episode only to part ways mutually, I won't survive it. Why can't gay people just be happy? Just let them be happy! We'll still go insane for a renewal, I promise! I can't handle another bittersweet ending. My mental health is hanging on by a thread!

In the immortal words of Captain Stede Bonnet, "Oh, that hurt!".

If they bust out "Love is a Battlefield", I will actually pass out.

So what are we thinking for beach fight/reunion song ? Because the night or This guy’s in love with you ? (I can see it playing while people get brutally murdered left and right)

I don’t think it will be Beautiful Ones  (I can almost bet it will be the end credit)

Or, as a kind of parallel, technically it was the water that killed him.

Technically it was the violin that killed him.

Maybe it isn't meant to be, but it is. That's not only a sad ending but a cliché one as well. There doesn't need to be a neat little bow put on it. They just need to be together. I'm so tired of stories that draw out the angst with the main couple. There are so many other ways to add drama without the same old boring on again/off again. And yes, having them part ways mutually is having them off again. For once, we should have a couple who figures out how to communicate effectively and compromise. Not to mention how ooc it would be for either of them to willingly leave each other yet again after everything they've been through.

It makes much more sense for both of them to take a break from pirating and figure out their relationship together. Then they can decide where to go from there. An after credits stinger teasing a coming threat for season 3 would be more than enough to create buzz. Marvel has showed us that time and time again. I'm done accepting the idea that gays have to be in pain to make yhe story interesting. It just isn't true.

If I were in charge of writing the s2 finale, here’s what I would do.

After Ed and Stede make up and work together to kill the clock asshole, I think Ed would admit to Stede that he doesn’t want this life anymore, that all he wants is a life of simplicity and domesticity.

I think Stede, upon hearing this, would offer to give up everything to stay with Ed and to build that life with him.

But Ed knows Stede, and he’s seen that pirating makes him happy, and he knows that the crew of the Revenge needs him, and that the life that Ed so desperately wants is the one that Stede ran away from, and I think Ed would reject Stede’s offer and say “No. Don’t give up now on my account, you go be the Gentleman Pirate, and when you’re ready, I’ll be here. I’ll wait for you.”

And Stede does, leaving Ed (with a tearful goodbye kiss, of course) with the promise to return. And they both get to live the lives they always wanted, and it’s not perfect but it’s enough for now, and they live knowing that they are loved.

That’s where I’d leave them.

Apart, but hopeful.