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I thought it was meant to show Zheng's hubris. Yes, she's one of in not the most successful pirate there is, but with that comes complacency. I mean, Stede was right when he said how easy it was to escape right from under her nose. She wins so much, she can't seem to fathom losing. Of course Prince Ricky sent her a lame ass annoying gift as a thank you for allowing him to participate in her genius plan. And it was legitimately genius. The problem lied in her being used to everyone folding and doing as she asks so much that she didn't pick up on Ricky's scheming right in front of her.

also ok the show handwaving all the Hard Plot Details in favor of telling a more compelling and emotionally-rich story has always been one of my favorite things abt the show, from “1717 was a leap year” to how bad ed’s plan to take stede’s identity was (what if he ran into ppl who knew stede?? how would he explain the fact that he looks literally nothing like him) to fast-travel dinghies and so on.

but the grandfather clock bombs in 2x7 was like. too much. they hand-waved the plot too close to the sun. bc i feel like the show wants us to pretend that the clock thing wasn’t a blatantly obvious trap and it wasn’t incredibly stupid for zheng to fall for it. and i’m having a really hard time buying that lol

literally they could’ve had that first clock be the only one zheng got that morning and then throughout the day while zheng is ashore all her other ships keep getting clocks delivered to them and auntie can’t get in touch with zheng about it. that would’ve been more believable than zheng being like “so all of our ships got this giant ugly box as a present??? well i’m sure this is exactly what it looks like and absolutely no further investigation is necessary!”

I thought it was meant to show Zheng's hubris. Yes, she's one of in not the most successful pirate there is, but with that comes complacency. I mean, Stede was right when he said how easy it was to escape right from under her nose. She wins so much, she can't seem to fathom losing. Of course Prince Ricky sent her a lame ass annoying gift as a thank you for allowing him to participate in her genius plan. And it was legitimately genius. The problem lied in her being used to everyone folding and doing as she asks so much that she didn't pick up on Ricky's scheming right in front of her.

also ok the show handwaving all the Hard Plot Details in favor of telling a more compelling and emotionally-rich story has always been one of my favorite things abt the show, from “1717 was a leap year” to how bad ed’s plan to take stede’s identity was (what if he ran into ppl who knew stede?? how would he explain the fact that he looks literally nothing like him) to fast-travel dinghies and so on.

but the grandfather clock bombs in 2x7 was like. too much. they hand-waved the plot too close to the sun. bc i feel like the show wants us to pretend that the clock thing wasn’t a blatantly obvious trap and it wasn’t incredibly stupid for zheng to fall for it. and i’m having a really hard time buying that lol

literally they could’ve had that first clock be the only one zheng got that morning and then throughout the day while zheng is ashore all her other ships keep getting clocks delivered to them and auntie can’t get in touch with zheng about it. that would’ve been more believable than zheng being like “so all of our ships got this giant ugly box as a present??? well i’m sure this is exactly what it looks like and absolutely no further investigation is necessary!”