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the red silk...

on my 49682th rewatch of OFMD and noticed something about the scenes with the red silk. the first time, when ed shows it to stede, and stede asks if he can see it, ed doesn’t hand it over. he kind of... loosens his grip and just lets stede take it out of his hands. then he puts it in ed’s breast pocket symbolizing his heart etc. but it’s important that ed doesn’t just willingly hand it over. this is representative of the fact that ed doesn’t just completely give himself and his heart to stede. over time, ed lets stede grow closer to him and lets him in, but he often doesn’t initiate this process. letting stede take the silk is the first example. in the next episode, when he’s in the tub crying, he doesn’t seek out the comfort of stede. stede finds him and ed opens up by allowing himself to answer stede’s questions. or in the next episode, when ed has snake in his beard, he doesn’t tell stede to get it, but when stede reaches over to do so, he allows it to happen. obviously i’m not saying ed didn’t initiate anything; he famously initiated The Kiss, but simply that stede is often the one making these apparently romantic moves -- whether stede realizes what he’s doing or not -- and ed is often left responding to them. this brings me back to the final scene with the red cloth, when ed gets rid of it. he gets rid of it in much the same way stede takes it -- he lets it go. we do not see ed throw the piece of silk to the wind in anger. he just loosens his grip and allows the wind to eventually blow it out of his grasp and into the sea. this is symbolic of the fact that it wasn’t his choice to throw away his heart, his love for stede. to ed, stede made that choice, so he just has to accept the fact that it’s over and let his heart/softness/love be taken away. to end on a lighter note i think it’s fucking hilarious how ed is the one with the fattest crush on stede yet here stede is being super romantic without even realizing

as much as i love ofmd, i feel like some people online just genuinely don’t know what they're talking about with regards to hbo. ofmd was never gonna get the critical acclaim of shows like barry or succession because at its heart it *is* a comedy. it was a new show that wasn’t incredibly serious and dramatic, so it makes sense it got little promotion. and as much as i love david jenkins, he’s only made like 1 not that successful show before, so hbo was likely trying to play it safe. and the show’s success, largely due to lgbtq+ people was a shock to everyone, but i’m sure the audience was not only gay people when it was being tested, meaning that a decent chunk of them weren’t nearly as enthusiastic as we all are. i think people don’t understand that the main thing hbo cares about is making *money* off of these shows. the idea that there is some big conspiracy at hbo to thwart the gay pirate show is absolutely ridiculous. they don’t want it to fail, they want it to make them money!! i completely agree that they waited too long to renew it for a second season, but it’s likely because it did way better than they ever thought it would, and they were unsure if the momentum could be kept up/ whether it was financially smart to go against what they previously thought about the show. anyway rant over people just say really dumb shit on the internet

I’m:

⚪️ gay

⚪️ straight

🔘 an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort

legendary

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