I would like all Americans (and everyone else) who are excited for the Superbowl to know: Before the actual Superbowl there's a live tournament on TV, here in Germany, called "American Ice Football".
It is exactly what it sounds like: American Football but played on Ice, in shoes with entirely smooth soles.
It's a tournament with 4 teams and they are called Eastside Ossis, Westside Wessis, Northcoast Naughties and Southside Smoothies and it's just hilariously entertaining.
'Revenge is bad' to YOU. i love when a character destroys everyone who wronged them. i love when they get to bite and maim and tear and rip and scratch and kill. Sorry ur catholic about it but i'm different
It's not that they killed Izzy Hands. I get how that works for the narrative - even if I'm sad that Izzy didn't get to live his own life and find his own love interest apart from Blackbeard.
It's that the ending was so rushed it felt like none of the characters cared.
There was more shock and sadness and mourning shown for Karl's death than there was for Izzy's. We got a deathbed scene. Cut to funeral. Cut to wedding, sailing off into the sunset, and starting an inn.
Immediately. No pause. No reflection. No shot of Fang needing to be comforted or Lucius picking up his wooden shark or Jim being held by Archie and Olu or Frenchie staring steadfastly at the horizon while he boxes this up in his mind. No Ed, absently asking Izzy to do something and then remembering.
There was just no reaction. That's what's so devastating.
And yes, time constraints, limited budget, packing a hell of a lot into barely any screentime, all of that. But they could have done it. They could have shaved 30s off from Ed's foray into fishing. They could have skimmed seconds from other scenes.
One minute. Just one minute of quiet sad music and devastated crewmates. That's all it would have taken to make Izzy feel loved and honoured and respected as a character.
Watching a character grow, become a better person, find community and a sense of self worth only to have him FUCKIN DIE!!! Actually hurts. Like genuinely it made me feel off. Ed didn't even need Izzy to die to let go of blackbeard safely. He already had come to terms with being blackbeard and being Ed. It was just emotional turmoil for emotional turmoil.