Hi. I. Have ofmd brainrot and would like to propose something.
Ok its the season 2 opening, I dont care where timestamp wise in the episode this happens but it's the moment Stede gets back aboard the revenge.
Establishing shot. Love You Madly" by Cake begins playing. Hijinks of the crew piling in the tiny boat. Stede trying to command everyone into spots. Swede falls off the side at one point. The little dinghy finally sets sail and its moving at a snail's pace. Eventually it catches up to the revenge. (Time and space aren't important in this show we all know this). That while sequence is played very comedically. Fang and Ivan spot the dinghy and pull members aboard. The crew hops on, and stede struggles up the side last. Ed rushes out of the captains quarters in a hurry pressumably to see what all the ruckus is. Ed sees Stede. And Stede sees Ed, he doesn't care about the kraken makeup or that his crew was marooned. Surely, Stede thinks, that was horrible mixup on Izzy's part. He just sees his guy and thinks "God, I missed him."
He saunters towards Ed in slow-mo as the chorus of the song begins, wanting to embrace him and kiss him, God he wants to kiss him.
Ed states back in disbelief as Stede walks. News has reached him that Stede was killed in a horrible accident (in my own hc's). This cant be happening? Stede is dead, and he abandoned him on the docks. Decided that he would rather be with someone he didn't love than Ed. How is he here??? Why is he here???
Then one of two things happens. I haven't decided which is my favorite so you get to hear both.
The chorus of "Love You Madly" comes to a close with the line "I want to love you, love you, love you madly". Stede has almost made it to Ed, who stands next to a mast on the opposite side of the ship that Stede boarded on. And on the beat that ends the chorus, the camera does a hard cut to a cell door slamming shut in time with the music. Then the song stops abruptly. Stede is in a brig that Ed has installed in the rec room of the revenge.
If this is the end of the episode we get a couple of measures of silence, the camera cuts to Ed for a moment or two. He's trying his best to look tough. It's not working. Cut back to stede behind bars. Credits roll and the music continues in time with the credits.
Stede sees Ed runs at him blah blah right. So after the last "love you madly of the chorus, theres these two beats that are very loud and pronounced. Stede gets to Ed and on the first beat Ed pushes Stede against the mast that Stede was once impaled on, and on the second thuds a knife into the red wood. It's milimeters from Stede's face, and in fact goes into his precious curls. A lock or two of hair falls.
The music ends with the sound of the knife. (Once again if this is the end of the episode the pause in the music is for a few measures. Camera focuses on the two men, Ed fuming, Stede trying to calm him down, credits roll music starts again)
Yeah. That's. Those are my thoughts on the actual content of that scene
However, I need to emphasize how important the song choice is here. Why i think it should be this song.
#1. listen to the opening, it's so the vibe of the show.
#2. the song is about someone who is so in love, they dont care in the slightest about the other person's past. The singer is comfortable in the fact that they dont know everything about their love, and just wants to be with them despite all the shit.
That. Is exactly the headspace Stede ends season 1 in. He's figured out what Ed is to him, and he's ready to be the romantic lead. He knows Ed has done things, he is ready to accept everything. All the blackbeard stuff he took issue with earlier. Everything.
That is decidedly not the headspace Ed is in. Cutting the song off, with an important beat, is not only shocking to the viewer visually and auditorilly, it communicates what Stede would feel in the moment that ed shows how pissed he is. Ed does not want to love him madly. And stede fucked up. This fantasy Stede has of boarding and Ed accepting him with open arms cant happen. Too much is broken. So the song stops suddenly. It's the perfect impression of what stede feels in this moment.
Like he knew Ed would probably be upset, but he sure isn't as hell expecting the kraken, doesn't know what's happened to Lucius or his library. This is in no way what he was expecting when he returned.
It is the perfect narrative structure for this moment.
#3. The lyrics oh my god????
"When I kiss your lips I want to sink down to the bottom of the sea"
"I don't want to hold back, I don't want to slip down
I don't want to think back to the one thing that I know I should have done
I don't want to doubt you, know everything about you.
I don't want to sit across the table from you wishing I could run"
However those lines aren't in the verse we'd hear. Because I think putting them blatantly there would be too on the nose. It would be more like if you listened to the song in full you'd be like. Yoooooo. That's so fitting!
So yeah. "Love you Madly" should be played while stede boards the revenge again and cut off when he realizes how fucked ed is right then.
Also you should listen to that song if you haven't. That whole album is peak.
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