EDIT: PLEASE REBLOG THIS EVEN IF YOU DONT NEED IT IM DESPERATELY TRYING TO GET IT TO PPL WHO WANT IT 😭
NEXT TO NORMAL PROSHOT if you dont want to get a vpn with american servers or dont want to wait until cinema release or are worried pbs will take the it down once there is a cinema release heres the whole thing!!! i screen recording the whole thing in chunks and edited them together as seemlessly as possible so there shouldnt be any noticable interruptions. if i try to post this one more time on youtube they will hunt me down so spreading the file itself will have to suffice
Reminder that Stede does actually have good taste. He’s filled his ship with the things he loves and made silly secret passages for fun, but it’s all well-designed, considerate of other people’s pleasures (game room, jam room), and his own cabin is ornate but well laid out. The decorations he has are not extreme or just “stuff a rich guy bought because he’s rich,” but quite deliberately chosen and elegant. When he gets the plant in the raid, he chooses an attractive spot for it. His clothes are all well cut and complimentary to his figure and his coloration.
The contempt men like Izzy and Jack and Nigel have for Stede is because he’s not being masculine correctly, not because he has wealth. He’s flamboyant and his wealth enables that, but he’s flamboyant rich or poor. That’s what comes through. They consider his cabin and ship a reflection of frivolity and pleasure for pleasure’s sake that’s not in keeping with men’s work (men are supposed to be uncomfortable and suffer). Stede’s space is representative of good taste and comfort and men are not supposed to have that, or want it.
Nicola Dove, one of our OFMD S2 photographers was kind enough to share some of her memories of the show. I believe all / most of the images have been shared before, but I wanted to collect her thoughts and posts together in one place if possible from March.
"Taking pictures on film sets you'd think 'never a dull moment'. Not quite true. There are many tbh. But when the action starts it's ...#lovemyjob #unitstillsphotography #photography"
Source: FilmStillsAcademy IG
"In the last two years I’ve witnessed:
Three weddings,
Two funerals,
A storm at sea,
Limb amputations,
A jail fire,
A man on fire,
Gun shots, arrow shots, and sling shots,
Abdominal surgery,
Resurrections,
Reunions,
Choral performances,
Jungle ambushes,
Beach battles,
Forest explosions,
Truck accidents,
Historical soldiers,
and futuristic creatures.
I’ve shot in river canyons, cliff edges, beaches, farm houses, hills and dales, village streets, city streets, highrise penthouses, ancient forests, muddy swamps, space ships and sailing ships.
So many more images yet to come!
Patience is a virtue that is required both on set, and while waiting for the projects to go through post and be released.
#unitstillsphotography #lovemyjob #photography #filmstillsphotographer"
Source: FilmStillsAcademy IG
"The moment after and before 'action'.
Shooting stills on set is about telling two stories - the one in front of the camera, and the one behind.
Fun times on the set of Our Flag Means Death S2
#filmstillsphotographer #unitstills #photography#ourflagmeansdeath"
Source: FilmstillsAcademy IG
"Don't get too close to Rhys Darby with a sword. 😉
Behind the scenes on Our Flag Means Death S2
#behindthescenes #photography #unitstillsphotography #ourflagmeansdeath"
so let's talk about david jenkins saying the idea was that the crew would dump ed overboard in the mutiny before the writers changed their minds and had him kept in the hold.
he says they changed this for pacing reasons, so that the reunion could happen in 2x03 instead of being delayed longer, and i cannot argue with that, waiting any longer sounds excruciating. so i'm not complaining about this as, like, villainous interference from the WBD suits or anything, although it might be a decision forced by cutting the number of episodes. probably still the right call under the circumstances. BUT i'm interested in it because this explains a couple things that are weird about the plot structure of the whole season as it stands.
so first of all the crew throwing the body overboard just immediately makes a lot more sense because it doesn't actually require them to have failed to notice he wasn't dead. it would be pretty tough to carry the body into the hold and lay him out and cover his face with a lil washcloth and everything and not notice at any point during this that he's still breathing or that he has a pulse. and if they did notice you'd think they'd either finish the job quickly or try to treat him if they'd had a change of heart, not leave him to die slow. however the idea that they would beat him till he stopped moving then immediately chuck the body overboard, that totally makes sense, you wouldn't stop to check if he was already dead or not because one way or another he will be pretty shortly after you dump him in the ocean.
second the line from stede to izzy about "you were the one who kept his body onboard" always bugged me because it feels like it's meant to establish something about izzy but it's really unclear WHAT it tells us about him, in a way that doesn't seem like intentional ambiguity: i've seen people interpret it as a sign of his devotion and i've seen others assume it was a practical decision that the crew should keep ed's body around to claim the bounty on blackbeard. (and i've seen both interpretations from people both in and out of the canyon, so it's not even a normal izcourse divide.) i actually wondered at one point if the purpose was to foreshadow where izzy's arc is going to end by establishing that he thinks it's more respectful to bury a pirate on land than at sea, although if that was the idea it sure didn't work on the people who'd care most.
however this new info from djenks explains it pretty neatly, which is that the reason for the line isn't to establish character stuff about izzy at all it's just there to awkwardly patch a plothole. it's that someone in the writers' room was like "but it doesn't make any sense, why WOULDN'T they dump his body overboard once they'd killed him" and somebody else was like "idk uh maybe we can put in a line about how izzy stopped them or something."
now more interestingly! this also would change something bigger about 2x04. because i'm guessing the idea here would be that ed would have actually for real washed up on an island that looks just like the one in the gravy basket and just never actually gotten up off the beach, and stede would find him there, mermaid scene, and ed would wake up mad and storm off into the woods with where he meets mary read with stede already trying to follow him and the rest of the episode proceeds as normal from there. (and probably buttons would be just, like, hanging around following stede, or maybe he was already acting as a psychopomp and led stede to ed's body, idk, lots of possible ways to play that.)
this means you completely lose the beat of the crew voting ed off the ship. you wouldn't lose the idea of the crew being pissed at him; you could still have the kitty collar onesie probation stuff after he got back. but this is a BIG change.
first of all it solves a big obvious problem LOTS of people pointed out immediately when the episode aired which is that it makes no sense that stede would just stay on the ship after letting ed be exiled. reuniting with ed has been his driving goal for months and it's not even like ed has definitively told him to fuck off, he's just stomping off angry and incoherent and not even clearly in his right mind. but they couldn't let stede actually follow ed on his own initiative immediately, because it would undermine the later fisherman breakup if stede has already established that he's willing to leave his pirate career behind if that's what it takes to be with ed. so you end up with this awkward beat where he's just kind of passively standing there until buttons tells him what to do.
i think there's something even more important it does though! one criticism a LOT of people had about s2 was feeling like the crew all hated ed now and there was no clear sign they'd forgiven him by the end, and also some people had the impression that stede had just overriden the crew's decision (even though he does say he's going to ask their permission; it DOES feel weird we don't see that). now i've said before that i think there was probably going to be a reconciliation between ed & lucius, and by extension the crew as a whole, in the lupete wedding verision of 2x06, and i still think that. but regardless of whether i'm right or wrong about that. even without a reconciliation, this would seem like WAY less of a problem if the crew hadn't voted ed of the ship.
as it is, we have THREE scenes devoted to the idea that the crew as a whole (not just lucius & izzy, who both have more complicated individual relationships with ed) are uncomfortable with ed's presence on the ship - there's the initial one where stede's holding the meat on his face where they're all yelling at him, and then there's the actual walk of shame where they've just voted him off, and THEN there's the youtube apology scene where they're heckling him and stuff. and having three separate scenes like that makes it feel like the narrative is really hammering in this idea of a big dramatic rupture in the whole crew's relationship with ed. but only the last of those scenes was originally supposed to be there! the first two were just thrown into the plot to justify why ed ends up wandering around an island to run into anne & mary! if you only had the youtube apology scene, it would be much more clear that most of the crew weren't really all that mad - as it is, roach and jim explicitly saying they aren't mad feels like it's overshadowed by the weight of the earlier scenes.
(also a minor issue, but i've mentioned before that surprisingly often people think the vote was unanimous. this doesn't actually make sense in terms of the episode, because we know it was deadlocked and izzy cast the tiebreaker. but it is sort of weird, if the idea is that the crew is split on this, that we never get any sign of who voted which way; there's nobody but stede who is clearly presented as specifically not wanting ed to be exiled. which DOES end up making it feel like it's the crew as a unanimous block that wants him off the ship. but that makes sense if the whole concept of the crew wanting him exiled was sort of hastily written to patch a plot hole instead of being a fully developed idea.)
anyway. like i said i can't really complain about this as a pacing decision. but it is really interesting to me how many knock-on problems with the whole arc of the season were created by the change, and how much cleaner the original idea sounds like it would have been.
the You Wear Fine Frames Well project is live! I loved seeing all of the different styles and craftwork that went into everyone's frames. I myself did frames 131 and 157!
Something has been on my mind lately and I need to make a post about it. I saw yet another post about how Stede Bonnet is mediocre and I’m starting to get highly annoyed by it. Even the ones that are well meaning are grating to me at this point. Stede might be mediocre at some things like being a “proper” pirate but he’s actually quite stellar at many other things. I’d like to take the opportunity to talk about some things that Stede is very good at.
1. Loving Edward Teach
2. Thinking on his feet.
3. Helping his crew by making sure they have a safe environment to be themselves in.
4. Being an absolute bitch to Izzy.
5. Getting rich assholes to turn on each other
6. Writing beautiful love letters to Ed. (Yes I know this is part of the number 1 thing. It bares repeating)
7. Wearing cursed suits.
8. Being a mermaid, merman, merperson.
There are so many things that Stede is great at so I’d like to focus on those personally.
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