Our Flag Means Death 02x08 - Final scene

**** SPOILERS FOR THE FINAL EPISODE !!! ****
(the song is The Times They Are A-Changin' by Nina Simone)
you can find all of the uploaded OFMD clips (loosely) in order here:
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[@johnnyd.seducedmarilynm.7599]

I love how Ed looked at Stede when marriage scene happened❤ i really believe he was thinking of them instead of Pete and Lucius👀

[@johnnyd.seducedmarilynm.7599]

Thanks for your likes, I think this was non-intentional, but Taika again did it with his heart-eyes

[@jessbelen]

Ed looking at Stede and regretting he threw away the wedding toppers 😂

[@avab.2794]

I feel sad knowing that the season opened with Izzy dying in Stede's dream, and then he dies, and Stede is mourning him 😢 with everyone else. So much development in only 8 episodes!

[@RowanWiccae]

Ahhhh the beauty of foreshadowing

[@Griwhoolda]

@@RowanWiccae I also realized (after the fact) the foreshadowing the the Izzy, bathed in rays of light, when revealed in the "cage" to the Lesser Prince Ricky's veiw.

[@lauralide4804]

@@Griwhoolda Oh my god good observasion. You're totally right and I'm not emotionally ok about it haha

[@partlycloudyoptimist809]

My Izzy. No. Buttons help him fly. He’d make a great seahawk. The Inn… that’s not gonna last long. They are pirates at heart.

[@minbejares]

That would be a great start to season 3 if they get renewed! Almost like the two female antique-collector pirates, they would start sailing the seas together again

[@Dovahmanx]

I’m imagining Ed getting REAL overconfident in his skills to fix the shack (because he fixed a door one time) and, whilst showing off to Stede, makes the whole thing fall down.

[@yourcrazyfnafgirl]

ED SIDE-EYEING STEDE IN THE WEDDING SCENE STOPPPPP HE WANTS TO MARRY HIM SO BADLYY 😭😭😭‼️‼️‼️💖💖💖

[@crowsdontcry8258]

don't care what some losers are saying, this season was great!

[@thescarvedinsect]

Hear, hear!

[@Lunakitty1234]

What are some losers saying? I thought this season was cute. I was surprised because I heard it was supposed to be dark this season but it was so wholesome lol

[@crowsdontcry8258]

@@Lunakitty1234 a lot of people are giving David Jankins the creator shit on Twitter so much that he had to mute replies, some people think it’s too rushed but it’s really not his fault he only got renewed for eight episodes this season.

[@Lunakitty1234]

@@crowsdontcry8258 well that’s not fair . I mean isn’t there a strike still going on? Maybe because of that, they had less time and money to work with . They did the best they could with what they had, made something beautiful and people should just be grateful.

[@ambarodriguez4]

​@@Lunakitty1234it's actually HBO's fault, they cut the budget, that's why we had less episodes. David mentioned "we had an hour long episodes in a 30 minutes budget". And people giving David shit are mostly Izzy stans who (most of them) are even wishing for the show to not get renewed:(

[@devilsdaughter1500]

Im so happy but so sad. I just want this show to perform well in the public eye. Especially because of edxstede and luciusxpete. The ending made sense in a way. I hope people are not disappointed. It was perfect to me. Also it’s sad it was so fast, but with all the budget cuts they found such a perfect way to end it, in my eyes Im so sad some people are disappointed. We wanted a show like this for so long and I wanted people to love it as much as I do. But it’s okay, I love it

[@user-ie9rq6rd7n]

40%!!!! ОНИ ЗАБРАЛИ У НИХ 40 ПРОЦЕНТОВ!!!!

[@yourcrazyfnafgirl]

I agree with all of this comment! ❤

[@maeannengo4908]

Can't wait for historian youtubers to explain historical same sex pirate weddings in relation to this episode

[@ThePrincessCH]

Are you being serious?

[@nomisunrider6472]

@@ThePrincessCH Matelotage, mate. Matelotage.

[@samrafrljuckic9278]

Does a Rowan Ellis video count in that discussion?

[@maeannengo4908]

@@samrafrljuckic9278 I don't know who that is so I'm gonna look it up

[@Masanumi]

Anna Bonnet and Mary Read were really a couple.

[@andim8]

1:07 Ed is looking at Stede like 👀 💍

[@Huntress4455]

Ed looking at Stede was everything to me ❤❤❤ You know he just wants to marry him right that second lol also congrats to Lucius and Pete ❤ So happy for them!

[@CantStayAway]

ED GLANCING AT STEDE DURING THE WEDDING

[@ericamacs3875]

Oh I am so happy for Pete and Lucius but kinda sad that Stede and Ed won't be with their family anymore.

[@ZS-gd9zh]

DJenkins said they be reunited in S3

[@helenlewis2510]

@@ZS-gd9zhthe show’s been canceled

[@defenderofmen11]

I love Lucius is wearing a blue ribbon around his wrist for “something blue”.

[@eringryffin]

Well. Buttons is here, now anything is truly and really possible.

[@MorganWaite-nd8vf]

1:52 I think Zheng is teaching Oluwande to read!!!

[@JCR29]

Izzy😢. Is that Buttons??????

[@lindildeev5721]

Probably. Coming to take Izzy to Doggy's Heaven.

[@OctopusOwl]

Buttons visiting the grave is a such a lovely touch, good to have all the crew there to say goodbye.

[@tonkinthehanoian1843]

*TATAKAEEE* yeah. Glad Izzy's at peace not alone.

[@ZS-gd9zh]

Yeah, DJenkins confirmed it.

[@rowanc88]

At least it ended with a scene that works as an overall ending, and not a cliffhanger.

[@komori.V]

we all know they can't stay put for long LOL As confirmed by David Jenkins on Paste (interview), I can't put a link but I'll copy paste it, then feel free to search it yourself: Paste: OFMD doesn’t have a third season pick-up yet, so it’s a difficult feat for writers to thread the needle in a finale that gives audiences closure but also leaves enough story to continue. Jenkins: I don’t think it was a very hard thing to do. I think it was more that I felt a responsibility to leave Ed and Stede in a good place, at least for now. It’s not gonna go well. They’re not going to run a business well. Ed’s too much of a talker. Stede can’t focus. It’s gonna be challenging.

[@e6026]

sadly they are

[@hannahgoodman8677]

Buttons!

[@jennidoesherbest]

The quieter dialogue in the last boat scene. Pete slapping Lucius’s butt with “love you babe!” And Xheng going “it’s upside down” as Olu reads the map 😅

[@elisa9833]

Thank you for this! Especially since I couldn't make out what Ed and Stede were saying at the end, so I put on the captions. Even though they're not terribly accurate I could understand them!

[@KTJ-gn5jr]

JACKIE CALLING SWEDE SUGARBALLS???

[@user-fm6kn9ec4c]

LMAO THAT WAS SO FUNNY 😭 LOVE ISNT DEAD!!

[@strikerecho2592]

Hits different now that the show has been cancelled. 😔

[@blaynek13]

So Buttons really did turn into a bird 😆 i was thinking maybe someone kidnapped him or something but he was never mentioned again. Then seeing the seagull at the end was confirming it 😂

[@sarahann74]

This is such a small detail but no one is talking about it. I know that the whole season but the finale specifically was super rushed and when the wedding scene came up I was still angry and sad because how could I be happy that my babies are getting married when Izzy just died but I love fang’s reference to Izzy in the wedding. You can tell that he’s almost crying and is still very sad about Izzy and it made me feel a little less weird about having such a happy wedding immediately after such a sad loss. RIP IZZY ❤ and congratulations Pete and Lucius ❤ (yes I know that this is all technically fictional but it’s all so real for me)

[@ThePrincessCH]

I still feel like they're going to turn into Anne and Mary. Both couples live in the middle of nowhere, running a business that no one's going to come to anytime soon, and they're both kind of unstable.

[@specialj67]

I’ve watched this ending a ton of times and each time I glom on to a different line or 2. This time around it was Zheng’s “we could kick a lotta ass” and Auntie’s “take the compliment”. All of the ladies added in season 2 were spectacular!

[@alessiacristi1608]

am i the only one here after the cancellation news? 💔

[@e6026]

nope, me too

[@o.m9514]

Until this moment, I can never understand if Zhang is being true with her facial expressions, she always seems like she's hiding something, it turns out, its just her real face.

[@lizanna6390]

I love fang tearing up at the wedding. The swede seems happy, im glad, it felt wrong that they pretty much sold him to jackie.

[@BigFanOfManyThings]

There is SO going to be a Stede/ed wedding next season! ❤

[@e6026]

there is no next season :(

[@ashiraocampo2339]

if my wedding vows aren't like this, then I've lost it and I don't want it

[@stardusst]

watching this after knowing the series was cancelled breaks my heart. we truly had something wonderful going on.

[@ciotkahelaa]

I love the song choice

[@stanknugget]

I was really hoping they were gonna put Izzy’s head on the ship’s Unicorn body.

[@ZS-gd9zh]

What

[@bolt4516]

I missed Frenchie becoming captain the first time i watched this

[@stefaniabasile1227]

❤❤❤ love them

[@b.n1429]

I don't understand why Stede and Ed couldn't join the Revenge when they took off. Stede has the respect of everyone, even Zheng and Auntie. He was their captain. The ending feels really off to me. I do still want the show to be picked up again. I have enjoyed it alot. Just the ending is weird to me

[@natalielol1139]

i think thats the opening left for s3!! it would explore their attempts at innkeeping and (probably) eventual return to piracy. god forbid it doesnt get picked up, they would have somewhat of a cemented ending

[@Dragonking-fd1qv]

Well to be fair, since season one they had thought about opening an Inn, so had the option of retirement had been brought up. The events of Ed going off on his own and Stede becoming more popular was intended to explore those possibilities if they had truly gone the way both had wanted in the beginning, and finding that although at first it seemed nice it wasn't something they wanted deep down. Highlighting their shifting and development of personal goals which I think a lot correlates to real life, because when we finally get what we want we realize it could be different and there are other things now that could be more meaningful since we've changed as people, or the thing we've tried hadn't worked out. I think Stede also realized how being a pirate wasn't totally his thing. Just like how that one prince (forgot his name) character had acted as a foil for him, before he thought of piracy as more of a fantasy, like a white lady in Hawaii, and didn't realize the struggle of it with those fighting for their lives. He lacked the necessary fighting skills and street smarts for it as shown time and time again, but his out of the box thinking and solutions made up for it. Internally they both wanted to be accepted for who each other were, and they found that in an ending that compromised both of what they wanted that hadn't been out of the blue. Although they did still love the crew along with respect for the pirate queen and it's really sad for them to depart eachother, it makes sense. All of the crew had gotten what they wanted, and if there's a next season we might see them reunite again.

[@spika_.]

​@Dragonking-fd1qv this analysis is brilliant ❤ I totally agree with you. After all the events and changes, they found each other again and feel complete being together ❤ that's what matters 😭💕

[@ThePrincessCH]

If they make a third season, I expect them to end up like Anne and Mary.

[@ZS-gd9zh]

It's simple. Ed didn't want to be a pirate anymore. He wanted to avoid danger and life and death situations. He was sick of it. So he stayed. And Stede stayed because he wanted to stay by his side.

[@caroline-wj1ce]

I wanted Stedyhands to be cannon, but not like this...

[@ZS-gd9zh]

How is it cannon? Is it the grave being in their front yard? (serious question)

[@Boorosan]

The ending felt a bit off edit: just because i have a different opinion doesn't mean I harass show creator.

[@ThePrincessCH]

From my understanding, they had less episodes to work with than the first season, so they had to compress things a bit more.

[@avab.2794]

I feel the ending would've felt more deserved if they released the episodes one by one.

[@Trashgriffin]

I felt like Ed didn't have enough time to sit with his emotions, and we didn't really get to see how Stede retracted again from the fame and glory of being a cold-blooded killer. At least one episode more would have fixed the pacing. But hearing that they were quite limited in what they could do, they did a good job.

[@JuliaChiarelli]

What's the song that played at the ending?

[@springleafy]

it's The Times They Are A-Changin' by Nina Simone

[@jesusantoniogonzalezaguila7299]

is this the series finale?

[@ThePrincessCH]

I think they're talking about making a third season, but it's not official yet.