you are of course allowed to sympathize with s1 izzy but u cannot tell me that he is *intended* to be seen as sympathetic when him getting completely decked is met with applause
wait also before getting punched. remember when he first showed up in that episode and everybody booed. and this literally happened onscreen in canon and not in some izzy-bashing fanfic.
The entire crew is rooting for Stede to literally kill him in that duel. Oluwande literally says “No, stab him!” But clearly we’re supposed to feel sorry for him.
once had someone on tumblr show me a zoomed in gif of izzy’s face after he lost the duel of proof he was supposed to be sad and sympathetic but in the actual show the focus of that shot is on frenchie & buttons pointing and laughing at him while the bg music plays some jaunty upbeat fiddle shit
Remember how when he’s leaving and yelling at Ed about how he’s going to rue the day, roach tosses a sandwich at him and it hits him in the face and ricochets into the water? 😌
was thinking abt the scene where izzy gets punched and everyone claps and my next thought was “god how did ppl convince themselves he was supposed to be a sympathetic character.” made a post
i always do that with the bit where he yanks on fang's beard for no reason and it's followed with unnecessary dialogue establishing that (1) fang is not cool with it (2) izzy does it all the time (3) fang is absolutely confident based on his knowledge of izzy that making a complaint would not help
at least w this scene we have davide fane/con o’neill joking abt it being a “love tug” or w/e so there’s SOME reason why those brainrotted by fandom might forget that this scene does not put izzy in a sympathetic light. how tf do u warp “he gets punched and everyone claps” into sympathy
In s1 Izzy is supposed to be an angry little sidekick full of toxic masculinity big-bad-pirate wannabe. And the main source of all of his problems was himself and how he viewed Ed and othet people around him. He only started to losing this attitude and his toxic world view in the 2nd season.
i’m not even trying to be mean but i legit question what some of these people’s education was like bc they literally sound like the kids in my english classes who would put big words in their essays without doing the reading to sound smart
some of them probably got p good grades in english bc they are capable of coming up w original interpretations and crafting well-written arguments for them and that’s pretty good for a lot of like hs-level classes. the actual quality of the interpretations & arguments doesn’t get judged til later
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Also, as I said before, if not villain why eating with his mouth full?