That's why I think makes this show Excel so much, it explores what love really is. Love is not comfort, it can be humorous uneasy strange and everything ridiculous. And none of it makes any sense except to our hearts
Ed's whole storyline in this episode emotionally destroyed me. I could feel each attack at his past from "Ben" shoot through me, and the realisation that he was actually Ed's self-hatred only worsened it. The whole theme of feeling unlovable despite being loved was just way too real for me because I've often felt this way, even if I haven't had the same past experiences. Also, huge props to David Jenkins for the addition of a mer-Stede. Beautiful mix of symbolism and fanservice.
Can we all take a moment to recognize that this scene is one of the best metaphors I've ever seen put onto screen. One of the struggles being faced by this character is his oh-so painful split between two identities; the one people have constructed for him, and the one he feels he can never deserve. Firstly there's Blackbeard; a fiction, a terror, and a figment of people's imaginations come to life to crush him under the weight. He was constructed by other people with little choice of what that would mean for him. And then there's Ed; a person, a human, who he thought he'd get to be until the one person who made him feel real vanished away, leaving him ripped apart and unsure of who he was. When he became Ed in season 1, there was still so much uncertainty, because the Ed that was there was still, somewhat, like Blackbeard. He was a person. He was a human. But he was also created off of the expectations and love from Stede. Is that a bad thing? No. Not necessarily. But it does mean that it would be more difficult for him to truly become his own person. Made it easier for him to be torn apart and become what he did during the start of Season 2. Made it easier to feel as if he'd disappointed and let down everyone, because he didn't know how to be either person, so it would just be easier if he was nothing at all. And then we get this scene. This brilliant, incredible, amazing scene that says so much in so little time. Ed was never going to be able to shake Blackbeard. It's too heavy to push away, and too sharp to unhook from his skin. He said it in the first season. The only way Blackbeard was ever going away, was if he died. And that's what's happened. Blackbeard died. Which means that for the first time ever, Ed (new, reborn, and stumbling into his own) has a chance to live.
Beautifully said! This whole show walks a very fine line between being absurdly funny/silly and heartbreakingly tender. I feel like that is essentially Taika's wheelhouse, which is why I think he is so perfect for Blackbeard/Ed. I love that there are so many other folks out there that are as smitten with this show as I am.
@@xThemFatalexand like. I am also a big soft middle aged dude and seeing everyone lose their minds over mer-Stede is making me feel like “maybe people won’t laugh at me for being a big soft guy with a mermaid tail”
I’m going to sound like a crazy person but hear me out…. A lot of people have been calling Stede a “goldfish merman” which I think is interesting because goldfish are freshwater fish. Stede is literally a fish out of water. He comes from a different world (freshwater) and is somehow able to survive in the pirate world (saltwater). This almost mythical existence defies all logic. To Ed he is this magical creature who was somehow able to pull him out of the darkness.
I cannot stop watching this scene. This show depicts the emotions of love with such care and delicacy and it is spot-on to how it actually feels internally to fall in love and to experience heartbreak and hopefully to then reunite with that person. I can’t stop crying. Also Kate Bush was perfect for this scene.
Same. Can’t stop watching/crying, thinking of my time with the love of my life and those hardcore feelings that go with it all. This scene brings those feelings on like nothing I’ve ever experienced before. The music, of course, crushingly beautiful, and as precisely accurate as the rest.. .absolute immaculate brilliance at work here. Thank you all who contributed to this masterpiece. You made something amazing and important.
Not me crying AGAIN when watching this scene…anybody else quite astounded at how well Rhys adapted to being a mermaid? Maybe in another life he really did 😊
Rhys has spoke about how the swimming bit wasn't too bad because when he was a kid he would swim with his legs together and pretend he was a mermaid (he's really into Cryptids and even hosts a podcast about them). He had to work on holding his breath to be able to do these underwater scenes. He was also super nervous because he'd previously got filmed water scenes in a tank years ago and he nearly drowned! 😯 If you seek out the BTS stuff that Samba shared you see Taika being really gentle and reassuring to Rhys 🥺
This scene was beyond magical. It made me feel levels of wonder I only remember experiencing last as a kid walking out of the cinema after some magical fantasy adventure movies. Something about the combination of feelings, visuals, music and the general imagery just blasted my neurons into space. I went from almost crying to giggling to almost crying again - this scene being the last out of 3 episodes felt so special too. It was a wonderful rollercoaster of emotions. I'm so thankful for this show, its so full of love and watching it was so wonderful and mafical.
Me n my partner decided to watch the new episodes as a date night, and when I tell you how emotional we were both getting during this scene, the music swelling up, watching stedes face as he tries desperately to wake ed up and then to have MERMAID FUCKING STEDE appear out of nowhere. We started to cackle so HARD. It was perfect.
As a MASSIVE Kate Bush fan (thank you stranger things) this scene nearly had me weeping into my friends shoulder. I’m so happy Kate’s music is in the public eye again and seemingly she’s lending it out more! I know Taika has been a Kate Bush fan for many years so I’m delighted for him that he got this song in the show.
Taika's wheelhouse is definitely that of tears and laughter. And compassion. Those are the purest emotions of humanity. And this scene resonates a lot with me, personally. I almost died just over a year ago, and if it weren't for my partner holding my hand whilst he slept in a recliner next to my hospital bed for a week... I'm not sure I would've had the fight left in me to survive.
Я так сильно кіню Еда, бо в мене теж були гострі моменти, коли я казала, що я погана і не заслуговую на любов, що мене не можливо любити, я досі працюю над цим. Історія Еда настільки болюче відкликається в мені, я так його люблю Я розплакалася на цьому моменті, я просто сподіваюся, що Стід допоможе усвідомити Еду, що він вартий любові І я сподіваюся, що я зможу знайти її також
@@bigjedimullet basically they had a character who had amnesia jump in the water to find himself and had a vision of his significant other come to him as a mermaid and then all of a sudden realized who he was and when he resurfaced the significant other was the waiting for him.
@@RitaMej if you know either of the characters’ names please let me know so I can scour RUclips for clips to compare, I am super intrigued and now wondering if other soaps have “borrowed” big emotional moments from other popular shows…
@@bigjedimullet it was Ned Quartermaine/Ashton but was going by Eddie Maine since had had amnesia and his significant other is Olivia Falconari. Just realized his name is also a variant of Ed.
@@RitaMej Thank you so much for this information! I have to admit, I’m always kind of tickled when I hear about something like a soap or a Hallmark movie echoing a piece of very gay media-it doesn’t happen super often to my knowledge, but since I don’t know about soaps, it might be more common than I think!
I interpreted it as though the light was Stede’s love for Ed. Particularly after their conversation when Ed thanks Stede for saving his life in 2x07. The light remained, as bright as it first appeared, as Stede said he would never leave again. So although Ed was no longer under the surface, facing death, that love stays facing that void at the same intensity.
It's overly silly and dramatic, but it somehow fits because despite Ed being so gritty and masculine, he still wants and likes romantic and fancy stuff
![gentlebeard s2 scenepack (our flag means death) [4k]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vOVE1UYKSJE/mqdefault.jpg)
Leave it to OFMD to have me holding back tears to then openly weeping and howling with laughter when mermaid Stede appeared.
That's why I think makes this show Excel so much, it explores what love really is. Love is not comfort, it can be humorous uneasy strange and everything ridiculous. And none of it makes any sense except to our hearts
@@shindeannow what you said made me cry that’s so sweet 😭😭
@@Tomato_S0up May the ubiquity of love surround us like this sea
Same. I've cried laughing hundreds of times but very few things have made me laugh crying
@@shindeanomg EXACTLY! Like love is a mix of emotions- it’s heartbreaking and life giving and hilarious and ridiculous all at the same time
NO ONE IS DOING IT LIKE THIS SHOW. THIS IS THE BEST LOVE STORY
Literally one of the greatest love stories ever it is perfect
Kate Bush actually watched this scene and loved it. A testament to how great this scene is
WHERE DID YOU FIND THIS OUT!?!? I’d love to know more!
Ed's whole storyline in this episode emotionally destroyed me. I could feel each attack at his past from "Ben" shoot through me, and the realisation that he was actually Ed's self-hatred only worsened it. The whole theme of feeling unlovable despite being loved was just way too real for me because I've often felt this way, even if I haven't had the same past experiences.
Also, huge props to David Jenkins for the addition of a mer-Stede. Beautiful mix of symbolism and fanservice.
I have rewatched this scene an unhealthy number of times
Same here 💀👍🏴☠️
Me too 😂❤
Can we all take a moment to recognize that this scene is one of the best metaphors I've ever seen put onto screen. One of the struggles being faced by this character is his oh-so painful split between two identities; the one people have constructed for him, and the one he feels he can never deserve. Firstly there's Blackbeard; a fiction, a terror, and a figment of people's imaginations come to life to crush him under the weight. He was constructed by other people with little choice of what that would mean for him.
And then there's Ed; a person, a human, who he thought he'd get to be until the one person who made him feel real vanished away, leaving him ripped apart and unsure of who he was.
When he became Ed in season 1, there was still so much uncertainty, because the Ed that was there was still, somewhat, like Blackbeard. He was a person. He was a human. But he was also created off of the expectations and love from Stede. Is that a bad thing? No. Not necessarily. But it does mean that it would be more difficult for him to truly become his own person. Made it easier for him to be torn apart and become what he did during the start of Season 2. Made it easier to feel as if he'd disappointed and let down everyone, because he didn't know how to be either person, so it would just be easier if he was nothing at all.
And then we get this scene.
This brilliant, incredible, amazing scene that says so much in so little time.
Ed was never going to be able to shake Blackbeard. It's too heavy to push away, and too sharp to unhook from his skin. He said it in the first season. The only way Blackbeard was ever going away, was if he died.
And that's what's happened.
Blackbeard died.
Which means that for the first time ever, Ed (new, reborn, and stumbling into his own) has a chance to live.
I love your thoughts 👍❤️
Beautifully said! This whole show walks a very fine line between being absurdly funny/silly and heartbreakingly tender. I feel like that is essentially Taika's wheelhouse, which is why I think he is so perfect for Blackbeard/Ed. I love that there are so many other folks out there that are as smitten with this show as I am.
yes bruv
such a beautiful way to put this scene into words. wow.
I love the foreshadowing from Lucius when he says “maybe life begins again”
So glad they chose Kate Bush for this scene. Love the song, love the show. Immediately recognized it too and made me like the sequence even more
Y'all can laugh at mer-Stede but im crying through the laughter 😭😭😭
I just cried harder because I’m a trans guy who never stopped wanting to be a mermaid
@@bigjedimullet I BIG FEEL this as an enby
@@xThemFatalexand like. I am also a big soft middle aged dude and seeing everyone lose their minds over mer-Stede is making me feel like “maybe people won’t laugh at me for being a big soft guy with a mermaid tail”
if you want to be a big soft guy with a mermaid tail, BE A BIG SOFT GUY WITH A MERMAID TAIL. that's incredible. @@bigjedimullet
@@bigjedimullet Dude go for it, there's not enough mermen! The world and little boys who love mermaids could always use more!
There were so many versions of how they'll meet again and somehow they did it perfectly while not actually using any of those theories 😭💛
I’m going to sound like a crazy person but hear me out….
A lot of people have been calling Stede a “goldfish merman” which I think is interesting because goldfish are freshwater fish. Stede is literally a fish out of water. He comes from a different world (freshwater) and is somehow able to survive in the pirate world (saltwater). This almost mythical existence defies all logic. To Ed he is this magical creature who was somehow able to pull him out of the darkness.
A metaphor about goldfish has no business being so beautiful. Thank you
I cannot stop watching this scene. This show depicts the emotions of love with such care and delicacy and it is spot-on to how it actually feels internally to fall in love and to experience heartbreak and hopefully to then reunite with that person. I can’t stop crying. Also Kate Bush was perfect for this scene.
💯
Same. Can’t stop watching/crying, thinking of my time with the love of my life and those hardcore feelings that go with it all. This scene brings those feelings on like nothing I’ve ever experienced before. The music, of course, crushingly beautiful, and as precisely accurate as the rest.. .absolute immaculate brilliance at work here. Thank you all who contributed to this masterpiece. You made something amazing and important.
Me wanting to cancel HBO til I found out there was going to be a season 2. Here I am sobbing at this beautiful couple! 😭
Third time watching this scene, third time tearing up. It is so beautiful.
My eyes watered, not gonna lie. It was too beautiful
Not me crying AGAIN when watching this scene…anybody else quite astounded at how well Rhys adapted to being a mermaid? Maybe in another life he really did 😊
Rhys has spoke about how the swimming bit wasn't too bad because when he was a kid he would swim with his legs together and pretend he was a mermaid (he's really into Cryptids and even hosts a podcast about them). He had to work on holding his breath to be able to do these underwater scenes. He was also super nervous because he'd previously got filmed water scenes in a tank years ago and he nearly drowned! 😯 If you seek out the BTS stuff that Samba shared you see Taika being really gentle and reassuring to Rhys 🥺
I can’t stop watching this
THIS is the pinnacle of film art in 2023. It's absolutely insanely beautiful. 10/10. A+. A+++++.
Everything about this scene is beautiful. I loved it so much that it made me cry.
God, this scene paired with this song left me speechless the first time I saw it ❤
This absolutely broke me 😭
I've seen s2 four times so far lmao. And have sobbed Each Time at this
The music they use is so great song after song and they put them in scenes that are so good.
This scene was beyond magical. It made me feel levels of wonder I only remember experiencing last as a kid walking out of the cinema after some magical fantasy adventure movies.
Something about the combination of feelings, visuals, music and the general imagery just blasted my neurons into space. I went from almost crying to giggling to almost crying again - this scene being the last out of 3 episodes felt so special too. It was a wonderful rollercoaster of emotions.
I'm so thankful for this show, its so full of love and watching it was so wonderful and mafical.
Me n my partner decided to watch the new episodes as a date night, and when I tell you how emotional we were both getting during this scene, the music swelling up, watching stedes face as he tries desperately to wake ed up and then to have MERMAID FUCKING STEDE appear out of nowhere. We started to cackle so HARD. It was perfect.
No one does it like Taika.🥰
The song choice sealed it. From the moment the piano begins I was in tears.
As a MASSIVE Kate Bush fan (thank you stranger things) this scene nearly had me weeping into my friends shoulder. I’m so happy Kate’s music is in the public eye again and seemingly she’s lending it out more! I know Taika has been a Kate Bush fan for many years so I’m delighted for him that he got this song in the show.
Terrific visuals as Ed plunged into the water and montage of their relationship. When OFMD becomes art, completely.
literally jaw dropping
Taika's wheelhouse is definitely that of tears and laughter. And compassion. Those are the purest emotions of humanity. And this scene resonates a lot with me, personally. I almost died just over a year ago, and if it weren't for my partner holding my hand whilst he slept in a recliner next to my hospital bed for a week... I'm not sure I would've had the fight left in me to survive.
I have no idea how this show got me so emotionally invested but I balled at this scene and then burst out laughing haha
This scene and the song... destroyed me
Crying shidding throwing up
girl same
Tears man… What a great job
cutest shit ive seen all year... lol
Я так сильно кіню Еда, бо в мене теж були гострі моменти, коли я казала, що я погана і не заслуговую на любов, що мене не можливо любити, я досі працюю над цим.
Історія Еда настільки болюче відкликається в мені, я так його люблю
Я розплакалася на цьому моменті, я просто сподіваюся, що Стід допоможе усвідомити Еду, що він вартий любові
І я сподіваюся, що я зможу знайти її також
my heart 😭😭😭😭
Totally Stranger Things vibes with Max scene... loved it!
I could be crazy but I feel like they planned to use this song from the first ep
It is soo beautiful!😍
My mom just told me the soap general hospital just ripped off this scene and I am speechless
Hi, I need to know more immediately
@@bigjedimullet basically they had a character who had amnesia jump in the water to find himself and had a vision of his significant other come to him as a mermaid and then all of a sudden realized who he was and when he resurfaced the significant other was the waiting for him.
@@RitaMej if you know either of the characters’ names please let me know so I can scour RUclips for clips to compare, I am super intrigued and now wondering if other soaps have “borrowed” big emotional moments from other popular shows…
@@bigjedimullet it was Ned Quartermaine/Ashton but was going by Eddie Maine since had had amnesia and his significant other is Olivia Falconari. Just realized his name is also a variant of Ed.
@@RitaMej Thank you so much for this information! I have to admit, I’m always kind of tickled when I hear about something like a soap or a Hallmark movie echoing a piece of very gay media-it doesn’t happen super often to my knowledge, but since I don’t know about soaps, it might be more common than I think!
Beautiful emotional and heartfelt. That is all x
Uma vez por mes volto aqui pra rever e chorar ate babar !❤😢😢😢😢
perfect music casting
If good omens season 3 doesn’t have a beautiful scene like this then i don’t want it
I'm not american, how can I watch the episodes?
VPN?
I am the breeze...... 🌞
i am embarrassed at the amount of times ive watched this
What did the after credits scene mean though?
I interpreted it as though the light was Stede’s love for Ed. Particularly after their conversation when Ed thanks Stede for saving his life in 2x07. The light remained, as bright as it first appeared, as Stede said he would never leave again. So although Ed was no longer under the surface, facing death, that love stays facing that void at the same intensity.
Qual o nome da música?????
"This Woman's Work" by Kate Bush
@joaofrancisco9410 Off Kate's 1989 album "The Sensual World". Kate plays piano, does her own backing vocals and produced it.
im sorry not the mermain😂😂😂
THAT WAS LITERALLY SO UNSERIOUS
@@serin6319 YASS BUT EVERYONE CRYING FOR SOME REASONS LMAO
It's overly silly and dramatic, but it somehow fits because despite Ed being so gritty and masculine, he still wants and likes romantic and fancy stuff
@@serin6319i don't think a comedy show have to be serious
@@w6npushabecause it was still emotional?
THANK YOU FOR POSYING THIS SO I CAN REWATCH AND ANALYZE EVERY PART OF IT 😭😭🫶🫶