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it's there in s1 too, mostly in jack. there's a strong implication that ed in his younger days was a lot more like jack than the ed we see during the show: he used to like drinking all day and biting the heads off turtles, and there's a part of him that still has fun with all that as something that happens once in a blue moon, but overall he's become a guy who wants something more out of life, and jack hasn't. ed grew up, and jack didn't. so 1x08 is one answer to that question djenks asked, and, well, you saw how things ended between ed and jack.

more controversially i think you can see izzy this way too. it's ambiguous in canon, i suspect probably deliberately, whether there was ever a time when ed and izzy's working relationship was really a healthy or positive thing to any degree (i have an opinion you can probably guess, and i can cite canon evidence that i think at least hints at it, but the show does avoid ever nailing anything down very firmly). but i think we have to assume at the very least that in the beginning that relationship was a lot less unhealthy than what we see during the course of the show. because that language about growth is exactly what izzy uses to describe it in his deathbed apology, that he spent years working to force ed into the blackbeard mold "even though i knew you'd outgrown him." there was a time when the whole blackbeard deal wasn't hurting ed, didn't feel as suffocating as it came to feel later, and at that point his relationship with izzy was probably, if not actually good, at least not anywhere near as actively toxic as it later became. but ed grew, and izzy didn't - not even just passively failed to grow the way jack did but understood what was happening and made an active choice not to.

this is something that makes me excited for s3, if we ever get it, especially now that djenks has hinted pretty strongly that stede is the one who's going to be challenged to grow, he's the one who needs to learn to communicate. because ed has this repeated pattern where he grows past important people in his life, over and over again, and before now they have always failed to grow with him. jack didn't see how ed was growing, izzy saw it and did everything he could to try to stop it. but now at long last ed finally has someone who will not try to trap him back there with him, someone who loves him enough to see how he's growing and respond to it by doing the hard work of growing to meet him because that's what a relationship takes.

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