The Fate of Ned Low, Pirate...

[fajrdrako]

There's a question I was pondering from Our Flag Means Death 2x06, "Calypso's Birthday".

Ed is concerned about Stede killing Ned Low. You can't come back from something like that, he seens Stede as going down the path he went down, and he doesn't like it.

But What alternative did Stede have? I see four choices:

1. Maim him
2. Imprison him
3. Let him go
4. Kill him

Pacifist that I am, I don't like option 4, but I see it as the most viable thing. While maiming him might have been Ed's style, it isn't Stede's, and it leaves the question of what to do with him afterwards.

Imprison him? No one would want to take care of him on The Revenge, and there is no law to turn him over to in the pirate world.

Let him go, and he'll be torturing and murdering again in hours, quite likely coming after The Revenge for revenge.

So maybe it didn't have to be death by violin—that was Stede's own personal flourish. (A rather good one, I 0thought.)