Welcome to Spacing Out with BB and Jason this week covering Our Flag Means Death
Season one, episode seven, This is Happening. Ye, welcome to Spacey.
Now. I'm BB and I'm Jason, and we're going to have fun
today. And that's in order. Oh my god, because we're talking about
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past this episode, which is Our Flag Means Death Season one, episode seven,
This is Happening. It's originally aired on March seventeenth, twenty twenty two.
I'm not sure I can pronounce this name was written by zayre Ferrer.
In this episode, the crew goes to Saint Augustine to buy oranges to treat
the swede scurvy. Steed Ed and Lucius going on a treasure hunt while the
other pirates search for oranges. They find an orange tree in a church courtyard
and meet a nun whom Jim addresses as Nana. Aluwande learns that Jim came
to live with Nana after their father was murdered, and that Nana taught Jim
to use knives to avenge the death of the Jimenez family at the hands of
the Siete Gios, a roving band of mercenaries. On the treasure hunt,
Lucius confronts a surly Ed, calling him on the fact that Seed and Ed
like each other. The treasure hunt culminates in the unearthing of a petrified orange
under the Jimenez family tree, and Jim remains behind to complete the revenge.
Meanwhile, Chauncey Badminton arrives at Spanish Jackies while where she and Izzie are plotting
against Steed. Vibe check. Did we like the episode overall? How does
it stend to chest stuff time? Do you like the episode? Yeah?
I liked it. It was fun. What did you like? I liked
the treasure hunt and the Swede just running around losing teeth. That's terrible.
He's like, does anyone have a baggie. I want to save the teeth
so I can put them back. Oh yeah, I like the episode.
I think it's really funny. It's like a very very quotable episode, a
lot of funny lines in it. I was really surprised that Blackbeard hates nature
so much. Yeah, because he's wearing all that leather. Yeah, I
like the leather look. I don't think it'd be comfortable though. I like
that little pop of purple that he wears. Yeah. Yeah, it's a
fun episode. I think both storylines are like really engaging, so it's fun
to watch. Yeah, Trivia time, what facts could we uncover for this
is happening? Trivia Samba Shoot? Who's the episode? The actor that plays
Roach revealed the Blackbeard bar and grill scene was improvised by Taikawa Tit and Rees
Starby, And it definitely feels that way like that, that feels like a
sketch out of like a Fly the Concords episode or something like, Oh yeah,
well that's the guy I want. And that's who's that guy? Oh
it's me looks so funny. Viko Ortez revealed that they and Samson Kyo kiss
during a take of the gym and all the Wandi scene, but it didn't
make any of the final cut, as it was decided it was too soon
for the characters kiss. Would you want to kiss Weko? Yeah, sure,
I'd take it. I'd killy do it in my crocs Deep Sea Dive.
Let's break down some of our thoughts on the episode. You can share
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on an upcoming episode. Right end of the episode, black Beard is preparing
to abandon the ship and go on his own way. Yeah, is he's
gone? Like his crew doesn't seem too present in this episode, so we're
not sure what's going on with his crew. Yeah, he seems uncomfortable having
hung around that long. I'm still like unclear, like where his ship is.
Yeah, well he's black Beard. He can always come and dear somebody
else's ship. Yeah, you would think like the two ships would be sailing
together or something. And then sweet Innocent Swede has scurvy. He doesn't know
either, everybody knows except him. He just wants a doctor to verify it.
He's just some smells of disease. He's like, I keep losing teeth.
It's so terrible. I would be freaking the fuck out. That's literally
nightmare fuel. And he thinks he can put them back in later. Yeah,
and they're like, sweet, that's not how teeth work, and he's
like what. And then their conversation about uh, managing their supply of oranges,
the forty orange hurries for the cake. Cake, that's just the cake,
the frosty. Yeah, another ten for the cake, and then Steve
said it barely tasted of oranges, and you could tell the cook was still
upset. He's like a shock and off. It was good though. Yeah.
In there, they're headed to Jim's homeland for Steve uncovers a treasure map
because he's uh easily scammed. Yeah, and he's like a child believing these
stories about buried treasure and stuff. And I think part of him wants to
keep Blackbeard around. It's like, really doesn't want to see black Beard go.
Yeah, so that's what I mean. Lucius is picking up on all
this about their relationship. Yeah, Lucius is very intuitive when he's watching them
and hanging out with them. Yeah, Lucius is seeing their relationship and it's
kind of like the audience surrogate there just being like, oh, my god,
this is happening. Yeah, yeah, because you're like, at first,
it's like, what's going on? Like these guys are really friendly and
nice to each other, But then all of a sudden, you're like,
wait a minute, what, And Lucius is kind of clarifying things for us
in a way. If we didn't see it before, we're definitely seeing it
now. So it's it's different to see like these two men interacting like this
now. And then when Blackbeard got attacked by that snake, not only did
he shake it around and pound it around, he also stabbed it today,
yes, and then Steed comments somehow well tenderized it is, Yeah, and
it could be that's what their improv was about. Yeah, that improv was
really good. Like I believed it. I believed it from these characters talking
about like a fake restaurant situation. Well but yeah, so, I mean
Lucius was with Steve when he bought this map, and I think it's very
in tune with what Steed is trying to do to keep black Beard hanging around.
And then black Beard's having such a miserable time that Lucius is the one
has to step in and you know, explain to him what's going on here.
Even if you're very cool and you wear leather, everyone's trying to impress
you because you are the cool leather daddy. And I don't think Blackbeard saw
that for a while, Like he's not aware of how cool he is to
everyone. Like black Pete was like, tell black Beard, this was my
idea. Yeah, So I don't know. I think it's important that he
gets grounded, and I'm glad that Lucius is the one to do it.
And he would told him like, you can stab me now I know how
I stepped out of bounds. Steve. His outfit reminded me of his character
in Jumanji. He's like the adventure. Do you remember Jumanji? Was he
in it? Yeah? Like the newer ones with the Rock and he's in
it. Yeah, He's like the NBC character that like introduces oh god,
I don't remember that he did. He gave me white Man on Safari yep.
And yeah, so that's that's the vibe I got from him. I
totally forgot he was in Jumanji with the Rock. I literally forgot that he
was the MPC. He wasn't that big of a character. I guess he's
kind of like the gives him the exposition at the beginning, and yeah at
the end, Yeah, he looks exactly like that, maybe a little more
modern. In Djumanji. It gave me Tarzan, like the way that they
were dressed in the animated series, the other people, the white people that
came to the jungle. So it's fun that he has that outfit as part
of his wardrobe. He's prepared for every kind of event. Yeah, I'm
surprised he didn't have an extra one for Lucius to make him wear it.
He did that white suit. Oh my god, that white suit was so
traumatic when he was like covered in blood when he was digging up the treasure
and he like randomly calls out for Lucius and Lucius is like, I don't
know why you'd get me involved, Like, I'm the last person that should
be getting dirty. I like Lucius in this episode a lot. He's got
the wooden finger. Yeah, so I'm glad we got to learn a little
more about Jim, and I feel like that was a bigger plot point at
the beginning of the series, and it's been a few episodes since Jim has
had any real focus, So now we understand a little bit more of why
Jim is on this revenge mission. Yeah, well he hasn't been on this
revenge mission for long apparently, like he killed They killed one guy and they
were like, that's probably enough. Well then they had to go into hiding
from Spanish Jackie, I guess put them on the revenge and then that's the
story so far. Yeah, it just doesn't seem like it was a priority.
No, and their adoptive non mother was very disappointed. What was her
name, not Nana, Nanna, but who plays who plays HER's? She's
an Orange is the New Black, and she's one of she's on the latinas
so in Orange is the New Black. She is one of the main Latina
moms or like matriarchs, and she plays the chef and she is so tough
in that show. And I'm pretty sure that both Jim and her are Puerto
Rican. Selena Salinis Leva, Yeah, she's Cuban, Cuban, Dominican,
ooh, and Dominican. So she's new She's from New York right, Yeah,
yeah, she was born in the Bronx, Cuban and Dominican. Okay,
because she I'm pretty sure her character is Puerto Rican and Orange is the
New black, but I could be wrong because I haven't seen that in a
long time. But she's a really good actress. She really is. And
I believed her as like this tough nun that was like hyper focused on revenge.
And it was just like such a happenstance that the only orange tree in
the whole like area of San Agustine happens to be on her property or on
her church property whatever, I don't know how to say it. And those
pirates agree to work for oranges, right the way they when they encounter the
nun and she like throws that knife at first. I love the way they're
like trying to do the Catholic sign of the cross. Yeah, They're like,
we're we're of your tribe, We're part of the group. And he's
like, yeah, I just converted friend chie. She had like the laziest
version of it. Yeah. I also like her as a like this judgmental
parent with Aluwandi there. Yeah, first she was like interrogating her or them
about, uh, like do you live together, are you married? What's
going on? And Jim is like they speak Spanish and Alawandi's just sitting there
smiling. I love's ability to just have a good time. Yeah, he's
really having fun learning about Jim in this episode, and he like sees how
Jim's parent figure treats Jim, and he like understands the facts that it has
on Jim, and he tries to fix it, Like when Nana was like,
so you're saying that six of the seven are still alive. You haven't
fucking killed anybody. You're useless, Like what is the point of you?
And Jim runs away and all one Day's like, well, I gotta go
fix what just happened. I like how open he was about that. Yeah,
and then he gets the full story of what happened in Jim's father and
he says that Jim's pretty well adjusted for an orphan raised by a nun to
be a killing machine. Yeah. And then right is their kiss is about
the transpire, they're interrupted by the treasure Hunters. Yeah, because Blackbeard has
reignited the fun of this adventure now that he understands what's going on with Steed.
So these storylines kind of dovetail together here and they dig up a petrified
orange. It's truly silly, it really is. It's a pretty silly episode,
even though it seems pretty heavy too, with all the gym background.
Yeah, yeah, well balanced, very well balanced. Well, just we
end with co captains, We end with co captains and then it cuts back
to Spanish Jackie's. Like the last episode we ended at Spanish Jackie's, so
something's building up here. Yeah. That was also just a really funny scene
where Spanish Jackie is like, he broke my nose jar and they killed my
favorite husband. And then the British officers like, I'm not following any of
that. Why do they call you Spanish Jackie? I don't know. Are
you Spanish? No? No, and nothing, no answers Astoral Queen,
who was the standout character in the episode for me, ucious same Lucius did
it for me in this episode with that little oh my god, this is
happening. It awakened you in that moment to like, what is happening?
What is going on? And then he breaks it down for Blackbeard because those
two are fucking oblivious. Yes, and it's so good. It's so good.
Yeah, I mean Lucius sees it. I'm pretty sure like their whole
crew probably sees it. He saw it, Yeah, and he thinks it's
brainwashing? Is he is very threatened by it. M hm. So yeah,
if Lucius wasn't there to steer them in the right direction, they'd still
be lost and they wouldn't be co captaining. Yeah, black Beard would be
moving on to the next one and having like a feeling of something that's probably
missing because it does seem like their kindred spirits. So that is why Lucius
is the winner of this episode. Yeah, he won the episode. Sorry
to everyone else, you're all great. You are all really good, especially
Swede. Honorable mention four teeth losing dude. All right, that wraps up
the main part of the episode. We will go into the spoiler section and
talk about some things coming up, I presume if we have anything to say,
But if you don't want to be spoiled anything, now is your time
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We Go Way Back and we will see you next time. Let's put our
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five four three two one. I don't know if I have any I feel
like we're on track here for everything that's gonna happen. The only thing that
came to my mind was they're talking about opening that restaurant, and the series
ends with them opening like a bed and breakfast, isn't it. Yeah,
a bed and breakfast the queerest thing in the world. Yes, So yeah,
I think I think Blackbeard can be a chef. He can be anything
he wants to be. Yeah. I love that attitude. I'm glad he
believes that. And then Jim. I'm pretty sure that Jim goes on to
kill like one other person and it's a Fred Armison, and I think that's
like that's it. They're like, a there's probably all sad, yeah,
because they kind of set it up here, like Jim's got six more heads
to hunt. Yeah, but I feel like they're in an arrow where people
are fucking dying of scurvy and shit, like more than half are probably already
goners. So I'm excited to see the next episode. What's the next episode
about. It's the one with that fucking guy I hate. Yeah, Will
Arnett. Yeah, he's the jack then just threw everything up. Yeah he
sucks, which is part of the plot that is he is doing sending him
the fuck everything up. Yeah, all right, yeah, Otherwise I don't
I'm really curious what becomes with Jim and Pauluwanda, and I'm they get together,
they like separate, and then all a one day hangs out with the
like Queen of the Seven Seas. Yeah, I remember that, and I
don't remember how that all resolves. Well, so I'll get there. I
think they all get in a trouble or like a like a four way like
friendship relationship thing. They're not clear, but it's like everyone gets along and
they're still all fucking or something. But Jim hooks up with a with like
a pirate lady, like a rogue, and they don't give her too much
backstory or anything. It's kind of sad because Jim, because when when all
the shit between Steve and Blackbeard goes away, black Beard takes some of the
crew with him. Likes Jim. He likes Jim because Jim is tough,
and no what happens is Blackbeard maroons the shitty part of the crew on an
island and Steed somehow finds them. But the part of the crew that he
keeps are like Frenchy and Jim and I think another guy. I think the
cook, like the tough guys, the smart ones. Yeah, and I
think Lucius and black gets separated too. Oh well, Lucius gets like pushed
off the boat by Izzy, so that sucks, and Lucius goes through hell
in high water. It's really sad. Think him and Izzy have some of
the darkest timelines, in the darkest like things that happened to them in the
series. Black Beard too, when the love of his life leaves him,
abandons him in their journey to escape, the way that he copes with it
is like really sad, like he's just fucking tormented, Like how could he
do that? Steed really screws us up for everyone. Yeah, well,
he's like feeling guilty because he but he does to Blackbeard the same thing he
did to his wife and their high moment where they were maybe on the good
terms, he leaves to do something so self centered and selfish. So it's
like a pattern. All right, Well, let's get out of here.
We'll be back for we go way back next episode. Thanks for sailing on
the revenge and remember to use your citrus and moderation, but use it please.
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