#im surprised on the greek mythology website that no one has pointed this out yet... im not even all that into greek mythology but this

[bahoreal]

give us the dream sequence analysis!!!!!! argh!!!!!!!! (<-threatening and scary, i hope)

i am suitably threatened and scared <3 sorry this took a hot minute i wanted to include screenshots!

so the dream sequence analysis I have is mainly based on costuming! we can all see that hornigold is the part of ed who wants him to die, the ruthless captain who tells ed all the things that makes ed angry and sad, the one who would send him to his death without a thought. what struck me was the outfits

hornigold is wearing what looks like an old sail, he's representing the part of ed that is on a ship, at sea. ed never wanted to come to land, and here's his old captain living in the liminal space between land and sea, dressed like he is still living off the sea, everything about him down to the ropes that drag on the floor show that the part of ed that is tied to the sea is the part that wants to die, wants a change (we already knew that from s1, but this is just. so literal)

and stede? fucking, merman stede?

he's golden, he's symbolising warmth and light, but aside from that he's a mythical creature. he's got a trident, which to me reads as posiden/neptune's trident. he's symbolising the god of the sea, (and in posiden's case, the god of storms) and with so much of ed being tied to the sea, and in impossible birds ed saying he never wants to leave the sea, stede turning up as the mythological embodiment of the sea? an untouchable, unreal, symbol who drags ed away from the sea and back to life? it just meant a lot to me