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I’ve seen and heard a lot of people saying they didn’t understand why Stede went back to Mary but listen. Just minutes before, we see Chauncey telling him that he messes up everything he does. Of course we know it’s not the best idea to go back. We know that it actually makes things worse— for him, for Mary, for Ed, for pretty much everyone but Izzy. But he doesn’t know that yet. Stede doesn’t know that him “ruining” things actually made them better for people. So he does the one thing he thinks will fix it. He goes back to Mary. This should fix his marriage, make his children happy, get Ed back to being the most fearsome pirate ever. Stede likes to do what he thinks is best for people… he’s just wrong a lot of the time