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i like that black sails ends in an ambiguous way that says You can believe what you want :] and whether you say i believe this happened because i want it to have happened and it comforts me or i believe that happened because it disturbs me and makes for a good story you're proving all its points and themes
BLACK SAILS, XXV
This ain't ever gonna end for us, is it? — black sails xxxi
"You people, incapable of accepting the world as it is," says the man to whom the world handed everything. If no Anne, if no rescue, if this is defeat for me, then know this. You and I were neck and neck in this race right till the end. But, Jesus, did I make up a lot of ground to catch you.
BLACK SAILS 🏴☠️ January 25, 2014 - April 2, 2017.
One thing that I like very very much about the way Black Sails handles Miranda is that like. She’s obviously dead from the beginning; she represents the hope of reconciliation, and there’s only one way for that to end.
But.
But, in any other show, they would have forced her to die innocent. Not of everything, perhaps. She could be allowed to know she was betrayed before she died; showing her shock and sorrow would heighten the tragedy. But still, it would have to have blindsided her. She wouldn’t have gotten a word in edgewise. Other characters would be able to use “this isn’t what she would have wanted” against Flint. This is all very classic for this type of plot beat.
Which is why it’s so great that the show doesn’t go that way. Miranda dies, yes. She dies quickly and brutally and at the hands of a person who didn’t give a fuck about her as a person. But she does get something; she gets to die enraged.
She is the one who sees the clock. She is the one who puts it together. She is the one who weighs the choice: go along with the reconciliation she pushed for and wanted, or take the violent path, with all the miseries of the last ten years and the risk of death?
And she chooses. She dies for it in the very next instant, but she chose.
Which is a hell of a lot more respectful of her as a character than dying still wanting England’s forgiveness would have been.
black sails season 2 is the best season of television ever made. in a single episode you have civil war breaking out among the pirates and politics being reinvented by people who’ve divorced themselves from civilization. the b plot is polyamory drama not dissimilar to the kind that can be found on bravo tv and features crazy lesbian sex but also some guy is there. interspersed in all of this are flashbacks of one of the most beautiful and tragic queer love stories you’ve ever seen. and to top it all off, billy bones comes back from the dead. the perfect show in every way
“i wish they’d make a show about—” it’s black sails. “i wish more shows would—” they did. on black sails. “we need more shows that—” they already did. on black sails. everything you ever want or need. black sails has it for you i promise
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mirandaflint absolutely insane. both of us are in love with the same dead man so sometimes we have grief sex about it but #nohetero. also we are keeping each other’s dearest and best kept secrets which means we are the only people we can actually get mad at & fight with because we know we are safe with each other . and btw one of us is becoming someone unforgivable and the other is complicit and both of us are unrecognizable now to our shared dead husband. like hello ? can anyone hear me hello ???
BLACK SAILS
4x09 ● “XXXVII.”
I have one regret. I regret ever coming to this place with the assumption that a reconciliation could be found, that reason could be a bridge between us.
BLACK SAILS
4x09 ● “XXXVII.”
remember when black sails said “no we’re not going to break the fourth wall. we’re not going to dismantle it or disprove it. the fourth wall is right behind you.”
