David Jenkins was a playwright before he was a tv showrunner and it so clearly shows in how OFMD was designed as a stage play, indeed, our logistical questions around how Stede managed to find his crew with just a dinghy or why distances don’t matter only come up because we can see the ocean and the distances thanks to the power of CGI movie magic and wouldn’t even ping our collective consciousnesses if this was all happening on a stage as the story in its bones was clearly meant to be, in this essay I will…
Oh so that’swhy Blackbeard sustains being Blackbeard primarily through really great special effects, and Stede survives as the Gentleman Pirate solely via his dramatic instincts.
[ID: Tumblr tags condensed for readability: seriously though I think half of the point of the show is that we’re all playing roles and sometimes the roles stop working, and it’s okay to change them, and also we’ll cope with being human much better if we can see through each other’s roles to the hearts behind them /end ID]
@the-moon-loves-the-sea EXACTLY. This is it. This is IT. The messages of the show blend so well with the format & suspension of disbelief when you accept that theatre is the core of it.
