flint deliberately changing his earring from gold to silver at some point between seasons two and three could mean nothing. or it could symbolize shifting priorities: from the urca gold to… well. silver. or it could mean nothing at all. who’s to say
if the phrase “the enemy of my enemy is friend” holds true for black sails (and I think it does) then Flint and Max should have been friends in some universe. both of them care about Eleanor and both of them dislike Charles, not just because of who he is as a person, but also because of his toxic hold over Eleanor. both of them have a bone to pick with Charles, both of them are gay and full of rage. i am once again mad that there was never a single Flint/Max scene
Have you no memory of how we got here? What they took from us? What does it matter now? What does it matter? What does it matter what happened then if we have no life now? Because there is no life here. There is no joy here. There is no love here. There’s no love here. What are you talking about? What do you think I’m out there fighting for if not to make all those things possible here? You’ll fight a war so we can make a life? You don’t get one without the other, my sweet. No. You’re wrong. I sent that letter to show you that you’re wrong. There is a life in Boston. There is joy there, and music, and peace. The door is open. I’ve opened it for you. And it requires no war and no blood and no sacrifice. It requires an intolerable sacrifice. To accept a pardon? To apologize! Apologize? Who will you be apologizing to? To England! They took everything from us. And then they call me a monster. The moment I sign that pardon, the moment I ask for one, I proclaim to the world that they were right. This ends when I grant them my forgiveness. Not the other way around. This path you’re on… it doesn’t lead where you think it does. If he were here, he’d agree with me.
there is something so considered and intentional in the rhythm of the monologues of black sails, especially flint’s monologues and i think in part it has to do with toby stephens being a theatre actor who has done shakespeare which is why he’s so spectacular at them but the cadence and the inflection and the rhythmic structure of so many lines and speeches are buried somewhere in my hindbrain as if they are pieces of music rather than dialogue. it’s so so so impressive to me both from a writing standpoint and an acting standpoint
@theoreticalwitchcraft god you are so right the “because there is no life here there is no joy here there is no LOVE. HERE.” is so fucking incredible. louise barnes is also absolutely amazing at this its partly why their scenes together just propel the show into the stratosphere. i also think of her final speech to peter ashe where she’s like “you DESTROYED our LIVES” that entire monologue is musical. god
eleanor is totally ready for flint to kiss her and for them maybe to do the do, and then she gets gay dad zoned and on rewatch its so obvious !! but on the first watch you’re like WhAAATTTT are the writers doing ???? but it all adds up! it all matters! this show straight bates you so hard!!!!
I think in both sides you see Silver struggling to– in a way wishing he could be someone else and maybe someone bigger and maybe someone with more, maybe someone more like Flint or more like these other people around him, but being that awful feeling when you know you just aren’t or can’t do that thing and can’t go to that place within yourself, and people have that in life and people have it in relationships all the time, when you’re going “fuck, I wish I could go there. I wish I could be there with you on this thing and it’s just not in me”. (Luke Arnold)
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And you? What do you think? You see me as the villainhere?
I see you as the agent most likely of securing my share of the gold on that beach. As long as that remains true, I am not bothered in the least by whatever labels anyone else decides to affix to you.
