praying manifesting hoping that rhys and taika channel jake gyllenhaal and heath ledger’s brokeback mountain reunification kiss in s2. like we Need that. break his nose rhys. society has gone too long without a kiss like that
Oh, and now that you’ve said yes, and I thought you would, ‘can you elaborate why?’Mm. I don’t think we need to. I don’t think we need, it’s like asking the wind why it blows. It just is. A giraffe, why is your neck so tall? As the ancient saying goes, the giraffe does not answer when you ask, 'Why is your neck so long?’.Exactly.
I wish I had access to HBO so I could watch it there to improve ratings, but alas. It’s ok though, Taika won’t mind.
I will describe some stuff about Our Flag Means Death for anyone who hasn’t seen it and would like to know what to expect, because this is not a show anyone could have expected and I still haven’t processed the fact that it exists, despite having watched it twice.
It’s about 5 hours in total - 10 episodes that are more or less a half hour each.
It’s a romantic comedy with lots of queer pirates, and they are the main characters. I couldn’t find a shot with all of them, but here’s the captain reading most of his crew a bedtime story.
It’s very silly a lot of the time, and some ridiculous cartoonish stuff happens. Sort of a similar flavour to Galavant, but with more swearing and no musical numbers.
But the queerness of the pirates is never the butt of the joke, they’re just there existing and it’s very normal. Absolutely no mean-spirited writing.
(side note - if you tag this “q slur” I will make you eat your own severed toe. Or perhaps just block you)
There’sa nonbinary pirate played by a nonbinary actor and there were three nonbinary writers in the writers room. The other pirates are cool with it, and their character arc isn’t about gender stuff.
The first (unnamed bad guy) character to say something racist to one of the black crewmen immediately gets his hand pinned to the table with a big knife by another crew member and it’s great.
There’s some stabbing and blood and removing of digits, but nothing super gory.
There are some sad bits but it’s not bleak, because it’s still a silly romcom.
While none of the costumes are accurate to 1717, a lot of the suits are surprisingly good for later decades. (Though not perfect, nobody ever sets the sleeves quite right or does a good job with neckwear in 18th century film costumes. 18th century menswear is one of my very favourite things and I’ve been sewing it for years.) I expected to hate the costumes, but now I only think a few of them are awful. I usually fuss about accuracy a lot more than this, but this isn’t a genre where everything has to be logical.
The showrunner says he figures he could fit the story he wants to tell into 3 seasons. That would be good, I need there to be more episodes and for some things and stuff to be resolved.
