#makes him so easy to overlook amongst all the brighter shinier characters

[mercutiotakethewheel]

everytime i rewatch black sails, i find myself like vane more and more ngl. the first season really tries hard to trick you into thinking he’s just unnecessarily, banally, and uncompellingly an asshole (in the overwhelmingly compelling asshole show), whose one redeeming feature is that he’s kinda pathetic too. but geez s2 really nails home everytime that hes the best and the coolest and the most honest (maybe even most compassionate) of the mcs up until this point, barring anne of course. and on top of that i actually kind of think he has the best pre-s3 speeches. like obvs s4 flint is yknow s4 flint. and s3 max is so insane i actually cant handle it. but oh my god charles vane’s letter and his fuck your legitimacy eleanor speech and his hanging speech are so good. and fuck what i said earlier isnt even true. bc his s1 speech while hes looking in the eyes of the little boy he used to be is actually like the bestest. like fuck ok. charles vane is the best actually. #1 anarchist boy. 10/10 would want him in my commune. hed point blank refuse to help with the dishes tho so 😬.

#black sails #charles vane #kaz queuekker #i know other people have said this before #but i always forget how much this dude rocks #his cheesy archetypal veneer #makes him so easy to overlook amongst all the brighter shinier characters #its genuinely such a crime they wasted him on a stupid blackbeard plotline #when we could have had him w/madi in the maroon plotline #or even touched on what they were even trying to so w/the white slave plotline #which makes zero sense to do in a show set in 1715 #a whole charles vane lifetime (maybe) after bacon’s rebellion #and the shift away from indentured servitude #(due to concerns over race and class solidarity) #in favor of racialized heavily codified and lifelong inherited slavery #which while again is too early for the showz setting #wouldve at least been thematically relevant #a million times more than a lazy regurgitation #of the mythologizing blackbeard thing #in the deconstructing pirate myths show??? #but i digress