can't stop thinking about how insane black sails was to put silver in the very fucking last episode, stand in his full Long John Silver Glory, with his one leg and his broken self, the myth he didn't even create himself looming heavy over his shoulders, stare at the face of the scared crew member and listen to him say "please, I'm just the cook." like. how insane do you have to be to write this
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Ok, rapid fire immediate thoughts on the ending, in no particular order:
Featherstone got to be governor??? Awesome! Also I am so fucking relieved that everything seems to have worked out for Jack x Anne x Max in Nassau. I needed at least one optimistic ending
Really fitting that Jack and Anne get to keep being pirates because they were often the most into simply being famous boat-based criminals vs pirates as metaphor or resistance movement
Seeing that pirate at the end like... Are they throwing in a Mary Read? They ARE!!!
SilverMadi WHOO BOY. That confrontation. The way she couldn't even LOOK at him. Flint was fucking right dude she will never forgive you, and that shot on the cliff (paralleling SilverFlint cliff shots!) still did not look happy. Even if she does love him enough to stay with him there is a crack there FOREVER
The SilverFlint confrontation in the woods though... That was fucking agonizing to watch. Too many thoughts. Moving on.
I am so glad that Jack and Flint got to tag team taking out Woodes Rogers instead of just knocking Jack aside so the main characters could wrap up. He deserved that
Charles Vane deserved his bestie taking down his killer
Also Jack deserved getting to write that affidavit 💕
FLINT 😭💔😭💔😭💔
Silver you sent your soulmate to lifelong imprisonment in a work camp for being a radical leftist terrorist. Like that is what happened. His radical leftist love being there doesn't change that they are in prison. For life.
"A story is true. A story is not true." Silver talked Flint into returning to Thomas. Silver killed Flint and is gonna lie so hard he believes it himself.
Seriously they did a GREAT job of making the Thomas timeline so tight as to be nearly unbelievable but still possible
Also - Madi - good on you for realizing he was making exit contingencies so early. Did Silver even realize that's what he was doing, though? Or was he just getting the Thomas info to decide how best to use it.
Loved the detail with the cook. Past vs Present HELLO
Billy stranded on Skull Island? I've never actually read Treasure Island so I thought I knew Billy would survive the story but end up sailing for Silver? Guessing that was NOT true lol
Also Billy. My dude. I liked you. I really did. But what the fuck was that traitor arc? Glad you seemed to be having some kind of guilty mental breakdown about it because MY DUDE???
Good show. 😵💫 Good show.
That theme song fucked as hard on the final watch as it did on the first one 🫡🏴☠️
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Black Sails Musical Parallels | XII. XXV. XXXVIII.
I spent a year rewatching Black Sails and tracking all the bits of music that repeated at any point during the show, and my findings are reinforcing that Bear McCreary is a genius and this show should have been called 'parallels that will kill you over and over again'* (tag | chronological)
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“They paint the world full of shadows, and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments."
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BLACK SAILS EDIT CHALLENGE• [1/2] EPISODES: 4.09 XXXVIII.
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🗣️🗣️🗣️ IN THE DARK THERE IS DISCOVERY, THERE IS POSSIBILITY, THERE IS FREEDOM IN THE DARK
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