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#in 4x06… it’s not a smart thing to set a person who’s accepted their death loose in the living world again…
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knowledge is being aware that Billy doesn’t actually die in 1x06, but wisdom is recognizing that he’s never truly alive again from that point on.
#black sails
#like. they do a funeral for him and everything. you can’t just undo that
#and of course the real problem is Gates
#bc you have Gates presuming Billy to be dead vs. Billy returning and initially presuming Gates to be alive (because why wouldn’t he be?)
#but of course he Isn’t
#so you have Gates as a ‘dead’ person who should be alive and Billy as a ‘living’ person who should be dead
#and he has to go through Silver in order to re-enter the living world
#which he only manages because of the Walrus crew’s love for him overpowering Silver’s threats
#his 'life' at that point is symbolically 100% hinged on their love
#which begs the question: what happens when they don’t love him anymore?
#i define 4x06-on as the point at which Billy has become self-aware that he is dead
#because that’s the difference between 2x05 and 4x06
#in 2x05 he Wanted to live
#in 4x06… it’s not a smart thing to set a person who’s accepted their death loose in the living world again…
#(full meta on this coming up soon… one of my favorite topics bc I’m just so obsessed with how the show does this)
#but YEAH.
#my point is: though Billy has always been Dead to a certain extent (kinda comes with the territory of being who he is)
#he’s Really Dead from his s2 return-on - it just takes him until s4 to figure this out
#at which point he says ‘fuck it’ and goes full-on Vengeful Ghost
#channeling Gates through the use of Avery’s journals because of course this all connects back to the Original Issue
#‘it’s no accident that Billy chose [Skeleton Island]’ is such a good line bc yeah it’s for all the reasons Flint says (that it’s spooky
#and will put everyone on edge)
#but Also he chose it because Gates told him about it and utilizing the stories Gates told him… ‘bringing them to life’ you could say…
#is his way of keeping Gates’ memory alive
#and of course the Black Spots fall under the same category
#so you have the irony of Billy’s desperate attempts to keep Gates alive being what ultimately kills him
#finally bringing the symbolic truth to literal fruition in the most tragic and narratively-satisfying way imaginable
#(not even to mention 'Mr. Gates' heart has given out.' because like. You Know...)
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