#making myself sad that their gaming trio is so broken in the present

[clockwork-sparrow]

Status Quo Ante

Sometime in the past, in Garlemald...

As the day comes to a close and white-collar workers shuffle out like zombies, a lonely monitor glows blue in the now darkened space. Without warm bodies to fill the building, the empty cubicles feel eerily haunted. Vestiges of life - a half-finished coffee, a chair pushed out, a scrunched-up paper ball ilms away from a waste bin - remain abandoned, left behind as tomorrow's problem. 

Oliver Jen Luti leans back in his chair with a weary groan. Neck arched over his headrest, he takes off his glasses for a second to rub his eyes, tired from sitting all day and staring at the screen...and then, it's right back to work. The Garlean shifts back forward in his seat and studies open diagrams, reads over countless reports, grumbles about poorly documented code. The sunset gives way to fiery hues and then cools to black, leaving nothing but artificial streetlight to filter through the window by his desk. A brown sparrow flits over and perches on the outer sill, pecking incessantly at the glass until Oliver finally notices. With a slight smirk, he pushes the pane up and allows his visitor in.

"I--"

"Why aren't you online? Get your fucking absent ass in game. Right. Now," the sparrow drone nags, a low voice piping out from its speaker. "And are you seriously still working? God, why?"

Oliver shakes his head with a soft chuckle. Now nothing was going to get done. "Unlike you, I actually care about career development and not making enemies of my coworkers. That, and I want to get work done early so I'll have time next week to help with...well, you know. You know!"

The bird sighs. "Populares crap?"

"Hey, don't call it that. I think--"

"No, Oliver, shut up. You've already gone over this a thousand times with me. You know what I think? I think you should stop painting a target on your back. I get that right now the Populares are hunky-dory...ish. But like, shit. That could change. Stop while you're ahead, man." The voice behind the bird sounds genuinely worried and that makes Oliver smile.

"Thanks, Florus, but I won't be joining you guys tonight. I have to do this."

"What? Come on, you're our third. Also, it's been hell filling in your spot with a random."

"Well...yeaah," Oliver trails off, gaze meandering away from the sparrow and back to his screen. He starts idly typing, a small part of him hoping that Florus will take the hint and ease off. But he also knows that there's no chance in hell - Oliver can't even hide behind the 'offline' state when the man can hound him with clockwork birds! 

"Gloria's gonna be real sad that you chose work over us. Again."

"Guilting me isn't going to work this time, asshole," Oliver deadpans, glasses glazed over with the light of his monitor. Another sigh leaves the bird and it flutters over, landing on the top of his hand this time.

"Look. Seriously, you've been working too hard. What if I help you out tomorrow? So you’ll have a second tonight to kick back, grab a beer, and shoot up some scrubs."

This piques Oliver's interest. Florus, offering to help? It almost makes him suspicious. He flips over his hand so that his palm is facing up, forcing the bird drone to scamper off and regain its balance on his fingertips. "Really, Florus? You promise?"

The sparrow presses its head down into its neck fluff, eyes narrowed. Florus complains quietly to himself and all Oliver can make out are f-bombs punctuating incoherent mumbling. But finally, the bird nods. "Yeah. Now hurry up before I change my mind."

Oliver breaks out into a wide grin. He clenches his hand around the bird and then stands up suddenly, sending his rolling chair flying back. It hits the desk opposite of him with a loud clatter while the sparrow peeps frantically in his grip, held like a cudgel.

"WATCH IT IDIOT! These things are a bitch to make!"

But Oliver is too elated to care. He plants a little kiss on the sparrow’s pecker and then sprints down the office hall. "AYyy, let's fucking GOO!"

#Florus Jen Celsus #ff14 rp #Apex legends playing IDIOTS #AHAHA #Oliver Jen Luti #making myself sad that their gaming trio is so broken in the present #uhgh

[firebirdsdaughter]

Heh heh, whoops…

… Realised I forgot to do a Ryusoulger Raw post.

So… Y’all get to hear my initial reactions to the subbed version! Yay! XD

Let’s a-go!

In no particular order and w/ many typos:

Naohisa peeling the banana for Ui bc she’s so busy staring. XD Ui, I know Asuna is beautiful, and the boys, too, but please remember to eat?

Well, that’s either really convenient, or Naohisa knows more than he’s letting on. This is Sentai. It could be either.

Aw, poor Melto. Come here, I’ll give you a hug. ^^ Sometimes I’m a good mother.

I think I already waxed about why I love the way Banba immediately, like, flies to this guy’s side in the tags of Ryuu’s gifset, but it still holds. Believes he can’t trust people and that kindness is weakness, but still can’t stop himself. I am really hoping for an episode/something way down the line where he has a ‘I would have turned into a monster w/out Touwa and the rest of you’ moment. Might just write one myself, eventually. ^^

And the coincidence, one of the true heroes of Toku, saving the day is also still hilarious. Like, if Banba had been one block over.

Why was he even on this street to begin w/?

Why is Touwa here? I find it hard to believe Banba would at all be interested.

No, actually, I know why. Bc plot.

Aw, he came bc he loves you two and is constantly anxious. Melto is absolutely the type of person who is afraid to let the people he loves out of his sight bc what if they didn’t look both ways before crossing the street and got hit by a truck???? And I doubt Biker Dad’s death helped that at all. Kou and Asuna are all he’s got left of his ‘family’ and he’s secretly terrified of losing them, too. Hey, Melto, I think I just got an idea for an angst tidbit for you, and I’m really sorry.

Aaaaand the youngest brothers are at it again. XD Dorks.

My ‘age’ order for this family is Naohisa, Banba, Melto, Asuna, Kou, Touwa and Ui. Age in quotes bc obviously the canon ages are completely wild. But I think I’ve done the fam break down before, so I won’t go into it again. ^^

I mean, gotta hand it to Wyzul. It’s a situation where acting blatantly weird and out of place works. Like, it’s a legit acting job. People in special events/games. Ren fairs. Yes, he’s acting really evil and suspicious, but that’s easily explainable as that being the character. Another pretty good plan. Very Sentai, but actually a good plan.

OH GOD NO! IT’S A MIMIC! DX

I don’t actually play Dark Souls, but…

Okay, but I wouldn’t be getting too comfy, yet. You’re missing one, and he happens to be the most stab-happy out of all of them. Like, I’m sorry, but as a villain, I would be celebrating while Banba was unaccounted for. I’d be checking the back stairwell.

This confirms that the chibis are merely going in colour order and have no bearing on the focus character.

Mother¡Melto makes another appearance, in a small way. ^^

I don’t know, Asuna. Given that none of you remember how you got here, I think it’s very valid of Melto to fear this was a Druidon trap.

Kou takes a moment to look majestic. XD HAve you been taking lessons from Banba? ^^

This is so obviously suspicious. Like. It’s obviously magic. Touwa and Asuna win the doofus award this ep. At least Kou figured it out eventually.

Touwa is the super winner of the award, though. Asuna had the sense to snap to it when told there were Druidon. XD

Honestly, she probably needs the protein and calories. Her super strength might mean she burns through energy faster than other people.

Actually, I dunno if that makes sense.

Mother¡Melto again. XD ‘Don’t eat mystery meat!’ is kind of like he’s telling her not to take food from strangers…

Yup, Touwa’s a dumb. ^^ I love how in the character blog, Yuito was like ‘he would have gotten scolded if his brother was there.’ XD Probably one of the reasons they didn’t want Banba in Wonderland w/ them. A) he would have snapped Touwa out of it too soon, and B) given how the chests open in their own, they didn’t want to reveal too much about his past, I guess? Though I wish they would tell us at least a little more. Keep it slow, absolutely, but I’m hoping for some more concrete hints soon.

A for effort, Melto. You tried.

Also, oh, Kou. ^^ Cutie. So it is limited—bc they had to stay trapped in the ‘box,’ it couldn’t actually grant Kou’s wish. But it sure tried. Kinda like w/ that Yummy that was destroying people’s dreams when it tried to attack Eiji, and the world came out of his mind.

Aw, he’s fine. The boy is durable. ^^

Kou, now is the time when you assume this is not the real world, you dork. XD

Aw, did Banba help clean up? Actually, there’s no indication if he did or not, but it’s sweet to think he did. ^^

I mean, he’s got a point. It could have a backlash. My recommendation would be to poke it first. Though since Kou crashed into it before, it’d probably just be impervious…

Oh, don’t remind him of that, that was (obviously unintentionally) kinda insensitive of her… Well, it did say that she sometimes has a habit of saying the wrong thing/speaking so bluntly she has trouble communicating… We haven’t really seen that yet, but I think it’s kind of coming into play here, since Melto’s bio, and this ep, establish that Melto is self conscious and doubts himself in comparison to the others… So that probably hurt him a lot  more than she intended it too.

But bc he’s Melto, he didn’t communicate that, so she had no way of knowing and no chance to reassure him she didn’t mean it that way.

God, Banba’s got a compulsive apologising streak, Melto has an inferiority complex, neither likes admitting hurt/weakness, esp to people they care about… And then there’s Asuna being too blunt and saying thing w/out thinking, Kou and Touwa are probably in the ‘bottle things up’ boat, too, just of the Stepford Smiler/Snarker variety… Any more of my quirks you’d like to spread out amongst the team, Toei? Like, maybe Gold is constantly terrified he’s bothering everyone?

Sorry (exhibit A XD) that got a little nonsensical. Right now it’s mainly Banba, Melto, and Asuna who are exhibiting some of my habits (apologising [for ex. rather than thanking someone], a slight inferiority complex compared to more “successful” friends, an in ability to read social cues and saying things w/out thinking).

And I love them for it. DX Really gotta write more Melto now!

Aaaaaaaaand… Now I’m crying all over again. DX I mean, hi Biker Dad and all, but poor Melto… TT^TT

This poor baby… DX Like, you can tell that for a fraction of a second, he’s almost like ‘oh my god, you’re alive?!?!?’ And… Then the memory hits him. DX

And then he promptly logics himself out to ‘I’m hallucinating.’ Oh, baby… DX

I know it would’ve broken the illusion, but… I wish Melto could’ve hugged him. Let the boy hug his Biker Dad. DX

Or, if not, can someone please hug someone??? Please?!?!?

Aw, he’s scared, though. I mean, I totally think he was the anxious, ‘oh my god what if I turn around for a moment and they fall of a cliff?!?’ sort of person before, but losing their Masters magnified that. He loves them so much he was afraid of something happening to them before, but now that something terrible has happened to someone else he loves, it’s even worse.

Basically, he was already terrified of something bad happening to the people he loved, and then something did, validating that terror.

Inferiority complex probably didn’t help. It’s not exactly resentment toward people perceived as ‘better’ (though there is some in it), but feels like a failure on the part of the one w/ the complex for not being ‘good enough’ or able to ‘catch up.’ He knew they were good at fighting, but was terrified by their recklessness and feared he might not be strong enough to help them one day, or something. Not sure any of that made sense.

I do like the idea of Biker Dad inside the Blue RyuSoul just being like, ‘oh no, Melto is worrying himself into a corner, maybe it will help if I astral project and give him a pep talk.’ Might be cute if the Masters’ souls are still semi ‘present’ or ‘aware’ in the RyuSouls.

…

… Ooooooo. I just got an idea. Kinda like in that Magiranger episode. Like, the trio get trapped in some ‘magical dimension’ or something again, and, like, the Masters are somehow there, or their souls come out of the RyuSouls somehow… Anyway, could have something like when… Houka, I think it was, didn’t want to leave that place bc it seemed like their mother was there. Could also include friendship bc maybe the final straw for them finding the will to go isn’t just ‘we need to protect the world’ but also, on a more personal level, the Tatsuis and the brothers? Like, if they realise that the boys are getting overwhelmed in the real world, esp if the brothers are partially fighting to try and rescue them, and are about to get defeated, and meanwhile Ui’s in the line of fire bc she’s trying to help civilians and doing everything she can, too… Could be cute. And heartbreaking.

That was a bad explanation, I’ll try to be more concise later.

Why… Is he explaining this?

Again. I wouldn’t be celebrating while mister handsome murder boy the Majestic Knight is still at large.

I like how it’s still saying ‘here, here.’

Wow, Melto can jump!

Oooo. They came out of the fire! Cool effect.

I’d question how Biker Dad knows this, but he’s dead, so maybe he’s omniscient now. I dunno. I’m inclined to give more leeway to people knowing weird things if they’re dead. Bc they’re no longer tied to this plane, ya know?

Anyway.

…

……

……… Butt. DX

AAAAH! DX Poor baby. He’s all like ‘I did it, dad!’ and briefly forgets that it was an vision, and then of course Biker Dad is gone, and it… TT^TT

Ah, yes. The perfect way to get me to stop crying. Cut directly from sad, introspective Melto to Banba tenderly caressing the lid of some random box. XD

Now, I will not grow out of that joke. XP Ryusoulger here, making me jealous of inanimate objects like pros.

Must everything he does be so very attractive? And by that I mean sexy? But for some reason I am very self-conscious about that word???

Touwa still wins the super doof award.

And now, Melto does math. I think.

XD Kou’s crash into the dome was useful! Though I’m impressed Melto could have any estimation of what the height of that was. ^^

I really like the little collars of the suits. I really do.

AH. I FIGURED IT OUT. THE LITTLE ‘LIFE BLOBS’ ARE SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT THE MINUSAUR!

(pictures at the bottom)

CUTE.

XD Using the Minusaur’s power against it. ^^ Nice going Melto.

I guess it’s not technically him piloting alone—though he does seem to be the one in control…

XD Wyzul and Crayon’s reactions are so funny. ^^

Touwa just lying on the grou w/ his arms folded is still funny.

Banba just… Freaking teleports behind Kou. How did he even find them? Did he walk down the street carrying the box while fully transformed? XD

Banba interrogating the mooks is hilarious bc, esp in most recent years, they can’t actually talk. The most recent exception I can think of is Kyuranger’s mooks.

XD The absolutely unnecessarily fancy sword twirling he does just to point it in the other direction. <3

I mean, I guess it might seem a little silly, but… Isn’t there a belief in Shinto that all things have souls, even inanimate objects? So… Not so far afield, really. Though that does kinda make it sadder that Banba just smashed it. DX Requiescat in pace, antique miniature garden box. Thank you for your sacrifice.

Most easily defeated Mimic. Ever.

Asuna and Kou are either staring into my soul, or thinking about how cool Banba is, and I find both to be valid.

Touwa, don’t be mean. DX Ah, dorks.

This scene is really cute. Y’all here turning into a family w/out noticing, between the younger sibs teasing Melto and then goofing off among themselves, Banba just walking behind them like a tired babysitter and even shooting a look at Melto like he’s trying to make sure Blue’s still w/ them… Cuties.

Also, Touwa bouncing. ^^ <3

The soft piano version of the theme song definitely helps, too. ^^

That hug is still available if you want it, Melto.

And yes, I’d like to think it was. ^^

Still wondering what was up w/ that hooded person. They’re in the opening. They can’t just forget they exist! What happened in the rest of that secene w/ the brothers? Not even Touwa has mentioned it. Did they get their memories of the encounter wiped? Or is there something more?

Preview:

I like the opening shot of Asuna playing a carnival game while the boys watch. Like, it’s so cute and family-y. Melto’s so excited for her like a proud mom and Kou seems to trying to perfect his strategy. XD

Asuna once again finds herself talking people out of… That.

At this point, I don’t care how short that Banba sulking scene is or how little it relates to the plot. I just want to see it. ^^

That’s all, folks! Virtual mochi for anyone who read all that! I really liked this episode, and I’m glad for Melto getting a chance to be very heartbreaking, too. Next episode is an Asuna ep, and while I’m a little cagey about it bc of the short summary we saw at first, I’m willing to give the show the benefit of the doubt and not jump to conclusions about how they’re going to handle it. Hoping we’ll see Anky Mom, too, though there haven’t been any shots of her in the previews… Well, it wouldn’t make much sense if they didn’t eventually bring her back in some way. Still hoping for more concrete info about the brothers’, and specifically Banba’s past. Not all at once, but you could slowly start giving us more. Though it’s not that pressing, and is mainly bc I’m an impatient baby—they’ve got time to do it. And then there’s mysterious hooded person who is in the opening. Gaisoulg? Master Gold? Probably too old to be Gold, but who knows. It does seems strange that not even Touwa, the more friendly of the two, has brought it up to the trio. You’d assume he’d mention ‘oh, yeah, mysterious cloaked man came and sought us out and [something something]’ Makes me very suspicious of cloaked man. Did he wipe their memories? Threaten them? Just plan ask them to keep him a secret? Is he friend of foe? Is he Naohisa? Who knows. But I’d like some clues. At some point.

Lastly, the screenshots I promised, of the life blobs, and the thing everyone else probably already noticed:

#Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger #Ryusoulger Spoilers #my precious Dino Children #I love five (5) beautiful colourful Dino Knights #not much else to say #XD #loved the ep #want to write more w/ Melto now #also I'm an impatient baby who wants more #Birthday Sentai #Dino Dragon Knights And Their Cat

[yoyo-inspace]

Black Sails 4x01 thoughts

So here it is, the last season. 

While I’m happy that it’s one of those rare times creators can finish a show on their own terms, I’m also sad. Because I’ve followed this show for years. I remember when the first trailer came out. “A prequel to Treasure Island?” I remember thinking. “Well, I’ll have to check that out.”

And here we are, three seasons later. What a journey. Now let’s see how we finish it, shall we? 

I really really enjoyed the opener to this season. Just on a purely aesthetic level, the cinematography and filming in general were amazing and there were some truly claustrophobic moments that really came through on screen. 

I was thinking of how to present my thoughts on this in the best way, and I decided to go through character by character. These are going to float into each other a bit, and I’ll get sidetracked, but it was my attempt at organization. I put it under cut because it is kind of long. Hope you enjoy!

Flint “If it makes you feel any better, I haven’t thought of killing you in months.” “A little bit.” Bless.

Flint feels like he’s in a slightly less dark place than last season, at least in the beginning of the episode, and I have no doubt that’s thanks to Silver. He is so fixated on this idea of his revenge being larger than he ever dared to imagine before, and he’ll stick to that idea, as we saw at the end with Billy. I don’t think this episode fully showed us what Flint is without Silver at this point, but we got a taste. Silver was Flint’s filter.

When Silver goes in the water, I loved how his first impulse was to throw himself after him. I don’t believe what Madi said that Flint harbours no real feelings of friendship (or more) towards Silver. I think he truly sees Silver as his friend. But he knew that to fulfill his goal, which is always first in his mind, he couldn’t jump in after him there. I’d heard about this scene before, from people who had seen the beginning of the episode ages ago. I was a bit worried that it was going to be Flint being calculating and cold and perhaps thinking that they were better of without Silver. I was so happy that wasn’t the case. He’s clearly conflicted over his decision but does what he knows he has to. 

His conversation with Madi was incredibly interesting. I know the shipper in me appreciated it greatly, but even outside of that. He knows that he need her on his side now and he goes for what they have in common - their affections for Silver. 

His visit to Miranda’s house and holding that broken teacup was heartbreaking and I got teary-eyed. Nothing ever goes right for this man.

Silver John Silver is one of my favorite literary characters of all time. To see his legend being built up is going to be such a treat. As I said before, I do believe that the feelings of friendship between him and Flint are legitimate (and perhaps even more). But I still haven’t figured out what exactly Silver is referring to when he mentions that he needs Flint just as much as Flint needs him. I have guesses but none that I can really articulate at this moment.

Speaking of that scene: wow. A romantic, post-coital scene between a black woman and a disabled man and it’s presented in a completely normal fashion. There are critiques to give this show, but them constantly expanding their views is not one of them. Very well done. Also, I didn’t feel like we got much on the Madi and Silver relationship last season, but what we saw I like, and now I can definitely say I will like it a lot. They’re a very interesting contrast to Silver’s relationship to Silver, and this is basically acknowledged in the show. I don’t know if there will come a point where Silver will have to choose, though that’d be interesting. I have no doubt at this point that [SPOILERS FOR TREASURE ISLAND] Madi will become his wife, which I’m incredibly excited about. I’ve been a Mr and Mrs Silver shipper way before Black Sails was ever thought of. I’m glad it’s a story finally being told. Only think I can see myself disliking about it is that it means Madi will have to willingly abandon her people. I’m trying to think of a situation that would make me not upset about that. Haven’t come up with one yet. 

While I’m growing fonder and fonder of Silver and Madi, of course, my big love in this show is Silver and Flint. I have no idea where they’ll take it. I have many directions I wouldn’t mind or would be happy with, but I feel like it’s still to early to say, though there was a lot of stuff in this one could call suggestive. I just still don’t know if I want an actual confirmation of feelings from Flint’s side just to have it all end in tragedy or not. I guess we’ll have to wait and see. In either way, it’s an excellently written complex relationship, and it gives plenty of shipping material. 

However, I think it’ll be quite some time before we see Silver reunited with either Madi or Flint. First he’s gotta deal with Mr Hands, and I don’t think he’s going to be the best influence. This season is clearly going to be about whether or not Silver will step into the role of Long John Silver and how he’ll play that part and I think Flint and Hands will pull him in very different directions on that. He doesn’t seem completely comfortable with the role now as it is though. 

Also the scene where he was almost drowning was truly horrifying to me, because that’s one of my big fears and they made that scene feel so claustrophobic it was almost a bit uncomfortable. 

Madi Madi in this season is very much defined by her relationship to power and the others with power in the show, and she goes in strong this episode by showing that she is not to be discounted. 

I’ve already talked about her obviously sexual/romantic relationship with Silver. And even though we haven’t spent much time with them like that, her reaction to Silver falling overboard was heartbreaking and her and Flint waiting at the beach almost even more so. 

But my favorite Madi moments of this episode was when she called everyone out on their bullshit. Silver about his relationship with Flint. Flint about his doubt in the cause and his apparent inability to lead. Billy and Flint about their sense of grandeur. Her speech in Miranda’s house was A+. I don’t know at this point if she actually knows where the treasure is. It would be kind of great if she just straight up played them by bluffing and they believed her. But she could just as well have gotten the information from Silver, which would also be great because she shows to these two men who both want to use Silver in some way (though Flint to a lesser extent, clearly) that she can also play this game. Fantastic.

I still really want her to meat Eleanor. And my worry for her, as expressed above, is that she’ll have to leave her people and how that would be written. Would it be out of love for Silver? Because it’s the only way she can get away alive? Because of an impossibility to go back? Who knows at this point. 

I also love how absolutely “WTF” she was about the Long John Silver nickname.

Billy and the Nassau pirates I like Billy but I also don’t like Billy, you feel me? Like I understand what he’s doing. But Flint is just such a compelling character to me, and so anyone trying to make things harder for him will get a side-eye from me. Also I don’t like Billy Bones in TI at all, so I guess it’s a childhood thing as well. 

Speaking of that, here we can truly see Billy starting to transform into who he is in TI. I have an entire post written about this show and it’s relationship with the original book, but I’ll post that in a while. It’s obvious that Billy is out to make Flint obsolete. 

Featherstone’s betrayal came as a surprise to me. Is it truly a betrayal? Is something else at work here? What about Idelle? Also WHERE’S BEN GUNN??

Howell and De Groot were captured and I want them protected but I am not sure anyone’s listening to what I want anymore. 

Jack, Anne and Blackbeard I’m enjoying this trio way more than I thought I would. They’re amazing. Even Blackbeard is capturing my interest now. Jack is brilliant as always and Anne is not putting up with this bullshit.

I really loved her and Blackbeard watching over Jack and talking about how he has something to prove, and how Anne completely disagrees. 

I also love the talk about how personal motivation and how it can clash with their goal. I think this is something that will happen to everyone in this show eventually. Flint, Silver and Eleanor especially. But clearly, the one who’s fucking it up mostly with that at this point is Blackbeard.

He wants to kill Eleanor, and nothing else. If he can have that, he’ll stand down. And that is going to cause a lot of trouble, I can tell. 

Woodes, Eleanor and Max Wow I was so confused at first when Woodes referred to Eleanor as his wife. But that got cleared out in the end. I’m still not sure if they’ve officially married or not? Who knows. 

I’ve seen a lot of people saying that they basically want to smash Woodes face in, and I understand the sentiment. But I also have a certain level of understanding. Like, I don’t agree, but I think his motivations make sense. He’s becoming one of those characters I love to hate, which makes me not really able to fully hate him in the first place. 

I’m also positively surprised he actually divorced his wife instead of just continuing having an affair. Even though that now has come back to haunt him, clearly. Kind of want to applaud Sara previously-Rogers though. She cut him a new one.

He’s smart and he’s getting desperate. This will probably make for some interesting choices. 

Eleanor is trying her best to fit in here, but Max sees right through her. I don’t know if it will ever be possible for Eleanor to truly fit in in this civilized world. Whatever people say, I honestly have a bit of a soft spot for her and Rogers’ relationship, and i can’t wait for it all to come crumbling down on them. I doubt either of them will make it out unscathed. Eleanor might die, and Woodes get swept off to prison most likely. But who knows? Oh, and I think Eleanor hinted that she might ask her family for help. Does that mean we could possibly see Grandpa Guthrie or any of her father’s older brothers? That would be kind of cool. Also YAY for her standing up for Max. 

Speaking of Max. Poor girl. She cannot catch a break, and I don’t see bright things in her future, though I’m still hopeful that she’ll survive, as she always does. I was angry with Woodes when he was talking like that to her, and I completely agree with Eleanor about why it was strategically a bad idea. Hearing Woodes’ explanation made me understand why, but I still kind of wanted to punch him, you know? Because threatening Max won’t end well. 

Israel Hands Hands is here and has one line and I love it and I hate him. I mean, this man has one of my favorite lines in TI (”I’ve never seen good come from goodness yet”) but I hate him with a passion. And he doesn’t mean well for anyone in this show. But it’s going to be very interesting to see what part he’s going to play. 

So all in all I really enjoyed this season finally. I’m terrified for these characters, but it’s a good kind of excited terrified, not the terrified I’ve been feeling about the real world recently. So it’s good to have a break from that. 

Please come and talk to me about this show, and what you’re expecting and what your thoughts are about things. I need it. And poke me if you think I missed anything!

#black sails #black sails spoilers #bs spoilers #black sails season 4 #john silver #who I think I wrote most about #james flint #madi #billy bones #jack rackham #anne bonny #edward teach #woodes rogers #eleanor guthrie #max #all these feels #oh and #israel hands too I guess