#so there is a hope in the expanse that isnt there in black sails

[cibolasburn]

ah man hold on a second im thinking about the expanse and black sails and like the

“There are no legacies in this life, are there? No monuments. No history. Just the water. It pays us and then it claims us. Swallows us whole. As if we’d never been here at all” quote

but with space and more specifically ashford being lost to the void of space after making his living on it as  pirate, and miller/julie literally being claimed by the unknown, the protomolecule........

and its just like in black sails.... THEY do leave a legacy right, but its not their bodies, their bodies will be destroyed and changed (“full fathom five thy father lies...... nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change”) their bodies are corrupted by the expanse, be it the expanse of waves or the expanse of the void. their legacies are what they mean to their friends, their crews, their found families.

their lives and deaths all change these people and that is the legacy.... a quiet legacy, and that’s one thing that black sails and the expanse have. so many of those people will be forgotten. flint’s crew, madi’s people, the crew of the cant, everyone who died on eros..... the story knows they will be forgotten, and so the main characters act as their monument

#expanse sails #this is not well thought out but im thinking aloud about the nautical themes in the expanse #and how interesting it is that one is set in the past and one the future #so there is a hope in the expanse that isnt there in black sails #we know how black sails will end..... the bears the tragedy of the past.... #but the expanse leaves wondering if the future can truly be better #hold on i’m putting this in my new expanse sails tag #in the dark— there be dragons