I guess we doin' rugby now

characters can have a tragic backstory so long it requires days of scrolling on their wiki to read and they still won't come close to long john silver's single line, "you know of me all i can bear to be known."

what unravels me every single fucking time i think abt flint is how fucking sincere he is. u get introduced to him as the no1 lying liar who lies for fun and profit and then slowly as u peel off the layers at the heart of it he's just so fucking raw and vulnerable and he Wants the people he loves to see him like that. he invites them to see him like that. miranda knows the shape of the wound and that's why they still love each other bc her wound mirrors his bc it's from the same weapon. they recognise each other. and he lets in silver and says this is the wound at the heart of me and i think you have one of these too and yours might be like mine or at least close enough for us to understand each other. i recognise something in you. and then silver fucking flinches

not to add to the chorus of people going wow black sails is criminally underrated but now that i've finished it all i've been thinking for like 48 hours straight is wow black sails is criminally underrated. and also the fact that toby stephens never even received an emmy nomination for his performance is insane and completely unbelievable and is probably one of the worst award snubs of all time.

I don't need a "theory" for what happened to Flint at the end of Black Sails, I read Treasure Island. He turned into a parrot.

Okay. For my money, the entire thesis of Chris Nolan’s 2026 film The Odyssey is that society chokes and sputters and dies when we abuse, ignore, or violate social norms like the laws of hospitality. That is not really what The Odyssey (the book/poem) is about, but I can clearly see why in the horror that is the 2020s, someone could read The Odyssey and go oh my god that’s a lot of bad dropping in. That’s a lot of bad visits. That’s a clear vision of how the loss of social norms and cohesion fucks you up and how war, literal, brutal war, is a terrible wound that destroys your humanity and your understanding of what civilization and society is. I don’t know that the iteration of Greek society that ultimately birthed the poem would agree with Nolan’s take, but I think this movie is quite ideologically coherent, that Nolan knew exactly what he was trying to say with each and every adaptational change, and I think he wasn’t nuts for using one of the most famous classical western civilization works as a way to make that argument.

THIS.

My scorching hot take on Christopher Nolan Presents Homer's The Odyssey is Tom Holland having his mind blown while filming this, then going back to Marvel to and being all "Why did no one tell me that you can, like, have a finished script before you start filming and a cinematographer who has all the shots planned before filming instead of figuring it out in post, has anyone else heard about this?" is pretty funny

Visionary Director Christopher Nolan's controversial directing style of "telling actors what's happening in a scene when they're filming"