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heres MY rambly black sails analysis for the day, after watching the show twice in as many months i wholeheartedly believe in the "long john silvers quote unquote missus in treasure island is max, not madi" theory
the most obvious thing, as others have pointed out, is that in treasure island long john silver runs an inn with his wife, a black woman, in bristol, which is absolutely not madi behavior-- i cannot imagine madi would take him back in the first place much less move with him TO ENGLAND-- but IS maxs exact area of expertise. but theres so many other things that cement it for me
as early as episode 2, max tries to convince eleanor to buy out the inn and run it together with her when england takes nassau back. this is her dream-- to share power over her life with a woman she loves, free of the pressures of the outside world. (youll note this also happens to be silvers dream for himself and madi. the parallels)
in season 4 shes faced with the suspiciously similar option to take a husband to be the face of her business, completely on paper, for the sake of the public eye. and she refuses! she doesnt want to give a man that kind of power over her. not only that but she desperately wants to retain some kind of truth in her identity-- she admires anne for her honesty, her courage. these are things she can rarely afford to express. in refusing a marriage of convenience, she asserts her autonomy.
But. black sails tells us over and over again that an oppressive society will always find ways to batter down these private boundaries. there is no island safe from colonial rule. mirandas peaceful house in the interior is burnt to the ground. the maroons are forced to accept a freedom that comes at the price of abandoning those still enslaved and taking part in their continued subjugation. the things it takes to make these spaces are terrible, and unsustainable, and when it comes to being gay in the 1700s there is a tightrope to walk between privilege and privacy, one that destroyed flint and the hamiltons, thats even narrower to max as a self-made woman of color.
given all that, i do not believe she can girlboss her way out of her circumstances no matter how many lessons she took from what happened to eleanor. nor do i think the show believes it. i think the political-marriage-offer plot point is another illustration of that theme-- maxs desire, and silvers desire, to build a warm, happy room in the middle of the imperial machine, without meaningfully striking out against the machine itself, is destined to be futile no matter how strong they are as individuals.
max and silver are mirror images of one another. each of them is essentially the narrator of one half of the story. it is absolutely agonizing how BOTH of them tried to convince their lovers to abandon their ambitions, to settle for a quiet life with them, and in doing so saw that relationship destroyed by their own fear of an uncertain future....
....And its even MORE agonizing to imagine them finally securing the trappings of a domestic life... but without the love. and they know the love was what mattered! theyre always going to know!!!
it bookends PERFECTLY with their alliance at the start of the series. theyre right where they started, trusting no one, pretending to be humble and harmless, planning to steal the EXACT SAME TREASURE, except now theyre 50 years old and jaded and bitter and both pining after their lost loves. silver probably pictures madi whenever he tells people about his wife. when he and max have time to themselves they talk solely about finances and nothing else. its honestly impressive how miserable this is for every single person involved. im losing my mind
Toby Stephens as Captain Flint in Black Sails 1x08
#i believe there are two (2) times in the show where flint laughs #like full on laughs not chuckles #and both of them are with gates?? #that’s so fucked up actually #he genuinely LIKED gates #he knew him for TEN YEARS ( via @absolute-fucking-brainrot )

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He's not expecting me. — black sails i
"It's just a TV show" maybe to you. I absorbed it into my soul though.
BLACK SAILS | IV & XXXII
BLACK SAILS
4x08 ● “XXXVI.”
All these things…porcelain, books…all so goddamn fragile. The energy it must take to maintain it all. And for what?
When this episode aired, people lost their minds over how it meant Vane was a misogynist and it made me want to chew my face off (derogatory). Flint is a man who has known the comfort and peace and loveliness of a life of domesticity. He grew up with a small degree of it, through grit and determination secured more for himself, had it all violently torn away and this place was the most recent place that he fought tooth and nail to make a home with someone he loved, which again was violently destroyed. To him it is a precious and fragile thing that he wants, and he wants for others to be able to have it too.
Vane has never had any of those things. It’s made clear in S1 that he was raised in slavery, and however he escaped that he landed right in piracy which while free is no less do-or-die. He has no point of reference for what these delicate things represent. No concept of a place where one can have soft and gentle things and have that be safe to have or to want. He has only ever known that he has to be strong and to hold on to what he has with both hands as tight as he can, because the moment someone has the strength to take it from him is the moment he no longer deserves to have it, and probably the moment he dies. There’s no room to have delicate things in a life you have to hold on to so harshly, you see. There’s no room for fine china in that.
So no. Charles Vane isn’t misogynist in making that comment, he’s just speaking from his personal viewpoint in which he’s only ever seen women to sometimes have those things, and that the idea that he could have or want something like that is so alien it doesn’t even register.

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JOHN SILVER Black Sails, XVI
EME Black Sails, XVI
It’s like she’s some sort of clock that’s finally struck its chime and woken me from this dream we’ve been living, reminded me how many years separate me from a world I still think of as home.
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my take on silver fwiw is that at a certain point he realises he is not in control of his relationship with the men, but he's already having realisations about it well before he loses his leg. flint asking him where else he'd matter (and that actually meaning something to him). vincent killing nicholas because silver "gave him a look". billy telling him that he has votes for quartermaster. are all moments that scare the shit out of silver because he's so used to controlling the narrative.
he's an empty vessel, he becomes to other people whatever he needs to become to turn the relationship to his advantage. "we might be friends by then" is not silver being an insane optimist. he's not really an optimist at all (he is insane tho). he doesn't think this will happen by the power of good luck, he believes he can make it happen. and then he does make it happen.
but relationships don't work like that, you can't control both sides of them, nor can you be a part of them while still holding yourself outside of them. he's insane enough to think he can, but the fact that he can't becomes increasingly clear until it is finally hammered home (sorry sorry sorry) by the loss of his leg. and they say "we care about you and you can't stop us caring about you" and that. was not meant to happen.
(he is still btw insane enough to continue to believe he is in control of his relationship with flint (albeit continually having to wrangle flint for it) for a good time longer. "he had me there too" yeah he's had you there for much longer than you think.)

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Is it that silver can’t accept that the crew “cares enough” about him or is the “caring” the problem
follow up questions, at what point does silver start to realise how much the crew cares about him
has there been any discussion i've missed in the black sails (/treasure island) fandom about why the other old members of flint's crew that feature in treasure island don't in black sails. hands is there, ben gunn is there (though sort of feels shoe-horned into black sails), but no pew? when he's one of the main ti antagonists?
and there's a bunch of more minor names that could easily have been thrown into black sails but weren't. just seems... odd.
(this of course has nothing to do with the treasure island fanfic i'm not writing)