Jul 10
I think where I understood him to be, I guess, both in the beginning and the end, but sort of within this story, was kind of as a guy who had run all but the last hundred yards of a marathon and could see the finish line and every step he took got exponentially harder, and it was just an onslaught of obstacles and traps and problems that were trying to prevent him from getting there, and the conceit that—when we started with a white board at the beginning in the season—was that he would figure out a way to get through every last one of them and have his nose on the endzone and it would be his best friend who was the one he couldn’t get past.
— Jonathan Steinberg, showrunner of Black Sails, on James Flint
