they’ll say it was inevitable

what's so awesome about miranda hamilton is that she knows full well that revenge brings nothing good and that it will probably make her and her loved ones and many innocent uninvolved people more miserable and that it would not be what the person she lost wanted and she has no illusions about any of it. but when push comes to shove even if the end she's been fighting for for two seasons is in sight she simply cannot let the bastard get away with it

silver in season 1 is like oh don't torture me it won't work i'll say anything to make the pain stop teehee #useless #silly and in season 2 he is tortured for information and says nothing

there's something really fun about how like. according to all Sources i have found many sailors abandoned the royal navy for piracy because the navy was so hierarchical and the officers were given so much power and piracy was the more egalitarian and democratic option. but flint comes from the navy as someone who managed to work his way up to officer and as someone who seems to prefer to function inside those rigid structures, or at least to be most at home there. so even as he is ostensibly fighting for the greater egalitarianism of the pirate world and of progressive values in general it's just not something that he personally is able to value. he doesn't have a democratic bone in his body. he went to the pirate republic talking about kings and wanting to quite literally run it like the navy and tried to fight for that pirate republic while acting like his word was law and every democratic proceeding was an annoying hinderance to his dictatorial rule. it's so good. i like him

you ever minding your own business and suddenly furiously think about how black sails could have made charles vane a black man who flies in the face of respectability politics and is committed to anti-imperialist violence and the s2 finale could have been Flint A Gay Man and Vane A Black Man raining holy hell down on the system that demonized them and sought to strip them of their personhood…… reboot when

to be completely honest *starts lying

[ID: Two screenshots from Black Sails. The first one shows Anne, her hat pulled down low and shadowing her face, and the second shows Miranda, standing in her library and wearing a green formal dress. Both screenshots are subtitled with the same line said by each character: “Don’t treat me like I’m someone else.” End ID.]

do people understand how good an episode of a tv show has to be in order for it to be watched several times and Still have severe emotional impact?? black sails 2x05

One of my favorite things in stories is a character who is like. Known by so many people, they are a story that is told, whether it’s a story making them into an infalliable hero or a irredeamable monster. And none of it is true, or it’s been twisted to push a narrative (for good or evil). And the character is just a person. And they have to deal with how it’s all beyond them, beyond their control. And they have to live with that.