to the world we dream about

Imagine having a best friend who regularly confesses his weirdest darkest conspiracy theories about your mutually despised very uncanny and murderous leather-loving boss and suddenly losing said best friend of yours permanently to said boss after they went on one singular fishing trip on their own during which all you get to know is that their professional relationship seems to have met with what your best friend demurely calls "progress" and you see that it has fully wiped out from his brain that you both are In a Union together and instead he is now seeming to prioritise your until-recently-Mutually-despised boss' mental and physical well-being over the literal lives of all your colleagues and friends. Imagine confronting your best friend about why the hell he's trying to protect the guy (again, your boss) that killed your adoptive dad who was also his predecessor and he has no idea why he's doing what he's doing and neither do you. Imagine being token asexual pirate of the Walrus crew Billy Bones Manderley

everything is a reference when you're crazy

i know lots of things about black sails were sort of worked out as it went along but it's awesome how much you can see everyone's entire character arcs in like the first few episodes. silver is introduced as a coward and a (literal) backstabber. flint can fight and scheme his way out of anything but collapses when he gets to his gay and bourgeois house. max wants the safety and stability she thinks money can give her but chooses to jeopardize it for love. eleanor is unable to stop fighting even when running is the only thing that could save her. they're so different from the people they are at the end of s4 but so entirely the same

Cackling at Orpheus writing in his little notebook during Chant, so focused, making his song. Wtf is he writing for 18 hours straight while Eurydice dies in a blizzard. La la la

they should invent a term for shipping were I don't think they should be in a romantic relationship however I believe they are each others parasite and separating them is not an option

much like the dual symbolism of the shovel i feel like black sails has this ambiguous take on mercy/forgiveness/redemption where it can be this sort of sacred liberating thing that resists state power and at the same time the most effective enforcer of submission to state power. and it's this duality (along with that of the aforementioned shovel) that makes the ending so ambiguous. not least because thomas hamilton obviously represents both

I hate Rogers but I love the fact that Black Sails is the type of show that gives him a ship called the Eurydice and then has him cause the death of his own wife by going back to her. Rogers never fully trusted Eleanor, and I don't mean he thought she was lying: he could never recognize when she was right and he needed to capitulate. If Eleanor had said "don't turn around and we can make it out of the underworld" Rogers would have been convinced he knew better, and that's why she died.

*flint voice* our golden age of piracy is collapsing

maybe orpheus always looks back because his very effort to reverse death means that he can't look forward. if he could look forward, he could accept eurydice's death, grieve, and keep moving in life. his refusal to accept her death is looking back. his going down to the underworld, asking hades and persephone for her life, trying to lead her out... it's all 'looking back'. he does nothing for the entire story except look back. orpheus! looks! back! it's his entire thing! the story ends the same way it begins: orpheus looked back.

AUGHHHHHH

Guy who’s seen black sails, watching any other show: I’m not getting enough black sails vibes from this