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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Season 4 Episode 6 "Rejoined"

i’m hiding worse, more secret emotions behind my big and obvious ones

the photography arc rlly is the rosetta stone for me to louis' whole character. but whatever.

i really like how the walrus getting its shit completely wrecked by the spanish man o' war is done bc it does not have you saying "flint you really fucked up this time" it has you saying "ohhh my god 🙄 if these people would just FOLLOW FLINT'S ORDERS and FIRE WHEN HE SAYS FIRE then we wouldn't fucking be here. this is what comes of defying him" it really puts you in flint's headspace.

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

black sails lovessss the Very Significant hard cut that connects two ideas together but the best by far is the one at the beginning of s2 where the chorus of "aye" votes from the stranded pirates turns to the chorus of "aye" votes from (5 mins of googling) english parliament 10 years ago. of all the concepts to link.... wonderful

thomas hamilton got his greatest love to give a shit about his life philosophy book when he otherwise would’ve thought it was whack by reading it to him while he was high on post-sex oxytocin and then sealed the deal by incorporating it into their dating time and finally writing the most glowing and personally-relevant romantic inscription on it so he’ll have no choice but to care about it for the rest of his life. Dark woke icon of all time possibly ever maybe