PERRO RABIOSO

it's pretty interesting to me actually that people seem to sometimes interpret woodes rogers as the real villain of black sails bc i can't really think of anything rogers does that the protagonists don't also do. the writers go to great pains to show that he is kind of Exactly the same as flint except his circumstances (straight, upper-class) allow him to stay on the side of empire. down to changing the name of his dead brother so you can't possibly miss it. he says it, out loud! he even has the same speech that flint does about acknowledging and accepting that to his audience he is in the role of villain. what makes this role real in one instance and fake in another? why, in black sails, would villainy ever be real and not a matter of perspective? the only difference between rogers and flint is that rogers is on the wrong side, and the writers are very careful to show that that is a matter of circumstance and not of character.

why watch the odyssey (2026) when you can just watch black sails (2014-2017) on repeat

"i am so sorry for working so hard to protect the wrong things. for failing to see that there is nothing important that does not include you" they put this on television.

zero stars for nolan because odysseus, on his journey home to ithaca, was NOT visited by a ghost that tells him that once he reaches his home, once he slays all his enemies and sets his house in order he must do one last thing before he can rest. the ghost does NOT tell him to pick up an oar, walk inland, keep walking, until somebody mistakes that oar for a shovel. for that would be the place that no man has ever been troubled by the sea. and that's where he'd find peace.

"John Silver was the only pirate captain flint feared" is a narrative by Silver because he couldn't handle what it actually was and how he pushed away the man he loved back.

imagine you're an actor on black sails. you're just some random dude from australia or america doing shitty acting jobs (or royalty/maggie smiths son). then you get a part in this big pirate show. you get dumped in south africa and you're kind of just stuck there for four years. you spend it obsessively rehearsing and delivering the best performances of any of your lives in arguably one of the craziest stories ever told. then afterwards you go back to america or australia or england and for the rest of your life play side characters in like. The Flash and Umbrella Academy. or narrate pirate smut audiobooks. Crazy

or if you're zach mcgowan now ur playing a dogfucker on the boys

silver is so fuckable in s2 bc flint wants to fuck him. he pressed that dude against the wall and put a knife to his throat and found out he was actually being smart and his dick got naturally hard for the first time in 10 years. the only reason he didnt proposition silver is bc he knows silver is a liar and a thief and could 100% blackmail him so instead flint allows there to be this very thick sexual tension in the hopes that Silver will crack and do something about it. alas. silver is insane.

any conversation about who could play odysseus well (as opposed to the obvious terrible choice matt damon) is inane, in my view, because it’s already been done and served by toby stephens of maggie smith’s son fame in an acclaimed yet underwatched show black sails under the name james “flint”—

he doesnt even let us hear him scream. we barely even see him, just other people reacting to it. im going to be violently ill

its crucial for the rest of the story that we know it Happened. but we dont get to see it. we dont get to hear it. we only get to see other peoples' reactions to it. we dont see any of the healing time we get cut to 2 weeks later and then Multiple Months later. guys guys guys remember john silver. i wish i could stop.