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july-19th-club · 6 months ago

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tonight we watched episodes 5 and 6: she has changed her tune on silver, instead repeatedly saying "he is such a character" from various angles whenever he is on screen. loves how fake he behaves and the fact that there's nothing behind it but the ability to be really good at being fake. INCREDIBLY busted up over billy but also said 'you wouldn't talk about how much you love these episodes if he had actually died' . prescient of her. for the first time i noticed a part of the bryson/guthrie betrayal that i never had before, which makes mr scott's presence in the hold make more sense. ella very stymied and upset over scott's tangled web of loyalties, and all i could tell her was that he has more interests on the islands than eleanor and that all would become clear in time. watching this time i thought about his cold-blooded arithmetic in refusing so many times to help emi and the other captives, weighing the lessened chance of his family's discovery against his potentially lifelong enslavement. and then helping her anyway because she reminds him, probably, too much of his daughter.

#^ all of which i could NOT talk about bc ella hasn't met his family yet and i can't spoil that #so i'm talking about it here #black sails #incredibly upsetting episodes to watch that i would not recommend if you do not want to spend time with the atlantic slave trade #even in an episode where they get - if not back home - then at the very least less endangered . but good episodes in the writing sense #just...too much at times even on a third or fifth viewing #like. on recommendations i often tell people to read the synopsis first. then decide #when he says we wouldn't ALL find a place on nassau. pirates trade slaves too (even though he's always spiriting them away first)#and she says you can't make that choice unilaterally for all of us. not when we want to fight so badly.#and he says oh this has nothing to do with you #and it does and it doesn't. it has everything to do with her in that they have a common background and trauma #it has nothing to do with her in that he's already chosen who his survivors will be . and he can't risk their safety on someone new #post-baru reading i am finding new angles on him than ever before. incredible man.

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