#The old man FX

[ladyhawke]

THE OLD MAN + BLACK SAILS Created by Jonathan E. Steinberg & Robert Levine

[brotherconstant]

The Old Man | XIII. I quit my job. Oh, congratulations.

[cinemapix]

Leem Lubany as Belour Hamzad / Abbey Chase THE OLD MAN (2022 - ) Season 1, Episode 1 dir. Jon Watts written by Jonathan E. Steinberg & Robert Levine

[jadedbirch]

It's been a very exciting week for our Daphne Olive and the Black Sails team 💕

[hazelcephalopod]

Apparently The Old Man, on FX is made by some of the same people that made Black Sails which I find even more fascinating. I wouldn’t say they are extremely similar but I can see some of the similarities-

Both have a central driving character who serves in some ways as both antagonist and protagonist from different perspectives. This man is capable of great violence and that violence is feared. He is also at odds with established world powers. He also has weird complicated relationships with other men and honestly with everyone. The main difference is that in The Old Man the central man is retired and forced back to confront the consequences of his previous life of violence for the system rather he is currently at odds with.

There is a younger somewhat more idealistic character though the similarities are far weaker. Also she’s a woman with a firm daughter relationship with the titular Old Man.

But what’s really interesting to me is that in the newest season we are introduced -sort of reintroduced to what they are in the modern as but also deeper than we’ve seen them before. This group is currently opposed to a number of more powerful entities and struggling to keep its independence from them thru various means.

Now of course The Old Man is a what I’d call a (post?) modern spy thriller intrigue mystery. (I don’t think it’s quite what I’d call “neonoir” but it feels close). Sadly - for me- it is far less explicitly queer but a very good show. Black Sails is a weird legal fanfic prequel to Treasure island of course, and of course quite queer.

Im sure there’s more but those are the ones that stand out to me rn.

[leotanaka]

if there is one thing jonathan steinberg is always going to do, it's write an epic quote/speech about monsters.

[sottotitoli-della-serie-tv]

The Old Man Stagione 2 Episodio 1 Streaming Sub ita

[hollywoodalreadydidit]

The Old Man Season 2 Episode XV Review SPOILERS The Season Finale of #TheOldManFX second season is here, and nothing is more fitting than "Like father, like daughter". Terrence gives his thoughts. #TVTime #EpisodeReview

[sous-titre-de-la-serie-tv]

The Old Man Saison 2 Épisode 1 Streaming Vostfr

[mudkipper]

The old man yaoi yearn for the mines

[theramenbandit]

Sweetie honey darling baby girl, he's adorable, i get it. But could you please maybe stop trying to die for the wrong thing for a little bit, we've got a war to fight here.

-Toranaga to Mariko probably

[brotherconstant]

The Old Man | XIII. All right, you want to split? Go catch a show? Ah. I see what you did there.

[cinemapix]

THE OLD MAN (2022 - Present)

[peculiaritybending]

My headcanon for Hanzee is that he worked for Tripoli (who I believe to be the man on the bench in Hanzee’s last scene) for a few years following the events of season two as someone who passed down his skills onto the recruited hitman (Wrench and Numbers being some of them) before retiring to live off grid in a quiet cabin in the woods, no longer going by the Tripoli name he was given during his time working for the syndicate and being able to live as his true self again in peaceful solitude, away from the people looking for him or using him or discriminating against him, never having to take a human life again.

[benevolenterrancy]

hi! I recently came across your tgcf fics, and I wanted to say you’re a phenomenal creator. the recovery series fic and the gloves fic and just all of them. thank you for your content and great attention to detail.

do you have any thoughts/hcs on FXMQ and Xie Lian you’d be willing to share? within the original story or the universes of your fics!

Thank you so much, I'm glad you're enjoying them! (ﾉ*^▽^*)ﾉ.｡:*☆

hmm, random thoughts about the FXMQ... a silly headcanon: Feng Xin has very much been hoisted by his own petard by heckling Mu Qing! That is to say, he'll harass Mu Qing relentlessly about something stupid only to be confronted with a similar situation and realise that there's absolutely NO way he can act in anyway similar to Mu Qing or he'll never hear the end of it.

(For example, he has tolerated some truly atrocious divine statues in the past because he's heckled Mu Qing so much about how picky he is with his divine statues that there's no WAY he can say ANYTHING without seeing that smug bastard's face in his head so he just has to bite his tongue and tolerate some unspeakably ugly statues.)

Mu Qing doesn't generally suffer from similar overthinking (he'll just prepare to kick FX's ass if he dares to say anything about it) except for things more directly related to himself. I think he genuinely finds sewing/embroidery/etc rather relaxing work but he'd rather die than have anyone ever see him do it because he's made such a big deal about not doing that sort of "servant" work anymore.

(He actually really enjoyed stitching Ruoye back together because it gave him the perfect excuse -- he's returning a favour!! and Xie Lian is hopeless!! of course he had to!! -- and he secretly considered using white thread to embroider some invisible little designs just because he doesn't quite want to stop... only he knew he'd get caught if he messed with Xie Lian's spiritual device like that and gave up the idea)

[longlukearnolds]

Ok but. All I can see is Black Sails in that show. Fucking show ruined my life x)

Steinberg and Levine were off the shits for this one oh my god