#and even if the whumpee does die the emotional undertone is still there
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I will wait for dinner to settle BEFORE I watch the keelhauling episode
#black sails#my posts#like…I flatter myself I have a reasonably average genre fan’s tolerance for violence and gore#the rest of the show is fine for me in that respect. nothing testing my tolerance limits#but the keelhaul…really truly made me nauseous the first time around d#it’s not WHUMP. it’s specifically and distinctly to my mind NOT whump. it’s a CHARACTER DEATH#Whump is fine bc the whumpee has a certain amount of either plot armor or external purpose#the emotional undercurrents of the physical damage are what is being communicated to me - the audience#the nobility and sacrifice of the sufferer. their helplessness and submission or whatever else etc etc etc#and even if the whumpee does die the emotional undertone is still there#I usually have a specific empathetic bond with the whumpee that puts a different cast on the violence#I have NO SUCH BOND with Blackbeard so his gruesome end is just that. gruesome.#even his defiance and determination not to give Roger’s anything makes it WORSE rather than better#maybe BECAUSE I don’t like him as a character. there is no intermediary emotional layer#which is of course the point. the point is that Roger’s is committing an act worse than any pirate and he has the backing of the Law#and it’s gruesome and sickening in a way that none of the so called monsters sailing under the black have managed
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