#i’m sensing that their lack of comprehension about colonialism and class is gonna be a problem here

[ladyhawke]

i’m finishing episode 9 of fathoms deep and literally had to pause because their reading of max is just so fucking wrong!!!! they say they love her but they don’t seem to understand her at all

they’re claiming she’s different from silver because silver only cares about himself and max cares about other because she cared about eleanor. like we didn’t just see her snitching on the other whores to jack because it would benefit her. in later seasons she’s the one mining the chances of the revolution happening. the former whore who happens to be a black woman.

it’s about how she understands power and uses it to her advantage which is why she survives but it’s not honorable, is she the most intelligent person in the whole show? yes but she is questionable and that’s why she’s an interesting character and if you can’t see her for what she is then you can’t really love her