Pucks and Pirates
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schneefinkCaps vs. Golden Knights in the Stanley Cup Final! Or, as I enjoy thinking about it, Alex Ovechkin vs. Marc-André Fleury, round 4 (I think.) As every year, I started these playoffs with "if not my team, it would be nice if the Caps could finally win a Cup, Ovi and Backstrom and the fans deserve it," and then after the Pens-Caps playoff series I landed at "I hope the Caps never win a Cup ever." Okay that's an exaggeration, but I don't want to see Tom "it's only an illegal hit to the head if it happens to me" Wilson and TJ "we're playing in honor of our teammate who got suspended for illegal hits to the head" Oshie win it. Sorry Ovi. (I'm aware every team has players like that, but sports fandom isn't rational, and not picking a favorite to win is less fun.) Vegas winning would be a fantastic story, Flower winning would be great, and I bet the victory parade in Vegas would be fun.
More Black Sails: DD and I are completely hooked, and I curse her bedtime discipline.
One of the only spoilers I had was that Flint and Thomas Hamilton used to be together, and the flashbacks did a great job with that. It also made clear what Flint's greatest regret was. It also seems like for ten years he and Miranda apparently never talked about anything important to them, but now they finally do and it's lovely. (Miranda held onto a book that Thomas dedicated to James as his "truest love" for ten years – she loves them both but I wonder how much suppressed jealousy/resentment she had.)
Billy! I loved the confrontation when Dufresne wanted to take up the offer of pardons for ten men, and Billy – after earlier appearing to agree and basically using Dufresne to uncover people's loyalties – said being tortured by a man who considers him an animal taught him that he wants safety and freedom for all of his brothers, not just a few, and beware anyone who thinks differently, and Dufresne is… well, not happy, lightly put. Or when Flint asked Billy why the hell he supports him and Billy says he believes in his vision and will never betray him (unlike Mr. Gates), no matter if Flint tried to save or kill him back then.
Now Dufresne wants to team up with Hornigold to deliver Flint to the British Navy, uh-oh.
Interesting that now, 10 years after he left, someone in London is after Flint…
I liked that Abigail got a personality, too. And now they actually met Lord Ashe! …Vane is going to attack Charlestown soon and this is going to go horribly wrong, but still. (I wonder if Vane is going to kill Lord Ashe, just to really enrage the British.) I look forward to that talk.
Jack and Anne :( On the one hand each of them being on their own for a while probably isn't the worst thing that could happen to them, but jesus christ Jack did you fuck up when you told her. No wonder Anne was adrift. At least Jack seems to have some kind of idea what his command cost him, though I don't think he realizes yet, since he hasn't seen Anne again since then.
John Silver trying to get the gold for himself… look, at this point I almost want to like him because he's very charismatic and his abilities as a storyteller are fascinating (Mr. Scott pointed out to Billy how similar Silver and Flint are in that regard), but I find it very hard to care about characters who don't care about anyone else and so far Silver seems to be that person. He's shocked when one pirate kills another because he thinks that's what Silver wants, he wasn't planning on murder, but he also seems intrigued by the possible power, so we'll see.
So John Silver wants the gold, asked Max for help, Max asked Jack, and Eleanor finds out because she has Max' brothel watched, smart of her. Eleanor just betrayed Vane to get Abigail out, believing that it might get him killed, then had a nice moment with her dad only to see him killed by Vane the next day and fear Vane will ruin everything she's trying to build. Eleanor is someone who would betray anyone in order to reach her goal, but I just want her to have a good friend okay, she could really use one.
More Black Sails: DD and I are completely hooked, and I curse her bedtime discipline.
One of the only spoilers I had was that Flint and Thomas Hamilton used to be together, and the flashbacks did a great job with that. It also made clear what Flint's greatest regret was. It also seems like for ten years he and Miranda apparently never talked about anything important to them, but now they finally do and it's lovely. (Miranda held onto a book that Thomas dedicated to James as his "truest love" for ten years – she loves them both but I wonder how much suppressed jealousy/resentment she had.)
Billy! I loved the confrontation when Dufresne wanted to take up the offer of pardons for ten men, and Billy – after earlier appearing to agree and basically using Dufresne to uncover people's loyalties – said being tortured by a man who considers him an animal taught him that he wants safety and freedom for all of his brothers, not just a few, and beware anyone who thinks differently, and Dufresne is… well, not happy, lightly put. Or when Flint asked Billy why the hell he supports him and Billy says he believes in his vision and will never betray him (unlike Mr. Gates), no matter if Flint tried to save or kill him back then.
Now Dufresne wants to team up with Hornigold to deliver Flint to the British Navy, uh-oh.
Interesting that now, 10 years after he left, someone in London is after Flint…
I liked that Abigail got a personality, too. And now they actually met Lord Ashe! …Vane is going to attack Charlestown soon and this is going to go horribly wrong, but still. (I wonder if Vane is going to kill Lord Ashe, just to really enrage the British.) I look forward to that talk.
Jack and Anne :( On the one hand each of them being on their own for a while probably isn't the worst thing that could happen to them, but jesus christ Jack did you fuck up when you told her. No wonder Anne was adrift. At least Jack seems to have some kind of idea what his command cost him, though I don't think he realizes yet, since he hasn't seen Anne again since then.
John Silver trying to get the gold for himself… look, at this point I almost want to like him because he's very charismatic and his abilities as a storyteller are fascinating (Mr. Scott pointed out to Billy how similar Silver and Flint are in that regard), but I find it very hard to care about characters who don't care about anyone else and so far Silver seems to be that person. He's shocked when one pirate kills another because he thinks that's what Silver wants, he wasn't planning on murder, but he also seems intrigued by the possible power, so we'll see.
So John Silver wants the gold, asked Max for help, Max asked Jack, and Eleanor finds out because she has Max' brothel watched, smart of her. Eleanor just betrayed Vane to get Abigail out, believing that it might get him killed, then had a nice moment with her dad only to see him killed by Vane the next day and fear Vane will ruin everything she's trying to build. Eleanor is someone who would betray anyone in order to reach her goal, but I just want her to have a good friend okay, she could really use one.
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Date: 2018-05-25 06:11 pm (UTC)Yes, it's like they've both been frozen in their separate bubbles of grief and rage for ten years.
she loves them both but I wonder how much suppressed jealousy/resentment she had.)
It's one thing I really love about the poly relationships on the show (as with Jack, Anne and Max); the show's very clear that you can genuinely love more than one person, but that doesn't automatically make everything easy and uncomplicated. So yeah, I love that sense that the James/Thomas/Miranda relationship involves real love in all directions, and also that Miranda feels rather wistfully that there's something about the James/Thomas relationship she can't quite be part of, and then she watches their obliviousness to the risks drag them all to disaster, and she and James are left unable to properly talk to each other because everything is so freighted with guilt and grief and rage and the ghost of this missing third person.
I liked that Abigail got a personality, too.
I love her so much! She could so easily have been a MacGuffin, but she's a real person with a mind of her own, and it's wonderful.
On the one hand each of them being on their own for a while probably isn't the worst thing that could happen to them, but jesus christ Jack did you fuck up when you told her. No wonder Anne was adrift.
YYYYUP.
John Silver trying to get the gold for himself… look, at this point I almost want to like him because he's very charismatic and his abilities as a storyteller are fascinating (Mr. Scott pointed out to Billy how similar Silver and Flint are in that regard), but I find it very hard to care about characters who don't care about anyone else and so far Silver seems to be that person.
I read this and rubbed my hands gleefully and resolved not to comment AT ALL on this part of your post until you had seen 2.10. *g*
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Date: 2018-05-26 09:44 am (UTC)Yeah, that's a good way to put it.
Heh, I almost waited to write anything until I finished the season, but I correctly guessed that so much would happen that I wouldn't be able to write down most of my thoughts ^^