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#and then in 2.10 it broke through the wall like the fucking kool-aid man like ‘HEY DID YOU MISS ME
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I don’t remember much from my first watch of Black Sails but I think it says something about my having just come off seven months of being obsessed with The Terror that I recall being SHOCKED by the lack of cannibalism.
#as if Black Sails had literally Any time to address the morality of cannibalism... 🤦🏼
#but idk!! i was just very used to it as a plot/thematic element
#you can tell they wanted to include it tho
#like... the ridiculous amount of sacrificial symbolism throughout the show culminating in a story about not only cannibalism but sparagmos
#like. they could have just had the story be that the people on the ship ate each other in a survival cannibalism sense
#but No. they had to tear each other limb-for-limb while still alive bc that’s SEXIER
#the Black Sails writers Get It
#they just couldn’t get into it so they had to stick it into a fourthhand account of a story that might or might not be true
#and then of course the unfounded allegations against Vane by that girl in Philadelphia
#which is also fascinating bc it’s using the rumor of Improper Consumption to dehumanize him and this justify his being sacrificed
#and by ‘fascinating’ I mean terrible - obviously
#god idek if I can rewatch seasons 3 and 4.... I’m already losing my shit over s2 rn
#there was a break in the Symbolism (that I was picking up on anyway - could have missed it)
#and then in 2.10 it broke through the wall like the fucking kool-aid man like ‘HEY DID YOU MISS ME?????’
#and obviously it was in the most Cursed way possible
#I still think it’s funny that I didn’t previously Know that axes are Sacrificial Symbolism
#and I had to reverse-engineer that understanding after being massively confused by what was going on in s4
#and so now I’m just watching the whole show with that in mind going ‘oh.... oh NO....’
#but yeah anyway back to my original point
#I’m glad there isn’t Actual Cannibalism bc that wouldn’t make any sense
#but the symbolism is sexy and I love it
#Black Sails Good
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