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#the zerosum game and that's why it ends with a cliff dive sigh
jaynovz Β· 3 years
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Will Graham 🀝 John Silver
Mirror ball solidarity
#thoughts#the shows do have a lot of similarities but at a certain point they veer off#the dynamics between the two ships are I think fundamentally different in a lot of ways#ask me about Black Sails and Hannibal lit crit#at the end of the day silverflint is not anywhere near as destructive#it maybe as codependent but I think the important additions of polystuff like throwing Madi in there or throwing Thomas in there#or ideally both helps make this relationship a lot healthier if they would actually just talk to each other and work some shit out#whereas hannigram... well. it's absolutely rooted in someone doing so much bad shit to you but you literally can't cut them out of your lif#because nothing is ever going to compare to the experience of having them around even if it's a negative influence sometimes or often#like they are so Unhealthy#the zerosum game and that's why it ends with a cliff dive sigh#you love this terrible terrible thing and you hate yourself for loving it but you also can't deny it#so can't live with him can't live without him#let me try to do my last little bit to society by throwing both of our asses off of this cliff#I think they're metaphorical cliffs also because like there are no cliffs in Maryland by the way#what is it with these shows that I like in metaphorical cliffs#oh yes in the way in which silver and will are mirror balls is very different#they can both easily become different people and different personas but whereas for Will it's almost something he can't help doing#and he absolutely hates that#for silver it's something that he might do unconsciously but it's rooted in survival#though I would say they're both tormented by this tendency to be mirrorballs even if it works in a different way for each
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