It initially seems odd that Teach — who waxes poetic about everything from birds to wives to Nassau’s smell — is not afforded last words. Both Vane and Miranda got a chance for fiery speeches before their send-offs. But Teach’s refusal to die the way Rogers wants is more impactful than a speech would have been. So, too, are Jack and Anne’s silent expressions as they watch, their wordless interplay, and Rogers’s registration of Jack’s presence.
Most powerful of all is Teach’s snarling smile before the bag is placed over his head – the last time we see his face whole. From his heartbreaking expression when the Readcoats first surround him, we know how anguishing this is.
― Lauren Sarner
Yes. This scene and Dufresne’s death shook me to the core for their gruesomeness (of course Dufresne did not deserve any respect, but I still strongly object to the deliberate cruelty of his death). I fully agree with Ms Sarner about the defiance in his last snarl being as powerful as Miranda’s fury and Vane’s final encouragement.
Stop thinking: “I’m not talented enough to execute this concept.” Start thinking: “I’m going to be a stronger artist when I’ve finished this piece.”
This is a fixed mindset vs. a growth mindset.
Your abilities are not static, and any challenges you have, anything that turns out different from how you imagined, is not evidence of failure, just a struggle towards improvement.
“I think the dreams in the third season are a way for the audience to see inside Flint. Otherwise, how do you know what he’s thinking? He’s shut everybody out and then you’ve got a boring character. What I like about the device is you see this implacable person that he’s become, but when you look inside his head, you see this turmoil that he’s in. It is guilt, it’s regret, it’s just the pain of grief that’s going on and him also going, ‘What is my world about now? What is my purpose? I have no purpose. I have no home. Where is my home? What is my center?’ And it’s really – this is Flint’s journey to find something to cleave to. ‘What is my purpose?’”
“[Flint] needs somebody to be partnered with and Silver becomes the ultimate person. He’s had Thomas, he’s had Mrs. Barlow, and then finally, it’s Silver.”
“Silver finds himself with the dubious honor of being the one person who understands Flint. That, in terms of the stakes of the show, has become a matter of life and death. He tells Billy Bones that he understands the things they’re forced to do at Flint’s behest [which] are the acts of someone who is in despair. Silver has to find a way to return Flint to a place where he gives a shit about the people around him and not thrust them into this nihilistic war on civilization.”
“One of the things that Season 3 deals with is how Silver is going to penetrate this guy. The only way that he can save the crew and himself is by somehow getting through to this guy and influencing him. He has to become the next Barlow or Gates to Flint.”
“His humanity asserts itself when it is grasping for relationships with other human beings. He starts in a place of having lost Thomas Hamilton, who was very meaningful to him and then having lost Miranda in such an awful way that he feels alone. Part of the journey in season three is finding a new person that he feels he can be vulnerable with and understood by, and it comes from a surprising direction.”
“The thing Flint doesn’t have in season three that he’s always had is a partner. Part of the arc of the season for us was about him really flailing alone and not having anyone to have that human experience with. [We liked] him finding John Silver and having that become the person with whom he’s able to emerge from this awful experience he’s having.”
“[Flint’s flashbacks in Season 2 and dreams in Season 3] were useful because he didn’t have a relationship in the present where we could really access some of those emotions and Season 4 is significantly different in the sense that he now has that person in John Silver. ”
how have i never heard of archive.org until today.. it’s an internet library that functions just like a real one, as in you borrow the books for 2 weeks and then they are returned to the archive. you can dl pdfs as well, but you’ll lose access after the 2 week period. it’s all free tho, literally just like a real library. i was searching for a cheap copy of this serial murder book from the 90s for my thesis and i found it for free on here. there’s like.. no gimmick at all? i’m so amazed. i literally just signed up and now i’m reading a super hq scan of this book for free. i love libraries.
if anyone could be so kind as to reblog this and add gifs/pics/vids whatever of clint eastwood being gay please,,, i don’t care what the context is . if it looks gay, if it sounds gay, i need it . i’m collecting data for a science experiment:/
i tried to resist this post but i can’t. (anyone not interested, please press “J” and if you’re on mobile, i’m sorry.) here. this pile is from a movie called Thunderbolt and Lightfoot:
ok fine they are not actually holding hands, he’s handing him something. still.
from Paint Your Wagon:
obviously i could post a million caps of rawhide but i’ll limit myself to
ok listen though
steph is right, the entire show is hella gay
Yay to Rowdy/Jed, now and always.
We REALLY should organise a collective viewing of Thunderbolt & Lightfoot, preferably after I am back home on 31 August.
Madness is such a hard thing to define, which makes it such an easy label to affix to one’s enemies. Once it had been applied to Thomas, once our relationship had been exposed, defiled, scandalized…everything ended.
It ain’t gonna do you a bit of good. As your good friend, I’m tellin’ you that.
Lovely, supportive scene. Especially love Favor’s last line as Rowdy rides off (quoting from memory ): “You’re fired! And you’d better be back tomorrow, y’hear?” Very good, bleak episode.
Sooo… I’ve read this AMAZING silverflint fanfic series basically about the two of them living in Florida at Flint’s orange grove with lots of cats. Now I’m really not a fanfic person (I can read like 5k words and that’s it) but this! 40k I still can’t believe it – it was so good so so good!! Oh god, so perfect, so freacking in character I felt like watching the show, such great jokes with just the right amount of perfect smut. Just. So. Fucking. Beautiful.
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