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Well Liam poured the bisquick, but will he make a waffle ?
Why do I feel like you're a Walking Dead fan? ;)
I guess B&B didn't get the memo on the backlash Y&R got from the horrid rape storyline for Phyllis with Marco. They're doing something similar with Quinn/Liam. *Headdesk* Or maybe they don't expect their female viewers to think it's still rape if it's a woman doing it to a man.
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Another great episode. Rackham is awesome. I just love that man. I'm all for anyone screwing over Rogers (and anyone who stands by his side, yes I'm looking at you Max & Eleanor. Sorry).
I kinda figured that Teach would win the duel with Flint just because it would make things easier on Flint if he had a fleet. And he can never do it the easy way. I did figure he would get Vane back on his side but I didn't think it'd happen so soon.
I think Madi does kinda like Silver a bit but she's also about seeing this partnership help her group. I'm more curious about what Scott said, about the day will come when their side would be enemies with the pirates.
And Billy? He's one I can't quite get a read on right now. He resents Flint, no doubt, but he also seems unable to break from him.
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I'm getting sick and tired of PSA's. First we have weeks and weeks of how amazing Maya is for being transgendered, than we have weeks and weeks of how Nicole is so fantastic for having her sisters baby.
Once the show finds a bandwagon, they never get off it. I sat through years of everyone and their mother waxing poetic about Hope's Holy Hymen. I finally quit. And if Doctor HardOn doesn't get here soon, I might again.
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I think it's been established that Vane can read/write. He wrote the anti-Flint note that was read on the beach in season 2, when Flint was threatening the fort. He wrote the letter to Eleanor that was attached to her father's dead body. It's far more likely that he wrote that and as opposed to one of slaves from Lumberjack Island he freed. I imagine Blackbeard taught him to read years ago.
As for him having Abigail write her own ransom letter -- Proof of life. Her father would recognize her handwriting and know that Vane actually had her and she was alive (at least when the letter was written).
I'm also confused on how Spain expects anyone to account for all the gold. They do know it's been in the possession of pirates for months now. Of course more than a little of it has been spent.
I find that I just can't care about the perils of Woodes Rogers. "Spain is mad at me, my brother's dead, I got a puny little scar, blah blah, blah". TeamPirates all the way. Make him suffer some more, please.
I kept thinking about how the balance of power has shifted since season 1 with Max and Eleanor. Once Eleanor had all the control and authority. But now Max has it and Eleanor is only alive right now because Rogers allows it.
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I'm all for getting a physical from Dr. HardOn! Sounds like he'll be a love interest for that dull dish rag Katie. But, with this show's attention span, he'll probably be free of her in no time. But then they'll probably pawn him off on Brooke. Can a man ever get free of the Logans?
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Total speculation on my part but I wonder if the maid character to Eleanor, I think they're calling her Mrs. Hudson, will be Mary Read. The show plays a little fast and loose with some elements of history so why not her, too. She seems to have her own agenda on that ship, eavesdropping on Rogers and all.
As for Madi, I'm confident that she
and Silver will hook up. That's totally coming. But we'll see if she becomes Mrs. Silver. The show loves playing bait and switch, like with Thomas/Flint. I could see that with Silver, too. Make us wonder if she's his future wife and it end up being someone else.
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Maroon Island can't be that far away from Nassau if it can be reached by long boats, which was how Mr. Scott was seeing the escaped slaves off the island. My main issue with it is timeline questions. We know that Mr. Scott has been "owned" by the Guthrie's since Eleanor was a child. He practically raised her while over-seeing Richard Guthrie's affairs in Nassau. So when did Mr. Scott have the time to establish Maroon Island? Did not a single Guthrie notice he had a wife? Or question where she went? I know you can fanwank some of that -- he kept it a secret, never told anyone about her, etc. But how did he find that island? How did he help build it while also managing his full-time, literally every day role in Nassau?
Cool that we've met Ben Gunn. I read the casting spoiler for season 4 that
Israel Hands will join the show next year.
Vane and Blackbeard were freaking awesome. I finally got why BB is such a feared legend among them. Because, otherwise, he just seemed to sulk around this season yelling "Get off my lawn, you damn kids!". Also loved Jack and his good-bye with Vane. Perfect for them.
Maroon Island is definitely NOT Treasure Island, IMHO. It will instead become a new home for Flint's crew since they can't return to Nassau. It's possible that BB and Vane might pick up Scott and the escaped slaves in the longboats next week and end up there, too. I fear Scott isn't long for the world. He will reunite with his wife just long enough to tell her to trust Flint. Perhaps to ask Flint to look after the place. His death will prompt his daughter to push for them to aid the fight against England. His death would push the storyline forward more than him just being wounded would.
And my main reason for saying it's not Treasure Island -- why would Silver need a map to find its location? He's there already. He has to leave it at some point. He could chart a course back to it without needing a treasure map.
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I don't think Flint will have a romance this season myself. The articles I read,
TPTB didn't say a romance for him, but that "someone unexpected" would get through to him and help pull him out of this state he's in. Could that be romance, I guess, but I'm not really counting on it. I think Silver will just become someone he trusts and confides in, another Gates or Miranda. They'll have a friendship of sorts for awhile, before their falling out leading to TI.
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Is the new guy playing a detective?
No one really knows right now. Probably not. He played Detective Harding on Y&R, nicknamed Detective Hard-On cause he gives lady boners. :-D
Is it possible for Quinn to get pregnant? I haven't seen the show in ages so I don't know her history with pregnancies and conception. Because if she can, she's so having a Baby Liam.
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For those of us impatiently waiting Detective HardOn's arrival on B&B, he will be on NICS: New Orleans tonight to tide us over.
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Great episode. All the cast gave amazing performances. Bravo to them.
I agree, though, with the poster who said Max is just not interesting anymore. They need to do something more with other than fret over her relationships or her standing. Scheming Max of season 1 was good. Mopey Max is dull.
On the Flint/Thomas/Miranda front -- I think Flint didn't realize how much Miranda meant to him until she died. It wasn't the same romantic love of his life feeling he had for Thomas. But it was still a hugely significant relationship. It was more of a partnership. Losing Thomas kept them together. They leaned on one another, although I do think there were times he sorta resented her. That was clear in 205 when he said the only thing he was ashamed of, regarding his relationship with Thomas, was that he listened to her and left England instead of trying to save Thomas.
Miranda was all the things to him that she said in his vision -- lover, wife, and mother. We know they had a sometimes sexual relationship. She offered him the support and understanding in a "wifely" role. And she was "mother" in that she helped give birth to and form Captain Flint. She helped focus his rage after losing Thomas. Miranda knew both elements of him -- James McGraw and Captain Flint and loved both those people. Now that she is dead, he's feeling very alone and lost. There's also the guilt he feels over her. It's clear he blames himself. And it's got to have been pretty traumatic to see someone you've known and loved for over a decade get their brains blown out all over you and then see them mocked and degraded in their coffin.
As for Rogers and Spain . . . .(history "spoiler")
Spain and England will be back at war soon which will probably take the heat of Spain off him a bit. But it will also take the backing of England away. So he'll be pretty much on his own in the Rogers vs. Pirates battle over Nassau.
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Every time I read about certain couples being a "super couple" I shake my head. The super couple has gone the way of the dodo and it's because the writers just don't take the time to develop them. It's like soap writers have ADD.
Yes! This, so much. Soaps used to take forever to get a couple together. Really make the audience sweat it. Watch their twists and turmoils before FINALLY getting the pay-off of an ILY or a love scene. Heck, sometimes you'd wait months just for a kiss. Now it's all insta-couples. They're thrown together on Monday, sleeping together on Tuesday, married on Wednesday, talking babies on Thursday, divorced by Friday. On to the next.
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Speak of the devil ...
DETECTIVE HARDON!
Oh, hello! That's the reason I'm gonna watch B&B again right there.
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Richard Guthrie (I think it was him, anyhow) gave Flint the lecture on how the Urca gold would complicate the pardons from Ashe if someone turned up with it. That it'd be hard for England to justify pardoning the men while Spain was screaming about how those men just robbed them. I think that played a part in Silver's decision. I think he felt like Flint was going to put the pardons above the gold so he decided to secure it for himself. That's just my theory, Neurochick, on what Silver was thinking. It was mostly greed in his mind -- make sure he got the gold first and foremost and then get a bigger cut to boot by shutting out the rest of the crew.
For me, I never got why Silver told Flint about the gold after Charles Town. Seemed to me like he'd have been better off to go back to Nassau, get his cut from Rackham/Max/Anne and disappear.
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but then Silver pretty much spilled about lying about the gold and Flint is back to holding him in contempt again.
Silver didn't confess his part in that, though. He laid it all off on the other guy (who was dead by that point), claiming that guy only told him the truth before he died. Flint is a smart man so he probably suspects Silver was in on it, he just doesn't care right now. He's feeling too murdery towards others at the moment. But I could see it becoming an issue down the line, especially if Jack loses he gold. And I wouldn't be surprised if he did with Rogers headed his way and no fort to defend the place and the pirates on the island being in non-stop party mode because of the gold. Blackbeard does have a point about them there.
I hope/suspect they will introduce Mary Read next season. First they have to get Anne un-whipped by Max. Anne has, sadly, become boring now that all she does is mope after Max. I need her spirit and fire back. I need her back to killing people just because they annoy her.
Rogers and Eleanor will probably be screwing by next week. You know it's coming. I don't think Eleanor has an endgame in mind just yet. She knows she doesn't have a lot of options. She's double-crossed Vane and he wants to kill her. Her father's dead. No one in Nassau is upset about her arrest. Most of them resented her because she had power over them so they're enjoying her downfall. She's doing what she can to survive. That said, I'm quite sick of her "poor little rich girl, daddy didn't love me enough" routine. It's tiresome and hard for me to feel for her when you compare her to others. Silver was an orphan with no one. Vane a child slave, beaten, starved, worked to an inch of his life. Anne a child bride to an abusive husband. Billy ripped from his family. Somehow "Daddy left me in a nice house with my own slave to take care of my every need, waaa, waaaa" just doesn't fill me with sympathy. I actually hope that Rogers uses her and tosses her once he's done, giving her a taste of her own medicine.
Count me in as another who is underwhelmed by Blackbeard. He's basically your drunk uncle at the Thanksgiving dinner table -- "In my day we didn't have school buses! You had to walk 20 miles, in the snow. Uphill. Both ways!"
On a shallow note, I do have to to appreciate the fan service for the ladies in ShirtlessVane and Billy in a wet shirt with his big bulging arms. Niccceee.
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In Flint's defense, he kinda had to cut the topgallants free even if there were men on them. De Groot told him they had to do it or the wind in those sails would capsize the ship. It was a choice of two or three dying versus all of them dying. You can't pull a sail down in that type of wind. It was cut it free or they all go down.
I think Miranda was repeating the line she said to Flint in season 2 when she told him about Abigail Ashe. The line was something about "I want you to come with me so I can save your life".
Really brilliant episode. The storm scenes were freaking amazing. Incredibly well-done. I've seen feature films that didn't have that good quality of work.
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I wonder when Detective Hard-On is hitting town? Give Katie a real reason for her heart to flutter.
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I think several of Starz's shows only lasted a few seasons because of 1) so-so ratings (Da Vinci, the one with John Winchester from "Supernatural) or 2) the show's creator/producer wanted to end it (Spartacus). "Power" and "Outlander" are both likely to go for several more seasons.
And I hope "Black Sails" will, too. I think it will come down to the producers. History isn't on the side of pirates and the arrival of Rogers will only make things worse for them. Season 4 is already filming and I really hope that we can get a couple more seasons after that. *Crosses fingers*
Back to the premiere -- I wonder if the mock trial was foreshadowing that Eleanor will be executed this season. Perhaps Rogers will hang her in Nassau to make his point.
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Nevermind. See it already addressed. :)
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This is not the last season. Season 4 is filming right now so we will have more. :)
Good question. I wonder how close the show will connect to the book, if that makes any sense.
I'm of the mindset that the writers will play as fast and loose with the book as they can. We've kinda seen it already on the show. Book John Silver said he was Flint's cook. Season 1 John Silver was, technically, Flint's "cook" but only because he lied and then because Flint needed a cover to keep him around until he got the information he needed from Silver. Obviously some stuff has to happen, like Silver losing a leg, but other stuff I think they will toy with as much as they can.
I wish they'd have explained the agreement between Flint/Vane/Jack a bit better. Did they agree to split the gold? Or is the gold considered all Jack's and his crew but Flint agreed to not kill him if Jack promised him certain things -- like restoring the fort and using the gold to protect the island. Cause I don't really see this Flint as caring too much about who physically possess the gold right now as long as it's used to hurt England which is all he cares about anymore. I predict the gold is going to become like the baby in "Raising Arizona" -- everyone will nab it and then lose it before it's all said and done.
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Great premiere! So glad to have my pirates back.
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Who???
The finest hunk of manly man that Y&R ever had. And promptly wasted, because JFP and UpChuck are idiots. And I guess because his name wasn't Steve Burton and he didn't look like a shaved monkey so they didn't know what to do with him. Here's hoping B&B has better sense.
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Just read that Detective HardOn is coming to B&B! Guess I'm gonna have to start watching this show again. Although not thrilled over the idea of him with a Logan sister. I guess the show still makes every man who joins the cast first sleep with Brooke? Nothing changed there, huh?
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I'm like 99% sure it will be Silver that Flint gets closer to in season 3, may or may not be romantic. But, damn, Flint/Billy would be crazy hot.
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S03.E06: XXIV
in Black Sails [V]
He probably got it done back in Nassau at the same beauty salon Hornigold visits to get his hair feathered so nicely.
Taanja -- Blackbeard pointed out where a piece of shrapnel went into his shoulder and, I thought, was clearly saying it was slowly moving towards his heart. Which begs the question of why not just find a doctor to remove it?
Poor Billy. He is like the only main character who hasn't gotten laid in three seasons? Which is ridiculous when you consider how that man looks. Yeah, get him some action. Ben Gunn is awful pretty . . .