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Why? Dean's excellent at symbols, he always has been and he has a great memory for both retaining and using them as we've seen time again.

Or better yet it's something they've already started doing and the scenes with Mary at the end where they acted like they didn't know, were just play acting for her benefit. I'd love it if they were working the long con and making it convincing, only to turn the tables at the end of the season when the BMOL's finally go too far/show their real hand only Dean and Sam are completely prepared for it and take 'em down.

Besides if anything I think the critic is showing his ignorance. Mills has SOME skills and good instincts in the pilot but that's it. He's nothing near the level he was in the films. This is the start of him starting to level up. :)

I enjoyed this. I'll keep the DVR recording it. Clive Standen was good and I'm interested in seeing how the team gels. It doesn't really matter to me if it's a remake or whatever. The way I see it these shows are like those ones "inspired by true events" that take plenty of liberties with the true events. Except these inspired by other fictional stories and take liberties with the original stories. Re: His hair - it looks like he's got a different haircut in the coming attractions they showed at the end of the episode so I think they've upgraded his hairstyle a little after the pilot. :)

Ultimately I don't think that's as true as they themselves believe. They can also both be that way to some extent because they aren't the ones in charge yet. I don't think Flint's worse than most, at least not on this show. But they've all shown lack of regard when it comes to getting what they want. Re: that clip of Gates, there is actually this excellent gifset on Tumblr that points the eerie similarities between what Gates said before Flint killed him as compared to what was said by Thomas' father and that Navy guy to Flint when Thomas was put away and he and Miranda were exiled. There was no way Flint was NOT going to have an extreme reaction to given that similarity.

Because he makes it a point to know his subject matter? I think he tries to learn as much as he can about the history following his own time, esp as involves people who were connected to the founding fathers. He has an eidetic memory which means he pretty much remembers everything he reads.

Yes that's what I meant, I didn't mean Flint would be physically afraid of him - I meant it in the sense that he's someone Flint views as basically an equal and thus someone could, as you say, undo what he's done, take it away. I think the show is doing that but even if the book is a book of legend, if LJS was a legend he'd, IMO, be a legend in the book too, it would be rather odd for a book telling the "legendary" or public version of the story to actually pretend one of it's legends wasn't a legend, but someone no one except his shipmates remembered. :) LOL Someone somewhere said wouldn't it be funny if the "real" story behind the legend was basically three guys involved in a really messy break up(Flint, Silver and Billy)

They were afraid, they served most closely with him, but the general public didn't know who he was and if he was some pirate king, he'd have been a famous name, yet he wasn't in TI. Captain Flint was still a feared and famous name. So KatWay is right it doesn't really make sense. What might make sense is this big built up and then...it ends...there is NO pirate king of Nassau or otherwise in the Caribbean, this is the beginning of the end for the pirates really. All that's left is "what almost was" for Silver in terms of that. The build up being more for the sake of irony. Billy is afraid probably because he's also a crazy old drunk by then and remembers Silver crushing Dufresne's head and saying he has "a long ...... memory". And now he has something against Billy. Flint, I think if the speculation about Thomas is at all right, it would be less a physical fear and more because Silver, sometime in the upcoming episodes, might in some in way use it against Flint - so in the future it would be the levels of betrayal to which he's willing to go to, if he would be willing to use that against Flint, one could say Flint has is no angel in that department himself, but it could be because Flint knows what HE would do and he knows Silver would go every bit as far, sometimes seeing someone who would be as bad as you can be very scary. Flint killed 7 men to hide the treasure, how many might Silver kill to find it? Silver might scare both Flint and Billy but they aren't necessarily fearful for the same reasons.