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gwydion* Donald Trump invented a terror attack on Sweden Saturday in hopes of stirring up more Islamaphobic hatred to further damage our country.
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* If their plan to literally kill people by denying them health care to pay for tax cuts to the rich is such a good idea, why are they too cowardly to face the people they are choosing to hurt and explain why their suffering is for the good of the .1% to their faces? Don't they at least owe it to the people they are choosing to harm to listen to them? If they are ashamed of their creulty and lack the courage to own up to iut, why can't they simply chose not to harm people? Not harming people in this case merely requires to them to do nothing. Just saying. "Many GOP lawmakers won't hold town halls:"
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* Improvement is slow, but ongoing. I am still trying to clear my lungs, but sleep is much easier. I am exhausted pretty much constantly, but I am well enough to read.
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* Legion has moved into some areas that are triggery for me, but I'm still hanging on. "Legion Sends David to His New Home:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/legion-sends-david-new-home/
* Black Sails XXXII: Fault Lines:
* We start with a realistically brutal depiction of slavery out in the plantations, and the introduction of Julius, who I expect will matter a great deal in the near future. At this point, it serves as a reminder of the consequences of Billy's actions and why things are likely to go pear shaped next episode.
* We cut from deliberate, orderly cruelty to violent chaos in Nassau, with Eleanor Guthrie finding her old self on the way to the Fort, where the men try to paternalistically side line her, and she refuses to be sidelined, taking command. I rather missed the real Eleanor and it is good to see her back. There she is, being practical, logically, and regal.
* Max, avatar of civilization in Nassau, is missing in the chaos, which is... perfection really, but of course she is not so much missing as hidden and imprisoned.
* Flint tries to reimpose order. Silver and Flint are a united front. It is amusing and worrying both that when one gives an order they look to the other for confirmation. Co-captains coequal, but there is space there for the crack to form between them. Where Flint's orders are all about restoring order and the negotiations with Eleanor (find Max, etc.), Silver is focused on Billy an the damage he's done with their relationship to the slave community. "He’s stolen the army that pledged its allegiance to us, not to mention the damaged he’s caused with our alliance to the slave communities on this island. There are a thousand men out there who’ve been awaiting my arrival. They’re now armed and angry and I haven’t yet said a word to them. If the first five are, “Billy Bones has crossed you,” would you care to guess what happens next? Go out there and put forth the word. If Billy isn’t in this room within the hour, I promise him… he will regret it." They are looking in different directions, which, while they work together covers the whole politics of the island, but also points to the nature of their eventual split. Flint is still fundamentally tied up in his relationship with England. Silver is instead fundamentally tied up with Madi's settlement and slave revolts on the island. Thy are terrifying where united towards one goal, but we've also seen how devastating they are when at cross purposes. I think this whole episode is about how fundamentally fragile their alliance is and where the fault lines lie, even as they rule together as one.
* Woodes Rogers gets word of the fall of Nassau and so sends a furious man away in charge of the pirate prisoners with a skeleton crew and an axe to grind. Woodes Rogers is flat out terrible at delegating. First he leaves power hungry and vindictive Berringer in charge of Nassau, who immediately countermands all his orders, trapping Eleanor and arresting Max, thus thwarting all his plans and radically destabilizing Nassau in a way that helps the pirates. Now he's picking Kendrick, a man so hot for the fight that instead of just taking the pirates under guard to the nearest British held port, decided to murder unchained pirates one by one in a way that guarantees a revolt as it's die horribly one by one or risk everything on a chance of overpowering tired and distracted guards. Of course the pirates take the latter.
The first rule of command is never give a command that won't be obeyed. For that to happen, you need to know you men well enough to know who might not obey orders and under what circumstances. Just saying.
* We see Long John Silver the legend continuing to emerge. When Silver threatens Billy in so carefully worded third person, we are seeing the man from Treasure Island who killed so many so cold bloodedly and turned to jovial story teller after without missing a beat.
* The fight scene aboard the boat establishes the pattern and how backed into a corner the Revenge crew is. It also provides us with Chekov's broken glass, so to speak.
* Billy taps a piton into the space between Silver and Flint and gives a good hard tap. Look at how far Billy has come in his study of Real Politik. His argument for Max having fucked them is flawless and instead of coming at the Flint/Silver alliance directly at the start, he attacks Max first, showing how they might spin things to whip the crowd into a unified attack first on her as scapegoat, then Eleanor and the fort, and from there to trying to separate Silver from Flint. Billy is no longer the season one innocent with a simple view of right and wrong. He's not a strategician with hands every bit as dirty as Flint, Eleanor, Rogers, and Silver, and a fine command of the power of Story. The irony is that Silver is taking the Season one and two Billy side of the argument "Those 20 men are your brothers," while Billy here sounds like Season one or two Flint looking at political considerations and willing to sacrifice lives of the crew in aide of them. Flint has become what he claims to hate and hasn't even noticed, just as Flint seems to think he is still honoring Thomas Hamilton's vision while fighting for the exact opposite of it. In the midst of all this Billy calls back to the season three Bones/Silver alliance to try to control Flint. "How long ago was it that the two of us agreed that Flint threatened to be the end of us all? That he would find ways of driving us over and over again into that storm till there was none of us left? We survived him… you and I. And now you want to follow him into what? A massive slave revolt? A war against the British Empire? How is this not just the next storm in a very long line of them?" Billy's last shot is his best, playing on Silver's season three worry about what happens to Flint's partners and twisting that into a fear for Madi. Billy is incredibly manipulative here, very Flint.
* A little more Flint backstory, courtesy of Israel Hands, an image of young McGraw just prior to meeting Thomas Hamilton. Given the potential revelation about Thomas' fate that Silver ends up holding by the end, I want to stick a pin in this. It's also a mirror of the Silver/Bones scene. Hands is much less wordy, but he taps his own piton into the space between Silver and Flint, this time through analogy with what Blackbead did to Hands. It's astute, I think.
* So the Philadelphia pipe dream has been abandoned in the face of the reality. I always suspcte it was as illusory as the Ashe plan for Flint. She must work out a new plan to save Woodes Rogers' finances. She does sound tired, echoing Max, in her way. Mrs. Hudson's offer echoes Max's way back in the beginning. She too tries to get her to run away from the hot mess that is Nassau. She is tempted, perhaps because of the pregnancy. We get another little glimpse of Eleanor's context. "When my family first arrived here… I remember my… mother and father had a terrible argument. She told him that this was no place for a little girl. That it was cruel. I stay, and our child is raised amongst all this brutality. I go, and my husband… is left alone to face it on his own. Amazing, this place. Somehow leaves no options other than to hurt the ones you love." Ouch. Certainly she has, over and over again.
* Anne uses Chekov's glass to effect and at great personal cost. It's the only rational thing to have happened, for all Jack did not want to risk her so. Anne has agency, and Jack trust her. It is very them really. I wonder if the bloody and brutal pirate revolt is intended to visually stand in for the slave revolt we only get glimpses of. The chained prisoners in the hold certainly reminded me of the slave revolt aboard ship Mr. Scott was accidentally a part of in the way back. I don't know how to feel about that honestly and it needs more mulling.
* Silver predicts if they exchange Max she will be a problem for him again and soon. I'm convinced he's not wrong, even though she is likely sincere in her intention for that not to happen. Max continues to be Civilized in an uncivilized environment, "I would have had to live with it." This is the thing Woodes Rogers grappled with last episode and is the fundamental character trait of Flint, the doing terrible things and having to live with them afterwards. For Flint that has meant a horrific level of self loathing. Silver, with not much in the way of conscience or genuine empathy is not so burdened. Max has looked long and hard into the abyss and decided she has limits. I think Eleanor is starting to discover the weight of what she must live with given what she's done and that's the subtext of her scene with Mrs. Hudson through to the end of the episode.
* Max drops a hint as to what might have happened to Thomas Hamilton without knowing it. Did I not say way, way back, that the rumor of Thomas' death was the same unreliable source as the one that reported he hung himself in distress at his best friend running away with his wife? Not that we know it's true, just that it's as likely as the official story. The hint is not even a little lost on Silver. Let's call this the second Thomas adjacent moment in the episode.
* The third is in the next scene, where silver discusses his Billy conversation and associated qualms with flint, then starts probing about what he'd do if Thomas were alive. Flint points out the manipulation and shrewdly asks if he ought to be worried it took Silver two hours to bring it up. Silver says, "We are at our least rational… when we’re at our most vulnerable." he means Madi for himself, of course, but pivot to probe flint's Thomas vulnerability. I keep thinking about all the points this season when people were at their least rational: Flint jeopardizing the alliance with the ex-slaves in his single minded push for Nassau, Billy destroying his relationship with the Island slaves by ignoring their rational concerns for the safety of their families, Berringer countermanding Rogers' orders in his anti-Max witch hunt, Rogers with Blackbeard, and Kendrick with the Revenge crew. What were the vulnerabilities? Another thing to mull. Flint is now completely unaware that this is the opposite of what Thomas wanted, "I think if he knew how close we were to the victory he gave his life to achieve... he wouldn't want me to." He has hidden the truth from himself, just as I suspect Billy is hiding the truth that he as basically become flint from himself. If one subscribes to the theory that Billy represents both Thomas and Miranda Hamilton, this has some extra implications that I will also be mulling, I think. Silver says, "It is some kind of hell to be forced to choose one irreplaceable thing over another." Ouch. the cracks are forming around the stress points in their relationship.
* Madi is rightfully horrified to see slaves still in chains under Pirate rule. I keep thinking of the terrible thing Jack Rackham got Charles vane to do. Each time it feels like the true original sin. Slavery, colonialism always poison paradise and fundamentally undermine the claims that the pirates fight for freedom. There can be no freedom where some are enslaved, no matter how clever the rationalization, whether it's Jack Rackham's just until the Fort is fixed or Bones/Gunn just until they see we are friends. Friends don't chain friends up. It was never okay that Eleanor kept Mr. Scott enslaved long after she had the power to free him. It is not okay that Billy Bones ran roughshod over the opinions of the enslaved people he was claiming to free. Max's friend (Ruth?) warns her "You must see by now that when you wage war on the world, the world fights back. Your mother knew that. Knew that the best one can do is to find a place you can protect, build a wall, and save who you can. You’d be wise to learn from her example." I think this too is an unheeded oracle.
* Max rightly rebukes eleanor for repeatedly ignoring her warnings and all Max has lost as a result. Eleanor counters by asking where Max would have taken her if she'd abandoned Nassau and fled with the pearls way back in the beginning. It turns out Max's plan wasn't that well developed, alas. Eleanor claims to have been terribly tempted. Another thing brought full circle, another ending that references the beginning. each episode reminds us of the distance we've traveled and ties another little thread up in a neat little knot. A hundred tiny goodbyes.
* The rampart scene reminds me of Theseus' Sails, though of course Woodes Rogers colours are correct.
* The fight is apt to be so brutal.
* Eleanor makes her proposal. Urca Gold for the fort. I think Flint chose wrong. It's instinct more than reason and I can see the desperation behind his choice.
*****
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* If their plan to literally kill people by denying them health care to pay for tax cuts to the rich is such a good idea, why are they too cowardly to face the people they are choosing to hurt and explain why their suffering is for the good of the .1% to their faces? Don't they at least owe it to the people they are choosing to harm to listen to them? If they are ashamed of their creulty and lack the courage to own up to iut, why can't they simply chose not to harm people? Not harming people in this case merely requires to them to do nothing. Just saying. "Many GOP lawmakers won't hold town halls:"
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* Improvement is slow, but ongoing. I am still trying to clear my lungs, but sleep is much easier. I am exhausted pretty much constantly, but I am well enough to read.
* "Beauty Battles Believability in Game of Thrones Costume Design for Margaery Tyrell Part 1:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/margaery-tyrell-costume-part-1/
* Legion has moved into some areas that are triggery for me, but I'm still hanging on. "Legion Sends David to His New Home:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/legion-sends-david-new-home/
* Black Sails XXXII: Fault Lines:
* We start with a realistically brutal depiction of slavery out in the plantations, and the introduction of Julius, who I expect will matter a great deal in the near future. At this point, it serves as a reminder of the consequences of Billy's actions and why things are likely to go pear shaped next episode.
* We cut from deliberate, orderly cruelty to violent chaos in Nassau, with Eleanor Guthrie finding her old self on the way to the Fort, where the men try to paternalistically side line her, and she refuses to be sidelined, taking command. I rather missed the real Eleanor and it is good to see her back. There she is, being practical, logically, and regal.
* Max, avatar of civilization in Nassau, is missing in the chaos, which is... perfection really, but of course she is not so much missing as hidden and imprisoned.
* Flint tries to reimpose order. Silver and Flint are a united front. It is amusing and worrying both that when one gives an order they look to the other for confirmation. Co-captains coequal, but there is space there for the crack to form between them. Where Flint's orders are all about restoring order and the negotiations with Eleanor (find Max, etc.), Silver is focused on Billy an the damage he's done with their relationship to the slave community. "He’s stolen the army that pledged its allegiance to us, not to mention the damaged he’s caused with our alliance to the slave communities on this island. There are a thousand men out there who’ve been awaiting my arrival. They’re now armed and angry and I haven’t yet said a word to them. If the first five are, “Billy Bones has crossed you,” would you care to guess what happens next? Go out there and put forth the word. If Billy isn’t in this room within the hour, I promise him… he will regret it." They are looking in different directions, which, while they work together covers the whole politics of the island, but also points to the nature of their eventual split. Flint is still fundamentally tied up in his relationship with England. Silver is instead fundamentally tied up with Madi's settlement and slave revolts on the island. Thy are terrifying where united towards one goal, but we've also seen how devastating they are when at cross purposes. I think this whole episode is about how fundamentally fragile their alliance is and where the fault lines lie, even as they rule together as one.
* Woodes Rogers gets word of the fall of Nassau and so sends a furious man away in charge of the pirate prisoners with a skeleton crew and an axe to grind. Woodes Rogers is flat out terrible at delegating. First he leaves power hungry and vindictive Berringer in charge of Nassau, who immediately countermands all his orders, trapping Eleanor and arresting Max, thus thwarting all his plans and radically destabilizing Nassau in a way that helps the pirates. Now he's picking Kendrick, a man so hot for the fight that instead of just taking the pirates under guard to the nearest British held port, decided to murder unchained pirates one by one in a way that guarantees a revolt as it's die horribly one by one or risk everything on a chance of overpowering tired and distracted guards. Of course the pirates take the latter.
The first rule of command is never give a command that won't be obeyed. For that to happen, you need to know you men well enough to know who might not obey orders and under what circumstances. Just saying.
* We see Long John Silver the legend continuing to emerge. When Silver threatens Billy in so carefully worded third person, we are seeing the man from Treasure Island who killed so many so cold bloodedly and turned to jovial story teller after without missing a beat.
* The fight scene aboard the boat establishes the pattern and how backed into a corner the Revenge crew is. It also provides us with Chekov's broken glass, so to speak.
* Billy taps a piton into the space between Silver and Flint and gives a good hard tap. Look at how far Billy has come in his study of Real Politik. His argument for Max having fucked them is flawless and instead of coming at the Flint/Silver alliance directly at the start, he attacks Max first, showing how they might spin things to whip the crowd into a unified attack first on her as scapegoat, then Eleanor and the fort, and from there to trying to separate Silver from Flint. Billy is no longer the season one innocent with a simple view of right and wrong. He's not a strategician with hands every bit as dirty as Flint, Eleanor, Rogers, and Silver, and a fine command of the power of Story. The irony is that Silver is taking the Season one and two Billy side of the argument "Those 20 men are your brothers," while Billy here sounds like Season one or two Flint looking at political considerations and willing to sacrifice lives of the crew in aide of them. Flint has become what he claims to hate and hasn't even noticed, just as Flint seems to think he is still honoring Thomas Hamilton's vision while fighting for the exact opposite of it. In the midst of all this Billy calls back to the season three Bones/Silver alliance to try to control Flint. "How long ago was it that the two of us agreed that Flint threatened to be the end of us all? That he would find ways of driving us over and over again into that storm till there was none of us left? We survived him… you and I. And now you want to follow him into what? A massive slave revolt? A war against the British Empire? How is this not just the next storm in a very long line of them?" Billy's last shot is his best, playing on Silver's season three worry about what happens to Flint's partners and twisting that into a fear for Madi. Billy is incredibly manipulative here, very Flint.
* A little more Flint backstory, courtesy of Israel Hands, an image of young McGraw just prior to meeting Thomas Hamilton. Given the potential revelation about Thomas' fate that Silver ends up holding by the end, I want to stick a pin in this. It's also a mirror of the Silver/Bones scene. Hands is much less wordy, but he taps his own piton into the space between Silver and Flint, this time through analogy with what Blackbead did to Hands. It's astute, I think.
* So the Philadelphia pipe dream has been abandoned in the face of the reality. I always suspcte it was as illusory as the Ashe plan for Flint. She must work out a new plan to save Woodes Rogers' finances. She does sound tired, echoing Max, in her way. Mrs. Hudson's offer echoes Max's way back in the beginning. She too tries to get her to run away from the hot mess that is Nassau. She is tempted, perhaps because of the pregnancy. We get another little glimpse of Eleanor's context. "When my family first arrived here… I remember my… mother and father had a terrible argument. She told him that this was no place for a little girl. That it was cruel. I stay, and our child is raised amongst all this brutality. I go, and my husband… is left alone to face it on his own. Amazing, this place. Somehow leaves no options other than to hurt the ones you love." Ouch. Certainly she has, over and over again.
* Anne uses Chekov's glass to effect and at great personal cost. It's the only rational thing to have happened, for all Jack did not want to risk her so. Anne has agency, and Jack trust her. It is very them really. I wonder if the bloody and brutal pirate revolt is intended to visually stand in for the slave revolt we only get glimpses of. The chained prisoners in the hold certainly reminded me of the slave revolt aboard ship Mr. Scott was accidentally a part of in the way back. I don't know how to feel about that honestly and it needs more mulling.
* Silver predicts if they exchange Max she will be a problem for him again and soon. I'm convinced he's not wrong, even though she is likely sincere in her intention for that not to happen. Max continues to be Civilized in an uncivilized environment, "I would have had to live with it." This is the thing Woodes Rogers grappled with last episode and is the fundamental character trait of Flint, the doing terrible things and having to live with them afterwards. For Flint that has meant a horrific level of self loathing. Silver, with not much in the way of conscience or genuine empathy is not so burdened. Max has looked long and hard into the abyss and decided she has limits. I think Eleanor is starting to discover the weight of what she must live with given what she's done and that's the subtext of her scene with Mrs. Hudson through to the end of the episode.
* Max drops a hint as to what might have happened to Thomas Hamilton without knowing it. Did I not say way, way back, that the rumor of Thomas' death was the same unreliable source as the one that reported he hung himself in distress at his best friend running away with his wife? Not that we know it's true, just that it's as likely as the official story. The hint is not even a little lost on Silver. Let's call this the second Thomas adjacent moment in the episode.
* The third is in the next scene, where silver discusses his Billy conversation and associated qualms with flint, then starts probing about what he'd do if Thomas were alive. Flint points out the manipulation and shrewdly asks if he ought to be worried it took Silver two hours to bring it up. Silver says, "We are at our least rational… when we’re at our most vulnerable." he means Madi for himself, of course, but pivot to probe flint's Thomas vulnerability. I keep thinking about all the points this season when people were at their least rational: Flint jeopardizing the alliance with the ex-slaves in his single minded push for Nassau, Billy destroying his relationship with the Island slaves by ignoring their rational concerns for the safety of their families, Berringer countermanding Rogers' orders in his anti-Max witch hunt, Rogers with Blackbeard, and Kendrick with the Revenge crew. What were the vulnerabilities? Another thing to mull. Flint is now completely unaware that this is the opposite of what Thomas wanted, "I think if he knew how close we were to the victory he gave his life to achieve... he wouldn't want me to." He has hidden the truth from himself, just as I suspect Billy is hiding the truth that he as basically become flint from himself. If one subscribes to the theory that Billy represents both Thomas and Miranda Hamilton, this has some extra implications that I will also be mulling, I think. Silver says, "It is some kind of hell to be forced to choose one irreplaceable thing over another." Ouch. the cracks are forming around the stress points in their relationship.
* Madi is rightfully horrified to see slaves still in chains under Pirate rule. I keep thinking of the terrible thing Jack Rackham got Charles vane to do. Each time it feels like the true original sin. Slavery, colonialism always poison paradise and fundamentally undermine the claims that the pirates fight for freedom. There can be no freedom where some are enslaved, no matter how clever the rationalization, whether it's Jack Rackham's just until the Fort is fixed or Bones/Gunn just until they see we are friends. Friends don't chain friends up. It was never okay that Eleanor kept Mr. Scott enslaved long after she had the power to free him. It is not okay that Billy Bones ran roughshod over the opinions of the enslaved people he was claiming to free. Max's friend (Ruth?) warns her "You must see by now that when you wage war on the world, the world fights back. Your mother knew that. Knew that the best one can do is to find a place you can protect, build a wall, and save who you can. You’d be wise to learn from her example." I think this too is an unheeded oracle.
* Max rightly rebukes eleanor for repeatedly ignoring her warnings and all Max has lost as a result. Eleanor counters by asking where Max would have taken her if she'd abandoned Nassau and fled with the pearls way back in the beginning. It turns out Max's plan wasn't that well developed, alas. Eleanor claims to have been terribly tempted. Another thing brought full circle, another ending that references the beginning. each episode reminds us of the distance we've traveled and ties another little thread up in a neat little knot. A hundred tiny goodbyes.
* The rampart scene reminds me of Theseus' Sails, though of course Woodes Rogers colours are correct.
* The fight is apt to be so brutal.
* Eleanor makes her proposal. Urca Gold for the fort. I think Flint chose wrong. It's instinct more than reason and I can see the desperation behind his choice.
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
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