BLACK SAILS. IX.

1x02 // 2x01  flint putting a knife to silver’s throat not once but twice <3

― AGUSTÍN GÓMEZ ARCOS THE CARNIVOROUS LAMB

JOHN SILVER & CAPTAIN FLINT ↳ black sails ✗ 01.02 - II.

4x04 // 4x09 the more they realise there is no daylight between you and i, the more they will learn to accept our shared authority.

BLACK SAILS | 2.07

the odyssey, (homer trans. stephen mitchell). book 2, lines 527-532

I think that relationship is meaningful to both of them. It is singular, for both of them. We’ve never seen Silver invest in someone, in this way. So for him, it’s very new. It’s the first one of these relationships that we are aware of. We’ve seen Flint invest in people before, but not in this way, where he has allowed himself to be both Flint and McGraw, openly, and found some measure of comfort in that state. So for him, it’s new, also. I would argue that it’s not a contest, as to which of them felt it more deeply, but I think it was definitely meaningful. Personally, there wasn’t ulterior motives in their affinity for each other. It is genuine and it is complicated, in the way that it’s always complicated when you love someone. You don’t always make the best decisions when that thing is threatened. 

— Showrunner Jon Steinberg on the relationship between Flint and Silver in Black Sails.

Top 5 Favorite Dynamics ➞ FishRagnarsson(@fishragnarsson) ↳ #3 James Flint & John Silver (BLACK SAILS)

i recently finished watching black sails and i cannot stop thinking about the relationship between silver and flint. the unique love that existed between them. deeper than just friendship, more profound than brothers. they knew each other’s minds intimately and complimented each other perfectly in many ways, like night and day, but the ways in which they differed is what ultimately divided them. a man who was entirely driven by his past and a man who downright refused to be defined by his past, of course they wanted entirely different things in the end.

flint would’ve been happy to spend the rest of his life fighting to change the world with silver by his side because he knew together they would transcend, but that isn’t what silver wanted at all, and they really wanted each other to want the same things. silver literally says dividing them isn’t what he wants, he wants them to leave together and find peace. but he realizes that flint would never let go of the fight as long as he is in his presence, the presence of the man that allows him to be most powerful. madi and flint also fueled each other’s fires and he knew he would not be able to contain both of them. having them together the way he wanted would’ve never worked out no matter how badly he wanted it to. so what silver does instead, is end things another way, he sets him free (if you love someone set them free) he sends him back to his long lost love, to the man he was fighting in the name of to begin with, and shows him that peace is still an option. captain flint doesn’t have to fight anymore because james mcgraw can live again

i am sorry but i am inconsolable. what a beautifully tragic story. fucking amazing show that i could talk about for hours

puts this on ur dash and leaves

When you and I are of the same mind, there is nothing we have not yet been able to do. I believe that. I trust it. Do you?

"The Flint and Silver ending, in its outlines, has always been there. We always knew that that was the climax of the story throughout, for both of them. It’s the most important relationship, for both of them. When it finally reached this moment of going from two people who seem to have nothing in common to being wary of each other to being opportunistic allies and then friends to two people who know each other better than anyone else in the world, and then finally reaching that point of not being able to go forward, was going to shape the end of their story."

— Showrunner Robert Levine on the finale of Black Sails.

I think where I understood him to be, I guess, both in the beginning and the end, but sort of within this story, was kind of as a guy who had run all but the last hundred yards of a marathon and could see the finish line and every step he took got exponentially harder, and it was just an onslaught of obstacles and traps and problems that were trying to prevent him from getting there, and the conceit that—when we started with a white board at the beginning in the season—was that he would figure out a way to get through every last one of them and have his nose on the endzone and it would be his best friend who was the one he couldn't get past.

— Jonathan Steinberg, showrunner of Black Sails, on James Flint

And I think– once again, I don’t think the rage was what was so scary. He said he recognized the rage in himself and he saw– which is when he talks about the rage. He saw it there and I think the deflation– he had that. He was like, I want to see the world burn, and then after it, the moment Madi is back, it’s like, oh, that was– god– I mean, he got a glimpse and even if he doesn’t still see Flint is completely that, he got a window into it that he wouldn’t have otherwise, and I think what– for me, it wasn’t that he thought it was rage at the end, which is why this needed to be stopped. The scariest thing for him was that Flint forgave him. That he was that– just that he was that stubborn. That he was that immovable, and whether it’s about rage or not, once again, I think that clarity– that Flint’s clarity of like “it’s fine, we’ll put it back together”. (Luke Arnold)

In a few weeks time, I will lead a pirate fleet of unprecedented strength over that horizon into a battle of unprecedented importance. With a little luck, that battle will end with us taking Nassau and beginning a revolution.

BLACK SAILS 2x03 | xi.