I'm late to the party but what do we think Flint's last words in treasure island mean in the context of black sails?

"Darby M'Graw - fetch aft the rum...." (Treasure Island, Chapter 32)

Is it just a funny reference where you're like, oh, that's where they got his last name in the show from?

I mean, theoretically Darby McGraw could have been the name of his grandfather. And we know the story Flint told us about how he choose "Flint" to be his name and how it ties to his grandfather.

So what if Flint never got to stop being Flint, in a way, couldn't let Flint go anymore. So at some point he starts drinking (a lot) and then he's about to die and that's the only way he's ever gonna be rid of Flint? By dying? And he's close to dying, so he's thinking of that story again, about Mr. Flint who disappeared when his grandfather went to get more rum? And he's very drunk so he's saying it out loud, and in a very incomprehensible manner, but no one would have had any context as to what he was on about anyways.

So that's his last words, his dying words, before Flint is after all, finally gone.

(for reference the bit of Flint's speech in 2x09 I'm talking about:)

"Eventually, [Mr. Flint] asked my grandfather for a little more rum from below. My grandfather went off to fetch it, but when he returned... the man was gone."

okay so I’v been thinking about the last episode and john’s decision

what would have happened otherwise? if he hadn’t just made that choice for madi, for flint. it wasn’t just john who caused this outcome, right? there’s the plan jack and max put into motion. could that have been stopped? if john hadn’t taken flint out of the game, wouldn’t jack simply have done it? who could have stopped him? and with flint gone, it’s likley madame guthrie would have helped jack and max to retake nassau. and madi, the maroons, the pirates? i imagine they’d either have had to submit to a smililar agreement as they did or they could have waged war. but with whom leading them?

would they have stood a chance if silver hadn’t turned on them? maybe. silver likley would have done what he did, jack or no jack, maybe not right then and maybe not like that. but he didn’t want this war and he didn’t want to lose madi. (and if we’re to believe him, he had been withholding information from flint and madi for a while at that point.) but I do think that jack and his plan had an impact on his decision - he saw an oppurtunity and he took it.