I do think I'm lucky to be watching the show now instead of when it first aired, though, because watching the episode 9 I couldn't help thinking, "Oh boy, I bet Eleanor got a lot of hate for this."
*nods* Yes to both (as in, yes, you're lucky, and yes, she did). Hence me Feeling a bit protective of Eleanor. At the time, I also couldn't help but comparing: when Flint killed Gates, a man who trusted him and deeply cared for him, the fannish reaction, in as much as there was already a fandom in s1, was "omg, poor Flint, it killed him, having to do that!" Meanwhile, when Eleanor has Vane executed: "that bitch! How could she!" I mean, some of it is due to Toby Stephens being awesome and making you feel for Flint at any Moment, but it's still a blatant double standard. (Incidentally, both actions backfire in similar ways. Instead of preventing a mutiny, Flint killing Gates is proverbial last push causing it. Instead of preventing uproar in Nassau, Vane's execution, well, take a guess.)
re: Treasure Island spoilers: in the novel, though not in all the film versions, Silver is married to a black woman. Now, for the first two seasons, the only woc with an important role in the narrative was Max, so there was much uneasy speculation whether or not she was the future Mrs. Silver, if so, whether there'd be straightwashing, etc. Now I mostly assumed she wasn't, because the show didn't give her and Silver nearly enough interaction to foreshadow a later relationship like that (though what few scenes they do share are always eminently watchable). Come Season 3, Madi gets introduced, which ends the "is Max the future Mrs. Silver?" speculation, but starts a new one, to wit: why would Madi, who takes her responsibility to her people very seriously indeed, end up running a tavern in Bristol with Silver? Feel free to speculate. :_)
(BTW, pre-Black Sails, my favourite Version of Mrs. Silver was this one.)
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*nods* Yes to both (as in, yes, you're lucky, and yes, she did). Hence me Feeling a bit protective of Eleanor. At the time, I also couldn't help but comparing: when Flint killed Gates, a man who trusted him and deeply cared for him, the fannish reaction, in as much as there was already a fandom in s1, was "omg, poor Flint, it killed him, having to do that!" Meanwhile, when Eleanor has Vane executed: "that bitch! How could she!" I mean, some of it is due to Toby Stephens being awesome and making you feel for Flint at any Moment, but it's still a blatant double standard. (Incidentally, both actions backfire in similar ways. Instead of preventing a mutiny, Flint killing Gates is proverbial last push causing it. Instead of preventing uproar in Nassau, Vane's execution, well, take a guess.)
re: Treasure Island spoilers: in the novel, though not in all the film versions, Silver is married to a black woman. Now, for the first two seasons, the only woc with an important role in the narrative was Max, so there was much uneasy speculation whether or not she was the future Mrs. Silver, if so, whether there'd be straightwashing, etc. Now I mostly assumed she wasn't, because the show didn't give her and Silver nearly enough interaction to foreshadow a later relationship like that (though what few scenes they do share are always eminently watchable). Come Season 3, Madi gets introduced, which ends the "is Max the future Mrs. Silver?" speculation, but starts a new one, to wit: why would Madi, who takes her responsibility to her people very seriously indeed, end up running a tavern in Bristol with Silver? Feel free to speculate. :_)
(BTW, pre-Black Sails, my favourite Version of Mrs. Silver was this one.)