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Apr. 17th, 2022 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsLike everyone else, we have now watched the gay pirate show Our Flag Means Death! This was a fascinating experience because by the time we were watching genarti and I had between us been unavoidably informed of most of the major plot points by the simple expedient of 'being on Twitter and Tumblr' and yet we both still found it absolutely impossible to predict what was actually going to happen between one moment and the next, which, if one is going to attempt to watch an incredibly hyped show in the narrow window between 'hearing about it enough to pique interest' and 'hearing about it too much to ever actually want to experience it', is probably one of the better possible outcomes. Anyway, I enjoyed it very much as expected, although I am still finding it a little difficult to forgive Stede Bonnet for the crime of not caring enough about the dangers of scurvy.
Assuming Season 2 happens, I am enormously curious how the tone (madcap and whiplashy as it is) will be maintained after the events of the end of S1. There's a Tumblr post that's been going around talking about how everyone in the cast is in different genres, with the crew of the Revenge representing a sort of Muppet experience full of zany action comedy where violence is played for sight gags and nobody really gets hurt. I've seen a lot of meta about how Stede provides a safe space for his crew to self-actualize, but most of the time when they're in actual physical peril as it intersects with Stede -- Lucius' infected finger, the Swede's scurvy -- it's generally a joke. Stede is not shown as concerned about the threat to their life, limbs and teeth and we-the-audience (I think) are not expected to be either.
I'm assuming Lucius is alive somehow after the events of S2 in the same way I'm assuming S2 will happen, but the murder attempt does mark a pretty severe genre shift for the crew and I am profoundly interested in the question of whether, after this, their peril will become real and emotionally consequential to Stede & Blackbeard or if genre-wise they continue to be (broadly speaking) Muppets around the protagonists and only real in their own subplots with each other -- though of course as described above trying to predict the tone of the show moment-to-moment is a fool's game in any case so truly who knows how things will play out! Really profoundly was not prepared for the Toe Chomp!
genarti and I had between us been unavoidably informed of most of the major plot points by the simple expedient of 'being on Twitter and Tumblr' and yet we both still found it absolutely impossible to predict what was actually going to happen between one moment and the next, which, if one is going to attempt to watch an incredibly hyped show in the narrow window between 'hearing about it enough to pique interest' and 'hearing about it too much to ever actually want to experience it', is probably one of the better possible outcomes. Anyway, I enjoyed it very much as expected, although I am still finding it a little difficult to forgive Stede Bonnet for the crime of not caring enough about the dangers of scurvy. Assuming Season 2 happens, I am enormously curious how the tone (madcap and whiplashy as it is) will be maintained after the events of the end of S1. There's a Tumblr post that's been going around talking about how everyone in the cast is in different genres, with the crew of the Revenge representing a sort of Muppet experience full of zany action comedy where violence is played for sight gags and nobody really gets hurt. I've seen a lot of meta about how Stede provides a safe space for his crew to self-actualize, but most of the time when they're in actual physical peril as it intersects with Stede -- Lucius' infected finger, the Swede's scurvy -- it's generally a joke. Stede is not shown as concerned about the threat to their life, limbs and teeth and we-the-audience (I think) are not expected to be either.
I'm assuming Lucius is alive somehow after the events of S2 in the same way I'm assuming S2 will happen, but the murder attempt does mark a pretty severe genre shift for the crew and I am profoundly interested in the question of whether, after this, their peril will become real and emotionally consequential to Stede & Blackbeard or if genre-wise they continue to be (broadly speaking) Muppets around the protagonists and only real in their own subplots with each other -- though of course as described above trying to predict the tone of the show moment-to-moment is a fool's game in any case so truly who knows how things will play out! Really profoundly was not prepared for the Toe Chomp!
