Jul 23
Reading treasure island and I am hit with the horrible realization that the black sails writers saw how Flint was presented and thought "Let's create a man whose worst fear is exactly this. Let's create a man who rails against the idea of his story being simplified to 'monster in the dark; children's scary story' and is ultimately utterly powerless to prevent exactly that."
They saw a man who haunted the narrative and thought, "But what if he didn't want to?"
Oh look, it's the exact thing that's haunted me for nearly ten years.
