black sails: we’re a show about the stories we tell ourselves and other people, a show about storytelling, a show about mythmaking, a show about masks, a show about alter egos
black sails: also we have a theme of significant trios (miranda/thomas/james, jack/anne/max, madi/silver/flint)Â
black sails: oh look, mr. scott, who we’ve never given an actual name, has a really interesting backstory. wonder what would happen if we just.....never did anything with it and have him die by way of stray bullet.Â
hakeem kae-kazim about mr. scott, post-show interview:Â
black sails: too bad mr. scott died, guess there wasn’t much we could do with him--
black sails: too bad we don’t have a history of creating significant trios of characters, too bad we don’t have a whole show about alter egos and taking on different identities and becoming through performance--
me, thinking about the wasted potential of mr. scott’s character at all times:
me, thinking about the potential of what the new trio black caesar/long john silver/captain flint could have been, at all times: