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scarlok · 4 years

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top black sails characters, in ascending order according to their unimportance relative to my affection

20. s1 dufresne (as very distinct from s2-3)

generally does his best. has a mathematician’s intolerance for bullshit, so the lad was never going to last long under flint. has an accountant’s pent up rage, as evidenced on the andromache. probably has a crush on billy bones, like approx. one third of the walrus crew. (as with some other characters, I really would rank him higher but technically he’s not minor enough; such is my system.)

19. singleton

a moment’s silence for the first walrus crew member to be killed by flint under spurious circumstances, not that anyone misses him, the sadistic bastard.

18. israel hands

what a piece of work is mr hands. j’adore.

17. ned low

only really succeeds in sawing a man’s head off and threatening eleanor before he dies his own violent death. quite a waste of a narrative arc, especially given that the contradictory accounts of low’s death give one plenty of ideas to explore. mr meeks didn’t die for this.

16. fogg

a man with good survival instincts but no chance to exercise them. here lies mr fogg, who did his level best under impossible circumstances.

15. idelle

good at getting information. dispenses fashion advice to boring men. saves anne from an awkward situation that would have ended in anne murdering another customer. later tells anne what she thinks of her. owns a machete.

14. de groot

mr de groot is out here loyally trying to make sensible decisions while his captain specialises in bad ones. probably been doing this for years.

13. morley

dislikes flint, likes randall and his cat. dies under (imo) suspicious circumstances, involving flint, randall, and the cat.

12. muldoon

nice person. probably has a crush on silver* (like approx. one third of the walrus crew), which is just asking for trouble. silver rather (uncharacteristically) goes to pieces in that particular crisis, for which I am forever judging him, although virtually nobody survives flint’s leadership so it was bound to end this way.

* apparently richard wright-firth said so but I don’t know where; regardless, your #1 source for gay pirate history is b. r. burg.

11. naft

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10. charlotte

does charlotte design a lot of pirate flags? does her dark imagination strike fear into the hearts of all law-abiding mariners in the spanish main? are she and idelle a thing? inquiring minds &c.

9. lars

he’s brave. he’s handsome. he’s good at being quiet. in an ideal world fate would keep him away from flint, but he deserves, at the very least, more appearances.

8. linus harcourt

so much fun, for all of 15-30 minutes. he probably feels his death is cosmically unfair. I rather agree.

7. palmer and oates

these two doomed fucking idiots. flint probably decides to shoot them both because he can’t tell them apart either. kudos to both actors for a fine delivery of doomed idiocy.

6. mrs mapleton

the one and only older woman on nassau? cleverer than rackham. probably right about eleanor. knows how to bide her time. deserves her status as a last woman standing.

5. mrs hudson

her! career! of! international! espionage! also the possibility of her seducing eleanor and their running away to london. my ideas are good.

4. eme

seems to be doing important work but almost always off-screen, you know? (madi/silver is good but also consider: madi/eme, ruling nassau together. I’m not sure how this would tie in with actual historical fact, but I already asked myself that question a lot throughout black sails so who cares anymore.) (I saw a woman so beautiful I started crying.)

3. that spanish sailor

nearly kills vane, then gives a moving speech and provides fascinating information on spanish maritime laws before expiring; fucking magnificent. (in point of fact: spain was the main target of caribbean piracy and although most pirates thereabouts were english, irish, french or dutch, there were also spanish and portuguese pirates: ergo, inevitably, I would have made this guy a longterm character.) and I appreciate some lengthy non-english dialogue.

2. joshua

seems lovely. good theatrical instincts in battle. rightly protective of the dairy goat. even provided me with a teeny glimpse of the multilingual pirate show I want to see. his ghost rises up and avenges itself via vane’s fight with rogers and we are dancing on vane’s grave. (that might be a royal we, idc.)

1. joji

a prince among men. can deal with anything. best hair on the walrus. deserves so much better than this bullshit. aren’t you interested in a backstory that could link indo-chinese piracy to caribbean piracy? I am!!, which is why I’m even now reading kris lane’s pillaging the empire: global piracy on the high seas 1500-1750 to work out the details. I don’t see why this duty should fall to me instead of the writing team but somebody has to do it. (the remaining approximate third of the walrus crew have crushes on joji, prove me wrong.)

#black sails #spoilers #don't pick holes in my ranking system it's very sophisticated #when I said I was getting disproportionately invested in minor characters this is the burden to which I referred #long post

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balkantimes · 4 years

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