yeah – I can’t believe that they somehow thought that having James and Thomas both imprisoned for the rest of their days is in any way satisfying considering what James has done in the name of freedom and the fact that Thomas has never in his whole life done anything to warrant being treated like that. I’m glad they’re both alive but I could have done without the ambiguous nature of that scene, tbh.
The way I’m seeing this is basically death of the author. The text is open enough for us to interpret that both james and thomas left that plantation in the next 15min, and that’s how I chose to see it. If that’s not how steinberg intended it then tough luck to him, because it’s not what his text necessarily says. It sucks that it’s what he’s saying in interviews and that it’s what he thought was something silver would do, and that he thought it would be a satisfying ending
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