I’m afraid that the creators have seen it as a positive thing From an tvinsider interview: Was there really a place in the colonies that rich Brits sent their wayward, i.e. gay, children?Levine: The founder of the Savannah colony was a reformer who wanted the colony to reshape how the world treated those deemed as dangerous or different.(1)

(2)That was a basket we could put Thomas in, and then we had the thread to use for Silver to end Flint’s war without necessarily ending Flint. It also helped Flint find his way back to McGraw [the compassionate man he was before his vengeful turn into Flint.] It’s bittersweet; there’s tragedy in it but renewal as well.

I’m afraid you’re right, Anon, and unfortunately I couldn’t disagree more strongly with them. One – James Oglethorpe did want reform, but he didn’t want it the way show Oglethorpe does. Real Oglethorpe, though, had some skeletons in his closet too – he was, for example, the guy that helped to destroy the very first free Black community in North America, Fort Mose. He was the founder of Savannah and outlawed slavery there – maybe he regretted his actions at Mose, I don’t know. I know that the difference between show Oglethorpe and real Oglethorpe is a big one and I know that I’m not fond of the writers’ definition of renewal when it involves allowing two gay men to be enslaved and locked away from the world. That’s not renewal – it’s exile. It’s being told once again that there’s no place for them, that they don’t belong – it’s the same message LGBTQ+ people have been hearing all our lives.