What is black sails about?

lesbianwaves:

off the top of my head:

• the erasure/disfiguration of gay legacy both from an historical and fictional perspective both of which are represented by the narrative itself (which deconstructs itself for that purpose) and within the narrative (where characters fight to re-appropriate both)
• a sophisticated and multifaceted discussion on revolution and changing the world for the better had by marginalized people
• pirates (and that is secondary, but not actually inconsequential, because it’s not merely a cover, a trick of the light concealing the true essence of the show, the show could not ascend to the heights it reaches without the foundation of a setting historically saturated with outcasts whose true nature has been serially mistold)
• the sacredness and inherent goodness of rightful gay anger
• love refusing to be shed
• a gay man who becomes a pirate to honor his boyfriend’s progressive ideals and because he’s had it with homophobia
• the power of stories we create to fill the manufactured void of us crafted by those in power
• identity and the delicate balances of it when institutionalized oppression gets in the way
• gay and black men and women talking of what the world should be, teaming up to make dust of the systemic moulds their trauma came from and make the british empire and its shackles and its shame crumble
• an overarching quest to get some gold which is nothing but a mean to all mentioned above