flintrage:

g – d i fucking love That Argument between miranda and flint because like… the whole “the door is open. i’ve opened it for you.” thing is a recurring theme throughout the series, with characters doing What They Think Is Best for other characters and then being shown just Why That Was Bad. because of course miranda would try to free flint from this fucking hell he’s in! it’s not at all an Objectively bad thing that she did – the problem is that flint has his own reasons for not wanting that, ones she didn’t understand/know about before

and we see that sort of theme with jack and anne too, with anne questioning whether or not jack ‘saving’ her took something away from her because maybe she was supposed to figure her own way out of it. we see it with vane and eleanor and eleanor demanding that he stops telling her “what it is you think i think”. we see it with eleanor and her father too, i think

and that whole thing is why silver ending the war is such a terrible thing. because it destroys everything flint and madi have been building towards, and even though silver thinks he’s doing it for the right reasons and for their own good, it comes back to the entire theme of Actually These Characters Have Ideological Reasons For Not Wanting That, And You’ve Just Betrayed Them. he overrides their agency, which the entire show portrays as a bad thing (not to mention then sending james into slavery, which is a whole other thing).