I have a question about the BS finale, I hope you can help me understand. Julius was so worried about the alliance with the pirates and then he accepted the treaty by trusting a pirate’s word(Rackham) that the treaty would be honored by the new governor. What would have happened if mrs Gutrie had refused? I thought everything was uncertain, am I wrong? thanks

Honestly, Anon, this is one aspect of the finale that I can’t help but feel was poorly fleshed out. I get why it was – they only had so much time, but the fact is that Julius appears, is an awesome character for the – maybe five whole minutes of screen time he actually has, and then we never see him again. We don’t see him talk with anyone about the treaty. We don’t find out what would lead him to suddenly trust, let’s be honest, two WHITE MEN about that treaty. We don’t get to hear the Maroons debate the treaty at all, in fact, and I’m not sure that that’s not deliberate as well, because what choice were Madi and her people left with but to accept the terms of the treaty and hope the new governor would in fact honor it? That’s what rankles, more than any of the rest of it – they weren’t given a choice, and I’m not sure that it would have made a difference if Julius DID object to the treaty in any way for that reason. Silver and Rackham both pretty much gambled and outright sacrificed a lot of people’s futures on a big maybe – especially given they’d just captured Woodes Rogers, so they pretty well had to have a new governor willing to go along with their plan because if you think Rogers would honor that treaty after having been bested and captured, yeah no. It really is all up in the air there for a bit in a very alarming way.