I think LotR could have ended much differently if Frodo had just turned to Sam and said, “Hey, look, I realize you hate Gollum and don’t trust him at all, but could you please give him a chance? Genuinely be supportive of him? I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I am Projecting Heavily on him and my hope and sanity kind of hinges upon believing that he can be redeemed. I thought I was being really obvious about that but maybe not.”
“That’s all very well to say, Mr Frodo, but you and Peter Jackson were both asleep the one time I tried to bond with him over cookery and it didn’t end too well regardless, and also my own stability is pretty heavily dependent on my fixed intention to protect you, so I don’t have a lot of cope left over for him, if you understand me.”
“Christ, precious! Are WE the most psychologically stable ones on this trip?!”
I’m looking at pictures of Captain Flint from Black Sails and… I have a theory as to how his big-ass belts stay up when he’s got nothing for hips and no belt-loops that I can see….
His booty. His bubble butt booty that brings all the boys to his ship.
No wonder he hides that weapon of ass destruction behind long coats!
Whilst eternally trying to get my head around the conundrum of the actual and fairly reasonable James Oglethorpe in comparison to Black Sails’ version of Oglethorpe, I like to indulge the thought of Thomas plotting (among other things) a passive-aggressive ‘fuck you’ for Black Sails’ Oglethorpe for when he and James leave the plantation.
Thomas: I am going to get to get drunk on rum.
James: That’s fine.
Thomas: I am going to convert to Catholicism.
James: If that’s what you want.
Thomas: And last, but not least, I am going to become… a lawyer.
James: Holy shit.
Ron Howard Narrator: James would later be grateful that Thomas didn’t attempt all three things simultaneously.
pathetically super cheap joke addendum: James: at least piracy is an honorable career amirite
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