Friend – we’re going to disagree on this, because the prisoners are being forced to harvest sugar cane. I’ve done other posts about this, but I’ll say it again for emphasis – sugar cane farming is horrible work for anyone. It doesn’t matter if someone’s doing it voluntarily or not – sugar can harvesting at this time especially was deadly. There is a reason that white men stopped using other white men there as indentured servants to do that work and started enslaving Africans, and the reason is that too many of those indentured servants were dropping like flies in the process of trying to do as their masters bade them. If the farm wanted to make enough profit to be a plausible cover, someone was doing enough work to make it viable, and that someone was the prisoners. I’m sorry, but as much as I too would like to believe that Thomas was being treated well, the truth is that I really, really don’t think he was or that James would be. 

As to my other reasons for feeling Silver’s actions are unforgivable – yes, there are lots of other good reasons to be very angry at him without ever once mentioning what he did to his best friend in all the world. Let’s talk about what he did to the woman he professed to love, since it’s her appreciation week this week!

They might cuddle, but for comfort rather than in a sexual context, and they might still share the same bed now and then, with Anne sandwiched in between Max and Jack. I’m not sure if I see them as having sex that way as we see in s2 though. I see them as being platonic, mostly, and I don’t think that cuddling and sleeping in the same bed is necessarily at odds with that. With that said, we definitely still see Anne kiss Jack from sheer relief at finding him alive in s3. I think that’s probably as close to a definite as I’m going to get – basically, the level of physical contact depends on how they’re feeling that day with most of it happening between Max and Anne post-canon. How about you, anon? Thoughts and feelings?