flintsredhair:

I think it sounds like an acknowledgment that in fact, if looked at from literally any other perspective than “no more people died in the last episode, wheee!” the end of the show is a tragedy. Flint and Madi were betrayed by the one closest to them, and all their work was essentially thrown out the window as if it meant nothing when in fact it could have meant everything to generations of people. Flint is enslaved, Madi’s left with her authority undermined among her own people, her lover become foreign to her, standing there telling her that he’s sold her friend.

When you get right down to it, the list just goes on and on. The Walrus crew is dead, the ship itself is blown up, Silver throws away an entire life he could have lived with people who would have cared about him, loved him even, and all for a scant few years of peace in that area before the British Empire decided it wanted its islands back. All of that – for what? When they could have had so, so much more. Yes, Flint is alive. He’s also being locked away from the world, condemned to be nothing more than a monster in a children’s story, exactly the way he feared, what he stood for forgotten, his reasons disregarded, no progress made, all those people he lost dead for nothing. Vane is dead, and nothing came of his death, not the revolution he wanted to spark, not the abolition of slavery, not even safety for Eleanor if he still wanted that. Eleanor died, and Nassau burned again, and the slaves on those plantations suffered horribly, and for fucking what? For one man to say, this fight isn’t worth fighting, it doesn’t matter to me, I’m ending it. For he and Max and Madame Guthrie to decide to strangle the cat rather than dealing with the root cause of the problem to begin with, as if there were only one solution to the riddle?

#THIS!!!!!!!!!!!#people keep talking about how happy they are that everyone is alive in the finale but???#thats not all that matterS???#i was fucking infuriated at silver#i wanted someone to acknowledge that what he did was fucking unforgiveable#he took madi and flint’s choices and lives away from them#bc he cared more about them being alive than them being happy and fighting for what they believe in#and goddamn i love silver and max i do#but their vision is pessimistic and limited and hopeless#what flint and madi stood for#what they believed in#what they could MAKE other people believe in#it was enough to stand a chance against england#enough to spark a revolution that would change things#they would have been recorded down in history as revolutionaries#as people who illuminated the way forward#they would have changed the course of history in the only way history’s course can be changed#through force#and silver stole that#not only from them#but from the people england oppressed#the people the world saw as less than#he stole that future from everyone who wanted to fight for their freedom and their rights#goddamn that is a tragedy and idc what anyone else says#what silver did was selfish and cowardly#and u can look at it from his perspective and sympathise all u want#but to me it’ll always be too much to forgive silver for what he did#the ending didn’t sit right with me#it exhausted me#bc once again the revolutionaries didnt win

via @cada5h