Black Sails 4x03 Reaction

A few short series suggestions: Queen's Gambit (7 episodes), Wednesday (8 episodes), Chernobyl (5 episodes)

Andor is just 12 short episodes (40 min long max) and the first season concludes its arc, so it's not like you end on a cliffhanger. Also a good show in the same vein as Black Sails (that you get obsessed with its characters) is The Last Kingdom. A wonderful show that is some levels above Vikings (especially in terms of writing and acting).

I mentioned it when he first showed up, but it feels appropriate to say it again here: rest in peace Ray Stevenson. Your performance as Blackbeard was truly memorable.

"By the time you realize he has been controlling you, it will be too late." Max says this about Berringer, but after the events of this episode...I think you could argue it applies to someone else too.

Oh, and you guys got Featherstone's name eventually in the discussion, but the woman with him is Idelle (think of Adele the singer to remember!). She's one of my favorite minor characters, and rewatching always makes me appreciate her more, since she's been in the show as long as all of our other main characters. And her friendship with Max has always been a consistent thing in the background.

When Israel Hands talks about the first time he drove the Governor out of Nassau, we actually heard this brought up in the show before. Back in s2, during the flashbacks with Thomas, they heard that the Governor had been chased out and his wife and child killed in the streets. It was one of the big potential roadblocks in what they were trying to accomplish at the time. And now the very man responsible for that is here. Teaming up with Silver, and by extension Flint as well.

I mean if you’re worried about movies being a big investment (in terms of watching and editing) you could just do one a month or one every other week so you’re not interrupting your schedule as much and it could be easier to ease into the movie reactions doing them spread out. Also, I’m a video/film editor, if you want to message me at the very least I can hopefully help you figure out what you are/are not looking for in an editor to work with.

The keelhauling scene is one of those instances that feels like it should be fictional, like it was something a writer thought up trying to invent the CRAAZIEST thing he could think of, but it's a real truth from the Age of Sail. Keelhauling was used to torture or execute, and it was just as brutal as depicted here. The term survives in modern English meaning "extreme punishment". Teach's death is largely fictionalized here (Woodes Rogers was not involved, and Teach himself was not keelhauled). It keeps the general idea of him being surprised during the battle by a party of men who were hidden below decks, and him taking an ungodly amount of personal damage before finally succumbing. I think it works to tie it into the main story. When Billy makes his entrance at the final battle he looks absolutely MANIC. The expression on his face actually reminds me most of Flint back in the first season, right at the beginning. When Flint rants to Billy about becoming King for the first time, and when he beats Singleton to death in front of the whole crew. That same level of unhinged-ness that tells you this man will do ANYTHING. Flint at that point lied to his crew, lead them into danger, and eventually killed his best friend with his own two hands. What this will lead Billy to do....well I suppose that's the question, isn't it?

I'm surprised the Live-Action Avatar show is not considered for a short show. They enjoyed the cartoon so much. I thought they would be excited to watch the live-action series.

I love that Joji is just pirate Ozai now lol

you guys should react to the anime named golden time

I’ll write a longer comment on this if i get the motivation but I should clarify something. While colonial countries like the British empire of Spain are similar in that they both colonies there are still major differences between many of them. Specifically I’m meaning in how they administrated owned territory and treat the people. Spain was usually much worse in this regard not valuing to create relations with the indigenous people or collaboration governments and just dominating by force. Britain had a more diplomatic leaning wanting to more often have the people they controlled (more often) not completely despise them and try and work with them on some aspects. So England usually preferred to work with the ruling elite of conquered land to create as stable as possible of a colony while Spain usually wiped out the elite that was there before and dominated by force in all aspects. Spain even had laws that Spanish people moving to the colonies couldn’t breed with indigenous people because it would muddle and ruin their pure genetics (aka white supremacy) England did not care about such things nearly as much while Spain was obsessed with it. My point in the end that while they are all bad for doing colonial conquest there are different scaled of bad here. I recently even learned about the white supremacy Spain had and enforced in its colonies so they remained pure because we discussed it at my latest seminars concerning racism in history. Europeans weren’t the only ones doing this either the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East (Muslims) and Japanese also had an extreme ton of racism in their mentality and how they treated conquered people and minorities. This mentality over time developed into comparing skulls etc that Europeans started doing on Africans etc in the 18 hundreds and early 19 hundreds. This is in relation to thinking that Europeans had bigger skulls and were smarter and all that.

Hey I have a question but don’t know if this is the best place to ask you LM. Would you be open to consider reacting to older anime’s from like the 90s? I am currently watching one of the highest rated anime’s which is from the late 80s early 90s and I do think you “might” like it but wonder if you’d be open to even reacting to these kinds of anime? FYI the one im watching atm is called Legends of the galactic empire. I doubt you’d be interested and older anime would still never win a poll but I might as well ask.

Guys, have they heard of Banshee? Never heard mention of it anywhere even in the ranking shows video. Anthony Starr (Homelander) is great in it :D

idk if you already know about this but parasyte the grey is actually based on an anime with the same name which is parasyte the maxim, it's not an adaption just the same world with totally different characters. I have heard that it connects to the anime at some point.

Lola's beautiful hair is distracting.

Hey guys is Andor series still a possibility for you to watch after invincible series?

I never really understood why Teach boarded the ship like that, using a longboat, and not by siding the ships, which would allow more of their men to board the ship and fight, and also retreat, if needed.

This is the episode where Woodes Rogers becomes Light Yagami.

I took a break from the show during the original run. I felt the keelhaul from Jack's perspective and felt so guilty for wanting Blackbeard to follow Woodes instead of Eleanor. Still hurts

Yeah that Blackbeard scene was really hard to watch. Before this, I didn't know what keelhauling was (I thought the same thing as Milena, like maybe they were gonna cut him half). Humans can be very "creative" when it comes to coming up with torture methods... Also is this the first time someone calls him "Blackbeard"? Interesting that he's called that in the same episode he dies on

I love that last shot of the blood dripping down Berringer’s hand. I don’t think it’s about trying to engineer sympathy for him. Rather, it demonstrates how his choices have done nothing but destroy his chances of ever seeing his loved ones. His choice to stay and continue fighting in Nassau - for the sake of revenge, but also because he convinced himself it was for the good of people like his family - has resulted in nothing but literal blood on his hands.

Oh, and the way Blackbeard dies was a very real “punishment” called kheelhauling. Truly one of the hardest moments to watch, but so incredibly done in how despite everything Teach won in that moment. Rogers lost, even though he was trying to demonstrate his power.

Oh, the murder on the Underhill estate, including of the eight year old girl...the implication is that had to be Billy and his men. Because Flint and Madi fought them and retreated. Billy was the one left in control of the estate. So...sure is interesting how he has continued down a darker path, especially considering where he started in this show.

There’s a lot I want to talk about in this episode, but the first thing I wanna bring up is Rogers and how deliberately he has acted to present himself as someone he isn’t. Particularly to Eleanor. Back in s3, there were two moments in particular that hinted at the ‘darkness’ within him. One of the other English soldiers talked vaguely about some rumors associated with Rogers, and then later in the carriage with Jack. He and Rogers talked about the book Rogers had written, and Rogers said: “there are things you leave out of the book. Things that, if they got around polite society, would keep them from inviting you to parties.” Then, the most damning thing of all: Rogers told the story to Eleanor about his brother’s death. But it was a very very carefully edited version of that story. Entirely told to influence the way she views him. Because Eleanor has been honest with Rogers. He knows every single bad thing she has ever done. She has literally bared herself to him, and believed all this time that he had done the same with her. But he hasn’t. He *deliberately* hasn’t. And for all that he says he views her as his partner, that behavior, combined with his unwillingness to confide in her last episode and continuing to mislead her in this one…none of it paints a picture of an actual partnership. And all of it indicates that Rogers doesn’t view Eleanor the way she believes he does. Because if he did, he wouldn’t treat her this way.

Here's my 4x03 Reaction 😁 https://youtu.be/Ar84Lvem5gM

Lola: Do you wanna go, as a badass? Teach: And I took that personally.

i thought i couldnt get shocked by gruesome tv anymore but blackbeard getting keelhauled is gonna stick with me. love that blackbeard sort of laughed in rodgers face even after all that he couldnt get his desired effect. he saw through him just like jack did in s3

For Korean shows, you need to give us your already watched list, Lola. You're not new to them haha

Oh boy I’m so excited to see Blackbeard and Jack have a good time!

I am very smart. Do not edit movies or post them to YouTube. Film a movie every 2 or 3 weeks and just drop it up here with before & after commentary. Little to no extra effort and we get to enjoy a few movies