I’ve just had one of the biggest tits tits revelations ever. Which is basically, when Flint is asking Silver for his story, he’s wearing this white shirt.
Which is extremely similar to what Thomas is wearing, even the rolled sleeves (also plz the similar poses)
And I can’t stop thinking about how this implies even further the parallels between Silverflint and Flinthamilton, the repetition of the pattern where Flint is to Silver what Thomas was/is to James. In the plantation, Thomas is Flint’s reward, his Penelope, his loved one. Is Flint finding happiness.
And I can’t help to think how Flint is Silver’s loved one, how in that cliff he was Silver’s happiness.
And okay, it’s just a white shirt with rolled sleeves but I don’t believe in coincidences, not like this, in consecutive episodes.
I’ll make another addition to that parallel.
Thomas was Flint’s emotional awakening and Flint was Silver’s. Thomas is Flint’s backstory. And Flint’s is Silver’s. So long, friends, I will never stop suffering.
His humanity asserts itself when it is grasping for relationships with other human beings. He starts in a place of having lost Thomas Hamilton, who was very meaningful to him, and then having lost Miranda in such an awful way that he feels alone. Part of the journey in season three is finding a new person that he feels he can be vulnerable with and understood by, and it comes from a surprising direction.
Part of the arc of the season for us was about him really flailing alone and not having anyone to have that human experience with. [We liked] him finding John Silver and having that become the person with whom he’s able to emerge from this awful experience he’s having.
#thiS WAS #THE MOMENT #THAT I FELL FOR IT #silver’s little panic face #he has no clue nO CLUE what is going on #he walks in on scary mean pirate captain flint #all whimpery on the floor and cradling his dead bff and petting his face #and silver’s first reaction #his GUT INSTINCT HERE #is ‘protect this man’ #it’s not ‘wtf is going on here’ #it’s not ‘wow this looks like maybe a problem maybe i should get help’ #its not ‘ahh yes this is information i can use’ #NOPE #n o p e #‘protect this sad child’ #me too john me too (via natlet)