Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
Black Sails continued its strong Season 3 steak this week as Flint, Silver, and the rest of the crew found themselves held prisoner on a proto-Treasure Island - while back in Nassau, Vane narrowly escaped with his life after having a price put on his head. But before I dig into any of that, I want to talk about...
...Mr. Scott. So, I did NOT see that coming. The end reveal that Scott was the "away" King of the slave island. Husband to the mysterious, harsh Queen (Moshidi Motshegwa) who seemed dead set on either killing Flint and his men or hard labor'ing them into an early grave. Granted, there wasn't a ton of lead time for this build. We just learned about the Queen and the absent King this week. In the same episode. But even still, I assumed that the non-present King was a made up story used to help legitimize the Queen as a solo ruler. I didn't even think of connecting it back to Scott.
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Black Sails continued its strong Season 3 steak this week as Flint, Silver, and the rest of the crew found themselves held prisoner on a proto-Treasure Island - while back in Nassau, Vane narrowly escaped with his life after having a price put on his head. But before I dig into any of that, I want to talk about...
...Mr. Scott. So, I did NOT see that coming. The end reveal that Scott was the "away" King of the slave island. Husband to the mysterious, harsh Queen (Moshidi Motshegwa) who seemed dead set on either killing Flint and his men or hard labor'ing them into an early grave. Granted, there wasn't a ton of lead time for this build. We just learned about the Queen and the absent King this week. In the same episode. But even still, I assumed that the non-present King was a made up story used to help legitimize the Queen as a solo ruler. I didn't even think of connecting it back to Scott.
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