Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
We inch closer to Black Sails' Season 3 finale with a great episode featuring solidified alliances and a rollicking rescue sequence that worked to free Jack and the gems, while sacrificing Vane in the process.
So two steps forward, one step back for Team Flint as Vane fell - after putting up a hell of a one-one-one fight against Woodes while suffering a gunshot wound - and wound up in chains. Right where Jack was at the top of the episode. Jack and his rat. Now, normally, I don't enjoy twists that feel too much like retrograde momentum, but Vane being captured affords the show the ability to round off Eleanor's seasonal arc, as her entire story was sparked by her sheer hatred for Vane and want for revenge. So the prisoner swap didn't feel empty here.
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We inch closer to Black Sails' Season 3 finale with a great episode featuring solidified alliances and a rollicking rescue sequence that worked to free Jack and the gems, while sacrificing Vane in the process.
So two steps forward, one step back for Team Flint as Vane fell - after putting up a hell of a one-one-one fight against Woodes while suffering a gunshot wound - and wound up in chains. Right where Jack was at the top of the episode. Jack and his rat. Now, normally, I don't enjoy twists that feel too much like retrograde momentum, but Vane being captured affords the show the ability to round off Eleanor's seasonal arc, as her entire story was sparked by her sheer hatred for Vane and want for revenge. So the prisoner swap didn't feel empty here.
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