Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
Skeleton freakin' Island!
We're here! What an awesome and foreboding way to round out this great show. Acting as sort of a nexus between history, Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, and Mr. Gates from Season 1, this cursed place is quite fitting as a quasi-supernatural stomping ground for the collision that's about to occur between Silver, Flint, Rogers, and Rackham. I'm not saying we're about to get assaulted by spooky undead warriors, Curse of the Black Pearl-style, but the sheer ominousness of the landscape lends itself to a story that's about to go all sorts of sideways.
Both Silver and Max chose love over ambition this week, in Chapter "XXXVI," though while Silver's choice of a wife over a war was deemed, by Flint, to be the result of mental and emotional fragility, Max's decision to not (literally) marry into Grandmother Guthrie's plan because she wanted to be with Anne felt like a huge moment of clarity for the character.
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Skeleton freakin' Island!
We're here! What an awesome and foreboding way to round out this great show. Acting as sort of a nexus between history, Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, and Mr. Gates from Season 1, this cursed place is quite fitting as a quasi-supernatural stomping ground for the collision that's about to occur between Silver, Flint, Rogers, and Rackham. I'm not saying we're about to get assaulted by spooky undead warriors, Curse of the Black Pearl-style, but the sheer ominousness of the landscape lends itself to a story that's about to go all sorts of sideways.
Both Silver and Max chose love over ambition this week, in Chapter "XXXVI," though while Silver's choice of a wife over a war was deemed, by Flint, to be the result of mental and emotional fragility, Max's decision to not (literally) marry into Grandmother Guthrie's plan because she wanted to be with Anne felt like a huge moment of clarity for the character.
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