We get Tasha's return just for it to be cancelled :(

>Imagine if Walt suddenly had a romance in breaking bad.
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>Do you see why that would detract from the story, regardless of gender?

Not really if it was done well? I can't really comment on this without seeing a script with this happening, but I could totally see it working. It's been like a decade since I watched that show so I can't remember it as well as Black Sails, but I'm pretty sure his relationship with his wife heavily influenced the story.

I don't care if you respond or not, you are basically arguing that Flint being bisexual and loving another man makes him 'softer' and takes away from the story. Then you follow it up by saying that everything that the writer added to the story through the relationship could have been achieved by a hetero relationship instead. It's baseless homophobia, you just don't like seeing your macho pirate antihero love a man because in your mind this is a dichotomy, which is probably the whole bloody point of the writer doing it in the first place.

Actually, I haven't watched the TV show, but found both books (The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments) to be fantastic in their own right, and I'm not into misery.

>>The question remains - why. > >Because bisexual men exist and clearly the writer wanted to make Flint one of them.

Imagine if Walt suddenly had a romance outside of his marriage and drug empire in breaking bad.

Do you see why that would detract from the story, regardless of gender?

> Your dog whistle is really showing using terms like 'ham fisted token characters'.

I'm not going to respond again if you attack me again.

Stop it. Address my point, or shove off.

“I got news for you. That means ya a lesbian.”

Lol.. what's f up with 2nd option. he obviously meant that commercial gave him courage to ask out a girl while in school. Bittersweet probably because of broke up.

>The question remains - why.

Because bisexual men exist and clearly the writer wanted to make Flint one of them. Your dog whistle is really showing using terms like 'ham fisted token characters'. You take issue that Flint loves a man, you even said it makes him 'softer' which is an incredibly honest take to have and actually say publicly, that you believe if a man loves another man that 'softens him'. I would expect to see that take in the mid 70s to be honest. Does Charles Vane's scenes with Elanor also 'soften' him? Or since he is railing a hot blond is that fine?

I'll tell you what it achieved that the Barlow relationship wouldn't. It took one of the toughest characters on screen and said that he can be that tough, that ruthless and that powerful and love a man, and that his toughness, ruthlessness and power can come from his love for another man. That, on many levels, is an interesting thing to do in a TV show like black sails.

And yes, all of that can be achieved through a hetero relationship with Barlow. But if you take issue that it was done through his love for a man, and not a woman, I hate to break it to you, but that is no longer about the 'quality of the show'

>You come across as either young, homophobic or a bit heartless by the way

Stop. I'm talking about the quality of a show.

There are PLENTY that explore sexuality while successfully driving the plot (will and grace, 6 feet under, boondocks saints - off the top of my head)

Attacking me doesn't make ham fisted token characters and plots any more valid.

>Sure, they could have had that entire arc done through a hetero relationship, but maybe, just maybe, the writer wanted to make the lead character bisexual and have those same things achieved through his love with another man.

The question remains - why.

> It wasn't a fucking 'twist to shock the viewers'

It wasn't?

What else did it achieve which the Barlow relationship wouldn't?

"Are you telling me, that these ladies like ladies?"

"Yeah ice, they're called lesbians. You're on the L word."

Thank god you pointed it out I sat here for hours

Thank god! That last season was garbage with sprinkles of Bette/Tina gay bait.

You come across as either young, homophobic or a bit heartless by the way. Sure, they could have had that entire arc done through a hetero relationship, but maybe, just maybe, the writer wanted to make the lead character bisexual and have those same things achieved through his love with another man. It wasn't a fucking 'twist to shock the viewers' it was just Flint's written character of being a bisexual man. They do exist by the way and their existence isn't a 'shocking twist'.

Dungeons and Dragons Saturday morning television! You will be missed Michael Reaves. I’m glad that I had the opportunity to tell you that I was a big fan.

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I'm confused you saw the axe commercial and then decided to ask out the girl you had a crush on?

Or kiefer was going to ask out the girl that became your girlfriend

I'm curious about why it was his bittersweet :(

The DUFF, her?

I'll pass on that kind offer as it doesn't sound like an enjoyable read lol

Right there with you although I don't have showtime so maybe that is why

I was recommended the series, but then I looked into it and saw the number of books, I'm glad I did. Horrifically overstuffed unending series is the reason I don't any long series anymore, only those that have episodic books, each with an ending.

It's hard to write a good show when your foremost direction is "make sure its a money maker while also not spending any money"

>How does being gay 'progress his character'? Literally everything he does is as a result of his relationship with Thomas and their treatment under the Crown and Thomas' father. His entire character is shaped by that relationship. Black Sails is basically a show about how Flint wants to take down the British Empire, because of how much it destroyed his and Thomas' lives

The Barlow relationship did that already. There was no need to add another love interest

I have watched all of Hanmaid's Tale and I can give you an in-depth take on why I think it has no overarching vision outside of misery porn.

Just try to ignore it like walking dead.

ngl I’d watch the fuck out of that

You mean >!it doesn’t makes sense that a character can see someone with a bag of take out and think “he’s definitely up to something shady” or being able to find the location of that restaurant from said photo!<?? God that really threw me