Black Sails podcast

[frandroid]

So not only there's a Black Sails fancast, but it's still active: they published an interview with Toby Schmitz (Jack Rackham, duh) and Craig Jackson (Featherstone) just last week!

Fathoms Deep: A Black Sails Podcast
@BlackSailsCast

76 episodes... As if I didn't have many hundreds in my podcast queue already!

Schmitz is so fantastic in the series... Right now I'm in the love triangle (?) episodes with Anne and Max and almost all of the play is done through his face... It's cool to see him as a non-muscular, not-very-masculine pirate, trying to make it on his wits alone. I mean he's not unlike John Silver that way, but Silver is still just an opportunistic, accidental pirate at that point in the series, while Rackham is more ambitious, has fallen from a higher position, and has fully embraced the pirate life already.

I've downloaded Hornblower as a next series to watch, because old school maritime warfare. And also Summer of Rockets, because Toby Stephens. No idea when I'll get to any of this...

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[sabotabby]

Oh no, I do not need more podcasts! I already have too many podcasts.

I adore Jack and his arc and also he is v. hot. I'm like two degrees of separation away from Toby Schmitz so I once asked the person I know who knows him to tell him that I thought he was a delight on screen and I think they did. Anyway, apparently he's really lovely irl.

[frandroid]

So a quick reportback: Holy cow that podcast is chatty. They really dissect every episode too much. They're focusing a lot on the story-telling craft, and I think that's not my thing. But they also have some interviews, so maybe I'll just jump around the episode list?

That's amazing that you're connected to Schmitz and got a message to him!!

When I first looked up the cast twitter accounts earlier this year, he was the only one who hadn't talked about the show recently so I thought that showed a healthy focus on what's current in their life instead of lingering on that high point...

[sabotabby]

Oh, I do like hearing about storytelling craft. Maybe I'll check it out.

It's a lot of show. Given how perfectly it rolls after S1, I'm interested to know some of the creative backstory. I like S1 minus a few stumbles, but it really doesn't feel planned in any way—it takes ages for the ship to sail, the characters are very inconsistently written, and of course there's the godawful rape plot. But a lot of the weirdness pays off later, so I just wonder whether it was on purpose or just everyone scrambling to fix it and coming up with something truly epic.