that went well

[kindkit]

I managed to get through about half of Black Sails 1x03 before I was so bored I couldn't stand it any more. I don't care about any of these people, I don't care about their overcomplicated scheming, and the dull expository dialogue is making every minute drag.

Would someone please spoil me for everything I need to know about the rest of S1 so I can go on to S2, which supposedly is better? If I like S2 I might eventually go back to S1. But I cannot, cannot face 5 more episodes of S1 at the moment.

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[halotolerant]

Argh yes see this is what I remember of trying to watch that show. I think I might watch it whilst doing tapestry work or something else with my hands so I only have 50% attention on the TV, but right now I'm generally so tired when I get to TV time that I have to be able to just watch the thing in front of me.

I have been watching the original Transformers since astolat posted that fic, and it is weirdly compelling although also, you know, a show from the 1980s to sell fairly sexist robot toys... (I think I just get an extra surge of joy from fanworks that make gay stories out of canons that never, ever, ever would have wanted to be gay stories)

[kindkit]

I've decided that for now, at least, I'm not going to try again with Black Sails. I spoiled myself a lot, and (not to be too specific) it seems to me that the things I would like are not things I would like enough, or that would be prominent enough onscreen, to make the things I wouldn't like worth watching. Your mileage might definitely vary on this, though, if there comes a time when you have the energy to spare.

make gay stories out of canons that never, ever, ever would have wanted to be gay stories

You know, I read somewhere that there's a Transformers comic that has canonical gay relationships. A bit of googling just now tells me it's the ongoing series Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye. I was astonished to hear it, which is why I remembered. But the relationship of extended canon like that to its original is often really fanficcy.

I know what you mean about an extra surge of joy, anyway. It feels like something really, well, transformative. Plus, for me at least, growing up in a world where there were hardly any gay texts, it comes close to the foundational impulse to write (or even just imagine) slash in the first place.