XXXVII.

Perhaps the best episode of the show yet. I don't typically love flashbacks, but they just did it right. Never have we loved the characters of John Silver and Captain Flint as a collective more than we do tonight. Luke Arnold and Toby Stephens were brilliant. The filming was terrific, and this was only benefited by the immensely beautiful scenery. We lost a lot of characters tonight, but we learned how deep the friendship of John Silver and Captain Flint is. We learned how much Flint has come to respect Silver. We have seen a total transformation of both of them, and it was portrayed in perfect fashion. I can't believe there's only one episode left, but I have to say, once more, bravo to the cast and crew of this show. Truly the most underrated show out there.

And BTW, huge thanks to Madi for finally being the person to tell Rogers, to his face, that he is the result of all the death and violence around him. Sadly, he is too far consumed to accept this truth.

To me this has to be one of the best episodes. I can almost see Billy Bones trudging along to the Admiral Benbow dragging his heavy sea chest behind him at the end of the series. There is still so much left to the imagination of the viewer that it is difficult to imagine how it is going to end. The setting of the island, and how the writers have portrayed the relationship between Silver and Flint is quite extraordinary. Eagerly waiting for the finale.

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They really managed to capture the essence of what true friendship really is and how you make it into something such magnificent as this really complex episode about feelings, about wrong doings and about what could have been, does perfectly.

It really is clear to me that even though Flint and Silver never comes clear about it, deep down they both love each other to a way higher regard than they do to any other, to a even higher regard than Thomas and Madi. It is really one of the greatest television relationships ever with all this complexity and how deep it really goes.

(11/10) Best episode of the show by a mile!!!

Shortened summary: The end is near and those who where friends are now enemies and only one side can end out victorious if even that is possible in this battle for the future of the Pirate world, Nassau and all of its people.

Ready for Robert Louis Stevenson?

Predictable, but you'd have it no other way, right? After reading "Republic of Pirates" a book by Colin Woodard, the alternative universe's reality presented to us, is winding down to the same civilized end.