Narratives with ordinary bisexuality and prominent non-romantic relationships are attractive to me, in addition to the Age of Sail.
I had inferred as much!
in addition to the Age of Sail.
One of the things I'm enjoying about the show is that it uses its clearly-vast sets/VFX budget (and Michael Bay as a producer) plus historical consultants (they built the Walrus from the actual plans of a specific ship) to show things that are interesting to me to see. For example, the mid-season-3 setpiece has an 18th-century pirate ship being sailed into the heart of a "ship-killer" storm, and -- okay, I wanna see what that might actually look like!
(I don't have any pre-existing Age of Sail investment, but it's so much more interesting than watching buildings blow up.)
How does the third season hold up?
VERY well. So far, I've liked each season more than the last. Season 1 is rocky and leads with all its wrong feet, which is one reason why being extensively spoiled helps (I think the rape plotline is a lot easier to tolerate when you know that Max isn't a disposable character being broken to show how grimdark things are, she's going to be taking over the world for the rest of the show) (at the end of S3, I realized that there are currently three plot threads about different women handling leadership/power, and I like that a lot). The end of season 1 and the whole of season 2 is when I really got hooked, and season 3 I liked even better.
I am greatly looking forwards to season 4, but am currently postponing starting it for a few days for the sake of prolonging the experience.
All of the seasons have had elements that haven't worked for me (I am so so bored by Charles Vane, so so bored), and you can see the points when the writers are trying to crow-bar things to get to a particular Cool Moment they want, and the writing's sometimes bad though sometimes very good. But it's full of unexpected good things, including things I've not really seen on television before. And the character development is glorious.
Further babbling and links to follow, I hope, but I'm going to post this now as Firefox keeps threatening to eat it and I have to run off and climb things in a bit.
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I had inferred as much!
in addition to the Age of Sail.
One of the things I'm enjoying about the show is that it uses its clearly-vast sets/VFX budget (and Michael Bay as a producer) plus historical consultants (they built the Walrus from the actual plans of a specific ship) to show things that are interesting to me to see. For example, the mid-season-3 setpiece has an 18th-century pirate ship being sailed into the heart of a "ship-killer" storm, and -- okay, I wanna see what that might actually look like!
(I don't have any pre-existing Age of Sail investment, but it's so much more interesting than watching buildings blow up.)
How does the third season hold up?
VERY well. So far, I've liked each season more than the last. Season 1 is rocky and leads with all its wrong feet, which is one reason why being extensively spoiled helps (I think the rape plotline is a lot easier to tolerate when you know that Max isn't a disposable character being broken to show how grimdark things are, she's going to be taking over the world for the rest of the show) (at the end of S3, I realized that there are currently three plot threads about different women handling leadership/power, and I like that a lot). The end of season 1 and the whole of season 2 is when I really got hooked, and season 3 I liked even better.
I am greatly looking forwards to season 4, but am currently postponing starting it for a few days for the sake of prolonging the experience.
All of the seasons have had elements that haven't worked for me (I am so so bored by Charles Vane, so so bored), and you can see the points when the writers are trying to crow-bar things to get to a particular Cool Moment they want, and the writing's sometimes bad though sometimes very good. But it's full of unexpected good things, including things I've not really seen on television before. And the character development is glorious.
Further babbling and links to follow, I hope, but I'm going to post this now as Firefox keeps threatening to eat it and I have to run off and climb things in a bit.