Basically this show sounds like it is very normal about a whole bunch of things that are normal for people but vanishingly rare for mainstream TV, especially historical fiction which so often behaves as though queerness was invented by the 1960's or at most the 1930's.
*nodnodnod*
But also -- the queerness is not incidental, it's absolutely intrinsic to the heart of the show (Flint's queerness especially). It's very very much about people who are living marginalized lives (whether because of sexuality or race or gender or disability, but sexuality might be the one the show returns to the most), whose lives are not included in the official histories, who are misrepresented and distorted by the narratives of empire.
Competing narratives, storytelling as politics, who controls the narrative, "who lives who dies who tells your story" is a HUGE element of the show.
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*nodnodnod*
But also -- the queerness is not incidental, it's absolutely intrinsic to the heart of the show (Flint's queerness especially). It's very very much about people who are living marginalized lives (whether because of sexuality or race or gender or disability, but sexuality might be the one the show returns to the most), whose lives are not included in the official histories, who are misrepresented and distorted by the narratives of empire.
Competing narratives, storytelling as politics, who controls the narrative, "who lives who dies who tells your story" is a HUGE element of the show.
These say some important things:
http://kolbrun.tumblr.com/post/159374452877/black-sails-in-its-deepest-dna-is-a-story
http://notkatniss.tumblr.com/post/149532884112/reluming-piningflint
http://notkatniss.tumblr.com/post/160392289757/edwardnygmaa-captain-flint-all-this-will-be
http://some-stars.tumblr.com/post/162942603198/candlewinds-flint-monsters
(I realize you don't need further selling on the show, I'm just in the stage where I need to babble.)