Then we disagree on why Vane killed Eleanor's father. I think the letter he left with the body made his reasoning clear. It might be that because of what Eleanor did, he got an extra charge out of the murder, but I believe he really did feel he was killing an enemy of Nassau's freedom. Vane had his Spartacus moments and I think this was one of him. I want to be clear that I don't like what he did, I don't agree with it, but I don't think his motivation was to hurt Eleanor, or at least that wasn't his main motivation. Also, it has nothing to do with unconditional love. When people put conditions on love, it's along the lines of "I set this condition and you have to meet it for me to love you." No one can pretend that Vane was setting a condition for Eleanor to love him by killing her father.
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batoth-81783
8 years ago
I was kind of thinking that Vane killed her father after he offered Eleanor to Vane for his own life. That would have angered him for a couple of reasons:1. He loved Eleanor and 2. What kind of father does that? He made a point to tell her this as well.
I also am really stuck on the notion that Eleanor takes Abigail for Flint to help him but also to save Vane's life. She tells Flint before the deal is done to be sure that He lives. Anyway that is my take on at leaSt those events. I still don't think Eleanor's season 3 character was very true to her previous seasons.
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Zanza8
8 years ago
I was kind of thinking that Vane killed her father after he offered Eleanor to Vane for his own life. That would have angered him for a couple of reasons:1. He loved Eleanor and 2. What kind of father does that? He made a point to tell her this as well.
That's true. I hadn't thought of that, Vane might have even thought he was protecting Eleanor by killing a man like Ned Lowe who was threatening her. Certainly he left Lowe's head for all to see with the note about angering Charles Vane, and everybody knew exactly what Lowe had done to anger him. I still think the main reason was that Vane truly believed Eleanor's father was a threat to Nassau's freedom, but if he was wavering at all about actually killing the man, the threat to Eleanor would have tipped the scale. After all, if her father would hand her over to one pirate, he might hand her over to anyone at all to buy his own life.
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amalzia19
8 years ago
But do we really know that her father was ready to sell her out? There was a reason we didn't see it happen, so like Eleanor we are left to question if what he said is true or not. I think he was just messing with her, knowing that's his last chance. And after what he did to Max I doubt she would trust him ever again.
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