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Scaly Llama
The women's roles in the Black Sails trailers fit interestingly within the concept of the scaly llama. The scaly llama, as described by Hurley (2013) refers to the cliches to which women (and others) are ascribed in popular fiction. They occupy stock roles, devoid of substance, and they do so for the most part because those are the roles that the audience understands. The first trailer for Black Sails is rife with cliched characters and scenarios. The female roles are notably hackneyed, but the male roles are pretty thin as well from the looks of the trailer. What the first trailer shows about the scaly llama narrative is that the characters are exactly as you would expect them to be. The male pirates are these sort of kinless scumbag types. The females are almost a non-factor in the trailer, barely even appearing. The first appearance of a female in the trailer is when two women are in bed together, which is actually going beyond the typical stock character trope stuff into the offensive characterization of women as worthy of no attention unless they are having sex.
The one instance of a female character doing anything in the first trailer other than...
This is the classic "women, cattle and slaves" character -- the strongest female protagonist is little more than a nag whose role is to get upset at her man's doings and transpirings. This role is classic scaly llama -- the character has been written this way because that is what all female characters of this archetype are like. At best, this is a Lady Macbeth, at worst a Marge Simpson who flips tables. Either way, the character is written according to a cliched stereotype that fits with audience expectations. And the other females are here for titillation apparently, also feeding into audience expectations.
In a television show, the passage of many episodes and seasons usually allows for characters to become more fully developed. The Season Three trailer shows improvement in particular in the female characters, or at least the way that the trailer presents them. They are more active, less directly sexual, and play important roles. Where the one wife in the Season One trailer is a behind-the-scenes player, a couple of the females in the season three trailer…
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Bay, M. (2013). Black Sails trailer. YouTube Retrieved November 7, 2015 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aigIJGeykI
Hurley, K. (2013). We have always fought: Challenging the women, cattle and slaves narrative. Dribble of Ink. Retrieved November 7, 2015 from http://aidanmoher.com/blog/featured-article/2013/05/we-have-always-fought-challenging-the-women-cattle-and-slaves-narrative-by-kameron-hurley/
Starz. (2015). Black Sails season 3 official trailer. YouTube. Retrieved November 7, 2015 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6P1cQMdFXA
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