Black Sails - anyone watching?

Wolfwood · Boatswain Posts: 2527 **33917 Gold** -

I've seen two episodes of this thus far and it seems decent enough. Hasn't really grabbed me yet, though.

The plot delves around a Spanish Gold Fleet schedule that various pirate captains try to get into their possession. Really makes me think of Pirates!

Anyone else have opinions?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2375692/combined
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Captain Teague · Rigger Posts: 1185 **12207 Gold** -

Season 1 is now ended; a whopping eight episodes in all. I've watch them all, and while the story is slow to get going and does center on Captain Flint and the crew of the "Walrus" there are some good (not great) portrayals of pirate life as well as some historical pirates (though after the amount of research I've done on the era and after playing Assassin's Creed IV the "historical" characters are more like historically named characters, not accurately portrayed at all, but I digress). Overall, it's decent and I'm excited for Season 2, coming this fall. Hopefully the story will pick up a bit, but other than that...
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Roland · Helmsman Posts: 4085 **22541 Gold** -

This is one of those rare occasions when I might regret not having cable TV. (Normally, the only cable program I really miss is South Park.)

On a related note . . . I am currently listening to a recording of Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story. The author, J. Maarten Troost, travels the islands of the South Pacific, following the trail of Robert Louis Stevenson, who visited the same islands 120 years earlier, ultimately dying in Samoa. In the course of his travels he also comes across the trails of artist Paul Gauguin and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl.

Amaroy · Swabbie Posts: 91 **1758 Gold** -

I saw season one and I liked it. It´s a nice idea to combine fictional characters from R.L.Stevenson´s Treasure Island with real pirates of reknown like Charles Vane and Jack Rackham. I also liked to get a view on pirate´s everydaylife including the sexy bordello scenes Cool

Nevertheless the Story probably could have been shown in less than 8 episodes so far. I hope the next season will be shown on german TV. The viewing figures were pretty bad here. They moved it from prime time to late night. Sad

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Mr. Blue · Rigger Posts: 1947 **68793 Gold** -

Interesting, Amroy. I heard that pirate fiction is popular in Germany, but I've never been there, so what do I know?
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Red Rabbit · Cutthroat Posts: 414 **327 Gold** -

One of the very good "docutainment" is Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire. Specially episode 3 is great, and episode 1 about Nero, the actor in main role does amazing and chilling job showing what a degenerated scum Nero was (well all the acting is fantastic; it's BBC production and those Brits know how to make a good plays; it's the culture, uknow Shakespeare).

But back to the topic:
Anyone excited of Black Sails season 3 (first episode aires 23rd day, this Saturday)?
That series really got better towards the end of the season 2.

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Salty Dog · Sailing Master Posts: 10060 **191991 Gold** -

Thanks for the heads up. I will search my TIVO for Ancient Rome. I love these t types of shows.

Until this week, I had only seen the first two Harry Potter movies. I set one of my TIVO Romaio Pros to search for and record all eight movies in High Def. It did and collected all eight of them. I have been watching them this past week and finished seeing them last night. They were on the ABC Family Channel (now called Freeform) and absolutely LACED with commercials. With my TIVO, I can quickly skip over the commercials and cut huge amounts off the time.

The movies had amazing special effect but a very weird plot. I enjoyed watching them but there was so much going on and so many small details that were hard to hear or pick up. You needed to read the books to completely follow the story and I did not do that. At least I am finally current on this series now.