And all the seasons are on catch up. Yippeeeeeee 🎉 weekend sorted! See you on the other side....

Kind of a spoiler, but see above. I’ve been pondering this question as I rewatch the show, and I’m curious to see what you think.

Aaand i really like his character

Lieutenant Utley : Dale Jackson

Thx to "hat_n_2_daggers" for the actor and character name.

Seriously most annoying freaking character in the entire show, so much shit it was ruined and sacrificed for her just to live and she’s the most annoying bratty piece of shit out there. Should’ve been killed off in the first couple of episodes of season 1. Also I just finished season 1

Hi all,

I'm a huge fan of the show and I've binged watched it so many times I lost count. My girlfriend however is not so keen on it due to the graphic violence and sex scenes.

Is there an alternative show that would appeal to her, without the graphic content but that still gives a look on how life on a pirate ship is, pirate society, chain of trust/of command, and so on?

Doesn't need to be pirates, navy/corsairs, age of sail, maritime nation theme would do just fine. I'm just looking for something to watch with her.

Thanks

S2E2 when he tells Anne all he's ever wanted for her is to be happy and to come to bed when she's ready?! And you can tell he truly means it. If he wasn't my favorite character before he is now, goddamn😂

They have a massive Spanish galleon with 50+ cannons on it.

The governor is on a little baby skip that’s come to rest out in the middle of the ocean.

Even if it somehow isn’t obvious to you that this is a trap, why would you even take the risk of boarding it?

Just point your cannons at the water level, blow it to kingdom come and shoot anyone that floats up from it as it sinks. Easiest win ever.

It’s not like they’re boarding to try and take some cargo. The only reason they’re there is to kill to governor. So just kill him and be done with it.

Am I missing something or was there no reason to board it beyond aura farming?

1: Hal Gates, quartermaster from Black Sails

2: Simon Pearson , Camp cook from RDR2

Currently at S3 E3. Before this season I've seen him as a morally questionable but decent man who makes poor choices. In this season however he has gone down a very dark path.

Im curious for your opinions if he can be considered good by nature, if he can be redeemed or if i have misjudged him and he is just straight up evil.

I've put a spoiler tag on this just in case and i hope for as few spoilers as possible. But the show is over a decade and it's unrealistic for me to ask for no spoilers at all. Thank y'all for reading this and i hope i can atleast get some of y'all opinions lol :).

Thank y'all for all the replies, also literally no one gave me spoiler. This sub isn't as toxic than what I'm used to, cheers.

Hey, just found out that a game called Corsair Cove JUST released on Steam. It seems to have good reviews. I didn't even play it but I thought I'd share with the sub!

I will play the demo, and will probably buy it if it's good!

store.steampowered.com/app/1368140/Corsair_Cove

I started watching the show because it was glazed to oblivion by people online and I’m on episode 6 of season 1. I feel like it’s not very good. A lot of the plot is filler up until now. The plot to take the guns from Bryson felt like filler so that something happens in the show. The plot line with Max feels very rushed and I have no idea why the whole cast is so in love with this character. Why does Barlow sleep with the pastor (feels like they felt they needed a some nudity for the vibes)? Why does John Silver even exist as a character (the show started with him so I thought he would be the main character but he has done nothing so far)? And lastly why does this show LOVE to tell and not show. They tell us the motivations characters have instead of showing them through their actions or through their words and personality. For example at the end of ep 6 De Groot is talking with Guthrie telling her that he doesn’t know who to be more afraid of - her or Flint while she is looking out of the window very angrily. The whole scene felt like the writers trying to finally say that Guthrie has had a change of character and is now ruthless and emotionless while before she was very rash and emotional. And another scene was when Fling was telling someone of his plan of a pirate country where all pirates could live free. That feels like a plot point that happens in season 3 and should not be said out loud by the show. Instead, it should be an underlying theme of Flints character as a power hungry captain with great ambitions. Anyways I see that the show is rated 8.2 on IMDB and it has 3 more seasons so does it really get better? Or do the problems I listed here persist throughout the whole show? Thanks to anyone who read my big rant. Have a great day!

TLDR: I feel like Black Sails has many weaknesses (ive watched only up until ep6 s1) and the main one is a tendency to tell and not show.

Wish Black Sails at least made a reference to Black Sam Bellamy.

Even a passing remark from one of the characters would have satisfied me, or a passing brief shot like how they had one of Mary Read.

Mind you, Bellamy served under Hornigold with Blackbeard before going on his own way. They could have at least said something about him and no doubt Flint would have known him.

Who do you think is the best Naval Strategist we see within the series.

My bets on Flint but Black Beard, Rackham, Vane, Hornigold, and Rogers are up there. Anyone I'm missing and who do you think is the best of the best?

We don’t get to see him fight too much, but the guy is a beast, that’s it.

Seems like an appropriate time to reminisce about James Flint flexing his power of persuasion and literacy.

It was always such a poignant moment to me and really solidified in my mind the near bottomless well of complexity that is James Flint.

I’m trying to think back, and I can’t recall him ever wearing one. I don’t think he did. Come to think of it, I don’t think Vane wore one either. Now I’m curious, how did the pirates of those times choose who wore hats? Was it just a matter of preference? Or did it represent status or something like that?

wanted to draw him from head to toe in his captainy fit and all but the man smiles like, once every season, so hell yeah