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If you want a fun and silly PC multiplayer game which is about naval combat with friends (or stranger) and is no doubt inspired by Black Sails just a little bit, try out Blackwake: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3811565 I've only played it for two hours and already see a Walrus ingame and someone calling themselves Captain Flint. https://i.imgur.com/OsBsyA3.mp4
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Welp, trust Israel Hands to be the voice in this latest ep for all the "Too much talking" people ITT lol. Also...thought they'd never get back around to it, but sure enough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WNaHuAHKFU. Whoever called the role reversal between Rogers and Flint in what comes next seems to have been on the money. And whatever the outcome, I'm p certain of one thing now - Rogers and Eleanor will lose it all by the end. Because with friends like these... CrazyLoon fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Feb 26, 2017 |
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This really is the weakest season so far. Countless choices that just don't really make any sense in the Black Sails world. I am sure the Spanish are going to go out on a limb to clean up the British mess, doubly so when they are at war. What the gently caress is to say that this isn't a ploy to attack Cuba by luring all of your dumb asses to crush some stupid revolt. I mean Nassau has been ruled by pirates for god knows how long, and society didn't collapse, what the gently caress difference does it make now to the Spanish. Not to mention the Governor of Cuba basically having a personal reason to hate Rogers.
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Feb 27, 2017 06:55
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Gold man gold
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This is a solid show with lots to like but I have just one thing to say IN THAT MOMENT
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Tighclops posted:This is a solid show with lots to like but I have just one thing to say
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muscles like this! posted:Of the main characters these are real people: Israel Hands is a real life character as well as a character in Treasure Island, with completely different backstories. The show is taking from the real life version mainly (except for the whole getting kneecapped by Teach)
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Feb 27, 2017 09:06
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Someone get me a gif of the camera pullback on that fleet, stat
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CrazyLoon posted:Whoever called the role reversal between Rogers and Flint in what comes next seems to have been on the money. unlawfulsoup posted:This really is the weakest season so far. Countless choices that just don't really make any sense in the Black Sails world. ...Of course, once the speechifying ends, they are clever enough to show that in reality, the interests of 'the poor' differ (Julius) and that any government, even that arisen via a Glorious Pirate Revolution, does find itself needing a monopoly on power. So that's a very good argument for 'more action, less talking'. The last bit of which advise I now apply to me.
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Feb 27, 2017 09:31
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CrazyLoon posted:Welp, trust Israel Hands to be the voice in this latest ep for all the "Too much talking" people ITT lol. The Spanish anthem doesn't actually have any lyrics so I think you meant to link this one https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tgC2kBCRu5o
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Feb 27, 2017 22:31
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CrazyLoon posted:Welp, trust Israel Hands to be the voice in this latest ep for all the "Too much talking" people ITT lol. He's the best part of this season
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Feb 28, 2017 04:07
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Welp, that's one main character dead. Four more episodes to go.
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Ego-bot posted:Welp, that's one main character dead. Four more episodes to go. PleasebeMaxpleasebeMaxpleasebeMax 
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Ego-bot posted:Welp, that's one main character dead. Four more episodes to go. I have to give it to the show, pretty cool to kill off 2 pretty major characters in Ep 6, 15 minutes before an episode ends.
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Solice Kirsk posted:PleasebeMaxpleasebeMaxpleasebeMax On again I pressed the 30s skip twice on that scene she was talking to that one person Anne cause she's honestly just the god drat worse. I'm assuming/hoping I didn't miss anything of importance.
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Boris Galerkin posted:On again I pressed the 30s skip twice on that scene she was talking to that one person Anne cause she's honestly just the god drat worse. I'm assuming/hoping I didn't miss anything of importance. She just got told to gently caress off.
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Woodes Rogers, you done hosed up now!
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So what's Max's end game here? Go tattle to a powerful English land owner that an English governor is really a bad guy and that he should team up with the proprietor of a whore house and a rag tag group of pirates that just want their town back? I know she's going to slip away because this show refuses to let her die, but Anne and Jack are pretty much dead meat.
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That was a very unsatisfying death for Elanor, and Madi for that matter, but in Elanor's case we wanted to see her get some justice for Vane. Also the show once again writes Max as being far too important. Her plan is dumb because they already explained that Elanor was on the outs with her family and only was going to request their help because her marriage to Rogers would have given them social status.
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I dunno, I think it was poignant that her vane attempt to outmaneuver literally everyone ended up with her dead by the hands of some Spanish soldier nobody who just refused to die.
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I was fine with that aspect. I mean she literally could have suffered more before dying. The way it was filmed was her "heroically" struggling against her oppressor and finally succeeding in defeating him before dying of her wounds, instead of being brutally, slowly, murdered in a way that imparted some schadenfreude for the audience. Just deserts -> Justice hurts, as it were. I'm not into torture porn, it's more the general direction of the scene. Even if her and Madi had switched places it would have been a million times better because as a viewer I want Madi to live and don't want Elanor to, so I'm more into seeing Madi fight for her life and succeed but succumb to her injuries than I was Elanor. Edit: I was trying to avoid using prowrestling lingo, but gently caress it: they booked heel as a face and as Jim Cornette would say, it went over like a fart in church(to me).
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I feel like this season started off slow, briefly got super exciting with the keelhauling and the angry ginger Brit dying, but now its back to confusing intense dialogue amongst sweaty facial hair
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Welcome to Black Sails. It's probably for the best this is the last season.
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At least the writers know when the show should end, and not only that, but they also appear to have an idea of just how it should end rather than playing it by ear. Far too many shows on the air these days *cough* regular primetime networks *cough* just refuse to die like that nobody Spanish soldier, and their plots are generally stupid as gently caress; it's like they are hiring teenagers to write the episodes because it's all about children in adult bodies having romantic encounters and vague hints of an actual plot around those romantic encounters. Quantico, for instance, is about the FBI academy, but what you actually get out of that is that is drivel about a bunch of adults acting like high schoolers instead of future FBI agents, centered around romantic plot lines and sex. It's pretty much a cross between a fanfic and a YA novel in television form, as are most shows on prime networks. While Black Sails has writing, cinematography and acting that far surpasses what you'd find in most shows, it's time for it to go. I'll be sad to see it go because it's one of my favorite shows, but when great shows end on premium networks, it paves the way for more great shows.
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I on the other hand have been totally engrossed this whole season, basically since season 2 episode 1 I've loved every minute of this show. I'm sorry to see it go, but all good things must come to an end.
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Invalid Validation posted:Welcome to Black Sails. It's probably for the best this is the last season. This season would've been so much better if Black Beard lived for a few more episodes and didn't have such a seemingly pointless arc and if Isreal Hands got to mercilessly gank more dudes in place of some of the sweaty facial hair dialogue, as one astute earlier poster put it
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They turned Billy Bones over to the slaves but they had to leave him alive... that's the most absurd deal all series I think. Shame about Madi, I know we didn't see her actually die for sure but if that's a fake out that's too many fake outs since they already did that a few times this season. Somehow that nobody Spaniard not only took down Eleanor and Madi but the four guys with guns still protecting the house haha.
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Hello friends, I'm thinking of picking this show back up. I remember enjoying it, not sure why I quit watching. I got up to the finale of S1. It's been quite a long while though, would someone mind either linking me something to read for a summar, or summarize S1 for me? Assume I remember basically nothing.
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:Hello friends, I'm thinking of picking this show back up. I remember enjoying it, not sure why I quit watching. I got up to the finale of S1. It's been quite a long while though, would someone mind either linking me something to read for a summar, or summarize S1 for me? Assume I remember basically nothing. In season 1 they spend the entire season chasing a Spanish treasure galleon. Silver steal the information about its whereabouts and burns the original documents, making him the only one who knows where it is and invaluable to Flint (The captain). As Flint, Gates(the quartermaster) and Billy(At this point just some random crewman) try to work out how to deal with Silver Flint gets his captaincy challenged. However, Flint outwits and kills this challenger by having Silver lie to the crew about a piece of information. Billy and Gates knows about this and Billy is very conflicted. Billy eventually confronts Flint about this a couple of episodes later in the middle of a storm and Flint pushes him/lets him fall into the ocean. Time goes and they keep getting closer to the galleon until they think they've finally found it, but instead they find a massive Spanish warship at its supposed location. Gates tries to get Flint to back down from the obviously suicidal attack but Flint chokes him out in the captain's quarter with the support of Silver. Flint walks out, tells everyone and the attack is on. This then culminates in the season 1 finale where the two pirate vessels under Flint's command get utterly annihilated by the warship. They then wash up on a beach which as it turns out is right next to the beach where surprise the actual treasure galleon had shipwrecked (explaining its absence), this the season cliffhanger. There's also a lot of subplots going on but that's the general gist of it. MiddleOne fucked around with this message at 11:50 on Mar 12, 2017 |
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MiddleOne posted:In season 1 they spend the entire season chasing a Spanish treasure galleon. Silver steal the information about its whereabouts and burns the original documents, making him the only one who knows where it is and invaluable to Flint (The captain). As Flint, Gates(the quartermaster) and Billy(At this point just some random crewman) try to work out how to deal with Silver Flint gets his captaincy challenged. However, Flint outwits and kills this challenger by having Silver lie to the crew about a piece of information. Billy and Gates knows about this and Billy is very conflicted. Billy eventually confronts Flint about this a couple of episodes later in the middle of a storm and Flint pushes him/lets him fall into the ocean. I still think that they woulda had a chance against that warship if Four-Eyes Wusspirate hadn't chosen that moment to try to mutiny again.
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You forgot to mention The Coat in that summary. Unless The Coat was introduced in season 2.
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Pretty sure that was season two.
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Boris Galerkin posted:The Spanish anthem doesn't actually have any lyrics so I think you meant to link this one https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tgC2kBCRu5o Yea, I know, but the one with lyrics is just hilariously upbeat, despite its sordid fascist-tinted history, so screw it. Felt it was more appropriate in this instance. And welp, I suppose Max just becomes full on Quisling without NPD in this last episode, while Eleanor was the Quisling with NPD. I'm glad they're at least lampshade hanging it, but jesus cripes were this anything like the real world she would've been dead meat 2 times in this season had the pirates not needed their 'twenty good men (tm)' and had Jack "I can't feel my balls" Rackham not been the textbook definition of passive-aggressive pirate. And it's annoying as poo poo to have side characters vouch for her good character, when no - she totes crossed the pirates and chose a goddamn side after they were the ones who made her rich, yet gets to skate off with it scot free since by now it's abundantly clear that the pirates and Rogers lose to her in the end. Plus that cat parable was also complete bullshit, when it wasn't the cat (pirates) that killed Eleanor in the end, but the rage-filled father (civilization). At least I'm still curious as to how poo poo goes down between Flint and Silver but yea...looks like it's shaping up to be another really great work that looks as if it's describing something very drat well, but in the end falls completely flat on its face with its thesis. CrazyLoon fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Mar 12, 2017 |
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Boris Galerkin posted:You forgot to mention The Coat in that summary. Unless The Coat was introduced in season 2. The coat was on the Man-o-War.
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What a great episode. Grandma Guthrie was magnificent, and I loved that conversation with Max. Good to see Eleanor's life work not going to nothing. On the other side, glad to see Flint and Silver finally cutting down on the boring politics and pirate revolution and pirate kingdom talk, and moving towards what's important - in this case, Madi. I like how the show keeps us uncertain whether she'll be Silver's Treasure Island wife, or if Billy will, after all, kill her. A part of me hopes for the former (happy ending!), a part for the latter (much better drama!). I think that, between Julius expressing doubts about the pirates, Max being opposed to slavery, and Rodgers already offering to make Nassau a safe haven, the ex-slaves will be the winners in this race. There is enough goodwill (or at least apathy) towards them, as opposed to the pirates, even among the British. And, of course, this would mean that it wouldn't all be "for nothing", as Silver now despairs.
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BabyFur Denny posted:how many episodes do we have left? 3
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meristem posted:What a great episode. Grandma Guthrie was magnificent, and I loved that conversation with Max. Good to see Eleanor's life work not going to nothing. On the other side, glad to see Flint and Silver finally cutting down on the boring politics and pirate revolution and pirate kingdom talk, and moving towards what's important - in this case, Madi. I like how the show keeps us uncertain whether she'll be Silver's Treasure Island wife, or if Billy will, after all, kill her. A part of me hopes for the former (happy ending!), a part for the latter (much better drama!). It would of been even better if it was Toby Stephens' mum Maggie Smith playing the part to round out the family involvement in the series.
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And here I thought Rackham was going to have to knock boots with Madame Guthrie to seal the deal.
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