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Now THAT was the slowest episode of the series so far. Not a single gunshot, cannon fire or sword unsheathed. The most violent act was Hamilton Sr's stabbing of his dinner with his fork.

Where's my Spanish warship fireworks?!

We just got Starz this weekend. This show is on... a lot.

I watched most of an episode, I didn't see any ship battles, but the acting looked decent.

Sadly, I watched it late at night after coming home Saturday and dozed off in the middle (something about Rackam and Bonnie planning something, but can't remember). Saw the whole bit leading up to Flint's decision though. Still vague on the rest. Forgot that I'd dozed off and hit delete when the show was over. I'm conflicted as to whether to rewatch it to see what I missed, or just figure I'll muddle through. I'm leaning towards muddling, since I obviously didn't retain bits of the side plots from the episodes I didn't doze off during either.

Hopefully, it'll pick up in the second half like season one did.

Black Sails is Starz's go-to time slot filler. I think it will show probably two dozen times between now and the next episode. Plenty of opportunity to piece it together through multiple doze off viewings. Which you definitely will do.

Hopefully next week's episode has a lot of hot Ship-on-Fort action.

I don't know... I'm hoping for another hour of Pirate C-SPAN.

I took it more as Rackham realizing just how skilled and clever Max was beyond just being a pretty whore. And that he may have been underestimating her cunning in the little feud they're having.

Also, I suppose it's only fair but I didn't need to see Captain Jack's Little Rackham in the opening moments of the show

Well, pirate whores in general are probably a lot less savvy than Max, judging from the woman she had to explain seduction to.

I'm curious if next week will go into whatever animosity is between Vane and Flint.

The first episode started by setting up Flint as the "good guy". They board the ship, Flint stops Singleton from killing some guy, his conversation with the other ship's captain leaves you thinking that Flint is a good captain losing control of his men, etc. Meanwhile, Vane is killing people so Singleton can win the vote for captaincy with no better reason than "Once everyone realizes that Singleton sucks as captain, they'll leave and we can get a few more guys". That's pretty thin reasoning there -- Flint's men seems competent enough but not so much that you'd get involved in some plan to depose Flint (by murdering men who'd vote for him) just to get a few new deckhands.

Later on, we learn that Flint isn't especially "good" and while Vane never rises to anything better than "not good", they at least give you something in his story to get invested in. But there has to be something deeper to it than that. Of course, we'll probably learn about it in lengthy flashbacks.

Granted, there's only three people posting to this thread but then there's only seven people posting to the forums so that's still a solid population.

The Brothel Triplets were the only half-interesting thing going on this week with the rest of the cast still stuck in Pirate Parliament mode. Rackham (excuse me, Captain Rackham) apparently knows his way around a set of sails better than anyone expected and it'd be interesting/amusing to me if he was Flint's equal or close to it at seamanship. Although I knew where it was going the moment the other captain felt blood inside his collar, I'm on the fence if that was intentional or blind luck on Rackham's part. Jack does seem like the kind of guy who'd know how to end a fight quickly since endurance isn't on his side. Here's hoping for a swift reconciliation with Bonny since they're the only male/female pairing I find interesting these days (Flint/Silver is always fun times though). Max looked over her head for a few shining hopeful moments and is back to purring her way through things. It seems unfair for me to hope for her downfall when, maybe a month ago in "show time", she was chained in a rape hut.

The rest of the show: Blah, blah, we have to agree to, no I don't wanna, blah blah, he agreed, did he agree, who cares if he agreed, blah blah, we agreed to this, no way, let's have a vote, how's the vote, we're going to have a vote, blah blah, lets do this so we can be free, we are free, maybe we're not free, blah blah, Guthrie acts predictably retarded.

I don't know, they could have just FRAPS someone playing AC4: Black Flag

Season 1 was short on ship scenes due to the cost. I'd guess S2 isn't remarkably better funded and the budget is reserved for the ending episodes. They're already greenlit for a Season Three so maybe someday they'll get some extra Ship Action money.

I'm guessing that Rackham winged the part about the crew. The other pirate captain seemed reasonable (even if pressing his advantage over Rackham) and I assume worked on the general principle that you got in, got your loot and moved on. A reputation for slaughtering crews just means harder prizes in the future as the other ship has no reason to not fight tooth and nail.

I'm guessing the prior captain guy who is now under Rackham on the Colonial Dawn would have the role of quartermaster. Same as Gates was to Flint.

Edited, Mar 3rd 2015 6:04pm by Jophiel

I'm sure you're right. I'm no pirate specialist, I just remember that quartermaster was Gates' post and he was Flint's right-hand man.

Now you made me look at the Wiki and I learned that Dufresne was played by a different guy in Season One (but the actor developed brain cancer between seasons). I didn't even notice that they changed actors.

Yes, the cook (Randall) lost his leg when the Walrus rolled onto it during the cleaning. It was Flint who cut Randall's lower leg off though, not Silver. Randall did use his 'peg leg' though to save Silver at the end of last season. Silver guesses that Randall is at least sort of faking his dementia so the crew keeps him on out of pity but doesn't expect him to fight with them. Presumably, Randall saved Silver because Silver is correct (though Randall won't openly admit it even to Silver) and knew that they'd need Silver to get the Urca gold.

Edited, Mar 3rd 2015 6:29pm by Jophiel

Was he? I've been a bit confused about this as well. I thought Gates was the first mate and Bones was the quartermaster. Didn't Dufresne get promoted to quartermaster after Bones fell off the bow of the ship, while Gates was still second in command? Seems like they were a bit vague about who was in what position, but it seemed like Bones had some influence and was responsible for promoting and providing for the wants of the crew to the captain. And while Rackam was Vane's quartermaster, you got no sense at all that he was expected to run the ship if Vane wasn't there for some reason (or maybe he was?).



Yeah. I noticed that too (when I had to look up his name, and then look again for how to spell it). Had no clue by watching it, though. So they did a great job recasting the part.

Oh yeah! I forgot about the second ship. I mean, I knew there was one, just forgot who was captaining it. That makes total sense now. I seriously should have re-watched the first season in prep for the second, but didn't have the time.