Post #710113 by SoCal Savage on Tue, Mar 4, 2014 9:48 AM

Has anyone been watching "Black Sails" on Starz? It's basically a "prequel" to Treasure Island, featuring Cpt Flint, Billy Bones and, of course, a young Long John Silver. The actors are unrealistically buff (only a 20th or 21st century gym can get that kind of muscle definition) and all have conspicuously good teeth, but having said that it's a (non tongue in cheek) episodic series about pirates with much of the action taking place on New Providence Island during it's pirate occupied hey day.

With Pirates and their history in the Caribbean being one of my favorite historical subjects the show has become a guilty pleasure of mine.

Yes it plays like a cheesy modern blockbuster film at times (Michael Bay is one of the EPs). But the New Providence set is pretty awesome and some of the sea battles (watching a crew board a merchant vessel for instance) have been a lot of fun. Now if only they'd delve deeper into the role Rum and Rum punches played in the Pirates lives...