Long story short: Was listening to music, heard something vaguely sea-shanty-esque, and am now in a piratical* mood.
So, yeah, what's everyone's favorite (visual) pirate media?
Actually, although right now I'm in the mood for visual media, feel free to throw out any written/audio recommendations as well!
Cheers, and hope everyone is still having a good one!
* Good fucking word, by the way. Piratical is a Hall of Fame contender.
Black Sails is extremely woke.
SPOILER ALERT
First off, there is man-on-man kissing and romance that becomes central to the plot. Secondly, one of the Caribbean street whores turns out to be a Shakespeare-meets-Machiavelli-in-denial female genius. No formal education whatsoever to speak of, but she speaks like landed gentry. Third, one of the factions is led by a female 'who is every bit their equal, don't you even think about it'. And she will be there for the entire duration of the show, having some sort of rivalry of sorts with the Caribbean street whore. Fourth, one of the 'bad-arse' pirates in the show is a red-head female who can fight like the best of them. You're supposed to be intimidated by her, but in reality you just laugh.
There is also a slave revolt of some sort and a pact with a slave island that is needlessly deferential to a people that essentially hacked their way to freedom.
oof, I don't remember most of that. I wasn't going to go back and watch it but man, pre-gamergate me just didn't pay attention to that kind of stuff.
I do remember the man guy killing his left-hand man and the ship crashed and they're marooned at the end of the season and I didn't really care about what happened next and never bothered with the second season.
All true, but it was before wokewood spit in my eye, and I really liked watching John Silver turn from pissant conman to the diabolical absolute unit at the end. The little boy in me who read Treasure Island and went 'daymn' at the end of that was satisfied.
Much pointless drama was skipped though. If the scene didn't have Silver or Flint, I skipped it. Rackham's scenes were a coin toss.
rofl@Rackham. He looked so absolutely cringe. Cosplayer.
Clown, that was fun to watch when being a clown. When activist, skip.