re: Official BLACK SAILS Re-watch/1st Watch Thread - Current watch: S3, EP9 to S4, EP1

EP 7

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The whole "I missed a hell of a day" scene was great.

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It was. I didn't realize it until this rewatch but I think everything before then had basically no time jumps. Like the first 6 episodes happen in 6 days. Unless a episode review I read was wrong in saying that.

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I love how fast Dufresne went from scared accountant to kind of a badass. I guess going into your first battle and ripping throats with your teeth changes a man.

And Dufresne is already making plans to kill Flint once they have the Urca. Pretty ballsy.

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I seriously hate that dude, partly for his quick advancement. I know this is obviously fictional but it has a very "real" feel to it. One of the bigger non realistic parts to me is Dufresne going from a puss bookkeeper with. what appears to be little to know pirating and definitely know fighting and leadership skills to quartermaster in a weeks period. I get that they probably did nominate who they thought would be the smartest person as a quartermaster and there probably isn't a whole lot of brains floating around a pirate ship, but you probably had to earn your keep, and he hadn't really done anything.

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Vane digging himself up and killing Albinus is cool and all, but he's been buried for the better part of a day. He should've died HOURS ago

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Correction, this is probably the most unrealistic thing so far Maybe his little odd shape body helped with being able to dig himself out.

EP 8

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Man, every scene with Flint and Gates is top notch. I hate that we lose Gates so early in the series. I get why Flint did it, but man talk about the worst way to prove to your crew that you're loyal to them....by killing your quartermaster and one of your best friends and closest confidants. RIP, Gates. What an awesome character.

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Yea this one was tough. He was for sure one of the best characters at that point. Rackham is my favorite character, but Gates was probably a better character, I was legit surprised he was killed off so early. At this point in the show, Black Sails is essentially Game of Thrones with killing characters, literally no one is safe from being killed off.

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I absolutely love all of the maritime warfare. It's just cool as shite to see some of the strategies they used and how war worked back then.

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Also the limited CGI makes it so much better. They use it sparingly (usually just shots of the ships cruising out in the ocean) and it's definitely for the better.

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Holy shite, that Spanish ship with the 100 guns is like a fricking machine gun.

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Flints strategy was so good there and Dufresne screwed it up. If I'm on the ship though and 100 cannons open up I'm abandoning ship before they fire. I mean it takes some serious balls to stand there on a ship and take that fire. That Spanish ship was so badass.