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Reply #35 on: February 26, 2015, 01:29:47 AM

I tried watching this. I couldn't make it through 3 episodes. :/
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Reply #36 on: February 26, 2015, 02:32:36 AM

Arise!

Season 2 is well underway, and nobody is talking about it?  This is now one of my favorite shows.  They are doing a bunch of flashbacky bits, which initially annoyed me but eventually led up to a big ole OMG WTF SURPRISE.

Anyway, highly recommended.  It probably works better when you view several episodes at a time, it helps with the pacing.

The surprise was actually pretty good but it did feel that all the flashbacks were dragging down the otherwise good pacing (better than the first season's anyway).
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Reply #37 on: March 01, 2015, 11:41:56 AM

My sister couldn't make it past the first couple episodes, either, but I still watch it.  I'm fascinated by the ships but mostly I watch it because of that guy's abs and there some bloke who looks like Michael Hutchins.  I never tired of looking at Michael Hutchins.  I never really know exactly what's going on but that's okay too.

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Reply #38 on: October 11, 2015, 11:26:03 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6P1cQMdFXA

Season 3 starting in January 2016 and I for one am looking forward to it.  awesome, for real
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Reply #39 on: October 12, 2015, 10:17:42 AM

Is this worth adding to a queue as a binge show, or do the flaws grate if you watch them in a binge?

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Reply #40 on: October 15, 2015, 08:42:12 AM

I suspect binge is best.  Flaws and hanging plot lines are always more tolerable when you are watching them back to back.  Great show, IMO.

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Reply #41 on: October 26, 2015, 08:30:53 PM

Just plowed the two seasons...Cool show!

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Reply #42 on: October 26, 2015, 09:33:40 PM

Just finished Season 1 - I like it... but I don't like it. Some good arc but also some WTF moments and not in a good way. It's watchable though.

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Reply #43 on: October 26, 2015, 11:23:38 PM

Overall, I really like a few of the characters. I really dislike a couple as well. And I'm pretty fucking in love with both Max and Eleanor. Even Anna sometimes. And the other big tittied whore. Yum. Oh yeah, and the blond big tittied whore.

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Reply #44 on: October 27, 2015, 08:38:57 AM

Overall, I really like a few of the characters. I really dislike a couple as well. And I'm pretty fucking in love with both Max and Eleanor. Even Anna sometimes. And the other big tittied whore. Yum. Oh yeah, and the blond big tittied whore.

I think I am detecting a pattern in your tastes.

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Reply #45 on: October 28, 2015, 08:01:12 AM

Does this have as much gratuitous nudity and violence as Spartacus?

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Reply #46 on: October 28, 2015, 12:44:56 PM

Just finished Season 2, that was really well put together and the shifting alliances really works. I like the very subtle shift from Flint to Silver.

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Reply #47 on: October 28, 2015, 01:53:09 PM

Does this have as much gratuitous nudity and violence as Spartacus?

Not as much but what's there is pretty good.
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Reply #48 on: January 31, 2016, 05:18:45 AM

Get torrenting , this is back on.

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Reply #49 on: January 31, 2016, 10:28:22 AM

Get torrenting , this is back on.

Ah sweeeeet!

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Reply #50 on: February 01, 2016, 01:36:20 AM

Awesome - now all I need is Vikings and The Last Kingdom and I'll be happy :)

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Reply #51 on: March 26, 2016, 03:11:02 PM

and... it's over for another season. Fantastic ending, I love the development of Silver and I liked the way in which you went from loving Eleanor Guthrie and hating Charles Vane to the reverse. The final battle of the season was great as well although I'd have liked to see more ship time

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Reply #52 on: March 30, 2016, 12:07:44 PM

This show just doesn't get the attention it deserves.  Season ending was great.

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Reply #53 on: March 30, 2016, 02:33:17 PM

Season ends with a huge land and sea battle, best part of the episode still the talkie bits.  Mark of a great show that.

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Reply #54 on: July 21, 2016, 05:23:26 AM

Ending after Season 4.
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Reply #55 on: July 21, 2016, 05:42:14 AM

Seems about right.

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Reply #56 on: March 27, 2017, 03:23:38 AM

One more episode left. For a show that started off somewhat mediocre (but that I watched anyway because it's not like there are any other shows in the Pirate genre), this has so far been one of the best final seasons of any show that I've watched. Hopefully they stick the landing.
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Reply #57 on: March 27, 2017, 06:26:01 PM

I didn't think it started of mediocre, but it is one of the best things on TV for the past couple seasons.  That samurai has been a background badass since the first episode, wish we had gotten more of a backstory on him.

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Reply #58 on: March 27, 2017, 06:52:36 PM

Maybe mediocre isn't the best world. I haven't gone back and rewatched the show at all but from what I recall of the first season there wasn't much action for a show about pirates and it took a while for things to develop. All the character building payed off in the subsequent seasons, but those first few episodes seemed to be a bit of a slog for a lot of people.

Edit: And yeah, that guy had been present throughout most of the show. I was wondering before the fight if Flint was going to try to reason with him just because he has been part of the crew for so long.
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