But pirate ships had huge numbers of pirates on them. And, as we saw in the very first Black Sails episode, large numbers of pirates are pretty scary. The most common piratical tactic was to get ...

Black Sails has had more ship battles than a TV show has any right ... battles that went this way really didn’t accomplish much. Many pirates had been in such battles. A huge proportion of ...

There are many important roles one can occupy aboard a pirate ship. You can steer ... the lights turned off and the volume turned up, Black Sails is a creepy and mysterious point-and-click ...

There are historical pirates in “Black Sails” too: Charles Vane (Zach McGowan ... While the series, which opens with a ship being boarded and taken, does have its moments of big, noisy ...

"Black Sails" has most of that, but there isn't enough action in the first four episodes. If you give us a pirate series, we want to see ships going at it on the high seas. David Wiegand is an ...

“Black Sails” is set more than 20 years earlier ... was known to fight on pirate ships. While New’s Eleanor is fiction, the actress — who played a British spy in a Spanish miniseries ...

Starz isn't premiering the mature pirate drama until next year ... control of his ship and seek out a Spanish treasure ship. "Black Sails" creators Jon Steinberg and Robert Levine said they ...

which is about the politics of working on a pirate ship, within a big action film of ships and battles and romance.” “Big” is right. “Black Sails” boasts a rich look on a sprawling scale.

Ten years after Black Sails became a beloved ... as he falls under the spell of a ship’s charismatic peg-legged cook who turns out to be legendary pirate “Long” John Silver.

Black Sails also includes historical pirates, distancing itself further ... on an uncharted island before being found by a British ship, which carried him to Port Royal, where he was hanged ...

And if that’s not enough pirate-related inspiration, a video is being produced to promote the launch of Fast Ships, Black Sails. Here’s a sneak preview featuring authors Kage Baker (complete ...