I would hope that after this last episode, they will actually set sail in hunt of the treasure galleon in the next...

Was there an episode this past Saturday (2/8)?

Yes. I need to watch it again, though, cuz I'm a little confused as to what's going on.

yes there was. Still on land. A massive plan was developed and then it all fell apart at the end leaving everything in disarray.

3rd episode was better than the 2nd imo...lots of betrayal going down

This show is losing my interest quickly.

Me too... If this story continues to drag it would take a non rape nude love scene every 5 minutes to hold my interest.

I'm holding out hope we'll get to see the puss in boots girl pirate in flagrante delicto with black beard.

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Agreed. There is way to little pirating going on.

I gave up last week.
Don't miss it either.

I paused the DVR halfway through the 3rd episode when my phone rang. I haven't started it again and I probably never will.

Thought after the first two it had really good potential but just never developed. Lack of pirating made the plot not worth following. At some point the story has to begin moving forward and it never did within the first 2.5 episodes.

I'm still hanging in there but so far it's a big letdown. Just not enough pirating and just a lot of time planning and at port. I'd hope they would go raid somewhere just to mix it up but instead it is all this focus on the girl and her father. Now they are getting in to this whole backstory with the Captain and this English chick that he has a thing for.

Only interesting part of the last episode was the crazy pirate who chased his cat and the boat fell on top of his legs so the Captain had to chop them off with a cleaver.

I will go ahead and finish out the season just because but so far it feels like an unfunny version of Pirates of the Caribbean but they never actually do any pirating. They are pirates, you should have at least a few folks getting randomly killed every episode at a minimum.

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This why I laugh at the "character development" idiots on the walking dead thread. You watch this show for pirating and ass kicking.

Basically what 93 said. SO looooooves it (even still) and while I'm enjoying it, I'm not rush-right-home-so-we-can-watch-it enjoying it. Like others have said, they need to be at sea for this to be very interesting to me. And I'm gonna get ripped for this by the dudes, but the lesbian sex scenes are completely pointless. All I could think about during those was the Wayne's World "Gratuitous Sex Scene" flashing across the screen. I don't mind sex scenes in movies/shows but this one just screamed "we need to throw sex in our show so people will watch it, so why not go lesbian?"

But if you're gonna have sex scenes that are pointless to the plot, just get Billy Bones in a couple. Whew he's hot.

I was ambivalent to the lesbian scenes for the most part but didn't really understand that plot line. She clearly has strong feelings for the "bad" pirate guy and then just suddenly falls hard for this ***** that works for her that seemed to be pretty clearly using her at first. Then they are completely in love. Then she still has the hots for the dude.

All I got out of that is the girl is BSC. Hot, but BSC and dumb.

One thing I REALLY don't get is they almost seem to be backing away from some of the gratuitous violence. They seem to skip over or have distant shots of most of it or have it be really fast. I expected more of a Spartacus style embracing of it, it's not like the storyline is that interesting or they are trying to make this into safe for Network TV or anything.

They are pirates for crying out loud but they seem to be focused more on the "They are really all good guys deep down who just want to be free" angle which doesn't really add up.

Another thing I don't get is they seem to be just around the bend from this English Settlement. It seems odd that you could have this massive pirate encampment right next to a Colonial settlement and they don't seem to know about each other.

I'm really wanting to like the show but they are making it really hard.

Wait...lesbian pirate sex scenes? Why am I not watching this show?

Agree with most of the other views on here. Just finished episode 4 and we're still on land betraying and dreaming about one another. I think a show containing pirates needed to start off with a bang the first season. If we were more emotionally invested in these characters- maybe all this drama, and love making, and disappointing our fathers would make me feel something. The names confuse me, the ships confuse me, I want some sword fighting and plundering. This is the same reason I left Walking Dead.

by the way, after I gave up on the show I found out Michael Bay was involved, and then not only did it all make sense, but I felt like I had dodged a bullet.

Like most shows (GoT, Rome, Spartacus, Justified, SoA, etc...), it takes a while to get to know the characters. Give it time. Ain't nothing else on anyway (stupid Olympics...)

Agree whole-heartedly with the above poster who said that Billy Bones needs a sex scene right now! Hope for that is what is holding my interest in that show.

The sails are just black from mildew at this point....

this show is picking up a bit of speed but there are still a lot of parts being juggled in the air that I have a hard time keeping up with.

Curious to see if things on the island stablize now. I doubt that Billy Bonez is dead so it will be interesting to see how he comes back.

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It really hasn't developed very much for only 2 episodes to go. I will be surprised if it gets a 2nd season. They seem to really be focusing on this storyline of the Captain and the Lady who are starcrossed lovers trying to go legit which sucks.

Very little ruthless pirating for a pirate show. It seems lost.

Don't see how Billy bones can be dead since this is supposed to be taking place like 20 years before the events in "treasure island"

really disappointed in how slow this season has been. they have a great foundation to work with but they need to keep the focus on pirates doing cool pirate **** at sea

What the deal with the lady what's her name? She was banging the captain & he wasn't into it... Then she rapes the pastor?

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Barlow...I can't figure out her motivations. I don't think Flint knew what she wrote in the letter Billy read, but who knows at this point. chick is probably just BSC

I just watched episode 1 on Straz website. My DVR has episodes 3-current. I came here to read about it and now I'm sure I should get invested…

has it turned the corner enough to continue??

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The last episode where they actually went after the Urca was pretty cool IMO.

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When the Man O War turned broadside and opened up the gun ports(?), that was pretty neat. I thought it was the best episode so far. Amazing to see all that gold...

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yea i agree it was pretty good. i feel like the last 3 episodes were pretty strong compared to the beginning. ill stick around for season 2

One historic point...

A ship-of-the-line had a crew for a single broad side. No way that the Spanish ship could fire two, full broadsides at both of the raiders at the same time. At most, half and half...

Still love the show!

Great sea battle scene! Can't wait to see what Flint will do with the Spanish Man of War once he takes it next season!

Perhaps that ship had an extra large crew due to the value of what it was protecting...

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Perhaps. But the logistics of an extra-large crew would be tough.

The oh **** looks on everyone's face when the Spanish ship turned were pretty great.

That one battle scene may have saved what was otherwise a disappointing season. That moment of all of the guns coming out and just letting loose was awesome.

They really need to tighten up the story line though and focus more on the badass pirates instead of the chicks though. Nearly lost me in those middle episodes where they were just hanging out on shore really doing nothing.