BS: Black Sails

Subject: BS: Black Sails
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 29 May 14 - 04:42 PM

Anyone watching? Could have posted it as a music question coz the music is pretty good. But I think the series is better. Pirates - aka Nasty beasts - and lots of sex and violence. What more could anyone want?

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 29 May 14 - 04:44 PM

Click here if you are interested but don't have a clue what I am on about BTW.

D.

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 29 May 14 - 04:46 PM

Oh - and to make it a complete geek issue, I saw a concertina being played in a recent episode. In 1715? C'mon!

:D

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: GUEST
Date: 29 May 14 - 05:14 PM

You should go read the Doctor Syn series...

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: GUEST,Mrr at work
Date: 29 May 14 - 07:19 PM

Vikings is also very good...

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 30 May 14 - 02:39 AM

Guest - Have done already. Many years ago.

Mrr - Yes, but series 2 has finished and 3 has not started yet.

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: GUEST,CS
Date: 30 May 14 - 09:24 AM

Ooh, looks good! Thanks for this Mr. Gnome

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 31 May 14 - 03:07 AM

I thought this might be about the Lakeland youth hostel !

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 May 14 - 04:11 AM

They were never like that in my youth hosteling days, Raggy. I might start going back if they have changed so much :-)

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 31 May 14 - 06:52 AM

The YHA recently spent £260K on a refurb for the place, frankly ridiculous in my opinion. I cannot see how that amount could be spent on a shepherds bothy !

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: bubblyrat
Date: 31 May 14 - 10:19 AM

Who was that Greek chap who killed himself when he saw the black sails of his son's fleet returning from some adventure / battle ,and thought they (the sails ) meant that his son was dead ?? Can't remember----rattling good yarn,though !!

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: GUEST
Date: 31 May 14 - 02:29 PM

King Aegeus of Athens, the father of Theseus, at Cape Sounion.

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: LadyJean
Date: 31 May 14 - 10:47 PM

I just saw "Crossbones" the NBC series, which features John Malkovich ans a very blond Blackbeard, who in this series, wasn't killed off the coast of Ocracoake, and is operating, somewhere on some island, I'm not sure where.

I do know that when Blackbeard was killed his head was cut off, and displayed for all to see. So, it was a pretty sure thing that he was dead.

The governor of North Carolina, who was getting cash from the pirate, wasn't happy about it.

If you visit Beaufort NC, you can see relics from the Queen Anne's Revenge, Blackbeard's ship. It's very cool!

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: gnu
Date: 01 Jun 14 - 02:26 PM

Arrrrf says the ship's dog.

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 06:21 AM

I remembered seeing the first few episodes and then somehow got distracted. Well, I remembered it again last week and caught up on Series 1. Now seen series 2 as well and will start series 3 tonight. It is still good. Full of gratuitous sex and violence. Very folky :-)

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 06:52 AM

Black sails in the sunset,
A black banner too
Not like you poor traders,
Not red white & blue.

Black sails in the sunset,
Coming more into view
That means that the pirates
Are targeting you!

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 09:45 AM

For a tremendously entertaining gratuitously violent skull crushing romp I must recommend Ironclad

Loosely based on a real long time ago historical siege.... but mostly based on the Magnificent 7....

Proper fun movie for all - not just blokes - my mrs is Welsh and it well satisfied the inner blood thirsty savage in her DNA...

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 10:00 AM

Yep - I concur with that PFR. Seen the sequel too and that is just as good IMO.

If you don't mind furrin language films you may enjoy Iron & Blood: The Legend of Taras Bulba. I certainly did but maybe that is because of my Cossack origins. It was, IMO again, far better than the 1962 Hollywood epic with Yul Bryner in the lead role.

Linking the two together and straying into the realms of folk music, look at the story of Stenka Razin who was both Cossack and pirate! The tune of the song was the base of a folk(ish) song you may be familiar with :-)

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 10:07 AM

Does the cute blonde lady still run the island?

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 12:13 PM

Up to now, yes.

D.

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 12:31 PM

Ironclad 2 - that's encouraging - most reviews are negative, and we have been wondering whether to risk a few quid on it...

The wife's favourite TV sports are rugby, sumo wrestling, boxing, and.. errmm.. tennis...

So in between tournaments, any Sky or Prime movie with burly hairy warriors battering shite and brains out of each other
gets a fixture on the watch list...

Naturally, as a Welsh woman, she was transfixed and over-excited by the GOT Dragon Battle...

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 12:31 PM

my version of John Masefield's poem about Long John Silver


https://soundcloud.com/denise_whittle/john-silver

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 22 Sep 17 - 05:27 AM

Very nice, Al :-)

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 23 Sep 17 - 07:24 AM

Nearly done with season 3 now. Ben Gunn has turned up. Still a good yarn :-)

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 23 Sep 17 - 07:24 AM

Oh, and it showed how Silver lost his leg.

D.

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 23 Sep 17 - 10:30 AM

.. in a butcher's shop, and found it in his gravy...


errrrrmmm.. or am I confusing that with something else...??? 😕

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 23 Sep 17 - 11:12 AM

Just remembered.. the Eddie Izzard Long John Silver from 6 or 7 years ago turned out much better than anticipated..

Googling for that brought up this...

Was Long John Silver a peg-legged Welshman? The real pirate could have born near

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 24 Sep 17 - 03:30 AM

So, the oft used phrase should now be changed from "Arrrr, Jim Lad" to "Arrrr, Dai Bach"?

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 25 Sep 17 - 07:12 PM

i always liked Charlton Heston's LOng John Silver. Nutty NRA stuff notwithstanding - he's a great actor.

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: EBarnacle
Date: 25 Sep 17 - 07:52 PM

Considerin' the missin' leg, it's not Aaarg, but Pee.

Subject: RE: BS: Black Sails
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 26 Sep 17 - 09:38 AM

I don't get it EB - Sorry :-( Is an EBarnacle something that sticks to the hulls of virtual ships btw? :-)

Talking of hulls (and keels) They keel hauled someone in one of the episodes. Pretty nasty!

DtG