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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9296051" data-attributes="member: 4534">There's a great scene in the first episode where the pirates have taken a merchant ship.&nbsp; They're upset because the haul isn't very good and are hellbent on torturing the merchant captain in case he's hiding gold or other valuables.&nbsp; Captain Flint (the pirate captain for those of you unfamiliar with the show) doesn't really want to torture this guy, so he sits down to have a heart-to-heart with him and comes to believe that there is in fact no more treasure to be had.&nbsp; It dawns on the merchant that even though Flint knows there's no treasure, the tortue is still coming because the crew demands it.&nbsp; &quot;You can't control them, can you?&quot; the merchant says referring to Flint's crew.&nbsp; Black Sails is pretty good about not glossing over the terrible things pirates did.&nbsp; Another show that's good about not glossing over the less pleasant aspects if Norsemen, or Vikingane if you're from Norway, which is about a bunch of vikings circa 800 AD.&nbsp; While it's a comedy, they don't really shy away from all the nasty things Vikings did.&nbsp; In the first episode the vikings are returning home with slaves and these people are not happy with their status.&nbsp; Later in the season, they go out again for resources and end up slaughtering a bunch of unarmed English people.&nbsp; The writers even went out of their way to show how harmless these people were with all their gold they collected to build that children's hospital.&nbsp; They even aknowledge the sexual assaults that happened.&nbsp; And this is a comedy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 9296051, member: 4534"] There's a great scene in the first episode where the pirates have taken a merchant ship. They're upset because the haul isn't very good and are hellbent on torturing the merchant captain in case he's hiding gold or other valuables. Captain Flint (the pirate captain for those of you unfamiliar with the show) doesn't really want to torture this guy, so he sits down to have a heart-to-heart with him and comes to believe that there is in fact no more treasure to be had. It dawns on the merchant that even though Flint knows there's no treasure, the tortue is still coming because the crew demands it. "You can't control them, can you?" the merchant says referring to Flint's crew. [I]Black Sails [/I]is pretty good about not glossing over the terrible things pirates did. Another show that's good about not glossing over the less pleasant aspects if Norsemen, or Vikingane if you're from Norway, which is about a bunch of vikings circa 800 AD. While it's a comedy, they don't really shy away from all the nasty things Vikings did. In the first episode the vikings are returning home with slaves and these people are not happy with their status. Later in the season, they go out again for resources and end up slaughtering a bunch of unarmed English people. The writers even went out of their way to show how harmless these people were with all their gold they collected to build that children's hospital. They even aknowledge the sexual assaults that happened. And this is a comedy. [/QUOTE]

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