well into series three of black sails olde captain mission is in his element, a fantastic show, i love everything about it. i must admit the first series was a bit dodgy and i wondered if i would ever watch the second. in the first we see the pirates at nassau in their factions all attempting to peruse the complex path of holding on to their own self interests. we are introduced to a young john silver who has the map to the spanish treasure in his possession. the urca gold holds the key to the storyline and eventually unites the pirate community against the english. based upon real pirates, rackham, anne bonny, hornigold, charles vane and flint.
it's flint who is the most interesting, from his establishment origins to his eventual rebirth as a pirate. his hatred of the english is sympathetic given his circumstance and he leads the war against them. 
even silver whom starts off as a boyish charming, smooth talker, a surviver transforms by season three into someone darker and real. 
these were brutal times indeed, harsh and cruel but to me there is a sense of adventure, some past life connection so strong i believe it real, the ideals of the pirates are my ideals, the philosophical political architecture is far more robust than where we are now, however obviously now pirates could never replicate those conditions no matter how they feel. they are reduced to armed robbers and murderers. 
the pirate code has honour, i dig it. i miss it.