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Black Sails was a popular fictional period TV show that ran for 4 seasons from 2014 to 2017, exploring the backstories of the iconic characters of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island - which Black Sails acts as a prequel to - as well as exploring the reality of the Golden Age of Piracy and some of the real pirate legends who inspired Stevenson.

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Mr. Scott appeared in 23 episodes over the first three seasons, as an educated slave who joins the pirate game after being liberated by Captain Flint's crew, whereupon he joins Captain Benjamin Hornigold's crew as Quartermaster. His life is a turbulent one, and his story gives us some insight into the relationship between piracy and slavery at the turn of the 16th Century. Here are 10 things you need to know about the character.

Black Sails is a popular TV show based on Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, acting as a prequel. Due to the iconic fictional source material, humanity's fascination with real-world pirates, and a new age of cinema where even The Lord of the Rings has to be gritty and realistic, the show presents a mix of characters based on stylized fictional pirates and characters based on renowned pirates of the real world.

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As with shows like Vikings, historical accuracy can sometimes make way for some creative license, the same way regular shows often sacrifice character for the sake of the story. It's interesting to see how they tweaked the characters, and it gives you some insight into the adaptation process. The truth of history is always uglier...

Black Sails is a fun, sexy, action-packed take on pirate lore based on (and acting as a prequel to) Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. As well as having some fun speculating what younger versions of the iconic fictional characters might be like to live with, the show does the same with many real-world pirates from the era the story was set in, as did the novel.

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One such character was Anne Bonny, portrayed in the show by Clara Paget, one of history's most renowned pirates, and probably the most famous female pirate out of the Western Hemisphere. While the show modeled the character after the real woman, many aspects of her back story were tweaked or left out.

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In our house we’ve devised a democratic rota for movie viewing. Every night one of us – me, my wife and our children, who are 13 and nine – chooses a film for us all to watch. And every Thursday, we do the National Theatre Live.

And it’s been really fun. For anyone lucky enough, like us, to not have to go out to work, who has a home and a garden and food, this can be weirdly nice family time. We were fortunate in already having lots of DVDs as well as Netflix and Amazon Prime I succumbed to Disney+ because of all the Pixar and Marvel movies.