Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow...
As you might expect, most pilots usually cost more than the average series episode as they often contain a bit more action and a larger production scale than the chapters that follow. All part of the series wanting to suck people in right away and give them big moments to talk about. Then, by the second episode (and this especially pertains to period dramas), things mellow out a bit. No, “II.” wasn’t flat or uninteresting, but its lack of oomph compared to last week’s premiere was evident.
It also now becomes more clear why a lot of people see this series as the pirate version of HBO’s Deadwood as this chapter was very much about pirate prosperity. Commerce. Future prospects and scores. Dastardly deals and double talk in place of raiding and pillaging. And at the heart of it, Flint. A man who, going against the grain, thinks big picture. Thinks of a world after his pirating days are over. And he realizes that his dream of an autonomous “nation of thieves,” who are able to operate out of the reach of the Royal Navy, requires a huge payday. And this is the one reason, over all else, why he desperately wants to find the Spanish treasure. So that he and others of his kind can stand in equal footing with those who’d normally try to subjugate them.
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