I knew that some pirates existed like Black Beard and Charles Vale and that others did not like Long John Silver. When I first saw Silver at the beginning of the series, I thought it was a strange casting cause the guy was this young good-looking dude doing funny stuff, more like a sidekick than the terror of the Seventh sea. But by the end of Season 3, he has become more gruff and has gained some of Flint's particularities, like Flint has robbed off on him, adding some darkness to his character. But anyway I think it's last week watching a reaction video of Black Sails, the reactor mentioned something about leading to Treasure Island. And at the end Dickon decided to build the legend of Long John Silver.
It's strange though, I can never remember the story of Treasure Island even though I've seen plenty of versions on screen. Maybe it's cause they have done a poor job of recreating the novel but all I remember is a bunch of dudes fighting the British and then plenty of typical pirate movie cliches. I even watched one a few months ago starring Charlton Heston from the 80 and he Silver well but all I remember is him fighting British soldiers on the beach with a standoff at a house. My favorite version came from a unique place, a Japanese anime made for the French market in France which somehow got to Canada and I stumbled upon it on TV when I was a kid. Being anime the characters became automatically much better looking and easier to get into esp. Silver, he was gruff but not old man gruff, more like cool woredown gruff like Wolverine/Grimjack that girls like. lol I liked his relationship with the kid. Grey also became the quintessential anime character tall, thin, long hair, an expert at throwing knives.
BTW was there ever any link between Flint and Silver in the novels?
Some of those big guys are softer than butter. I'm 5'6 BTW and you would be surprised by the amount of guys smaller than me in normal life
