Crossbones goes out with a bang in this spectacular 2 hour series finale!

Crossbonesseems to have suffered from the fate of so many potentially awesome shows… At last all this complex business comes to fruit.

At last, not maimed by having half of it cut away, it makes sense.

Her sudden acquiescence to Blackbeards proposals (How many times have you asked?

A hundred thousand?)

And a little of the passionate poetry of John Donne.

Then the sudden requirement that Lowe should stay behind, and Charlie Rider should go along on the expedition.

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And the fateful meeting of Jagger and Blackbeard.

Hatred and fate coming together.

Charlies a classical pirate, all about the crew and the money.

Blackbeard puts Charlie in the water, with the cry of Judas!

and goes on with his attack on Jagger.

Jaggers ship is not sunk.

(though with those explosives, its hard to see why not.)

And The Plan, in all its elaborate splendor, is called off.

In the meantime, a perfectly logical result of an 18thcentury woman having an affair… Kate is pregnant.

With the renewal of her relationship with her husband.

Kate doesnt want Lowes child.

But then theres the problem of an 18thcentury woman… No safe way to be rid of the baby.

So Kate tries the old fashioned way, or one of them.

The art of taking enough poison to kill the baby, but not quite enough to kill the mother.

Shes not quite successful.

Ill give the show this.

And when Jagger moves against Blackbeards island, Lowe and XX can stand as an odd kind of brothers.

Im glad to see, Charlies death does not go un-noticed.

Back in port, the pirates confront Blackbeard.

It was, after all, murder, and even on a pirate island, murder is not okay.

Of course, the great pirates composure is not broken.

He only points out that whoever touches him first will be the first to lose a hand.

But then the attack from the English comes, and at the most opportune time.

Because, of course, Jagger does find the island.

His attack has been inevitable from the first, though there was always the question of when.

With the series doomed, I can only be grateful that we get to see it.

But even in this extremity, more of the past comes back.

Antoinette, Blackbeards mad wife, is still alive and still in Jaggers clutches.

She becomes the monster, out for revenge against her husband and Selima.

But of course, Blackbeard is just as mad, in his way.

The man just cant stop scheming.

So its Lowes job to confront him.

We end with Lowe bringing his mission to an end.

Blackbeards head to the governor of Jamaica, in the most literal sense.

But its not as a kings man.

He leaves with a threat come after us, and your death will be very, very personal.

When he walks out, he leaves us with the assurance that Blackbeards island will live on.

And as to the legend?

Well, legends never die, do they?

And neither, apparently, does a really great pirate coat.

Its a shame to see whats been done to this show.

This was truly great writing, and done in the piratical spirit of melodrama, passion, and violence.

The web link could have given us something truly memorable.

Instead they chose to be weaklings and cowards, and cut something really special to pieces.

But then, the authorities have never been kind to pirates.

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Rating:

5 out of 5