Pirates!

[crazed_apple]

Comments

[envydia]

They don't even target patently evil merchants or demoniacal slave ships--just ordinary, average-Joe traders trying to make an honest living. I mean, dubya-tee-eff.

Cause real pirates didn't do that. Right.

[nyxalinth]

Right. I think the point is she's saying she lost sympathy for the main characters because instead of being heroic and interesting, they became a couple of douchebag bitches.

[crazed_apple]

Correct!

[lone_she_wolf]

The characters are more sympathetic if they have a conscience even if it's not historically accurate to what was described.

[mrs_robotnik]

Together, they realize that the Brazilian is a very mean man, and decide to escape. But how? Why, by becoming pirates--I mean, Pirates!

I love this book and I still lol'd.

[surreallifehero]

I read this at one point... and I don't remember it all that well... but I thought it was okay. I think.

[crazed_apple]

Yeah, true, but couldn't they have shown a little remorse, had a second thought, perhaps? Maybe they could have acknowledged that in their desperation, the pirates were their only means of escape, and with them, they'd had to do a lot of things they regretted, e.g. stealing & killing. Instead they're just like, "WE'RE PIRATES NOW! THIS IS AWESOME!"

[lone_she_wolf]

Some people think that's what happened to there all Anne Bonnie since there's no record of her actual execution.

[applepoffin]

Yeah, but the idea that people like that should be celebrated is ridiculous. So either you're a nice and sympathetic pirate, or a realistic evil one.

[nykeyoung]

There's also the Punch Clock pirate, and the Honorable-Code-Loophole-Artist pirate.