Pirates...

The only problem with this is that for the majority of the people who watched the show, what they saw was reality. We know better, but they don't. So now people all over have this view of how things went, and who these people are that at best is inaccurate, and at worst is blatantly wrong. A good example of this is the movie Amadeus. A very good and very well made movie. However it portrays Salieri as what is basically an evil egotist who actively engaged in some morally questionable acts against Mozart. When in reality this was not completely the case. It turns out that the movie is rife with inaccuracies. However, ask people who've seen the movie what they think about Salieri, they'll say he was slime. While I agree that the _intention_ is to entertain, and so artistic license is used, I think that there is a point where one should be required to explicitly point out that what they are portraying is not "historically accurate" . And some might even say that it is morally wrong to take so much artistic license as to knowingly make someone appear to be a much worse person than they actually were just to "move the story along". George