I think your husband needs to sit down and watch "The Crimson Pirate" immediately. He needs re-educating. ;)

I'm not sure if my predilection for piracy was what made this episode fail for me, though. Yes, the pirates were rubbish, and no they didn't do any piracy. Why bother making them pirates to begin with? All that aside, the story itself felt dull. I don't think that would have changed even if I hadn't been grumpy about the rubbish pirates. Lovely idea about a tiny cut equalling 'death', but the "they're not dead really" thing rather spoilt it. Maybe I'm too bloodthirsty, though. I don't know.