If there’s one theme that never gets old, it’s pirates. Something about treasure maps, sunken gold, parrots screeching in the background, and ships creaking over stormy seas just hits right. And ...

Usually, I'd start one of these retrospective things with a wiggly line transition to the past for a bit of the old nostalgia-tickling scene-setting. The trouble is, my one overriding memory of Skies ...