Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20151015124305/@comment-24674051-20151016140309

Actually, they have already had at least one nod to Pirates, in the season 4 finale. Emma makes an offhand comment to Killian, invoking the name of Jack Sparrow. And let's face it, you have Lee Arenberg as part of the supporting cast, so how do you avoid pirates references. Although, to be fair, Grumpy is nothing like Pintel.

And if once brings in the Flying Dutchman, they would go back to the source information, which bears very little resemblence to the Flying Dutchman from PotC. In fact the original material for the Flying Dutchman bears more resemblence to the Black Pearl, though there are also differences there as well.

However, conversations of the Flying Dutchman are a little off topic (not as bad as sometimes, since it is still a pirate story), but the topic for this thread is regarding Treasure Island as the possible source material for the Killian Jones Family background. Let's see if we (and I include myself) can stay close to topic.