He's not implausibly wrong. He was sort of a patient zero for cross-Atlantic spread.
I did like how you kept that ambiguous. But Horatio takes his culpability as a given, which is why we love him and/or want to strangle him.
Did you catch bits of book, then? I swear, I have the most patchwork canon for this fandom; half movie, half books, half the historical Pellew's dispatches.
I did indeed catch the bookverse elements, and it took me a little bit to try and figure out whether you were hinting at Archie being bookverse Archie ("But wait, wasn't Archie really Bracegirdle in the books?") before I realized it was a melange. Where'd you find Pellew's dispatches, out of curiosity? C. Northcote Parkinson's biography, or somewhere else?
But the tale of Bush and Hornblower's wild excesses in Kingston is one of my favorite bits of book canon.
I think that's everyone's favorite bit. That, and Bush oogling waxing eloquent over Hornblower's hands.
But I felt like for movie fans I couldn't toss the trial out entirely--so I ended up pinning the thing on poor Wellard.
In a way, that's a better ending than he got in the books. "OH WHOOPS RANDOM STORM, NOW HORRY'S SECRET IS SAFE. THE END! :D" Bit unfair, that. At least this has literary meaning and whatsit.
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I did like how you kept that ambiguous. But Horatio takes his culpability as a given, which is why we love him and/or want to strangle him.
Did you catch bits of book, then? I swear, I have the most patchwork canon for this fandom; half movie, half books, half the historical Pellew's dispatches.
I did indeed catch the bookverse elements, and it took me a little bit to try and figure out whether you were hinting at Archie being bookverse Archie ("But wait, wasn't Archie really Bracegirdle in the books?") before I realized it was a melange. Where'd you find Pellew's dispatches, out of curiosity? C. Northcote Parkinson's biography, or somewhere else?
But the tale of Bush and Hornblower's wild excesses in Kingston is one of my favorite bits of book canon.
I think that's everyone's favorite bit. That, and Bush
ooglingwaxing eloquent over Hornblower's hands.But I felt like for movie fans I couldn't toss the trial out entirely--so I ended up pinning the thing on poor Wellard.
In a way, that's a better ending than he got in the books. "OH WHOOPS RANDOM STORM, NOW HORRY'S SECRET IS SAFE. THE END! :D" Bit unfair, that. At least this has literary meaning and whatsit.