The book version of Horatio is stunningly, almost grotesquely lonely -- in the first story, all Simpson has to do in order to drive our boy to the verge of suicide is to play this little game called Inquisition, where he makes Horatio answer questions about his childhood. No beating or sleep deprivation or anything like that. Just the torment of having to talk about himself in front of people that he doesn't know. :/
So yeah. I guess they're kind of like parallel universes. One Horatio is lucky enough to have had Archie straight-off; the other Horatio struggles without either Archie or Pellew (who is a much more distant figure in the books) or anything like that until he meets Bush. So I guess, yeah, when he does meet Bush, that explains the insane intensity of their relationship.
:/ In the books, we find out that Horatio's mother died a bit before he went to see, and the most regular social contact that he seens to have had back on land afterthat was when he played whist with his father, the parson, and the parson's wife.
I guess now we know what's supposed to be in that locket that Simpson snatches from him in the movie?
(And I asked about Maria and the teaching because, in the books, she teaches school part time. I've heard people complaining that she's kind of sudden-onset, so I was wondering whether the introduction of the French teaching-lady from Frogs & Lobsters is, like, the producer's way of justifying why Horatio lets her get her tenterhooks into him.)
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everything. hanging offense! including telling you FAR more about the books than you wanted to know.
Date: 2005-12-24 07:39 am (UTC)So yeah. I guess they're kind of like parallel universes. One Horatio is lucky enough to have had Archie straight-off; the other Horatio struggles without either Archie or Pellew (who is a much more distant figure in the books) or anything like that until he meets Bush. So I guess, yeah, when he does meet Bush, that explains the insane intensity of their relationship.
:/ In the books, we find out that Horatio's mother died a bit before he went to see, and the most regular social contact that he seens to have had back on land afterthat was when he played whist with his father, the parson, and the parson's wife.
I guess now we know what's supposed to be in that locket that Simpson snatches from him in the movie?
(And I asked about Maria and the teaching because, in the books, she teaches school part time. I've heard people complaining that she's kind of sudden-onset, so I was wondering whether the introduction of the French teaching-lady from Frogs & Lobsters is, like, the producer's way of justifying why Horatio lets her get her tenterhooks into him.)