Man. My family is working their way through the Hornblower episodes two a night, and we just saw Mutiny and Retribution, and *______________* The end of that episode is just a solid, solid, solid pain. Dilly is telling me that people were upset that Horatio didn't wail and gnash his teeth like he did over the French girl (who my sister has nicknamed Boobies), but man oh man.

That boy is in a whole world of pain. The sheer fact that he's still out of it when Pellew comes to see him with the commission?

Quick question: what's the fanfiction that's worth reading in this fandom? I'm told that most of it sucks and that the characterizations of Pellew will make me thrash on the floor with rage, but yeah. Getting desperate here, guys.