Bush tried twice, valiantly, to make polite speeches to his [dinner] neighbours, putting a terminal 'o' on the ends of his English words in the hope that so they might be transmuted into Spanish, but the blank stares of the men he addressed reduced him quickly to stammering inarticulation.
I LOVE THIS MAN. I LOVE HIM SO GODDAMN MUCH.
And yeah. Horatio is so completely incapable of reading how people feel about him. There's this one bit in the books where, like, Horatio has his first command? I don't know whether it's in the movies or not, but because Horatio has just gotten married and is a new captain to boot, he doesn't have much money, so he has, like, no furniture in his cabin.
And after a few weeks of seeing their captain MANFULLY try to tough it out, one day, Bush comes up to Hornblower and is like AHEM COULD YOU LEAVE YOUR CABIN FOR A MOMENT SIR.
And when Horatio comes back, he finds that Bush and the other guys from the wardroom have fitted the place out with little curtains and cushions stuffed with oakum and a bit of canvas painted with blue and red roses.
Sure, Horatio doesn't shout or berate them, but Horatio just kind of stares at the whole assemblage, dismisses them, and only realizes a couple hours later that they did this because they liked him and not for some other reason. It makes him all fuzzy, but man oh man. Poor, completely emotionally retarded Horatio. I think that was the most telling scene for me about how difficult it is for him to process things that have to deal with happy things and that don't, like, nine-pounders and keeping leeward and prize money.
. . . Also, whenever I think of Bush, I have this total mental image of him with cushion parts on his knees and a needle in his teeth and him yelling at Gerard a little because Gerard's stiches are too far apart and all the stuffing will come out if the Captain actually sits on them <333333333333333333333
Annnnd I'm off to go argue with my mother and sister as to whether Ioan is attractive or not watch the last two episodes with my family, so feel free to talk about it all you wantafter this. XD
well, I like to think that it does. :D :D :D
I LOVE THIS MAN. I LOVE HIM SO GODDAMN MUCH.
And yeah. Horatio is so completely incapable of reading how people feel about him. There's this one bit in the books where, like, Horatio has his first command? I don't know whether it's in the movies or not, but because Horatio has just gotten married and is a new captain to boot, he doesn't have much money, so he has, like, no furniture in his cabin.
And after a few weeks of seeing their captain MANFULLY try to tough it out, one day, Bush comes up to Hornblower and is like AHEM COULD YOU LEAVE YOUR CABIN FOR A MOMENT SIR.
And when Horatio comes back, he finds that Bush and the other guys from the wardroom have fitted the place out with little curtains and cushions stuffed with oakum and a bit of canvas painted with blue and red roses.
Sure, Horatio doesn't shout or berate them, but Horatio just kind of stares at the whole assemblage, dismisses them, and only realizes a couple hours later that they did this because they liked him and not for some other reason. It makes him all fuzzy, but man oh man. Poor, completely emotionally retarded Horatio. I think that was the most telling scene for me about how difficult it is for him to process things that have to deal with happy things and that don't, like, nine-pounders and keeping leeward and prize money.
. . . Also, whenever I think of Bush, I have this total mental image of him with cushion parts on his knees and a needle in his teeth and him yelling at Gerard a little because Gerard's stiches are too far apart and all the stuffing will come out if the Captain actually sits on them <333333333333333333333
Annnnd I'm off to go
argue with my mother and sister as to whether Ioan is attractive or notwatch the last two episodes with my family, so feel free to talk about it all you wantafter this. XD