Yeah. Between the much, much more upper class portrayal, the fact that McGann has such a fine facial structure, and the sucking up (which I can understand them throwing in to create a nice little drama between him and Kennedy, but which nevertheless left me FLAILING in impotent burning shame that they'd have my boy do something like that), it took me a while to get into Mutiny!Bush.
The little smirk when Hornblower s him to the deck was pretty hilarious, though. "It's Hornblower falling for Bush OMG! Yes, dry-humping is how we welcome second lieutenants on board!" And I guess that the witty remark afterwards to show that he was trying to hide the fact that he liked Hornblower? But yeah. That sentence was another :/ for me because it struck me as something that book!Bush wouldn't say.
That whole bit about Bush and injustice is fascinating, yeah. In particular, it makes me wonder whether he was that way before he got to sea and the life of the RN. It also reminds me of Doughty and that line Forester has about how the class that the ratings came from cnsidered blows as something you shrugged off, that they were part of life -- there's a connection, I think, between that and how Forester has Bush thinking that rough words/injustice is just part of life. Since I knew (and still know) absolutely nothing about the class structures of that time, that was the moment when the light bulb about Bush's background totally lit up in my head, and I started thinking about how the "philosophical" way he takes things might be a product of his environment and not just, you know.
A Bush trait along with pricking his ears to catch names, tilting his head, and marking his captain territory.
don't touch my uniform I hardly know you = we must get acquainted before i bend you over
The little smirk when Hornblower s him to the deck was pretty hilarious, though. "It's Hornblower falling for Bush OMG! Yes, dry-humping is how we welcome second lieutenants on board!" And I guess that the witty remark afterwards to show that he was trying to hide the fact that he liked Hornblower? But yeah. That sentence was another :/ for me because it struck me as something that book!Bush wouldn't say.
That whole bit about Bush and injustice is fascinating, yeah. In particular, it makes me wonder whether he was that way before he got to sea and the life of the RN. It also reminds me of Doughty and that line Forester has about how the class that the ratings came from cnsidered blows as something you shrugged off, that they were part of life -- there's a connection, I think, between that and how Forester has Bush thinking that rough words/injustice is just part of life. Since I knew (and still know) absolutely nothing about the class structures of that time, that was the moment when the light bulb about Bush's background totally lit up in my head, and I started thinking about how the "philosophical" way he takes things might be a product of his environment and not just, you know.
A Bush trait along with pricking his ears to catch names, tilting his head, and marking his
captainterritory.