the chances of a peg legged captain in command of a 74 in wartime is not the most historically viable scenario. *g*
HEY! HEY! ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH LOVE. OR SOMETHING.
But yeah. You're right. I don't think that there's any way that we can square the ten year age difference with the stuff we get in LtH, and the Superb doesn't work -- even if we take the ten year difference, that would mean that at the very latest, even with a geography change, Bush was a lieutenant against rules at 17. *____*
For my personal CSF love, I think I'm going to pretend that he picked the Superb despite the chronology problem because he wanted to tell us a little story about Bush through the ships he served on sans-Hornblower. I mean, you can read it as kind of an underhanded, symbolic way of telling us that Bush is a hell of a guy independent of Hornblower -- Hornblower is so hard on Bush, and yet the names of the ships that Bush served on independent of Hornblower mean "excellence," "rash bravery" where the rash bravery leads to famous, brilliant feats, and "unparalleled, incomparable, or unrivalled."
Man. I wonder what prize ship Bush had command of at Trafalgar. *________*
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Re: The ever popular FC, of course
Date: 2006-02-16 05:59 am (UTC)HEY! HEY! ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH LOVE. OR SOMETHING.
But yeah. You're right. I don't think that there's any way that we can square the ten year age difference with the stuff we get in LtH, and the Superb doesn't work -- even if we take the ten year difference, that would mean that at the very latest, even with a geography change, Bush was a lieutenant against rules at 17. *____*
For my personal CSF love, I think I'm going to pretend that he picked the Superb despite the chronology problem because he wanted to tell us a little story about Bush through the ships he served on sans-Hornblower. I mean, you can read it as kind of an underhanded, symbolic way of telling us that Bush is a hell of a guy independent of Hornblower -- Hornblower is so hard on Bush, and yet the names of the ships that Bush served on independent of Hornblower mean "excellence," "rash bravery" where the rash bravery leads to famous, brilliant feats, and "unparalleled, incomparable, or unrivalled."
Man. I wonder what prize ship Bush had command of at Trafalgar. *________*