Happy Obsessiversary to Me!
Apr. 15th, 2002 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
corilannamIn the midst of trying to juggle my many current obsessions, I'm taking a break to remember a year ago today, when Lanning, the Poor Enabling Roommate, was hunting fruitlessly for something on TV, and happened to stop on A&E just in time to see "Mutiny," the first in the new series of Horatio Hornblower movies.
People had been telling me for years how slashy the first movies were, and it's not that I didn't believe them. It was just that a miniseries about the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars held almost no historical or entertainment interest for me, so I'd never bothered with it. Within half an hour, I knew how wrong I'd been. I watched "Mutiny" and was all aquiver by the time "Retribution" came on immediately after. A&E aired "Retribution" four times that night, and I watched each one.
I've never managed to write anything in the fandom, but I'm still helplessly in love. Watching my DVDs of the last two movies--which I bought before I had a DVD player, and then had to buy the player just so I could watch them--I'm having fun remembering all the reasons I fell for Hornblower in the first place.
Just the battle sequence at the Spanish fort in "Retribution" has so many things to love:
--Bush's confusion and annoyance as Horatio hares off on yet another intuitive leap
--Wellard's adorable "What?" as the other officers look at him at the tunnel grating
--the subsequent dropping of Wellard into the tunnel
--Archie's physically impossible but impossibly sexy shot that picked off the Spanish sniper on the tower. Archie's hot when he's fired up. And--nose scrunch!
--the comedic action in the tunnel battle
--Bush's expression when Horatio and Co. come strolling out of the fort
--Bush's hoarse "Renowns, to me!" immediately after above
--Styles!
And jumping ahead a little:
--Bush and Archie bonding to tease Horatio over the cannons
--And again over his fear of heights: "I remember when you were afraid of heights, Mr. Hornblower!" "Nothing's changed, Mr. Kennedy!"
--And again to save Horatio's life: "Are you both out of your minds??" "Very possibly, but we thought you could use the company!"
--The reams of unspoken communication between Horatio and Archie, never better than as they strip to jump off the cliff, dragging poor Bush between them.
*happy sigh*
I won't be so happy when we get to the end and I start crying like a little girl, but for now, I'm in ecstatic indulgence mode. *g*
No, the TPM story isn't going to get finished tonight, I fear
People had been telling me for years how slashy the first movies were, and it's not that I didn't believe them. It was just that a miniseries about the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars held almost no historical or entertainment interest for me, so I'd never bothered with it. Within half an hour, I knew how wrong I'd been. I watched "Mutiny" and was all aquiver by the time "Retribution" came on immediately after. A&E aired "Retribution" four times that night, and I watched each one.
I've never managed to write anything in the fandom, but I'm still helplessly in love. Watching my DVDs of the last two movies--which I bought before I had a DVD player, and then had to buy the player just so I could watch them--I'm having fun remembering all the reasons I fell for Hornblower in the first place.
Just the battle sequence at the Spanish fort in "Retribution" has so many things to love:
--Bush's confusion and annoyance as Horatio hares off on yet another intuitive leap
--Wellard's adorable "What?" as the other officers look at him at the tunnel grating
--the subsequent dropping of Wellard into the tunnel
--Archie's physically impossible but impossibly sexy shot that picked off the Spanish sniper on the tower. Archie's hot when he's fired up. And--nose scrunch!
--the comedic action in the tunnel battle
--Bush's expression when Horatio and Co. come strolling out of the fort
--Bush's hoarse "Renowns, to me!" immediately after above
--Styles!
And jumping ahead a little:
--Bush and Archie bonding to tease Horatio over the cannons
--And again over his fear of heights: "I remember when you were afraid of heights, Mr. Hornblower!" "Nothing's changed, Mr. Kennedy!"
--And again to save Horatio's life: "Are you both out of your minds??" "Very possibly, but we thought you could use the company!"
--The reams of unspoken communication between Horatio and Archie, never better than as they strip to jump off the cliff, dragging poor Bush between them.
*happy sigh*
I won't be so happy when we get to the end and I start crying like a little girl, but for now, I'm in ecstatic indulgence mode. *g*
No, the TPM story isn't going to get finished tonight, I fear
