"He seems to be enjoying himself, sir," said Bush

[anteros_lmc]

Well!! The deck shower. What can I say?

If they'd filmed it as it's written in the book they'd never have got that series below the watershed!

As black_hound put it so eloquently:

CSF = fangirl

ETA: And another thing...this scene also features Hornblower saying "Avast, there!" I thought nobody ever said "avast there", not ever!

Comments

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

I couldn't believe it when I was told that scene was taken from the books, I just assumed it was ITV saying, "We need to attract the female 16-34 demographic...any chance you could put one of them in the nude? Not Robert Lindsay though."

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

I couldn't believe it when I was told that scene was taken from the books
Yeah me too! I just thought it was gratuitous. Not that I was complaining right enough ;)

any chance you could put one of them in the nude?
I suppose it's too much to hope that they shot various takes of that scene with ummm, other lieutenants, before deciding on the final cut and that the rushes might just turn up one day...?

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

I live in eternal hope there will one day be a special edition boxset, with commentaries and deleted scenes of Horatio and Archie showering together, washing each others, erm, backs...while poor Paul McGann says in the commentary, "It was at this point I wondered what the hell my agent had signed me up for, I knew I should have been suspicious about something called 'Hornblower'.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

washing each others, erm
Steady on there! *fans self frantically*

McGann says in the commentary
Of course the commentary continues. "As an actor of my calibre I realised that if I was to fully inhabit the character of Mr Bush there was only one way to really get into character. Artistic integrity is everything..... More over boys, room for one more?!"

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

As an actor of my calibre I realised that if I was to fully inhabit the character of Mr Bush there was only one way to really get into character. Artistic integrity is everything..... More over boys, room for one more?!"

What a pro!

I am now wondering if playing the long suffering 'I' helped prepare him to play the long suffering Bush, I can imagine Horatio being a lot like Whitnail if he'd ever developed an unfortunate lighter fluid addiction.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

What a pro!
In't he just? And I can definitely see similarities between Marwood and Bush!

I can imagine Horatio being a lot like Whitnail if he'd ever developed an unfortunate lighter fluid addiction.
Hahahaha! Bizarre, but somehow not so hard to imagine ;)

[kittycallum.livejournal.com]

I'd completely forgotten that scene was in the book until I was re-reading LtH this year. And then I completely understood why everyone talked about CSF being a fangirl. :D

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Too right! And it's even more gratuitous in the book than in the movie :)

[sarlania.livejournal.com]

One of the many reasons I love Lieutenant Hornblower. =)

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Really? You surprise me. ;)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_likimeya/]

Isn't it great? It's the perfect excuse for every dirty and/or slashy piece of fanfiction. I mean, what can we do, if the Master sets such an example!?

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

I mean, what can we do, if the Master sets such an example!?
Exactly! Who could hold a candle to CSF for such outrageous slashiness!

Hornblower twirled round and round under the stinging impact, his face screwed
up in painful ecstasy.

I may as well give up trying to write slash right here and now!

[kittycallum.livejournal.com]

Giggling so hard right now. I believe you've just made my day with that quote.

I may as well give up trying to write slash right here and now!
Oh, but CSF never wrote Archie/Horatio. Therefore, you can't give up writing slash, for you are following in the Master's footsteps in the best possible way! :D

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

I believe you've just made my day with that quote.
All part of the service m'dear *bows*

Oh, but CSF never wrote Archie/Horatio. Therefore, you can't give up writing slash, for you are following in the Master's footsteps in the best possible way! :D
A very good point. Let me just rummage in my drafts folder to see what I can find .....

[http://users.livejournal.com/_likimeya/]

I may as well give up trying to write slash right here and now!
Not at all! Apart from the Archie business, think of it this way: It is His faithful servant's duty to interpret His word anew again and again to make its meaning clear to the hitherto unbelieving.

Hornblower twirled round and round under the stinging impact, his face screwed up in painful ecstasy.
*giggles* Honestly, CSF must have been the greatest innocent in the world not to have realised the suggestiveness of those words!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Not at all! Apart from the Archie business, think of it this way:
Okay, I hear ya. I shall oblige with slash later in the week.

Honestly, CSF must have been the greatest innocent in the world not to have realised the suggestiveness of those words!
Innocent? Y'reckon? May I remind you how that scene continues?

Bush, looking at Hornblower revolving under the sparkling stream, was conscious of a prickling under his shirt in his heavy uniform coat, and actually had the feeling that it might be pleasurable to indulge in that sort of shower bath, however injurious it might be to the health.

Nuff said ;)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_likimeya/]

however injurious it might be to the health
Afraid of catching syphilis, eh?

Ahem. Yes, nuff said now, indeed! =)

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Pardon??!