Oh god. ::cringes:: Y'all know me too well (yes, I know that's entirely my fault, but the fact remains!!).
HH...hmmm. D'you think I could get away with coming in where he shows up?
Hmm...I suppose, but you'd be missing a fair amount of backstory. The first one is the only one that I found really meh. The remaining three were quite good--each one a bit better than the one before it. I'm not sure why the first one just left me going "Well, okay, but not great." I wonder if you could just skip the first one and see what happens? You'd still be missing a bit, but how he gets on the ship and his conflict with a shipmate aren't nearly as interesting as what comes after. You'd be missing out on a lot of Captain Pellew, who is awesome, if you skipped all four.
That said, one of my friends is only in it for Robert Lindsay and therefore refers to it as the Captain Pellew show, and another one and I decided last night that we'd be totally okay if HH disappeared and it was just called Pellew, Bush, and Kennedy ;)
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Date: 2006-06-19 09:14 pm (UTC)Oh god. ::cringes:: Y'all know me too well (yes, I know that's entirely my fault, but the fact remains!!).
HH...hmmm. D'you think I could get away with coming in where he shows up?
Hmm...I suppose, but you'd be missing a fair amount of backstory. The first one is the only one that I found really meh. The remaining three were quite good--each one a bit better than the one before it. I'm not sure why the first one just left me going "Well, okay, but not great." I wonder if you could just skip the first one and see what happens? You'd still be missing a bit, but how he gets on the ship and his conflict with a shipmate aren't nearly as interesting as what comes after. You'd be missing out on a lot of Captain Pellew, who is awesome, if you skipped all four.
That said, one of my friends is only in it for Robert Lindsay and therefore refers to it as the Captain Pellew show, and another one and I decided last night that we'd be totally okay if HH disappeared and it was just called Pellew, Bush, and Kennedy ;)