Buckland's always intrigued me simply because he *knew* he was doing a horrible job, he just didn't know what *else* to do, and then when Hornblower kept showing him up, it just got worse and worse and worse.
Mutiny/Retribution fascinates me for the relationships/alliances that form and fall apart and what holds together. Buckland knows Horatio saved his ass on more than one occasion and that burns him, even when he's grateful for it. What he does and why is compelling and complex, and it was cool to play with that a little bit.
I love the way Buckland seems so enamored of silence--Hornblower making Kennedy hold his tongue, doping up Sawyer, Bush keeping his own counsel, the final quiet determination to lie at the end about Sawyer's madness--very neat. It works with the fact that he's hearing all these things that others think he misses.
Not only that, I think that whatever he hears the other people say - whether it's true or not - he thinks it's a list of his own failings. Also, I think he needs people to shut up so he can think, and that, more than anything is why he fails at command.
Something about Buckland has kept this sort of idea in the back of my mind since I first saw it. I don't know why I latched on to him and Crazy!Sawyer in my head when there was all the other pretty and such (not that I didn't latch on to that too), but those two are just compelling in their own failings.
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It so reminds me of the movie Amadeus and Salieri in the insane asylum.
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Buckland has always sort of fascinated me in his actions and reactions and so it was fun to try to get inside his head.
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I love this: the madness of certainty. He would definitely see it that way.
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