Comments | aos_challenge: "The Captain's Table" by Jestana

jestana in aos_challenge

"The Captain's Table" by Jestana - Horatio Hornblower

Mar 18, 2008 20:45

Title: The Captain's Table
Author: jestana
Character: Edward Pellew
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Alas, I own nothing except the story itself. The characters belong to god, not me.
Challenge Prompt: History
Word Count: 1,185
Summary: Captain Sir Edward Pellew as a midshipman
Beta: The lovely and talented mylodon.

( The Captain's Table )

hornblower, history challenge

Comments 14

lokei March 19 2008, 14:46:19 UTC

Yay Pellew! There certainly ought to be more Pellew stories out there, and I enjoyed all the shades of the Captain Sir Edward in the younger one, particularly here:

"Yes, but being partially bald won't help much," Edward retorted, dark eyes flashing for a moment.

And I can definitely imagine that Gentleman Johnny kept an excellent cellar. Poor young Pellew. *wry grin*

jestana March 20 2008, 01:01:01 UTC

*bows* Thank you. He gets villified too much in the fandom. I do what I can to adjust the balance.

*blush* I'm glad you liked that line. One of the things Wikipedia mentioned about him was this: "Consequent on a high-spirited quarrel with his captain, he was put on shore at Marseille". That told me that he wouldn't hesitate to speak up if he felt the situation warranted it.

I think anyone of his rank would have had a fine cellar. It's almost required. *wink*

mylodon March 20 2008, 12:12:58 UTC

I'm with you in the stick up for EP crew. He was an excellent leader of men in real life and if his main weakness was not seeing his son'e faults, that's a thing he shares with many.

Poor Edward got such a shock, didn't he? Neatly done and full of surprise - I was sure this was going to turn out to be a 'sick over the captain's shoes' story.

And I just spotted the name - was Rupert Graves an intentional choice?

jestana March 20 2008, 14:12:16 UTC

*grin* Have you been to pellegrinations? They're big Pellew fans there. Yes, I've noticed that parents often have trouble accepting that their children have faults.

*grin* I wasn't sure where I was going with him and the lieutenant until Graves started crowding poor Edward. *pets him*

Well, no. I just thought they fit together well. Why, is it the name of an actual person?

Thread 6

nautacarus March 22 2008, 02:40:02 UTC

I enjoyed this. Young Pellew (whether historical or Hornblower-ified) is a world of possibilities... I guess you're writing a bit of both, since he's the brunette, not the redhead? Graves was an interesting development, well executed, and not as creepy when I envision Rupert Graves in the part :) It would have been nice to see more of Captain Pownoll, too.

jestana March 22 2008, 14:25:28 UTC

I'm going with the Hornblower version of Pellew, so yes, he's the brunette. *bows* Thank you. I wasn't sure if people would like that twist. Yes, Rupert Graves is very handsome. This focused more on Edward, so there you go. *grin*

rikibeth September 1 2012, 19:20:47 UTC

Now I'm boggling because of COURSE I can picture Rupert Graves very easily, in his Madness of King George equerry's uniform, and I'm trying to sort out what a very young Pellew might look like, because of course Robert Lindsay is so much older!

Also, even if Lt. Graves is pretty Rupert, it's still not very nice of him.

jestana September 1 2012, 19:35:44 UTC

It's not supposed to be Rupert Graves. That's just the name I picked for him. I didn't really have an actor in mind for him. Though, of course, Pellew is a young Robert Lindsay.

rikibeth September 1 2012, 19:50:25 UTC

Right, but the youngest I've ever seen Robert Lindsay is the 1984 BBC Much Ado About Nothing -- which only goes to show, as far as I'm concerned, that Ned and Kitty had a Thing when they were younger, and Pellew recognized her straight off in The Duchess and the Devil, and that's why she couldn't resist whacking him with her fan, etc. -- but even there, he was an adult. No idea what he looked like as a teen!

jestana September 1 2012, 20:16:37 UTC

I rented that because it was Robert and Cherie and honestly didn't like it much the first time I saw it. Then I took a Shakespeare class and the teacher showed part of it and I found myself enjoying it more the second time around. I guess I was just more used to the Kenneth Branagh/Emma Thompson version. Though I'd love to see David Tennant and Catherine Tate doing Much Ado.

In my head, Edward hadn't seen Kitty Cobham before he encountered her as the Duchess, but then he and Edrington go see the School for Scandal and he recognises her then.

Thread 6