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| | The Flick Filosopher | Horatio Hornblower: Retribution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Picking right up where Mutiny left off, Retribution plunges us into the disastrous aftermath of the battle that saw the Renown run aground and Captain Sawyer (David Warner: Wing Commander, Titanic) removed from duty, at Lieutenant Hornblower's (Ioan Gruffudd: 102 Dalmatians, Solomon and Gaenor) order. |
 | | As the officers clean up the literal and figurative mess, Horatio offers a plan to attempt to salvage something of their mission: a surprise attack by land on the Spanish fort, which the Spanish won't be expecting, certainly not hot on the heels of their attack from sea. |
 | | So by the end of Retribution -- when someone gets to do one of those "far, far better things" -- we're seeing Buckland as pathetic, Sawyer as tragic, Hobbs as sympathetic, and Horatio as, well, not quite the innocent he had been. |
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