Piracy and stuff

[swordznsorcery]

Woe is me, for I have run out of episodes of Jack Holborn. By 'eck, episode five's a corker, though. With battles and fires and dashing about, and jewels and gold coins and dodgy merchants, and sailing ships and dastardly slave traders and the fabulously nasty Captain Downs. And then episode six has more sailing ships, and pirates, and a nice piece of who's who, and the fabulously nasty Captain Cox. No fighting to speak of, though, which is a shame. It does have the scene where a newly bearded Judge Sharingham is carted off to a real hellhole of a prison, though, and emerges for his trial all shiny and clean, and neatly shaved to boot. Given the way prisons were in those days, doing all that lot with enough money to back you up wouldn't have been all that hard - but it's already been clearly established that he doesn't have any money. Still, it's bad form to poke fun at the second greatest piratey thing ever. Even if it is bad mannered enough to be only six episodes long, and end too damned early. On the plus side, the greatest piratey thing ever should be out by the end of the month, unless the release date gets put back. And I fully intend to bore for England on the subject, as soon as I've got it in my possession. Brian Blessed hopping about on a crutch; Christopher Guard being brilliantly swashbuckly; lots of swords, sailing ships and flintlock pistols; and a good dash of piracy, treasure and gadding about on horseback. Hurrah! Although poor Jim does end up with the wrong girl, even if he does seem to think that she's the right one. He gets hit over the head that many times, though, that his judgement isn't necessarily to be trusted. And admittedly the right girl winds up dead, so isn't really an option anyway. Nonetheless, that was not necessarily any reason to pick Little Miss Winsome. Maybe he should have listened to the other prisoners of Superintendente Garcia, and gone with Abed instead. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Way, way ahead of myself. So I shall shut up. Approximately now.