what's new pussycat?

Yesterday was a long, looong day, but happily in between demands a very dear former colleague and fellow O'Brian freak (I outed myself by once uttering a Killickism under duress) was emailing me as he'd seen M&C on Friday, too, so we were happily listing the many pros and cons. We're both reasonably happy with the film but felt they could have kept more of the plot of the book, as it's excellent, fleshed out our beloved ratty crew much more and kept in Stephen's pratfalls. We never got to see the crew away from the orbit of Jack, and seeing Jack through their eyes is where the fun lies :) And not a single sighting of a bosun's chair. Outrageous.

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