#polkaknox watches damn the defiant

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The mutineers are making common cause with the captured French diplomat, and one of the ringleaders is saying that the French are only better revolutionaries because they've got a guillotine?

Marcus Rediker would have a field day with this movie.

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"Is he badly hurt?" asks Captain Kenobi, who's just watched a man fall off the topsail yard.

It's going to be one of those sailing movies, isn't it.

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Oh, no, the obligatory Cute and Obviously Doomed midshipman is Captain Kenobi's son. Poor kid. Alas for his mother, I'm not sure the Captain's up to missing him.

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Someday I will see "Spithead" without immediately filling in "Seasick? In Spithead?"

Today is not that day.

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An escaping French squadron! A fire ship! A whole cavalcade of convenient deaths!

And so the Defiant, mutiny ... foiled? Discarded? Temporarily shelved because England Expects Every Man Do His Duty? sails off towards the English squadron. Mayhap we learned something.

Most shocking thing of all: the Cute But Doomed Midshipman didn't actually die!

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time for a

MUTINY!!!

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I do love a good burial at sea scene.

Wait. What.

First Lieutenant's going right from burying the dead to floggings???

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The fighting choreography of this boarding scene ... leave something to be desired.

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Trumping up charges to whip Midshipman Kenobi in front of his father, just to get to Captain Kenobi is ... a little darker than I expected so soon into the movie.

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A hot press!

Oh, but Captain Obi Wan Kenobi believes that the press gang is (dare I say it) a bridge too far

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I have had to wade through some extremely Spicy Takes on the Spithead and Nore mutinies of 1797 from the 19th century American press today and suffered greatly for this knowledge. Therefore, I am rewarding myself with finally watching Damn the Defiant. Surely a movie about mutiny made in 1962 could not have any worse takes.

I'm gonna liveblog it, too. If you don't want to see me losing my damn mind over Obi Wan Kenobi trying and failing to be a Good Captain to his men while Syndey Carton deliberately abuses the crew to the point of mutiny, then at least temporarily block #polkaknox watches damn the defiant.

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Oh, no, never mind, the mutineers are going to turn the diplomat over to the British squadron because ~England~

The mutineers are making common cause with the captured French diplomat, and one of the ringleaders is saying that the French are only better revolutionaries because they've got a guillotine?

Marcus Rediker would have a field day with this movie.