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I Don't Buy It... A Mutiny?

posted 15 years ago by verbusen
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You have successfully sunk two enemy frigates and taken a prize ship and prizes from the two frigates, so you are still eating bad food and want to mutiny? Does not make sense but I guess it moves the story along, I was getting into it pretty good up until that point. It actually kills a good m movie in my book, all else afterward is kind of crap. This has the look of a Hammer production to me although I guess it is not, action for actions sake is fine, but there was a good story going along until they muked it up.

[–] lucens 15 years ago

Well, you'd still be eating bad food (navy food in that era was historically awful...rotted meat, weevily bread, etc.)....and unless they've been in to port, there has been no chance to escape discipline and blow off a little steam. Naval discipline in that era was also notoriously harsh.

[–] RamblerReb 14 years ago

The fictional Defiant mutiny was part of a larger fleet-wide mutiny, or, more accurately, two mutinies which took place in 1797 at the Royal Navy's anchorages at Spithead and the Nore. The mutinies were more in the nature of strikes than real violent uprisings, but still punishable by death. The fleet mutinies largely achieved their objectives of better pay and working conditions for His Majesty's seamen, though the Nore mutiny resulted in over two dozen hangings of perceived ringleaders, guilty or not.

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