{"id":454,"date":"2006-09-25T22:06:30","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T22:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=454"},"modified":"2024-03-24T11:19:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T15:19:49","slug":"obrian_10spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/09\/obrian_10spoilers\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Brian, Patrick: (10) <cite>The Far Side of the World<\/cite> (spoilers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SPOILERS for <cite>The Far Side of the World<\/cite><\/strong>; here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/09\/obrian_10.php\">non-spoiler post<\/a> if you got here by mistake.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Okay, two major differences from the movie:<\/p>\n<p>Women. The movie has one (1) visible woman (with a parasol in a boat) and one (1) referenced woman (Sophie, in a letter). In the book, women are very important, possibly as important as any female character who isn&#8217;t Sophie or Diana. Mrs. Horner, the gunner&#8217;s wife, makes the whole Hollom-Jonah subplot much more complicated and tragic; and of course there are the would-be Amazons.<\/p>\n<p>(I have no idea whether they are based on anything historical. The appearance of native savages makes me automatically twitch, but I didn&#8217;t have any specific problems with the details of the portrayal.)<\/p>\n<p>The fate of the enemy ship being pursued. It&#8217;s much more anti-climatic, but it&#8217;s certainly realistic, and Jack can&#8217;t defeat <em>every<\/em> ship he pursues. And there&#8217;s more than enough excitement in the time on the island with the <cite>Norfolk<\/cite>&#8216;s crew, which was perhaps nodded at by the ending of the movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPOILERS for The Far Side of the World; here&#8217;s the non-spoiler post if you got here by mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,48,4],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aubrey-maturin","category-books","category-historical","tag-obrian-patrick"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2870,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/2870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}