The only reason I stayed until the end was for the music, and I'm glad I did (my mother and I were the only ones left, so nyah, Orli!Fangirls). The monkey bit was a surprise to me and I was happy to see it, as icky as the skelemonkey looks.

Oh hey, I have a question about the curse, so while I'm here, let me pester you a bit (heh). So. Bootstrap Bill took the gold, got cursed, started making trouble and was promptly tossed overboard. But he can't die any more than any of the others can. So does that mean he's sitting on the bottom of the ocean, hanging around making friends with the fish all those years? And he finally drowns when Will ends the curse (only to come back when the monkey grabs the gold again, but they don't know that yet)? If that's the case, I'm hoping that the fact that his dad has been undead fathoms deep all these years doesn't occur to Will any time soon, because ack, trauma.

Re Hornblower- December is only a rumor as far as I know. Someone on the TwoP boards said she read it on the A&E site, but she didn't say where, and the A&E site always crashes my computer so I haven't checked. I do want to see it, because I love the books so much, but I agree that no Archie (sob!) is a very bad thing. And ugh, Maria. I can't stand her. Poor Horatio.