WHILE I’M ON THE TOPIC of hickey and john silver....you know how silver scams his way on board the walrus and then uses his Wits And Guile to work his way up the ladder from lowly ship's cook to the captain's trusted right hand (arm) man, and they get to be all homoerotically codependent until silver finally tearfully betrays him? that is EXACTLY what hickey was convinced his character arc was going to be, right up until Punished As A Boy. rip