#aubrey maturin series
There’s a point toward the end of Master and Commander where The Sophie is beaten and the crew is taken prisoner and I was thinking oh! A chance for drama! Maybe the next book will start with a daring escape!
And then it cuts to the French captain enthusiastically showing Jack a watercolor of the English house where he grew up, and Stephen doing silly experiments with the French doctor. An English fleet shows up and the captain goes “awww, do you think they’ll attack us? Or are they just going to port?” and when Jack says he’s pretty sure they’ll attack he’s just like “booo. Oh well, no reason to spoil breakfast over it.” And they just finish eating until a cannonball flies through the window, at which point they calmly go on deck.
These books are comedies
