halotolerant: 9emeart:Premiere rencontre Le Crabe aux pinces d’or (version originale) Herg&e

halotolerant: 9emeart: Premiere rencontre Le Crabe aux pinces d’or (version originale) Hergé Tintin and Haddock (½)Above we see the very first time that Tintin ever sees Captain Archibald HaddockThis first meeting does not bode well; Tintin hits Haddock (accidentally) with some planks of wood and then his feet, and Haddock falls into drunken melancholy and starts crying. The rest of ‘Crab with the Golden Claws’ unfolds with Haddock alternately attacking Tintin whilst under the influence, or ruining his stratagems to foil the villains. Little wonder, then, that when the Foreign Legion rescue them from the desert, Tintin asks quite calmly of the commander, with every appearance of detachment, ‘Oh! Did they find my friend too?’ That Haddock will assume a position of emotional centrality in Tintin’s life is not something he, or the reader, would yet credit. At the end of ‘Crab’, Tintin and Haddock go apparently separate ways, the latter moving to chair the Society of Sober Sailors (!) and Tintin not apparently looking to contact him when he discovers the impending end of the world in ‘Shooting Star’. But when Tintin spearheads the mission to find the fallen meteorite, Haddock is selected (by him?) to captain the vessel that will take them there. It is here, in ‘Shooting Star’ that another side of Haddock emerges; the competent, confident sailor and commander of men. Tintin lurches around the deck during a ‘gale’ on the voyage only to find Haddock merrily at the wheel, enjoying what he calls ‘a nice little breeze’, short before his quick reactions save the S.S. Aurora from a collision. For the first time, Tintin is impressed by his acquaintance, and actually in his debt rather than the other way round.Also, for the first time, Haddock gets to look after Tintin, carefully shepherding him down from the ship’s bridge when Tintin faints from exhaustion. Still, however, Tintin undertakes the bulk of the adventuring - most of the final 1/3rd of the book - alone. This pattern will continue into ‘Secret of the Unicorn’, even though by this point theirs is a friendship worthy of the name. By the time of ‘Unicorn’, Haddock is living near Tintin in the city, and they seem to drop in on each other frequently, to the point where Tintin knows Haddock’s landlady. Tintin buys Haddock the gift of a model galleon for no particular reason beyond that he wants to - a certain affection not in evidence before.Again, Tintin is alone as the final showdown begins (not by choice - he was kidnapped), but unlike in the two previous books, Haddock actively turns up to help him rather than being a spectator. In fact, Haddock saves Tintin’s life when one of the Bird brothers try to shoot Tintin from behind. They are, understandably, side by side throughout their quest in ‘Red Rackham’s Treasure’, though when at the end of the adventure Haddock moves into Marlinspike Hall, it would seem they are not yet at a point where it seems natural or inevitable for Tintin to live there too. He’s seen visiting Haddock (and Calculus) in Marlinspike at the start of ‘Seven Crystal Balls’, an event which by their reactions is not uncommon but not that frequent either. Haddock has started affecting to be a country squire, and treats Tintin to a night at the music-hall, with the most expensive seats in the house; wealth and property have given him social status. Haddock is side by side with Tintin as they fall into a shoot-out with Calculus’ kidnappers; he is starting to have some of his own legitimacy as an action hero. Although they’ve taken each other’s arms from the first, to draw attention or pull away from danger, the first interaction between Tintin and Haddock that can really be characterised as a ‘hug’ takes place at the start of ‘Prisoners of the Sun’, when Haddock reassures Tintin that Calculus will be found, and puts an arm round him. When they are separated for ‘many hours’ after coming ashore near Callao, the reunion is joyful, and Haddock grabs hold of Tintin in his delight. Their importance to each other has undoubtedly increased, and leads to one of the most overtly emotional moments in the whole series, when - believing Tintin has died falling into a waterfall - Haddock and their guide Zorrino weep together. In the Temple of the Sun it appears - for far from the last time - that Tintin and Haddock will die as they have increasingly begun to live: side by side. When Tintin realises this may not be so, he takes the Captain’s hands and dances with him.Indeed, their relationship has much further to go yet - in the literal and perhaps also the metaphorical sense, to the moon and back…(to be continued) -- source link

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