I can't watch post-Retribution Hornblower at all. I love Horatio and Bush, but I just miss Archie so damn much and it seems as if he was never there somehow. They really killed the heart of that series when they killed off Archie. So I'll stick with the AUs and pretend he never died, because that's the purpose of fan fiction, isn't it? To rewrite canon? Don't tell anyone in LotR that I said that. :D

But this captures the feeling of Horatio without Archie very nicely, and certainly doesn't need to be even one sentence longer.