History YMMV / IrresponsibleCaptainTylor

** No, really. This trope is invoked and the tree is actively cultivated by the characters themselves. [[spoiler: Summed up nicely by one of the final scenes, where Tylor clumsy tosses a dart behind his back, only to have it hit a dead bullseye.]]

* CrazyAwesome: Tylor is one of the trope's best examples. No one's clear on whether he's a lucky fool masquerading as a genius, a genius using people's opinions of him as a fool to become a [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]], A MagnificentBastard, or a lunatic whose irrational approach manages to somehow always work.

* MagnificentBastard: Tylor -- maybe. Dom did refer to him as a "Magnificent Fool".

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Ignore all your responsibilities and do whatever you want ''all the time'' and things will turn out for the best. Still, just like Tylor himself, there may be more depth to this philosophy than there initially seems.
** Specifically, one interpretation is that Tylor ''deliberately'' let them do what they want, get in over their heads, and only be saved by his apparent foolishness [[spoiler: by giving a time bomb in a box to the Raalgons they had surrendered to.]]
*** It's worth noting that "Do what you want" was the one order the crew wasn't capable of disobeying.

** Considering he's in the side of the heroes, I'd say he's a GuileHero. Still magnificent.

** The issue with the hints above is not exactly helped by how some actions of Tylor are ''explicitly'' strokes of genius (like realizing [[spoiler:Harumi is a spy]] ''right away''), while others are ''explicitly'' strokes of dumb luck (like how he survives his [[spoiler:execution by firing squad]]. That means that every hint CAN be taken both ways with canon to back the interpretation up.

** The issue with the hints above is not exactly helped by how some actions of Tylor are ''explicitly'' strokes of genius (like realizing [[spoiler:Harumi is a spy]] ''right away'', while others are ''explicitly'' strokes of dumb luck (like how he survives his [[spoiler:execution by firing squad]]. That means that every hint CAN be taken both ways with canon to back the interpretation up.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome:
** The music which plays right after Azalyn's BizarreAlienBiology announcement.
** The William Tell Overture plays during the most epic [[spoiler:game of chicken]] ever in episode 23.
** Suppe's Charge of the Light Cavalry during Operation: Rescue Yuriko in the final episode.

* CrazyAwesome: Tylor is one of the trope's best examples. No one's clear on whether he's a lucky fool masquerading as a genius, a genius using people's opinions of him as a fool to become a ChessMaster, A MagnificentBastard, or a lunatic whose irrational approach manages to somehow always work.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: ObfuscatingStupidity or just regular stupidity? [[EpilepticTree Who knows]]?

* PeripheryDemographic: JohnRingo apparently loved the series so much as to write[[hottip:*:Together with one Victor Mitchell]] an even more insane parody of it, a short story "A Ship Named Francis", for one of the ''{{Honorverse}}'' anthologies. On the other hand it was a ''much'' crazier and less adjusted ship this time.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The events that have been building all series come to a head in ep. 23. It's a tense moment, ''everyone'' is poised to act [[spoiler:on Tylor's command]]... then the ''[[SoundtrackDissonance William Tell Overture]]'' starts up. What happens next proves, if nothing else, that Tylor has balls of frickin' titanium.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny:
** Among the many, the person who translated the dub mentions in the translation notes that his favorite is Tylor playing virtual Whack-A-Mole in a burning room (which his hammering set on fire in the first place.)
** Dom and Shia Has' ...''expressions'' after hearing that their Empress wants to see her Paco-Paco again...
** Tylor making the aptitude test AI Self-aware, getting it to "cum", breaking it's "heart", and overloading it's mainframe in the space of five minutes. Completely by accident. Maybe.

* FridgeLogic: If the Ralgons kill all their prisoners, why do they bother taking them?

** Considering he's in the side of the heroes, I'd say he's a GuileHero. Still magnificent.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Tylor himself. He's either TheFool who gets by entirely by dumb luck, or he's really a MagnificentBastard who damn well knows what he's doing and has beein [[ObfuscatingStupidity putting up a very convincing act]] the whole time.