 Not that it was a bad scene, they would say diplomatically, but, they would add, it's just so different from what they had come to expect from Thimble Theatre. And for the first time in his career, E.C. Segar began losing confidence in one of his ideas before the public had a chance to judge for themselves. Okay, the producer finally said he would do the shipboard sketch once, and then after that it was back to the kind of material he knew best.