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I have watched this episode once before, in about 2007, purely because Philip Glenister was in it and I was into Life on Mars at the time. All I can remember about that viewing is that I worked out beforehand that Philip's character would probably die ( Read more... )

I've finally come to the conclusion that there is nothing - no book, no tv, no music, no writing - that I want to do right now so much as watch a Sharpe episode I haven't seen before. Happily I still have about 5 left so here goes ( Read more... )

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I’ve just noticed that when Sharpe inspects his Chosen Men for the first time, he is shown ?downhill? from them and significantly shorter. This goes against the way he is portrayed in most of the movies, because I’d always assumed he was 6ft tall like in the books, and was gobsmacked to discover Sean Bean is only 5ft 9 ( Read more... )

This is not so much a review or commentary, more a reflection of the fact that I was only watching for one scene - which I never found - and wanted to know which bits never to bother with again ( Read more... )

Sean Bean ( Read more... )

I mean, really, a Major, and Sergeant and TWO MEN? Talk about all bloody chiefs and no Indians. Ah, right, they're skirmishing in front of Spiers and Colonel Berkeley. But even so ( Read more... )

These notes are from my first watch; there may be more detail in the tweets ( Read more... )

Really, that’s the best they could do for young Francesco? (Not sure how I didn’t notice before what a terrible match this boy is for Matteo Martari. Maybe I had no idea who he was supposed to be. I didn’t know in this scene either until young Lorenzo called him Francesco ( Read more... )

Makes me grin *every time* to see Sean Bean's name come up on that note from the electric guitar ( Read more... )

[christening] Aw, everybody’s happy. Except Jacopo, I’m guessing ( Read more... )