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OK, just finished watching 'Sharpe's Waterloo' and have discovered AD is in two others as well, which I will snaffle tomorrow when I take this back. Some thoughts, hampered by the fact that this is a little like watching Chosen for your first Buffy episode.
Ducking behind a cut as spoilers involved.
Took me a little while to get into it but once I did and memories of Heyer's 'An Infamous Army' began to stir, it was very good. AD plays a rotter, but one you can't help feeling sympathy for. This is a Flashman who can't act. He wets himself, throws up in front of his commanding officer, is clearly absolutely petrified...and he's doing it all because he's Macbeth. And his lady is called Jane. He dies saying 'Jane'. Yes I played that twice. AD does it very well indeed.
The sheer, bloody stupidity of the war came over. Not that it was wrong to fight Napoleon, but God, the way they did it! They walked towards guns, playing drums! Children were there...men died, yards away from men on horses...oh, you'd have to watch it to understand the staggering insanity of it all. Sheesh. Madness.
The scene where Sharpe's two friends die was just perfect though. Heart wrenching. If I'd known them better I think it would have had me in tears. As it was, when the dying man crawls just that few feet and curls his fingers around his dead friend's hand I misted up.
Good fun to watch and Sean Bean is hot, but we knew that, yes? And there's a small scale Helms Deep fight too...
Ducking behind a cut as spoilers involved.
Took me a little while to get into it but once I did and memories of Heyer's 'An Infamous Army' began to stir, it was very good. AD plays a rotter, but one you can't help feeling sympathy for. This is a Flashman who can't act. He wets himself, throws up in front of his commanding officer, is clearly absolutely petrified...and he's doing it all because he's Macbeth. And his lady is called Jane. He dies saying 'Jane'. Yes I played that twice. AD does it very well indeed.
The sheer, bloody stupidity of the war came over. Not that it was wrong to fight Napoleon, but God, the way they did it! They walked towards guns, playing drums! Children were there...men died, yards away from men on horses...oh, you'd have to watch it to understand the staggering insanity of it all. Sheesh. Madness.
The scene where Sharpe's two friends die was just perfect though. Heart wrenching. If I'd known them better I think it would have had me in tears. As it was, when the dying man crawls just that few feet and curls his fingers around his dead friend's hand I misted up.
Good fun to watch and Sean Bean is hot, but we knew that, yes? And there's a small scale Helms Deep fight too...