Rifles Make Ready - Episode 1 - Sharpe's Rifles

Yes, I know on 200 a Day, and Six Million and Black Sheep I try to come up with a clever title.  It's harder here... They're all named 'Sharpe's something or other'...

'Eyes down'.

The fact that the Chosen Men are basically a collection of war movie tropes is fine by me.

'Dan Hagman, poacher'.

This food is a little Papist for my tastes.

If you don't love the Sgt. Harper and Lt Sharpe relationship I don't know what to tell you.

Brian Cox as Major Hogan, man does it get any better?

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Rifles Make Ready! - Episode 0, You Know Who I am, My Name is Sharpe

Ken and I are taking a break from our usual tech/history/sci fi ben and doing a deep dive into the historical fiction tv series Sharpe.

We're going to watch all 18 episodes and talk about them, you know, like if they were Mad Men or Rockford or Baa Baa Black Sheep or the Six Million Dollar Man...

Ken did his undergrad thesis on the Peninsular War, so we have that going for us us.

We talked about lots of stuff, including realizing tv is not reality (or even history), and the differences between how armies are organized today vs in the time of the show.

Next time we'll be doing 'Sharpe's Rifles' so, if you have the DVDs or Britbox, watch along!

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