Oh Sharpe...Sharpe, Sharpe...
Nov. 2nd, 2008 09:52 pmSharpe's Peril on Tv right now.
I'm so happy that this is AFTER the Napoleonic Wars - as the other one he did when he was supposed to be in India BEFORE he got promoted simply was cringeworthy, he looked mid 40's - which he was at the time - not in his 20s.
*happy sigh* Tight Green Uniform. Check. Silver epaulettes. Check. Grumpy gravelly voice. Check. Blonde flossie for him to shag at some point. Annoyed Check. I love Sharpe to pieces. Book canon where he looks and sounds nothing like Mr Bean - and series canon where I don't care what he looks like as long he gets his jacket off at some point.
Just been reading a post of some of the Harlequin Historical Undone new series and good lord - talk about wallpaper historicals. An earl's second son with a "fortune too vast to be bribed." oh really? A woman writing scandalous books in Regency England? Er... No. I don't think so. For all the reasons that TJ Pennington explained in this review... I don't really mind exaggerations or over-use of things that happened. For example, I know there were sometimes women on Nelson's ships but I don't want to read books where it's a normal occurrence. Women wrote books in the Regency, but ...
*distracted* Oh - he's got his shirt off already. This is good - and possibly a record.
there were indecency laws. Whopping big fat ones. Convince me how she got around them please?
black soldiers in the Indian regiments in 1820 ish? I don't mean Sub-continent Indian soldiers, I mean black English (ex-African) ones. I don't know enough to comment, does anyone?
ETA: I with they'd saved the money and filmed in England instead of India. they could have employed more than four soldiers then.
I'm so happy that this is AFTER the Napoleonic Wars - as the other one he did when he was supposed to be in India BEFORE he got promoted simply was cringeworthy, he looked mid 40's - which he was at the time - not in his 20s.
*happy sigh* Tight Green Uniform. Check. Silver epaulettes. Check. Grumpy gravelly voice. Check. Blonde flossie for him to shag at some point. Annoyed Check. I love Sharpe to pieces. Book canon where he looks and sounds nothing like Mr Bean - and series canon where I don't care what he looks like as long he gets his jacket off at some point.
Just been reading a post of some of the Harlequin Historical Undone new series and good lord - talk about wallpaper historicals. An earl's second son with a "fortune too vast to be bribed." oh really? A woman writing scandalous books in Regency England? Er... No. I don't think so. For all the reasons that TJ Pennington explained in this review... I don't really mind exaggerations or over-use of things that happened. For example, I know there were sometimes women on Nelson's ships but I don't want to read books where it's a normal occurrence. Women wrote books in the Regency, but ...
*distracted* Oh - he's got his shirt off already. This is good - and possibly a record.
there were indecency laws. Whopping big fat ones. Convince me how she got around them please?
black soldiers in the Indian regiments in 1820 ish? I don't mean Sub-continent Indian soldiers, I mean black English (ex-African) ones. I don't know enough to comment, does anyone?
ETA: I with they'd saved the money and filmed in England instead of India. they could have employed more than four soldiers then.