Colonel Brand Stands Trial | Sharpe

Sharpe puts Colonel Brand on trial.
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In the Peninsular War, a British sergeant is field promoted to a lieutenant in charge of a disrespectful rifle company.

[@HumphreyapplebySir]

When sharpe is showing the sketches i want him to say enhance, then an artist comes in and draws a zoomed in sketch.

[@justinpatton1091]

Damn it I loled

[@EthanBSide]

I know that reference, very well sir!

[@Zukiwi1]

I need the 24 telephone tone ringing in the background while he says it

[@tipdub]

Hahahaha

[@lw3646]

What always makes me laugh in the movies is how it not only zooms in on the image but it becomes clearer. If your zooming in heavily on say 720 verticle lines then the image is going to get more grainy and pixilated not less....

[@thefrecklepuny]

"Captain Craig will act as the defence." "If I can think of anything to say" When your legal defence says this, you are somewhat screwed!

[@solemngaming3975]

Not somewhat. You are ABSOLUTELY screwed.

[@AdmRose]

“Pope must’ve slipped it in my pocket” *Captain Craig rolls eyes*

[@purplefood1]

When your legal defense is potentially also facing the same charges you're screwed

[@darrenwang8879]

He is not on the same level as Fredrickson. He cannot be the defence.

[@TheGentlemanGamer]

The Alex Jones defence.

[@stevenwebb3634]

Colonel Brand's sideburns alone are a court martial offence.

[@panachevitz]

He's doing the best he can. There's a war on, you know!

[@Briselance]

@@panachevitz Aye. And it's quite stylish.

[@RD-zx6py]

@@Briselance that's his style sir!

[@Briselance]

​@@RD-zx6py Now that is quoting.

[@goldenalex]

sharpe must of done about 100 side-quests like this before doing the main storyline.

[@jimvargaco.6344]

I'd play an open world Sharpe video game, where the campaign is the campaign from the show, but you can just divert from the storyline and do side-quests, with the option of bringing some of the Chosen men with or leaving them with the army.

[@TonkarzOfSolSystem]

@@jimvargaco.6344 It'd be fun, but it wouldn't make sense for a soldier to go running off doing random quests. That's called AWOL.

[@SuperSaddlers1990]

@@TonkarzOfSolSystem could be feasible if they made it similar to Arma 2s mission structure where you merely get objectives to complete on a map and get freedom to complete when and how you please with the ability to pick up side missions as you go, have the map as a whole explorable at all times but then have each chapter or episode take place in a certain area of the map, to fix the story issues you could have a narrator who is reading the sharpe books and the game is a visualisation of the books which could explain jumps in time throughout the series from a gameplay standpoint?

[@TonkarzOfSolSystem]

@@SuperSaddlers1990 Sharpe does get a decent amount of latitude in doing his missions later in the series, so that could make sense.

[@derekbrown4227]

@@TonkarzOfSolSystem It generally comes with both rank and the scope of the mission, and it's type. Lieutenant Sharpe might be ordered to scout a small ways ahead of a main force with a dozen men; Major Sharpe would have a Battalion and ordered to take a fort, with no other specifics or restrictions outside of general standing orders, and perhaps a timeline.

[@HenriHerbert88]

Admitting that you may have cut the fuses too short. That's soldiering.

[@SantomPh]

That's engineering, actually

[@HIOP0]

Do shut up.

[@timengineman2nd714]

@@SantomPh Military engineering is a form of Soldiering!

[@0megacron]

Ending this clip without the well bit is a crime, for it was certainly one of Sharpe's finest moments.

[@Interfector0]

Gotta agree, it was hilarious.

[@JLee-rt6ve]

All's well that ends in a well.

[@LoudaroundLincoln]

@@Interfector0 no. That wasn't hilarious. That was immensely satisfying. Harpers reasonable explanation of what happened to Brand, that was hilarious.

[@Kyjohnson1500]

Honestly I had a suspicion that Brand survived the battle and blast, cause the well protected him.

[@timengineman2nd714]

@@Kyjohnson1500 Pretty sure that he drowned! Such a fall and impact knocks the wind out of you..... and when you take your first breath afterwards you inhale more than enough water to drown you!! (Unless you have proper training or are d@mn lucky!!!)

[@mindslaw4961]

Sharpe is singlehandedly responsible for Britain's crippling button shortage

[@stevekaczynski3793]

I am pretty sure soldiers wearing that would have lost a button or more in every battle. Skirmishers in particular who often had to fire from prone position would have done their clothes no favours. One 95th officer gave a description of how his heavily patched uniform looked after months of campaigning in the Peninsula. In the 20th century an artist portrayed him based on his account - he looked like a vagrant with a sword.

[@wamyx8Nz]

Funny you should say that. The buttons of the time (for French troops at least) were made of tin. Easy to melt, easy to cast, easy to plate. The problem is that Tin is an FCC metal that turns into a diamond cubic (being in the same column as carbon) powder below 0C. So when Napoleon's troops went into Russia, the buttons on their tunics slowly turned to dust and they froze to death.

[@wamyx8Nz]

Another interesting story of how buttons at the time were made. Electroplating hadn't been developed, so they would take gold and amalgamate it with mercury. Paint that on the buttons and heat it off. In London near the button factories the gutters would fill with condensed metallic mercury. Many were poisoned.

[@wamyx8Nz]

@@stevekaczynski3793 Same in the South Pacific in WWII. No buttons then, but my Great Grandfather told me stories of how their uniforms would literally rot off their bodies in the tropical heat and humidity. Same thing happened to the Japanese. It was not unusual to be fighting hand-to-hand nearly naked after the ammo had run out and the clothes had rotted. He talked of wading through piles of rapidly rotting corpses to get to the enemy. He suffered from a fungal infection that plagued him the rest of his life (into his mid 90s).

[@gnypp45]

@@wamyx8Nz Nice story about the transformation of tin, but it requires very pure quality tin (no contaminants), which was probably not available at the time. From Wikipedia: "Commercial grades of tin (99.8% tin content) resist transformation because of the inhibiting effect of the small amounts of bismuth, antimony, lead, and silver present as impurities."

[@kaczynskis5721]

I half expected Brand to try to destroy the drawings and Sharpe says, "It's no use - we've got the preliminary sketches."

[@Diverball1]

@@seanmarken8536 No, I could never get used to the underwear.

[@Mandelbrotmat]

Ah, a gentleman of culture

[@HellhoundX90]

⬛️🐍

[@King_George_VI]

‘This isn’t a proper court-martial.’ ‘Oh come on Brand, we’re doing our best. There’s a bloody war on!’ 😂😂

[@royalhero4608]

Thats always the line I remember from this part hahah I love his deliverance of it too

[@kaczynskis5721]

It does seem a little irregular - Brand's "defence lawyer" isn't trying, indeed Brand is doing a better job defending himself, those sketches don't seem convincing evidence to me, and if there's an appeals procedure to London Brand's confidence might well be justified.

[@King_George_VI]

kaczynski S Sure, his ‘defence lawyer’ is not doing anything, but Ross is also asking Brand if he has anything he would like to add, not merely relying on his reluctant ‘defence’. Whilst the sketches could be questionable, the fact that Brand *literally* had the ring still on him when he emptied his pockets is pretty persuasive. Had they had the ability to set up a ‘proper court martial’, Sharpe is probably right-they probably would have found Brand had debts back in England or was spending lavishly back home. Consulting with London, however, probably would have seen the vast corruption of Horse Guards save Brand. Whilst this was a highly irregular court martial, it was probably the purest court martial that could have ever been set up lol

[@sirmartinfrobisher]

kaczynski S : His defence does not enter a plea because he is not a gentleman and does not deserve to survive. He murdered a woman.

[@finaladvance5085]

Thats court martialing

[@cameronschofield6440]

Deny everything Baldrick

[@kompav5621]

Are you Private Baldrick?

[@KBTW1]

@@kompav5621 NO!

[@kompav5621]

@@KBTW1 But you _are_ Captain Blackadder's batman?

[@kaczynskis5721]

Before we get on with the formalities of sentencing the deceased - I mean the defendant...

[@Zombiewithabowtie]

@@kompav5621 NO!

[@joec9693]

Marrying a woman you met in wartime Septimus That's Soldiering

[@moribell1083]

I don't think I have read a more true meme

[@powderedwiglouis1238]

also being called septimius now thats romaning

[@dillhouston2833]

Harper and Sharpe too

[@925x8]

Getting the defense to give up without so much as an argument. Now that's lawyering.

[@caelan8819]

I like how there is no photographic evidence, so instead they just use sketches.

[@mileskessler2905]

remember photographs hadn't been invented yet.

[@caelan8819]

Miles Kessler, Yes, thats the point.

[@citycrusher9308]

@@caelan8819 truthfully, the sketches wouldn't hold up. Anyone could sketch anything.

[@IONATVS]

@@citycrusher9308 courts of the time had different standards of what “held up”. Unless there was reason to doubt that the sketches were made by the person they said on the date they said with the amount of information about the person they were sketching that they said (ie military sketch artist A sketched this portrait of subject B for a future painting on date C and he was wearing the ring then, or military sketch artist X drew the pattern found on victim Y’s neck, which match the braiding on the whip owned by subject B). They may have asked the sketch artists to testify under oath that they made the sketch on a specific date instead of just accepting the signatures, but for the time this would be considered decent evidence.

[@gino14]

@@citycrusher9308 Definitive proof is a luxury even today. I imagine back then it took far less to convict a man

[@SimonCrowne]

Brand: Sharpe do you have access to a pencil? Yes. Brand: defense rests

[@Baron_Blue_Max]

4:40 The look Colonel Brand gives his lawyer... thats smoldering.

[@Anthony-mt7qr]

Mark Strong later played Septimus in Stardust... if I had a nickel for every Mark Strong role and a character called Septimus being linked I would have two nickels, which isn't a lot but strange that it happened twice...

[@TheAzureNightmare]

He was also Dr. Sivana from Shazam.

[@TheNotoriousCheeto]

Just a reminder to everyone, this ends well for Brand.

[@MrPolicekarim]

Good one!

[@crofty_92]

Nice

[@davefout5548]

Yes he gets a bath

[@RS250Squid]

Mark Strong, a bad guy so bad, you feel bad about him losing. He's awesome as Captain Titus, and as Inquisitor Eisenhorn!

[@bluerock4456]

He definitely can play a baddie very well.

[@khamtribe325]

Was great as Hani Pasha in body of lies.

[@martinford4553]

He was a great captain Titus. The captain won't be the same with a new voice actor. Like how his character is the complete opposite in 1917

[@RS250Squid]

@@martinford4553 they didn't cast him for the sequel? What a boneheaded decision.

[@martinford4553]

@@RS250Squid yeah they didn't sadly. I am not sure it will be the same without him. The cast Clive Standen instead. If its not broke don't fix I say

[@GaldirEonai]

The 1813 version of photographic evidence...

[@Ray.Norrish]

"Could anyone have somehow added the ring to this sketch afterwards, Sharpe?" "No. It was signed and dated you see."

[@RaferJeffersonIII]

Zara the gypsy girl was the hottest on the show and I’m glad septimus found happiness. He saved her life, I like the fact his inner bravery and honour was attractive enough for Zara to overlook his unfortunate disfigurement.

[@jordanbetteridge1598]

Elizabeth Hurley?

[@Th0ughtf0rce]

A Strong performance as always.

[@Chris-zf1de]

The video missed the best part. The ending. It was done very well ;)

[@springyslinky2190]

He jumped headfirst into the wishing well!

[@steviekill2st]

doing the best they can even with a bloody war on? that's soldiering!

[@josephmassaro]

Mark Strong plays great villains: Col Brand, Sinestro, Dr Sivana.

[@marcosaraiva9205]

Mark Strong is a great actor

[@GalacticEmperorBatman]

He also played a few heroic characters. Such as Merlin in the Kingsmen films, Captain Titus in Warhammer 40k: Space Marine, and Guern in The Eagle.

[@tommyatkins2527]

brits always do mate lol don't know why lol

[@jimtaylor294]

@@tommyatkins2527 As do Germans & Russians ;-) . Not all Brit's make good villains though. One with a strong Brummie accent would likely have the audiance roaring with laughter instead.

[@HAWKOBRIAN]

And he makes a great Kingsmen. RIP Merlin

[@Conan_the_Based]

*hire someone to do a quick sketch of Colonel Brand openly committing the crime. Pencil in an old date* "I submit this sketch as evidence. It was totally drawn back on this date." "Why yes, nobody would ever post-date something. Guilty!" That's soldiering.

[@davidlazerz8564]

Easy to overlook shaky evidence when there is mountains of it.

[@hagamapama]

Yeah, but there was no need to fabricate anything until it was much too late to fabricate anything. The sketch artist is no longer with the party and he took all his stuff with him. Something as fragile as a pencil is probably not a thing a soldier would carry, they wrote with charcoal because it was plentiful around a campfire.

[@bobs_toys]

It worked for the baby eating bishop of bath and wells.

[@colonelcrazynator9455]

What? No part about seeing Brand getting pushed into the Wishing well? We all want to see Colonel Brand get push down into the wishing well!

[@wetlettuce4768]

You mean he jumped head long down into the wishing well?

[@thrand6760]

@@wetlettuce4768 hes a funny man that brand :D

[@aaronleverton4221]

The only time that you're satisfied is with Brand down the wishing well.

[@KevPage-Witkicker]

@@aaronleverton4221 I understand this reference.

[@aaronleverton4221]

@@KevPage-Witkicker The lead guitar break that follows is pretty awesome.

[@SantomPh]

no scene of Brand down the well? come on!

[@h3imbjorn940]

I second this. Wellscene or we riot

[@justanotherbrickinthewall2843]

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[@King_George_VI]

SantomPh And Harper’s brilliant response when asked about Brand going down the well 😂😂

[@ethanhatcher5533]

@@justanotherbrickinthewall2843 now that's soldiering

[@SantomPh]

@@King_George_VI we WISH for a Brand well scene 😂

[@makara80]

Not sure how faithful the TV adaption of 'Sharpe's Mission' is to its literary incarnation but this is arguably one of the weaker films of the series. The key issue for me is the character of Colonel Brand who's already overt duplicity becomes progressively _more_ brazen as the story progresses, despite Ross et al still only _suspecting_ treachery! Don't get me wrong Mark Strong is superb as Brand but by the end, this purportedly cunning and calculating character is rendered little more than a clumsy opportunist who's inexplicably (and implausibly) eluded the suspicions of his superiors for years!

[@droganovic6879]

In al fairness, most superiors in this show are shown as completely incompetent. I forgot his name but he's Sharpe's primary antagonist of sorts, and he is nothing but incompetence and comical levels of villainy.

[@JPH1138]

This is one of the few Sharpe stories to be completely invented for the TV series. The others are Sharpe's Justice and, arguably, Sharpe's Gold which was a book but the writer hired to adapt it only read the first chapter then decided to do another plot. I kind of like Sharpe's Mission but kind of dislike it. There's a lot of interesting elements to the story, but I feel like they don't come together too well. As you say, Brand's villainy stretches credulity a little when Sharpe starts to suspect him after about three scenes and Ross looks a bit slow in this story as a result. The small scale of the storyline is probably a good decision in response to the difficulties of trying to stage Vittoria and Talavera with about a hundred blokes in a field, but it also makes it weird that Wellington and his chief spymaster should be so invested in blowing up a powder magazine. There's good characters and setpieces in the ep, though. And I was always happy to see more of General Calvert.

[@michaelgreenwood3413]

@@droganovic6879 Simmerson.

[@MrPolicekarim]

@@JPH1138 I heard it was 10 pages. Sean Bean And Jason Salkey were on a podcast. They explain went went wrong with Sharpe's Gold.

[@JPH1138]

@@MrPolicekarim Yeah, I remember when I read Sharpe's Gold I could practically tell the moment Nigel Kneale stopped reading. It's very weird, because he quite faithfully adapted those few pages even though they were just about irrelevant to the actual plot of the novel. I wonder what would have happened if he wasn't so lazy and actually read the whole book.

[@stephen2583]

Missed out th ebest bit when the 'funny old fish' dived head first in to the wishing well. Why would he do such a thing?

[@muhammadjawadzahid9675]

I must say that the British have an inexhaustible supply of acting talent..even supporting cast became Hollywood A listers from this show

[@SovereignStatesman]

Brand got away with it, but all's well that ends in the well.

[@Ray.Norrish]

haha! Nice.

[@mrnaughtycat]

He jumped into the well silly fish lol

[@zoe-janesutherland4359]

I wonder how things turn out for Colonel Brand? Oh well....

[@jonnnyren6245]

I absolutely adore Ross. No idea why but he's got this positivity in him.

[@powderedwiglouis1238]

being called septimius now thats soldiering

[@rajivmurkejee7498]

Great to see Batman doing his bit

[@sulla1537]

Whoa Mark Strong!

[@madmike8525]

Anyone else feeling happy for Zara and Pyecroft? Because I sure am! 🥰

[@thewheelchairhistorian3424]

Soldiering is now a meme.

[@ethanhatcher5533]

Now that's soldiering

[@tommyatkins2527]

ah memes...now that's soldering

[@Avatar1977]

Speaking objectively as a fan of Sharpe, this was a piss poor prosecution case.

[@bluerock4456]

Well, there WAS a war on!

[@nctpti2073]

@@bluerock4456 Not just a war on but modern forensics did not exist yet. Standards of evidence were accordingly not the same.

[@effyiew7318]

C'mon...they're doing the best they can!

[@davidagudelo9223]

OK Sherlock 👍

[@davidspencer7254]

Securing a prosecution with a piss poor case with the enemy at the gates and carrying out the sentence in double quick time? That's Soldiering.

[@markscouler2534]

Best episode out of all of them is that bloke who is in the grimsby brothers and the kingsman

[@Captain_Yorkie1]

He is mark strong a great British actor

[@1down4up78]

“Sold his soul for French gold” Going to remember that one if I ever get married again and take the misses to Frog Land for 10-14 days and she fancied posh food.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

Imagine your loved ones conquered by Napoleon... Souffles with every meal and heavy sauces...

[@caileanm2009]

This brand. Played by the same actor who played Lord Blackwood in Sherlock Homes? Because he reminds me of him

[@alisilcox6036]

Yes.

[@caileanm2009]

Ali Silcox cheers

[@kaczynskis5721]

He seems to specialise in somewhat charismatic villains.

[@randyeller8139]

Cailean Morrison same one. Also does a great job on the first two Kingsman movies.

[@johndoe5690]

@@randyeller8139 Does also a pretty good job as Prideaux in the 2011 movie version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

[@j.f.l.bousquet1998]

So Mark Strong has always being bald. Like Patrick Stewart and Jason Statham. Cool.

[@wonderboy2402]

Soldiering others about soldiering. Now that is soldiering.

[@georgebuller1914]

I struggle to accept 'Sharpe' as honourable; given his actions in Lady Chatterley's Lover! ;-)

[@aaronleverton4221]

You really don't want to watch Clarissa, then.

[@georgebuller1914]

@@aaronleverton4221 WHY?!!!! ;-)

[@carlhicksjr8401]

Berrin Politi, Zara, is a beautiful woman. Pity she didn't get more roles.

[@lucasgroves137]

They need to get Sharpe in to prosecute Slump and Rudy. He'll bring a pencil and have both trials wrapped up by lunch.

[@jordanbetteridge1598]

Can Sharpe do the part after the trial as well?

[@lucasgroves137]

@@jordanbetteridge1598 Taking care of trials _and_ executions? Now that's justicing!

[@MrValonievs]

Mark Strong would've made the perfect Willikins from Pratchetts Discworld

[@richhughes7450]

Alls WELL that ends WELL!

[@mrspof]

Cosplaying as Shitty Batman fresh off a pirating binge? Now that's soldiering!

[@CymruEmergencyResponder]

Ahhh yes, sketches, the CCTV of the 1800s.

[@ClockworkAnomaly]

Why did he cut off his case without reading the affidavit or tacking on more evidence?

[@zygas25]

At that point i think the general probably heard enough after sering the ring fall out of his pocket

[@aidanmagill6769]

The producer said it needed to be 40 seconds shorter, so the editor cut it.

[@MORGATH99]

holding court marshal during war now thats soldiering

[@finaladvance5085]

Such a strange lad that brand. Jumped right into that well. Why’d he do such a thing?

[@debrickashaw9387]

4:44 lol he just gave up

[@TheEdwardsChannel]

I do find it ironic that after the 6th coalition, Sharpe would later be prosecuted in the 12th moive

[@alexanderherckenrath7099]

I had a romanian college, he looks just like a young Mark Strong

[@hannibalburgers477]

I had a girlfriend who looked like Mark Strong, our relationship didn't last longer

[@stevenwebb3634]

How does a person look like a college?

[@rossbryan6102]

SHARPE PLAYING THE PART OF INSPECTOR POITOT!!!

[@Roflberrypwnkac]

03:53 is pretty hilarious. look I know this is a ghetto court, but for goodness sake, we are in enemy territory here lol

[@redwolf7929]

Using drawings as photographic evidence..thats court marshaling..

[@LordOfGilneas]

4:49 *In England: SO... should we care?...*

[@steviecbf]

giving a gold ring back to the gypsy girl .......... that's soldiering .

[@m1994a3jagnew]

chunky british batman

[@callithowiseeit5806]

Looking like Bryan Adams but sounding like Charlie Chuck Now that's Donkeh!

[@daveangelew]

Turn out your pockets Brand.

[@cameronjames3499]

See that's the one bit I dont get - when you're faced with the death penalty might as well play a fool and see if it works. I wouldve sloppily turned out my pockets so it stayed hidden, then when Sharpe comes up to do it properly claim he palmed it and he had it all along and he mustve been the murderer and is trying to rush in a (10 minute) trial in the middle of battle to pre-emptively frame someone who knows what he is really like, and use the heat of the moment to hide the obvious deficiencies (claim he added the ring to the sketch etc). Just stall and ask for a proper trial later, there's nothing to be lost by stalling and a vast amount to be gained. Then again the meanie Officers/villains with disfigurements in Sharpe always have to be stupid as well as venal.

[@TheSerpent21]

Rather young Mark Strong.

[@bardleyb7218]

One does not simply jump into a well...

[@andycapp5581]

And here is a sketch of Sean Bean’s career going over the side of a cliff landing in to a distillery !

[@gawainethefirst]

A proper drumhead court martial.

[@greebo6549]

3:04 🤔 erm… major Sharp, this isn’t my mother’s ring 😖

[@rageofheaven]

Brand would survive the trial, and survive to the year 41k. By this point, he changed his name to Titus and grew another three feet.

[@olivergorman3419]

London was full of people like Brand 200 years ago. Now it's full of people like Cameron, Blair, Grieve and Bercow. Ponce central.

[@SantomPh]

You again.

[@royalhero4608]

At least politicians 200 years ago made Britain a strong nation instead of betraying her at every turn like the filth we have these days

[@leeboy26]

@@royalhero4608 Then perhaps we shouldn't have let Spencer Perceval be assassinated and let the mediocrities take over.

[@sigbauer9782]

Having the makeup department fuck up your sideburns, now that's soldiering.

[@clonecommanderfoggy682]

Thus ends all traitors to the Crown

[@kettch777]

Shoved down wells? I thought they'd be shot or hanged.

[@manictiger]

Except for those pesky tobacco farmers in the New World. I surmise they won't last long, though. Certainly won't rule the seas at any point. Harrumph!

[@eldorados_lost_searcher]

@@kettch777 They're doing their best. There's a bloody war on, after all.

[@clonecommanderfoggy682]

@@manictiger Ah yes, the world's arms dealers. It takes a certain kind of people to gain from two world wars.

[@manictiger]

@@clonecommanderfoggy682 Last I checked, all that violence in the Middle East is being done with Russian weapons. I can even list them all if you like.

[@chrisbingley]

Titus? Betraying the Imperium?

[@engasal]

Of course. Sanity is for the weak

[@frankyw8803]

What have you got to say for yourself Brand ? Well ?

[@someoneelse1582]

soldiering . . . now that's soldiering

[@ariochiv]

Did Mark Strong _ever_ have hair? :D

[@sethdeardeuff3947]

Arioch IV he was in the movie Emma with Kate Beckinsale; as Mr. Knightly, he had longish waves of hair.

[@gazof-the-north1980]

Attempting to convict the rogue Colonel Brand in a kangaroo court?...........thats Branding!

[@tomcolley9008]

Well, that didn't end well.

[@yurigabrilovich2190]

Well , that's the end of that

[@fredrikcarlstedt393]

The vile Lord Blackwood gets his fair comeuppance .

[@kingmichealthefirstofroman2278]

Officers i like is sharpe calvet ross and pycroft

[@DanStrayer]

Those sideburns. That’s…not soldiering.

[@John_Smith.]

Capital B for the title?

[@wolfinndnclothing]

All's well that ends well,...leastways fer Brand.

[@deepblue2]

Yeah. Then he just ends up in a fucking well. HAH.

[@booboo1970]

Now Sharpes Columbo!?

[@jamiam23]

Falling down a well. Thats not soldiering

[@aliali-ce3yf]

sharpe is an excellent attorney , certainly better than Lionel Hutz

[@jordanbetteridge1598]

The expression "damning with faint praise" comes to mind.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

I thought he was Miguel Sanchez.

[@squarepeg8267]

What's with the guy in the mask?

[@mrnaughtycat]

Square Peg got burned by a bomb whose fuse was to short

[@Michaelkayslay]

zara is hot

[@mwillblade]

I'm Batman.

[@mechminded2207]

Tinker, tailor, spy.

[@MisterTutor2010]

Lord Stark vs. Lord Blackwood :)

[@MrKeefy]

CSi Sharpe

[@scottadler]

I love the show, but the use of language by Major Sharpe and the others is filled with anachronisms that are extremely jarring if you know the language of the period. The problem is not unique to Sharpe's War but exists everywhere in British television. There were so many boners in Downton Abby that I couldn't watch the show. British producers seem to think that correct fashions and period cars are all that they need for realism.

[@kaczynskis5721]

Even the uneducated in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century talked in ways that seem bookish or twee now. The Tudors "updated" to a quite shocking extent.

[@JnEricsonx]

They had to do the same thing for Deadwood.

[@SantomPh]

The books were written quite recently and the show is circa 2000s. If Sharpe were full on from the era he would sound like Hagman

[@LandersWorkshop]

That's what makes the show so great. It's authentic talk for the most part. :)

[@clonetrooperpostorder6669]

Jeez, I get this was waaay back when but there's so much deniability and plantable evidence

[@huntclanhunt9697]

Who is the guy with the mask and why does he wear a mask?

[@AnEnemySpy456]

He's Bruce Wayne.

[@spacebeam6480]

Major Septimus Pyecroft, demolition/explosives expert. His face got scarred and disfigured or something in an explosives accident so he wears the mask to hide it.

[@huntclanhunt9697]

@@spacebeam6480 Neat. Thanks!

[@spacebeam6480]

@huntclan hunt no problem my man! :)