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Another great episode, this episode was more dialogue heavy with the introduction of new characters. It feels like there story will continue in the next episode, we are desperate to know what will come of Obadiah!

This series will be available like our other tv shows to Feels Fanatics and above, shortly before they eventually release onto YouTube they will be open to Flix Friends and above.Very excited to dive into these, huge thank you again to Rick and we hope you all enjoy!Full Length, Un-edited Reaction for Feels Fanatics and above.Movie/TV = Blurred and Muted after first section in order to synchronise your copy with us.You MUST own your own copy of the film to watch along. Else you just watch a blurred out box... 🤣Much love,Lauren & Harry!YT edit is up too!

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Ricky

Nice reaction. This episode does indeed feel a bit different in terms of rhythm and content, but it had never really occurred to me that this might be due to the style and amount of dialogue. On top of his manner of speaking, Colonel Windham also has a rather absent-minded and chaotic way of reasoning and dealing with people. That's probably why you were confused about Sharpe's position. I think the confusion mainly comes from the two conversations in Colonel Windham's tent. This is how I interpret them (at least in the series). In the first conversation with the colonel, Captain Sharpe is reduced in rank to lieutenant because the colonel already has too many captains. A wealthier officer (Rymer—naturally a gentleman, unlike Sharpe) has purchased Sharpe's captaincy, and this has been approved in London. At the end of the previous episode, Sharpe became the commander of the Light Company (the light infantry, the more mobile skirmishers). After being demoted to lieutenant, he is no longer in command of the Light Company. However, as a lieutenant he still commands the riflemen within the Light Company (the Chosen Men and the ordinary riflemen). The frustrating thing for Sharpe is that both the captain and the colonel seem unsure what to do with those riflemen, so they are even more deliberately mixed in with the regular musket infantry. The second conversation in Windham's tent: Windham admits that many of the captains in the company secretly fear that Sharpe is after their lives in order to reclaim his former position. (Windham also says that this is hardly good for the cohesion of the company.) By this point, the colonel also realizes that Sharpe is actually more competent than many of the captains who have simply bought their commissions, but because of his manner of speaking, his mannerisms, and his social status, he can't quite bring himself to say so directly. Several times he says that none of this is really Sharpe's fault, and in doing so he distances himself somewhat from the decisions that have been made. Sharpe is therefore allowed to stay, but at the same time it also shows that the colonel himself doesn't really know what to do with Sharpe's role. The colonel actually seems to like Sharpe, but because of the difference in their backgrounds and social status, he doesn't really know how he wants to deal with him. **P.S.** The colonel who has to have his arm amputated by Sharpe at the beginning of the episode is Colonel Lawford, Wellington's adviser (see Episodes 1 and 2). As Sharpe tells the American major in Episode 2, Lawford and Sharpe already knew each other well because of a shared adventure in India. Sharpe therefore knew that Lawford would continue to support his promotion fairly. But when, after the amputation, Lawford is replaced by Windham, Sharpe realizes that he is once again at a disadvantage. (In the books Lawfords role is a bit clearer from the start, because the book series starts in India.)

Flix n Feels

Ahh thank you for clarifying this for us 😊 we definitely got a bit confused with the two different conversations, we didn't piece together that he could still lead the riflemen within the Light Company! This has actually cleared a lot up for us which will be good heading into the next episode having a better picture of where everyone stands 😊

Ricky

Idk, if that's the exact way it was intended, but it's at least how I view it in the tv series, because it's somewhat different from the books.

Muddyn

the "Hope" in "Ferloorn Hope" is actually a misuse of the term, it got a little lost in Translation over the years. it actually comes from dutch, they called this group the "ferloorn Hoop" (lost heap/pile/bunch, it just got turned into hope later.

Flix n Feels

Oh interesting! I can see how it got muddled in translation