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Watching Sharpe without the Chosen Men...

posted 15 years ago by rainbowsparkle
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...is a bit like watching "Bones" without Zack .

I love the Sharpe series and I suppose I enjoyed "Challenge" and "Peril" but I just can't get used to the Rifles not being along. I wish they would set a new ep in the time before they all died. That's the only episode I've never been able to watch again after the first time...

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[–] grendelkhan 14 years ago

In the books, it's essentially Sharpe and Harper. Hagman pops in and out, but isn't really more than a background character. The films needed some recurring characters to link them, butthey aren't as essential to the plot. With that said, they were fine additions. I never cared for Tongue (ba-dump-bump) but enjoyed Cooper. He is sorely missed in the later episodes.

[–] randommovies2002 14 years ago

Harris is my favorite. (How can a girl resist a man who quotes poetry? ) I know he was invented for the series and does not appear in the novels, but I think he was based upon a real soldier?

[–] rainbowsparkle 13 years ago

Harris is my favourite too. And I still think if they make any more Sharpe movies they need to wangle a way to get Harris and Hagman back LOL

Totally agree with another post which said Hagman didn't die, just knocked himself out, then came round and rescued Harris...

I can get behind that!

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[–] Mad Dog McLagan 12 years ago

Harris was kind of based on a real soldier. A Rifleman Harris compiled his reminiscences about the war into a book that was published sometime after Waterloo and didn't prove popular because people had no interest in the common soldiers at the time. Since then, however, it's become one of the most prized sources for modern historians.

Other than the name, though, Harris in the TV series doesn't share many obvious similarities with his namesake. (And, if you're finicky, details that would logically dictate they can't be the same - Harris getting separated from the 95th and serving in the South Essex and then dying before the book was published are definite issues..)

I suspect the problem is that you have too many paperclips up your nose

[–] andu-00 12 years ago

In fact having the Chosen Man in the Indian stories would have been such a stretch that it would have ruined the whole point of this brilliant follow-up to the classic series.