@@meltedplasticarmyguy there are usually 2-3 times per episode that he should have been killed. Multiply that by roughly 3 episodes per series. Times 5 series. That puts it between 30 and 45 times he should have died not including the two India specials, which involved Maratha furies. So, yeah Nedd Stark never had a chance in hell.
What an epic lack of faith in the creative spirit. There are plenty of great shows, if you open your mind to them. Or you can choose to be bitter and pessimistic, living in those "glory days". Meh.
The drunken old Sgt was actually based on a real person. He used to sit and talk to the dying soldiers and try to hush them when they called out in pain.
@@724dk7 A dying room. It's difficult to imagine nowadays. But back then; infection was a real killer. No antibiotics back then. No pain medication either.
I mean, he wasn't wrong. The next scene he was getting his wounds treated by the lady, which is something the priest could of done several hours before. lol
@@user-ns3vs3bp3e Lmao. I'm halfway through the novels, currently at Sharpe's Battle and yes, the man does lead a charmed life. Cursed as well, as serving under him is guaranteed an eventual death sentence.
It's always interesting to me when in the way 19th century medicine was still largely in medieval times in that illness and infection was believed to be an imbalance of 'humors' and 'ethers'. By the time of the American Civil War this thinking was largely on the way out and American surgeons came tantalizingly close to linking infection with germs. Just 10 years after germ theory was discovered and many surgeons from that war looked back in horror in how they operated in the open air and merely wiping their knives with blood/pus stained aprons between patients.
@@wordsmith52 I remember Admiral Nelson after having his arm amputated gave out an order to the fleet-that all surgical instruments be pre-warmed as he said the coldness of the instruments was the worst part. I forget his name but the general that lost his leg beside Wellington at Waterloo was noted upon the surgery to take it completely off had no raise in pulse or breathing during the entire procedure-steel nerves.
@@tomservo5347 Ye gods! The BBC did a very good TV series about the history of surgery called 'Blood & Guts". It was turned into a book as well and I happened to chance upon it in a public library whilst sheltering from the rain. One chapter was devoted to an account of a fairly routine amputation well above the knee. It was so descriptive , graphic and well written that you almost felt that you were there. I think my face must have turned such a whiter shade of pale and I had to rush to the mens' room in a hurry!
@@wordsmith52 For some morbid reason I'm fascinated by pre-anesthetic/germ theory surgery where speed was valued utmost for obviously painful reasons. The best a patient could hope for was passing out from the intense pain. Dentistry was the same...ugh. It was an American dentist that pioneered using ether because he couldn't stand putting his patients through extreme pain during tooth removals. I'll check out 'Blood and Guts'.
@@tomservo5347 Yes, speed was of the essence - or the patient would also bleed to death. The veins and arteries had to be tied off asap to stem the fountains of blood issuing forth. Patients howling and crooning in agony as the burly "attendants" made sure their "victims" did not loosen the straps that held them down on the blood stained wooden table. The discovery of ether etc was a blow to many surgeons - it took away their value as speedy workmen, and some would say that they preferred their patients to "feel the bite of the knife, for their own good." Such times!
very realistic, no antibiotics no pain killers(per say) just needle & thread, probes and forceps to pull out lead bullets, prayer for healing. he'll, they didn't even wash their hands!
It was made in the 90s, a mid-budget 1990s British tv show, so bear in mind the action sequences do not hold up well today, and the books are a lot better (not being restricted to 2 hours per story and not constricted by budget), but still, I consider the series to be pretty good, and if when watching it you see someone who looks like a well-known actor, it probably is, a lot of now well known British actors had early roles on Sharpe.
One of the Captains I was serving under in the 90's introduced me to the books, I've always had interest for the Napoleonic wars but never heard of Sharpe before then.
@@terryforsdyke306 My theory is that back in the '90s there were only about 12 British actors, so pretty much all of them had to play in every show at some point.
@@paulpeterson4216 While I realize you were joking I am unable to resist disproving your theory. As an English man who was a child during the 80s and 90s I can attest that there were a lot more than a dozen British actors at the time, certainly thousands of them, watch any episode of Sharpe,, most of them featured several dozen British (English, Welsh, Scottish or Northern Irish) actors, the same with James Bond films, episode of most British produced TV show from the era and you will see evidance for more than a dozen British actors. Also going back at least as far as the 1980s half of US TV shows (at least the ones that end up on British TV) and films seem to feature at least 1 great British actor (and half the time the Americans do not even realize).
@@terryforsdyke306 I was joking, yes. But from my perspective in the USA, I was typically exposed to Hollywood movies and BBC costume dramas. In both cases, when looking at recognizable or "name" actors, we tended to get the same ones over and over. I will also plead guilty to probably not recognizing some British actors in Hollywood features as well.
@@AlphaLeader42 Yeah that's what's confused me because Pat Collins here is wearing a red coat yet the Compañia de Irlañdesa or however you spell it, wears green, red and white
Most irish that served in the british army wore the standard uniform of red, the Irish company seen in a previous episode was a company of exiles from Ireland and was under the Spanish army, hence why they wore a different colour
As?usual please read the books it was Harper and hogan that found sharpe in the death room NOT Harper and 2 women and they Did not see a priest it was harper and harpers woman Isabel that saved sharpes live
