Just got done watching this episode last night. Certainly the strangest and creepiest of the "Sharpe" series. The sequence where the Spaniard in the 16th century armor "meows" at Ellie Nugent is VERY disturbing. Especially once it's revealed what he and his men REALLY are. (Going to leave that bit of spoiler out).
Sure, the meowing is fucking weird. But the weirdest part for me was when he fired his pistol into the air to signal his men to bring the prisoners up...when they were maybe 30 meters behind him at most.
@@TonkarzOfSolSystem To be fair, they had to bring the union steward down to promise them two siestas tomorrow if they skipped the one today that would interfere with the prisoner exchange...
There is one episode where Harris is caught by a rich prick reading out of his library and covers it by suggesting he was look for loo paper. I thought that was a nice touch
@@Vespasian705 Maybe with Pierce Brosnan's spanish voice over actor.... Curiously enough no, it was not dubbed. He is in fact, Abel Folk actor and voice actor for Pierce Brosnan.
The bit which got me was at 4:19 when Harper says King George saved their skins and they all seem really shocked and horrified by it, yet immediately after say that they didn't know what they was up to with their other captives and thus, didn't know they were going House Bolton on them.
@@kapitan19969838 The prisoners seem really shook up when talking about skins and stuff, obviously hinting at the fact the Aztec dudes flay people, but they also say they didn't know what they did with prisoners. It's just terrible dialogue writing, this episode didn't come from the books I believe.
@@mandomavicus3616 unfortunately that's because they originally filmed sharpest gold first with the original Sharpe actor etc but then they lost him and the were other behind the scenes issues so when they got round to making the episode again they couldn't do the book they had to do their own version
Sharpe's party would not have been carrying loaves of soft bread like that. Such bread goes stale after a day, and it had undoubtedly been quite some days since they had been issued that bread. They would have had good old hardtack, which those prisoners no doubt would have been glad to get.
I love they got native speakers from Spain to do the lines. In a Hollywood production it would be either horribly accented, English speakers reading a phonetic transcript or south americans speaking their dialect. Pa'lante is a contraction of "para adelante", go forward. Very casual/unrefined speech.
I'm not an expert on the Spanish Guerrillas of the Peninsular War, but I'd like to know if them wearing ancient conquistador armor is accurate, or at the very least, believable.
Pretty sure that is entirely made up - like this entire episode as far as I know. At this point armor like that has been out-of-use for over a hundred years. And shields...uff, dunno, maybe up to 300 years?
In the episode a point is made about how odd it is that this guy is wearing 300-year old armor. If I remember correctly, his family has been passing down this conquistador armor for generations, only for this guy to run off into the mountains of Spain to start an Aztec-death cult
Was there any reason for the cat impression? Having not seen the full episode it was odd in the extreme please inform me if there is more to it than just a Spanish dude being strange
Let's just say, the guy meowing is.... a rather weird fellow. The strange cat calling is (unfortunately for a lot of people) not the pinacle of his craziness in this episode...
It was only in 1859 that Henry Dunant conceived there should be rules, and only in 1862 he published his thoughts as A Memory Of Solferino. Thus at the time the 'rules of war' were not rules at all, just how officers /thought/ others should behave, so more about voluntary respect and gentlemanly conduct toward other officers. Therefore the rank and file were stuffed as nobody really cared how they were treated. Only in 1929 was the treatment of POWs included in the Geneva Conventions so even in the FWW they weren't. IOW I agree.
Why were they wearing 16th century conquestador armor in the age of Napoleon? Looked terribly anachronistic to me carrying all that dead weight and getting killed with a single shot.
I’m sure that as irregulars, they just grabbed whatever they could. If you think steel armour was obsolete in 1806, check out what the French cuirassiers wore at Waterloo in 1815. And also what British soldiers wore on their heads in 1915.
@@adzthesaint curassier armor was more likely to be up to date and effective when bouncing shots and protecting from stabs and slashes. The Broadie was meant to protect soldiers from splinters, shockwaves and other splash based damage. But these? These were meant to be used when massed pike and shot formations were in vouge. A time when Muskets ( Matchlocks and wheelocks, where less effective and less powerful compared to rifled Muskets and flintlocks.) had a range of 30m.
@@vondantalingting it was for theatrical reasons. Lots of Spanish guerrillas had a 'thing' or an aspect of showmanship to make the French fear them. His was a death cult where they adopted Aztec rituals and wore conquistador armour. So that's the reason. Honestly even so it's one of the weaker episodes. The book is much better and very different.
@@vondantalingting you might be surprised, early arquebus could deliver *more* powerful shots than the later muskets, but as armor became obsolete for line Infantry the larger powerful firearms became unnecessary and gave way to lighter muskets that didn't require a shooting rest unlike their heavier predecessors.
They were spanish mountain brigands if I remember the episode correctly. Taking advantage of the war to best things for themselves as they could. Thus the taking and selling back of the men. (basically they were in the best they had).
The book is so much better mate - shame Gold didn't come during the Rifle/Eagles episode period. The book is set in 1810 and is a great read. This is set later - 1813 I think and made El Catalico or 'Casco' as they call in him in this - a bit of a Aztec loving windowlicker. I always found this one of the weaker Sharpe's but Ayres 'ploughed' line still makes me laugh.
@@thearticulategrunt No, a spanish Galleon (or some other vessel) that was transporting Aztec prisoners to show at court wrecked somewhere in the region. The survivors created a death cult based on the Aztec god (or goddess) of death, El Casco is the descendant of the wrecked crew/Aztec prisoners.
Regular army did not. Howewer, some guerrillas and militias did. Anyways, it wasn´t frequent, it was actually really rare. Guerrillas prefer be adapted to combat and wear comfortable clothes, so they would be able to hide and flee from their attack point once they had finished, easily
Traces of conquistador style armour especially with his pointed helmet, possible descendant of Spanish in the Aztec controlled parts of central America
Absolutely. How that partisan is wearing such an older helmet? It belonged from the late 15th and early 16th centuries (1400s and 1500s) not the early 19th century (1805 during the Napoleonic Wars). That's a full 300 hundred years difference!! 🙄
Well, this stuff is probably still lying around in some arsenal - and it's a steel helmet - so, as long as it doesn't get wet, it is good for a long time. I think this should highlight that those partisans are forced to use whatever they can get and it also plays very well in the second theme this particular group os playing... Without spoiling, let's say they have a weird sense of nostalgia....
@@robertnett9793 like the Spanish cannons guarding the east entrance of the Presidio in San Francisco, an old US military base. People may think they are from the time the Spanish were in California (between 1770's to 1810's) but since the Presidio only became a US military base in the mid 1850's is highly unlikely the cannons were inherited that way... when you read the incriptions in the cannons you read: "Manila Armory - 1791". Then is when it strikes you... these old cannons were laying somewhere around the Spanish Manila fortifications for centuries until the Americans took them from the city fortress in 1898, when commodore Dewey defeated the Spanish Fleet in Manila Bay, at the beginning of the Spanish-American War, and took the cannons as war trophies and brought them to San Francisco's Presidio.
As with a lot of irregular forces he probably grabbed a family heirloom off the wall in lieu of proper armour / weaponry. Then he became known for it so stuck with it.
I haven't read the books, but yes, even just watching the series, this particular episode is so absolutely different and strange compared to the others... not bad per say, but even less historical than the rest.
That guy checking the merchandise is a rodelero, a sword and buckler soldier. Which i am surprised, i thought that was phased out before the napoleonic era. If spain and Britain were allies at this time, why keep British prisoners?
They where meant to be bandits or guerrillas by memory. Also highly likely it was what the BBC had laying around in the props cupboard, budgets for these shows wherent big.
They were members of an Aztec death cult, wearing grass that had been picked up from a shipwreck generations before. It was weird, and highly fanciful, but not meant to be a representation of Spanish regulars, or even normal guerrillas.
Wtf is this 😂 the spanish in 16th century armour 😂 I get it, many spaniards were guerrillas, and maybe would use any equipment they found but goddamn 16th century armor
Can’t tell which culture this guy is trying to…revive…the Aztec or the Portuguese….cause I know neither would want to mixed with the other This freaks me out more than meowing - we have military exchanging airways with meowing that’s more intimidating
Meowing at a random lady in the woods, now that's cat calling.
I see what you did there...
You have to admit she was the cats meow
A rare woman who is able to withstand the meow.
Indeed I almost got uncomfortable myself lol
She may have been ashen faced, but she was foaming at the slice!
Hundreds of years later, we know it as, "catcalling".
Even Sharpe is freaked out by the Spaniard's meowing.
He was thinking like that line in Saving Private Ryan,
"I find myself... curiously aroused..."
@@dilloncrowe1018 nah more like ..what don't touch me lol
Being catcalled in the 1800's be like
Darkangel036 Dhhaja haha
Yes
Didn't make sense til I saw the clip lmao
50% of the time, meowing works every time.
No it doesn't lmao
I got that reference!
That doesn't make sense.
@@Seven_Leaf Anchorman movie.
This comment is so great haven't enjoyed such a laugh in quite some time.
I knew it. Same guy who plays the mutinous sergeant in this plays another mutinous sergeant in Sharpe’s Challenge. Knew I recognised him!
These deserters seem awfully calm for guys that are about to be flogged 200 times then hung by their necks!
The guy to his left plays one of the Scouse thieves in lock,stock and two smoking barrels.
It's the same character
@@bennym5244 Thanks was desperately trying to know where I'd seen him before
@@bennym5244 Was also the replacement Dave Lister in Red Dwarf from the episode The Inquisitor
"No good. I've known too many Spaniards."---Man in Black
Now I know what he meant.
They did honor their word, they are just .......... weird
- "I dont mean to pry, but you wouldnt happen to have six fingers on your right hand?"
- "...Do you always begin conversations this way?"
@@SvendleBerries I’m supposed to say the next line.
"You've been more than fair."
You mean the Dread Pirate Roberts? Aka: Wesley?
“My name is Inigo Montoya. You keeled my father. Prepare to diiiiieeee!”
Spanish partisan: "So anyway I started simping the best way I knew how."
Just got done watching this episode last night. Certainly the strangest and creepiest of the "Sharpe" series. The sequence where the Spaniard in the 16th century armor "meows" at Ellie Nugent is VERY disturbing. Especially once it's revealed what he and his men REALLY are. (Going to leave that bit of spoiler out).
Sure, the meowing is fucking weird. But the weirdest part for me was when he fired his pistol into the air to signal his men to bring the prisoners up...when they were maybe 30 meters behind him at most.
They presumably skipped the 10 minutes it took for them to approach.
It might have been a signal to assure they weren’t at gun point or had been betrayed
@@FaeAngst Worse signal ever - as it could easily meant they were being attacked. And everyone opens fire
A little louder for the prisoners in the back.
@@TonkarzOfSolSystem To be fair, they had to bring the union steward down to promise them two siestas tomorrow if they skipped the one today that would interfere with the prisoner exchange...
That was a creditable meow. My cat jumped into my lap right afterwards.
The meowing never stops me cringing
These rustics are so inept...
@@sheevinit1490 Nearly takes the honor out of victory
@@rodbyrules914 Nearly
does anyone know, why he did it? like some kind of warning? or was he doing it because he's being a dick?
Probably just being a dick
03:00 “What an eccentric performance.”
Is there any damn thing--about anything--that Harris doesn't know? He and Hagman combined are a brain-trust...Now that's brainiac-ing...
He's the only Chosen Man who joined for adventure and fun.
@@SantomPh he was a debtor so was forced to join
There is one episode where Harris is caught by a rich prick reading out of his library and covers it by suggesting he was look for loo paper. I thought that was a nice touch
They’re the most educated poor men in Angleland.
Hagman and Harris definitely were the brains of the unit.
0:09 Dude dismounts that horse with speed lmao
Im Spanish, and hearing Spanish voice acting along side with English voice acting feels really trippy
well,at least they speak proper Spanish
Sounds doubly weird since I'm pretty sure some of it was dubbed in
@@Vespasian705 Maybe with Pierce Brosnan's spanish voice over actor....
Curiously enough no, it was not dubbed. He is in fact, Abel Folk actor and voice actor for Pierce Brosnan.
Sgt Rod changed his name later to Bickerstaff.
I knew he looked familiar, but I couldn't figure out why
"A hinDOO ay?"
One of the others looks like one of the east India soldiers from sharpes peril
-Private- Deserter Rodd
Rudd.
Beautiful castillian accent. Abel Folk, Pierce Brosnan spanish voice actor.
When you get caught by a psychopath but still manage to keep your hat in tip-top condition. That's shakoing
The bit which got me was at 4:19 when Harper says King George saved their skins and they all seem really shocked and horrified by it, yet immediately after say that they didn't know what they was up to with their other captives and thus, didn't know they were going House Bolton on them.
Eh what?
@@kapitan19969838 The prisoners seem really shook up when talking about skins and stuff, obviously hinting at the fact the Aztec dudes flay people, but they also say they didn't know what they did with prisoners.
It's just terrible dialogue writing, this episode didn't come from the books I believe.
@@mandomavicus3616 Huh, You've read them I take it? Do You recommend them?
@@kapitan19969838 Only read their Wikipedia plot points I'm afraid :( if I was a book reader I would though.
@@mandomavicus3616 unfortunately that's because they originally filmed sharpest gold first with the original Sharpe actor etc but then they lost him and the were other behind the scenes issues so when they got round to making the episode again they couldn't do the book they had to do their own version
Ya just gotta love sharpe
Average cat impression.
The weirdest episode, without doubt.
Fifty rifles, nothing said about powder and shot, though. Probably for the best that way.
Imitating the sounds of Felis Catus to entice a woman.
Now that's catcalling!
Three sharpe's in succession, we are a spoilt bunch
I wouldn't have it any other way ^^
The mating call of the iberian furry
"Come to me.... right meow!"
1:20 He found the final neanderthal.
Oof
*Orc
Rodd Rodd go smash
A posh one though, the actor's real name is Hugo !
Sharpe's party would not have been carrying loaves of soft bread like that. Such bread goes stale after a day, and it had undoubtedly been quite some days since they had been issued that bread. They would have had good old hardtack, which those prisoners no doubt would have been glad to get.
@pat They are supposed to be in a relatively uninhabited region. No bakeries.
They got it off the catering truck...what's the matter with you guys...jeez. :-)
@lolmassivebanana Yes. Probably this. Sometimes reality comes in the way of realism :D
@@lanpartyanimal5215 Soooo, I wasn't the only guy thinking that...
According to the Sharpe dvd subtitles; the ‘meowing’ is imitating the cry of a bird.
Isn't that the looting Sargent?
Yup
How to get a woman l, move towards her face like a cat "meow...meow....meow
At which point you just know that he's going to come to a very sticky end...
Oh, he didn't want her for sex. Watch the movie.
@@kettch777 What movie it's a show.
Why'd he want her, then?
@@lightswitchy Human sacrifice to an Aztec god.
Should really give the episode name and all so folks with an interest can look up the full episodes.
It's Sharpe's Gold.
@@odysseusrex5908 Thank you.
Takes away the interaction between us then, no one would need to ask about episodes. I like it this way
I'm just here for the meowing.
Assuming you mean the RUclips clip should include the name I agree. Then you can look up all the clips of that episode not just full episodes.
where were these extras when they did sharpes waterloo?
I love they got native speakers from Spain to do the lines. In a Hollywood production it would be either horribly accented, English speakers reading a phonetic transcript or south americans speaking their dialect.
Pa'lante is a contraction of "para adelante", go forward. Very casual/unrefined speech.
I'm not an expert on the Spanish Guerrillas of the Peninsular War, but I'd like to know if them wearing ancient conquistador armor is accurate, or at the very least, believable.
Both Ukranians and Russians are fielding equipment from the revolutionary war (back when Russians still had a Tsar) right now.
Pretty sure that is entirely made up - like this entire episode as far as I know. At this point armor like that has been out-of-use for over a hundred years. And shields...uff, dunno, maybe up to 300 years?
In the episode a point is made about how odd it is that this guy is wearing 300-year old armor. If I remember correctly, his family has been passing down this conquistador armor for generations, only for this guy to run off into the mountains of Spain to start an Aztec-death cult
Literally catcalling at a pretty woman. Now that's soldiering!
03:00 That was weird.
That was soldiering.
Yeah the meowing weird...but with Tim Curry doing it it's hilariously terrifying. Also last time I saw Tim in that much red he was a French Cardinal
That’s Tim Curry?
@MegaSuperCritic after some research it's Able Folk not Tim Curry
@@BigBWolf90 Thanks for the update. He does look a fair bit like Tim Curry, and it's totally something he would do.
@@MegaSuperCritic oh no argument on my part
@@MegaSuperCritic SPACE!
Must be the Spanish charm that's so famous all around.
You mean "calousness"
i just close my eyes and think that this is an episode of game of throes.. before ep1
That’s MY pick-up line!
I still say Ellie was the loveliest of all Sharpe's ladies...
I'm to high for that cat call
Because 8 out of 10 cats prefer it.
Now that's meowing.
Peter-Hugo Daly "Sergeant Shadrach Bickerstaff" 1:41 also played treacherous "Sergeant Rodd" in Sharpe's Gold.
Rudd.. and this clip /is/ from Sharpe's Gold.
Was there any reason for the cat impression? Having not seen the full episode it was odd in the extreme please inform me if there is more to it than just a Spanish dude being strange
Yeah me too, I don't get it. I took it as saying that I am a mime savage. Then I suppose back then there was no invention of the word "jerk off!!"
Let's just say, the guy meowing is.... a rather weird fellow. The strange cat calling is (unfortunately for a lot of people) not the pinacle of his craziness in this episode...
wearing armor in the 19th century is very smart.
hehe red dwarf Dave Lister meets Sharpe. lol
😂😂😂😂
Alternative Dave Lister lol Jake Abrams.
Is Sargent Rod, Sargent Bickerstaff from Sharpe's Challenge?
Yep same guy
I wonder if the actor ever worked in voice-acting for WC3. He really could do a peon impression
As u can see the wild Spaniard make his mating call to his prey
Isn’t one of the English Prisoners Sergeant Biggerstaff?
Surprised sharp didn't remind Rodd that he had been demoted to Private
Rudd.
Oi Major, I think that prisoner has your hat.
What happened to the Sharpe logo in the bottom left of the thumbnail?
It got promoted.
can anyone please explain the meowing?
The Spanish first catcalling by meowing..
4:24 That's Kenny from Lock, Stock and 2 Barrels LOL
Its is!
@Mr Latency no it really is kenny
@Mr Latency it looks nothing like craig charles
@Mr Latency That was my bad, I said Kenny but was Dean. The actor is Jake Abraham ruclips.net/video/IUR1jeJYX7Y/видео.html
@Mr Latency still looks nothing like craig. And on top of that the 90s he was busy doing dwarf
He missed the squirrel.
Lol "what squirrel"
BANG squeak
"Oh that squirrel"
How many Grammarly ads is enough? When the reach ten billion will they be happy?
It amazes me that there are so many people who don't know grammar, and thus such a product has a market.
4:22 alternative Lister from inquisitor
That Spaniard horse rider had a very spaghetti Western voice didn't he
That time there's no such thing as rules of the war so expect that those prisoners were poorly treated.
It was only in 1859 that Henry Dunant conceived there should be rules, and only in 1862 he published his thoughts as A Memory Of Solferino. Thus at the time the 'rules of war' were not rules at all, just how officers /thought/ others should behave, so more about voluntary respect and gentlemanly conduct toward other officers. Therefore the rank and file were stuffed as nobody really cared how they were treated. Only in 1929 was the treatment of POWs included in the Geneva Conventions so even in the FWW they weren't. IOW I agree.
Dutch from Predator
"They didn't take him away he was skinned alive!"
Good for Sharpe.
Sharpe is always swallowing dramatically
The original Felix Argyle.
Actually he was /PRIVATE/ Rodd. Sharpe demoted him /before/ he deserted.
That meowing is more vulgar than any cursing that could have been said... creepy sick character
Craig Charles’ brother @4:30
OH know it's a GUGWEA in the form of a Spanish faction leader...
Why were they wearing 16th century conquestador armor in the age of Napoleon? Looked terribly anachronistic to me carrying all that dead weight and getting killed with a single shot.
I’m sure that as irregulars, they just grabbed whatever they could.
If you think steel armour was obsolete in 1806, check out what the French cuirassiers wore at Waterloo in 1815.
And also what British soldiers wore on their heads in 1915.
@@adzthesaint curassier armor was more likely to be up to date and effective when bouncing shots and protecting from stabs and slashes. The Broadie was meant to protect soldiers from splinters, shockwaves and other splash based damage.
But these? These were meant to be used when massed pike and shot formations were in vouge. A time when Muskets ( Matchlocks and wheelocks, where less effective and less powerful compared to rifled Muskets and flintlocks.) had a range of 30m.
@@vondantalingting it was for theatrical reasons. Lots of Spanish guerrillas had a 'thing' or an aspect of showmanship to make the French fear them. His was a death cult where they adopted Aztec rituals and wore conquistador armour. So that's the reason.
Honestly even so it's one of the weaker episodes. The book is much better and very different.
@@vondantalingting you might be surprised, early arquebus could deliver *more* powerful shots than the later muskets, but as armor became obsolete for line Infantry the larger powerful firearms became unnecessary and gave way to lighter muskets that didn't require a shooting rest unlike their heavier predecessors.
@@vondantalingting none of the plate armor used in the napoleonic war could withstand bullets from anything but very extreme ranges
Why were the Spanish dressed in 16th-century armour?!
watch the show and find out
They were spanish mountain brigands if I remember the episode correctly. Taking advantage of the war to best things for themselves as they could. Thus the taking and selling back of the men. (basically they were in the best they had).
The book is so much better mate - shame Gold didn't come during the Rifle/Eagles episode period. The book is set in 1810 and is a great read. This is set later - 1813 I think and made El Catalico or 'Casco' as they call in him in this - a bit of a Aztec loving windowlicker.
I always found this one of the weaker Sharpe's but Ayres 'ploughed' line still makes me laugh.
@@thearticulategrunt no, they looted and acquired the armour
@@thearticulategrunt No, a spanish Galleon (or some other vessel) that was transporting Aztec prisoners to show at court wrecked somewhere in the region. The survivors created a death cult based on the Aztec god (or goddess) of death, El Casco is the descendant of the wrecked crew/Aztec prisoners.
that guy made catcalling to next level
This ain't the worst yet guys... This episode is Season 8 Game of Thrones to Sharpe.
I loved the books... where can I get these full episodes/movies in Australia?
oof i dunno. I know my dads got most of the boxsets. You can probably find a load being flogged on ebay or something like that.
Episodes on BritBox and books on Amazon.
Dailymotion
There are full episodes on utube.
These prisoners are the same 😂
uploaded out of order? Spoiler Alert:
the mom is still alive here.?
I don't think so mate 8'(
Why do de Spanish wear amor of the 17th century?
these were a bandit group which wore that Armour, they were gruellias who did there own thing so thats why.
Regular army did not. Howewer, some guerrillas and militias did. Anyways, it wasn´t frequent, it was actually really rare. Guerrillas prefer be adapted to combat and wear comfortable clothes, so they would be able to hide and flee from their attack point once they had finished, easily
Fashion statement Lol
Traces of conquistador style armour especially with his pointed helmet, possible descendant of Spanish in the Aztec controlled parts of central America
They are some bizzare cult of Spainards who practice Aztec rituals. Sharpe and Ayers find a book among dead Frenchmen that says as much
Is that George Clooney on the horse?
"We want water" _Throws them bread with no water_
and pretty dry too, judging by it's crumbling :)
The spanish lad's helmet is about 300 years old for the time of the drama. Just saying so.
Absolutely. How that partisan is wearing such an older helmet? It belonged from the late 15th and early 16th centuries (1400s and 1500s) not the early 19th century (1805 during the Napoleonic Wars). That's a full 300 hundred years difference!! 🙄
Well, this stuff is probably still lying around in some arsenal - and it's a steel helmet - so, as long as it doesn't get wet, it is good for a long time. I think this should highlight that those partisans are forced to use whatever they can get and it also plays very well in the second theme this particular group os playing... Without spoiling, let's say they have a weird sense of nostalgia....
@@robertnett9793 like the Spanish cannons guarding the east entrance of the Presidio in San Francisco, an old US military base. People may think they are from the time the Spanish were in California (between 1770's to 1810's) but since the Presidio only became a US military base in the mid 1850's is highly unlikely the cannons were inherited that way... when you read the incriptions in the cannons you read: "Manila Armory - 1791". Then is when it strikes you... these old cannons were laying somewhere around the Spanish Manila fortifications for centuries until the Americans took them from the city fortress in 1898, when commodore Dewey defeated the Spanish Fleet in Manila Bay, at the beginning of the Spanish-American War, and took the cannons as war trophies and brought them to San Francisco's Presidio.
His breastplate must be 3 centuries old at least, he must've looted a museum
As with a lot of irregular forces he probably grabbed a family heirloom off the wall in lieu of proper armour / weaponry. Then he became known for it so stuck with it.
Is that Jared Harris?
This episode only really uses the books name, nothing else except the provos, at the start...
I haven't read the books, but yes, even just watching the series, this particular episode is so absolutely different and strange compared to the others... not bad per say, but even less historical than the rest.
I thought the British were allies to the Spanish in the Peninsular War, why are the Spaniards holding allied prisoners?
Helping their allies by imprisoning British deserters.
Fool Slayer they would be dead if the Spanish weren’t allies
Where is the border on the thumbnail
Where’s Liz Hurley’s knockers?
something we've all asked at one time
How does Sharpe not speak Spanish, did Teresa not teach him?
He wasn't married to her for that long.
@@SantomPh In the episode where she dies he says she taught him French, so she taught him French but not her native language
@@theshamelesskid2950 He /says/ that but did she actually?
That guy checking the merchandise is a rodelero, a sword and buckler soldier. Which i am surprised, i thought that was phased out before the napoleonic era. If spain and Britain were allies at this time, why keep British prisoners?
They where meant to be bandits or guerrillas by memory.
Also highly likely it was what the BBC had laying around in the props cupboard, budgets for these shows wherent big.
They were members of an Aztec death cult, wearing grass that had been picked up from a shipwreck generations before. It was weird, and highly fanciful, but not meant to be a representation of Spanish regulars, or even normal guerrillas.
@@jimboblordofeskimos ITV not BBC (which actually makes the budget situation worse!)
Listen here meow 🤣
Wtf is this 😂 the spanish in 16th century armour 😂 I get it, many spaniards were guerrillas, and maybe would use any equipment they found but goddamn 16th century armor
just like being a guerilla in 2020, with Lee Enfield or Garand rifles, or anything you could find instead of modern M4 or SCAR rifles
@George Dunn it depends in the angle of the shot,but yeah,unlikely to protect that shot
These were some very weird people, there's a story behind it.
kinda feel bad for Rod and his troops ngl
What's with the meowing?!
Can’t tell which culture this guy is trying to…revive…the Aztec or the Portuguese….cause I know neither would want to mixed with the other
This freaks me out more than meowing - we have military exchanging airways with meowing that’s more intimidating
3:04 Okay, do Spanish girls find that shit attractive or something?!
Only Bread to eat?
But feerst, I eenteemedate los Ingles weeth my eempression of una gato.
Wtf did I just watch
why are they wearing 200 year old outfits? (the spanish obviously)
as far as can be said,they are a religious cult,made up of Spaniards who claim to be descendants of the old Aztecs,that's it.