This week's sunday night movie and crafting was "Sharpe's Company" (I skipped a couple of weeks due to sister being home and then backpacking.) It turned out by sheer chance to be the one that comes right after Sharpe's Dragon, which I had just re-read and is a favorite of mine. "Sharpe's Company" had a lot fewer dragons for some reason. Did have about the expected quotient of worryingly young and very shirtless Sean Bean though.

It was fun but I didn't find it quite as compelling as the Hornblower one, possibly I think because Sharpe is actually damn good at his job, and loves his job, and knows it, which was terrifically fun to watch, don't get me wrong, this is a great series for competence porn, but the catharsis was less, because you knew that if they just let Sharpe get on with doing his damn job everything would be A-OK. Being infantry based it also had a different sort of ethos around the concept of war than the Navy ones I know more about, which I'm still thinking about.

Promised analysis of backpacking pack is going up on Tumblr because, augh, DW is so much better for so many things, but not having to mess with photo hosting counts for a lot.