Oh yeah! I've had the hots for Sean for almost as long as I have for Bono! It was around about the same time, i.e. the late 1980s, while I was just getting into U2, had bought their latest album Rattle and Hum, the previous year and any other U2 album/single I could get my hands at the time (no such thing as digital downloads back then!) when I found out that Sting was starring in a new film called Stormy Monday.

Now I'd been a fan of Sting and The Police even before U2, so of course I wanted to see it. But oh my, as soon as Sean appeared on the screen I was like, "Wow, who's this guy?!?" and poor old Sting didn't get a look in after that!! Ever since, I've followed Sean's career as closely as I could for one being stuck out in the back of beyond, where only a fraction of international films and tv series ever get shown or even released on video/dvd! So, of all the films and TV shows Sean ever starred in, I've only been able to see Patriot Games, Lady Chatterley, Golden Eye, When Saturday Comes, Lord of the Rings (it was mainly coz of Sean that I even wanted to see this movie, at the time the story itself was unfamiliar and I knew hardly nothing about any of the other actors!), Troy, National Treasure (which was just recently shown here on TV for the first time!) and most recently Sharpe! Which again, first two episodes have only just been released onto dvd this January, the next 3 episodes were released onto dvd in February, and I of course bought both box sets as soon as they became available. And episodes 6, 7 and 8 are due to be released next month.

I watched the first episode the other day and oh wow, it's not often one can use the word beautiful to describe a man but Sean is sooooo beautiful as Sharpe! All that blond hair, intense green eyes, and fit physique, oh yeah!





I swear he must have some Nordic blood rushing through his veins, there's just something so familiar about his features. I'm not just talking about his blondness but also his eyes and his build, I'm seeing a definite Viking ancestry there!

Here are a couple of screen caps I took from the 3rd episode....





It just so happened that I received episodes 3, 4 and 5 before the first two but I didn't realized it until I watched the first ½ hour of the 3rd episode, taking screen caps! So I forced myself to stop watching it and waited for first box set to arrive!! I only hope that the trend continues and all the rest of the Sharpe series will eventually end up being released on dvd here in Finland.

Oh and I suppose should congratulate Sean on tying the knot again! *she says grudgingly* Let's hope this one's a keeper!! *sort of* It's the jealously talking....