joeybee12
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Tue Jan-20-04 10:04 PM
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I'm avoiding Dumbo and all politics by watching the Black Adder Series |
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I think Black Adder Goes Forth is my favorite, but each series has its charms!
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Tue Jan-20-04 10:06 PM
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1. Black Adder II is my fav |
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I wish I had done the same joeybee12 as I am now close to being physically ill.. You chose.... wisely... :) Scott
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Tue Jan-20-04 10:09 PM
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2. Thanks--sometimes you just have to get away from it all!!!!!!!! |
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Two is great because Queen Bess is a friggin' nutcase!!!!!
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Tue Jan-20-04 10:10 PM
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3. Mine fave is Black Adder III |
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"Disease and hunger stalk our land like two giant...stalking things."
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Tue Jan-20-04 10:15 PM
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7. Hugh Laurie made a great idiot Prince Regent! |
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Wed Jan-21-04 01:57 AM
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Would Laurie make a good "our minibrain", if you get my drift?
I can see it now Blackadder V:
Edmind Blackadder is the British Ambassador to the United States....
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Wed Jan-21-04 07:52 AM
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14. Naw, Hugh Laurie plays him as likeable! |
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Need a real hateful idiot to play this jerk!
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Wed Jan-21-04 01:55 AM
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11. Ah yes, Black Adder III |
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Where do you think I got "minibrain" from?
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Tue Jan-20-04 10:13 PM
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4. Which one is Black Adder Goes Forth? |
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I think #1 was where he was Prince Edmund. #2 he was something with Queen Elizabeth. #3 he was the valet to the Prince of Wales. In #4 it was World War I or II. Is that the Goes Forth?
I still quote the French guy "how conwenient."
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Tue Jan-20-04 10:14 PM
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5. Yeah, The WWI is Black Adder Goes Forth... |
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...they just seemed to click in that series, although all the others are great, too.
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Wed Jan-21-04 10:07 AM
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17. The last episode, especially... |
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Each of the Blackadder series ends with all the characters dying. The "tradition" began with the first one, which liberally ripped off Shakespeare--several of his tragedies end with bodies all over the place.
In Blackadder Goes Forth, there was no need to invent a clever plot twist to bring on the demise of the characters. They just followed history. Some of the best military minds of that generation had already invented methods of killing great numbers of their own troops.
Once the characters realize they're going into a hopeless battle, the tone changes a bit from the hilarious snarkiness that I love so well in Blackadder.
At the end, they go "over the top" in slow motion & the smoke of battle obscures the details. The Great War is too recent to be amusing. In Britain, especially, there are too many fading photos of grandfathers or great-grandfathers who never came back.
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Wed Jan-21-04 11:23 PM
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18. Yes, that was really done well... |
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...it chokes me up no matter how many times I see it!
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Wed Jan-21-04 11:26 PM
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19. "Goodbyeeee" (the final ep.) is everything M*A*S*H* tried to be... |
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heartbreaking, the field of poppies as the final shot. :(
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Wed Jan-21-04 11:28 PM
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20. The last episode of MASH was probably my my disappointing experience |
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with television, and I've had a lot of experiences with that tube!
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Tue Jan-20-04 10:15 PM
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6. You had a cunning plan |
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Tue Jan-20-04 10:18 PM
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8. It's always a cunning plan!!!!!!!!! |
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Tue Jan-20-04 10:24 PM
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9. I loved when Adder saw Baldrick as the executioner |
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and said, "Baldrick, what are you doing here?" "It's a hobby, My Lord."
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Tue Jan-20-04 10:28 PM
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10. Ah, Mr and Mrs Ploppy! |
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What a coincidence, many a laugh we've had over that!
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Wed Jan-21-04 02:04 AM
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13. "You're about as useless as a cat-flap in an elephant house..." |
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"Everybody knows Lady Hamilton is a virgin...cut of my arm and poke my eye out if I'm wrong!"
"So I should refer to it as 'The Scottish Play'...and not 'Macbeth'..."
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Wed Jan-21-04 09:26 AM
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15. I love that series... Brilliant! :^) |
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2 is my fave, 3 and 4 are tied, 1 is ok but I like the snarky version of Edmund better.
I do admit to sniffling as each of the Eddies met their end. :^(
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Wed Jan-21-04 09:27 AM
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16. P.S. Don't forget "Some beans and some beans" |
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