There were a lot of people who uncovered the humorous side of war. Case in point, Bruce Bairnsfather, he was a Captain during the First World War, yet in that horror of the trenches, he drew cartoons exposing the lighter side of war. I really feel that the writers that gave us the six episodes of Blackadder Goes Forth, took ideas from Bairnsfather's cartoons.
i love that series! i saw many of you talking about the war, well since it's so horrible, you schouldn't take a part in it! it was a problem between austo-hungary and balkan peasants! but you want it to fight germany. now don't cry , also german and other soldiers had horrors too, it's not only you my dear fellows, and let's not forget your field marchall heig who made dessisions that killed many of his soldies, his nick name was the butcher of soma! so you made your hell! before starting to wonder, no i'm not a german, i'm just saying the way the things are and was!
You obviously know nothing about the first world war, or you would understand it. Seriously, go and learn about the trench warfare, and you will understand that it anything BUT miss the mark.
But in WWI the insanity of some of the war strategies used, and the removal of the commanders from the reality of the Front, aside from anything else, was sheer madness. The number of times they sent men over the top as if it would break the stalemate when the same thing had failed time and time again - if nothing else - was utterly ridiculous and worthy of satire, and of its legacy reputation as sheer madness. Regardless of what the writers think about the reasons for the war themselves, I can ABSOLUTELY buy that many of the brighter soldiers on the front, with families and lives at home, who understood little of politics and everything about family life and the conditions they were being forced to spend month after month in, would see the sheer insanity of the SITUATION. And that's what this is - a sitcom - a situational comedy - a laughable, if bitterly-laughable in this case - situation.
Great documentary, but it's just so ridiculous how religious they seem to become once they talk about that dreadful final episode of "Blackadder goes Forth", as if it was some sort of incredibly important thing. I love Blackadder, but the way John Lloyd gets all pretentious about that episode being some sort of genius bit of tv is complete nonsense. It was an attempt at drama in a comedy series, and it failed miserably. The only episode in the whole of Blackadder that really missed the mark.
You are literally the only person in the world that thinks that and you must be a complete idiot. That was one of the greatest scenes in all of television; either you have no respect for those that lost their lives in the first world war or you just can't appreciate good television.
Really got a username that lends you credibility, don't you? I think this generation gets a bit 'religious' about not mixing drama and comedy. To the extent that even when a successful mix is achieved, they stubbornly fail to see it, purely because they're so dogged about the critics' theoretical principle that it Shouldn't Ever Be Done. You've told us nothing about WHY you think it's a failure. Therefore why should we give any weight to your opinion with regards to the fact that you DO think it's a failure? Yes, you're entitled to your opinion, yes you have the freedom to express it any where and anyhow you choose, but that doesn't make it right to do so, nor does it make it, or the way or place in which it's done, correct or important or worthy of equal respect in comparison to other better couched and better expressed opinions.
@@catherinespark It can be done, and it can be done well. I'm not religious about that at all. Only just recently I genuinely cried watching one of Dave Gorman's old standup shows, which has a brilliant emotional twist at the end. In the case of Blackadder's final episode, it was sentimental schmaltz though. And by their own admission it was born out of a nightmare on set where nobody could convincingly act "going over the top". So they tried to style it out with slow motion and a fade to a poppy field. Apparently, that sort of highschool film project approach is enough to get a lot of people all weepy-eyed and awestruck. Oh those dear boys... who had just spent four seasons making bum-and-knob gags and clever insults at each other, look, now they're all serious and sincere. It just doesn't work for me, because it feels like a forced attempt at trying to make something meaningful and emotional (and let's be honest "award-worthy") out of a show of which the driving force was destroying and subverting concepts like meaning, empathy, sincerity or genuine emotion. And in doing so it essentially betrayed the character of the show in its final episode. That's a shame, because the rest of the series and the entire show hold up incredibly well, even more than 30 years after it was made. And that's very rare for comedy. Is that enough of a "why" for you, or will you just keep elaborating your point, which mainly seems to be "I'm a real nightmare to get stuck with at a party".
