Tally Ho

[tealin]

I have just rediscovered how much I love Blackadder Goes Forth. It's wonderfully silly but really quite dark, with occasional moments of surprising poignancy that prove how well the actors have filled their otherwise comic roles.* Now, in the vein of Scary Mary, comes a 'trailer' for the epic, tragic tale of Capt. E. Blackadder & Co.

Needless to say, it's funnier if you're familiar with the series, and most funny if you've watched it recently enough to remember the context for most of the scenes they used. But it's better than all of the trailers I saw in front of Children of Men which were a real crop of duds...

*Or how well it's written. Or both. Or neither, and I'm finding something where there isn't anything really. Suits me fine, whatever.

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[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

No, I have not seen Blackadder's Christmas Carol! O that such a thing exists! It actually amuses me somewhat as I have just recently used Blackadder as an indictment against the recent radio production of A Christmas Carol on BBC7, where Scrooge's character was not played in such a way as to bring out his intrinsic comic side – my point is that Scrooge, like Blackadder, is a miserable, bitter person, but one who takes great pleasure in expressing this bitter misery in as clever and barbed a way as possible. This is written into Scrooge's character, and ignoring it does a disservice to the character and to the story.

I don't know what the music is, but it sounds familiar ... do you know what it is?

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