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Terry Cooper

There are also 3 one off specials of different blackadder historical characters.

Patrick

'Going for a duck' is a cricket reference. If a batsman goes out for a duck they've been dismissed with zero score(golden duck if you're out first ball). Thanks again for watching the show! It's been awesome fun going through the series again.

Roland

The Battle of the Somme resulted in more than one million total casualties (dead, wounded, and missing) across all sides between July 1st and November 18th, 1916. This total includes roughly 300,000 to 400,000 deaths and over 600,000 wounded men. Red poppies became the ultimate symbol of World War I remembrance because they were the first plants to bloom across the churned-up, blood-soaked battlefields of Flanders and northern France, inspiring Canadian doctor John McCrae's famous 1915 poem "In Flanders Fields". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders_Fields In Flanders fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. + The Royal British Legion (similar to the Veterans Of Foreign Wars organization in the USA) adopted the poppy in 1921 for its first major charity campaign, a tradition that continues globally today, around the 11th November / Remembrance Sunday. It's still a very big deal* in Commonwealth countries. TV newscasters will wear (paper) poppies and football teams in the UK will wear shirts with poppies printed on them, etc. *with a tinge of controversy that's not really useful to get into here

Tarryn Harris

They wanted to honour the struggle and the pain of the war and not make light of it. The humour of this final episode comes almost entirely from laughing at the awful absurdness and insanity of the war. Very sad but a beautiful memorial.

Ian Poulin

Thank you for using that version; the last seven seconds as they fade to the poppies growing at the actual battlefields is one of the most amazing moments of British television history. The Comedy Central version cuts that out completely.

Roland

There's a lot of excellent movies about WW1, but the one that's closest to this final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth is probably Journey's End, most recently re-made in 2017, and based on the original 1928 stage play by R C Sherriff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey%27s_End_(2017_film) Look at that stacked cast: Asa Butterfield – Second Lieutenant Raleigh Sam Claflin – Captain Stanhope Paul Bettany – Lieutenant 'Uncle' Osborne Tom Sturridge – Second Lieutenant Hibbert Toby Jones – Private Mason (The Cook) Stephen Graham – Second Lieutenant Trotter Robert Glenister – The Colonel Andy Gathergood – The Company Sergeant Major Miles Jupp – Captain Hardy Jack Holden – Bert Turner (Cook's helper) Eirik Bar – Soldat Ernst Schäfer (German prisoner)

that girl

The rest of the series is Horatian satire; this episode is more Juvenalian.

GemmaBeeBee

The fade away to the poppy fields always makes me choke up. I don’t believe that the poppy is as big a symbol of remembrance in America but the UK and a lot of commonwealth countries still wear a poppy on Armistice Day in remembrance of all the soldiers lost then and in the wars that followed.

that girl

Melchett offers to save George then sends Darling to his death. The upper class understand class solidarity better than anyone.

Actuarial Lurker

Going "over the top" frequently resulted in 50% casualty rates and 20%-25% fatalities- i.e half cut down and injured and half of these fatally wounded from gas, artillery, machine gun etc Some advances had 60%-90% casualties. US Civil war had battles with 20% casualties and that was considered inhuman. VietNam and WW2 were under 5%

Actuarial Lurker

I was an ex-pat working in Canada for 18 months and they wore artificial poppies for Armistice

Laura Dawson

And it’s the song Bob sings in the shower in ‘Major Star’.

Balazs Foldes

Yeah, this one hits heavy, and is one to make you think. These guys had some guts to close the core series like this. Certainly makes you remember the show something different.

Laura Dawson

This episode always hits me hard. The steady build up of dread throughout as our favourites get ready for the big push, and that ending with the field of poppies. Damn! Blackadder is still a really popular show in the UK. I remember in the early 2000s there was this massive public vote organised by the BBC to find out what Britain’s best loved comedy show was. They got celebrities and comedians to argue for their favourites and host documentaries about them. The whole thing lasted weeks and was a big deal at the time. I can’t remember if I voted for Blackadder or Yes, Minister. Blackadder came second overall. Just beaten by Only Fools and Horses. So yes: a much loved show. Thanks for watching. So glad you enjoyed it!

Roland

That's crazy. 🥶

kosmickrab

Now that Blackadder is done, I hope you go back and try to start Fawlty Towers again. Here are some other suggestions for British shows you can do later as well: Monty Python's Flying Circus, Red Dwarf, and if you haven't seen it, the original The Office would be worth checking out. Thanks guys!

Kat

I love this episode. The writing and performances are amazing, taking us from 4 seasons of laughter to tears in the space of less than half an hour, but it never feels overdone or out of character for anyone. I love Blackadder's reference to the Christmas truce of 1914, which always reminds me of this advert which was also really well done https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWF2JBb1bvM

Kat

Would love to see Red Dwarf on the channel.

GDF

If you want more, there's the film Blackadders Christmas Carol.

I🖤Kraken

Stunning ending to a spectacular show. I remember watching this as an 8 or 9 year old on PBS reruns and having the freeze frame of them going over the top stuck in my head all these years. It always makes me want to restart a binge to see them in happier times. Red poppies...

Claire Eyles

This ending is one of the most iconic endings for a British television series ever produced, in my opinion. Hugh Laurie's delivery of, "Sir? I'm scared, sir" is just beautifully done. This is a short snippet from a longer documentary on Blackadder. It talks about the making of the final scene, and includes some of the original footage before they went with the fade out to a field of poppies idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbR9-etyN6I Also if you get a chance I highly recommend reacting to the Australian television series "Gallipoli" from 2015. It is one of the best portrayals of the Battle of Gallipoli I've ever seen. I believe the series' Director has made it available on Vimeo here: https://vimeopro.com/user1783024/gallipoli The telemovie "Pozieres" from 2000 is worth a look as well, as is the 1964 UK film production, "King and Country" (that one is highly recommended). Also if you don't mind silent films Abel Gance's 1919 film release "J'accuse" is brilliant and features actual war footage and soldiers on leave from the Western Front as extras. The 1932 French WWI film "Wooden Crosses", and the 1930 German film "Westfront 1918" are also both highly recommended (Westfront 1918 was one of the first films to have the guts to portray an Officer experiencing a complete meltdown from shellshock). The 2014 restoration of Westfront 1918 is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOXGBTYKkVQ

Claire Eyles

Speaking of Gallipoli, one of my 2nd cousins once removed was part of the April 25th dawn landing at Anzac Cove. He was a soldier in the 12th Battalion, that provided covering fire to the initial infantry landing, before going ashore themselves. Joined up in 1914, was hospitalised with measles in early 1915, recovered and deemed fit for duty just in time for the Gallipoli landing, had a fall and blew out his knee less than a month later, eventually invalided back to Australia in 1916, spent time recovering, re-enlisted in the Field Ambulance Corps in 1917, got through the war relatively unscathed in terms of wounds, caught Spanish Flu in 1918, spent a year recovering in a convalescent hospital.

Youtalkingtome

You really need that bit at the end. It's such a gut punch

Roland

I'm not up enough on my Ancient Roman poetry to comment, beyond to nod approvingly as if I know what we're talking about. 🤩