to be saddened that the last ever Blackadder isnt being shown tonight?

[Bogeyface]

For years that episode has been shown on the Saturday before Remembrance Sunday, usually sometime after the Albert Hall ceremony.

It makes me cry whenever I see it anyway, but on this night it brings home the reality of just how cruel and stupid the men behind that war were.

AIBU?

I love that.

We watched it at school. Actually introduced me to blackadder. I laughed my arse off, and then sobbed.

It's very very good

war isn't always bad though

YANBU I absolutely agree with you. I wonder why they aren't showing it.

What a good idea to show it to pupils at school. It does really upset me though. I remember the first time I saw it with my dad having seen all the previous balckadders. I couldn't believe how it ended, I was only a child and only wanted happy endings. My dad who is a history academic thought it was superb and now as an adult I do too. I only didn't like it hen becuase it made me so sad, certainly sent the message home though.

when is war not bad? Even when it is necessary it is tragic and wasteful

War isn't always bad ? Yeah, theres nothing like a good War is there .

Even though it was comedy gold it brought it home so much better than the books ever could. I think they should show it in all schools

Still think its the best piece of TV ever.

Just an aside 'My Boy Jack' is on one of the ITV channels tomorrow night at 9pm. Amazing film. V sad.

War! huh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Uh-huh. War! huh-yeah. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again y'all. War!

(sung in my best Edwin Starr voice..)

And agree that episode was brilliant. Shame they're not showing it.

My intention wasnt to start a debate about war.

My OP was because the men behind the first war were at best stupid and at worst, evil. Millions died through stupidity, and as the generation that remembers that war is all but gone, the likes of BAGF teaches a new generation of the stupidity and the horror. And it does it in such a brilliant way, by blind siding you after the humour.

I loved My Boy Jack too, I cried my eyes out at that and I am not someone who normally cries at TV or films.

Im preparing myself for a sob fest tomorrow night.

I agree, such a brilliant but emotional end.

It connects you with the people who gave their lives rather than the politics of the wars, especially WWI when so many were mown down every day.

Not so easy to give each of them a face and family and I reckon Blackadder did that.

Not so easy to give each of them a face and family and I reckon Blackadder did that.

Exactly.

About (and I don't like that it's such a rounded up/down number) 300 000 died on the first day of the Somme, how can you possibly comprehend so much pain and suffering?

It's hard enough when it's 'just' the nearly 3000 on 9/11.