Blackadder

[MARTIN1]

Am I being unreasonable to not want them to bother making a new series of Blackadder? The series set in the First World War was quite lame compared to the others and the millennium episode was far from tv gold.

Blackadder

No, I had exactly the same thoughts. It will never be as good

Disagree about WWI series, I thought it was excellent

Without Flashheart, Blackadder would be like a broken pencil.

I agree, Not that the WW1 series was bad, but they shouldn't do another.

Maybe a one off feature length special or something would be better.

I don't think it's going to be compulsory to watch it.

I love Blackadder but I wish they'd stop bringing shows back and ruining them!

Oddlylogical It WILL be compulsory watching for me if they do another series/special

The WW1 was fantastic! Only beaten -just- by the Elizabethan one.

I don't think it's going to be compulsory to watch it.

You say that but the last time someone in this house refused to watch Blackadder, Tony Robinson appeared, tied them to a chair and beat them around the face with the leg bone of a Roman solder.

The WW was my favourite and I loved the poignant ending.I think it brought home to new generation the scandalous waste of life.
Don't remember the millennium one?

I did like the ending of WW1, it was very moving. I felt they laboured the Captain Darling joke too much. I loved the Flash-Heart episode when Bladder wanted to join the RAF!

"Always treat you kite, like you treat your woman - Get inside her five times a day and take her to heaven and back"

I loved Blackadder, but I now can't stand RA, because of his pisstake of Autistic etc movements, him being practically non verbal in Mr Bean, made it even worse.

So BA has been destroyed for me, for that reason, plus it won't be nearly as good.

because of his pisstake of Autistic etc movements, him being practically non verbal in Mr Bean, made it even worse

When Mr Bean was invented, The character in 1979 for not the 9 o’clock news, Autism wasn't really a thing with those as defining characteristics. It’s not an outright Pisstake of autism.

Rowan Atkinson stole most of the character from Mr Hulot.

You could say the same about Mr laurel.

I hate Mr Bean. But why does that mean I have to hate Blackadder too?

I've never like Mr Bean. Johnny English is OK but I think Bean and English are more aimed at the younger teen age group

I agree Bertrand Mr Bean was embarrassing but Blackadder is effing brilliant esp. the Tudor one where RA is sooo HOT . Not bad as the Regency butler either. Not sure about a remake though. The Christmas Carol one was not very good at all.

The man is a very good actor.

I have mixed feelings about the fourth series. Obviously the ending was great, but the jokes seemed laboured in comparison to the Elizabethan and Georgian ones. The Darling joke wears very thin as do the laboured "As cunning as a fox who's recently been made professor of cunning at Oxford university" similes.

The possibility of a new series gets floated every few years but comes to nothing, thankfully. Ideas floated have included Colditz (too similar to Blackadder goes Forth?) and a Rock group in the 60s called The Black Adder 5. (Not sure how that would work given that all the actors are well into their 50s) and the post Blackadder output of Richard Curtis and Ben Elton doesn't exactly fill me with confidence that anything they'd produce would be any cop.

It can't be good. It simply can't be.
It doesn't need making.

A new series can't be made. It would never be as good as those actors have aged and moved on. It would only work if time travel were possible and they could make more series there and then.

Wow - DH mentioned this today - first I'd heard of it. He said that he'd heard Tony Robinson claiming that it was going to be set in the 1960s and the characters were going to be part of a rock band. Can't see it working, TBH. Ah, just seen Compos's post about the rock band. waves at Compos

I HATED the space episode. I HATED the Christmas Carol episode.

They should leave perfection alone.

A lot of Rock stars are in their 70s ComposH It COULD be very good it depends on the writing of course.

At least it'll be with the same people. I'm worried about the forthcoming Dad's Army film.

That said, imo they def should have left Open All Hours alone...

Apparently Tony Robinson was going to be the drummer in the band and his name Bald Rick

The possibility of a new series gets floated every few years but comes to nothing, thankfully. Ideas floated have included Colditz (too similar to Blackadder goes Forth?) and a Rock group in the 60s called The Black Adder 5.

There was also talk of a 60 coldwar spy set up for the 5th.