Meme!

[doyle]

Gakked from mosca

The Questions:
1. Pick something on my interests list that you also like and describe why.
2. Pick something on my interests list that you don't like and describe why.
3. Pick something that is on my interests list that surprises you. Why does this surprise you?
4. Pick something that is on my interests list that you know next to nothing about (if you want me to give you details, let me know that, too).
5. Pick something that you think should be on my interests list. Why do you think it should be there?

Comments

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

You've never seen Blackadder? You must see it! Tremendous British sitcom with four series set in four different time periods - the middle ages, the time of Elizabeth I, the time of George III and the first world war - with actors playing much the same characters. Edmund Blackadder's always the lead, a weaselly down-on-his-luck character always trying to make things better for himself but never managing it.

My favourite's the last series, the war one, because as well as being funny it's so bleak. I'm going to go ahead and spoil you: every week is about an attempt by Captain Blackadder to get a transfer out of the trenches, and every week he almost makes it before something sends him back. In the last episode they finally get the order to go over the top, and you're sure that this time his plan will work and he'll be saved. And it doesn't. And every character goes over the top and dies, as the sound fades out and the action slows, then freezes and fades, coming up to show the battlefield as it is today - a beautiful field of poppies.

It's a gorgeous ending and it recently got voted the best end of a TV show ever, but I'm frightened the 'everybody dies' thing will be the Angel finale... :wibbles:

[stumbelina.livejournal.com]

There was a crying meme going around recently. One question was about a scene in a film or TV show that made you cry. That one there... every time. When It was originally on tv I remember being shocked into stillness and then just loosing it. Comedy does sad and shocking with such force when it does it right.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know. I think it's on the line "who would have noticed another madman around here?" when you realize they're actually going to go over that I lose it...

[stumbelina.livejournal.com]

::chinwobble::

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

I agree with you. The Medieval and Elizabethan ones are wonderful, and I enjoy the Christmas Carol one, but the WWI one is the best by far. "Blackadder Goes Forth". It is by inspiration of Capt. Blackadder's attempt to get out of the attack that I pronounce "www" as "wibble".