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BLACKADDER BACK AND FORTH SPECIAL REACTION!

This was excellent!

BLACKADDER BACK AND FORTH SPECIAL REACTION!

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Great reaction KB thank you, agree it’s a top British show

Craig Jackson

I'd only seen this once ir twice over 20 years ago. I thought it was great!

Danny Wells

YES! I was checking to see if anyone else remembered it from there. I was 9 at the time, remember it very clearly!

Azza

It's a poor man's Time bandits and jules verne's time machine

Yaapsdad

For completion of the whole show then you should watch it . But it's very disappointing when set against everything that has gone before in the world of Blackadder

Yaapsdad

Finished on a low. By far the weakest blackadder

Yaapsdad

Theme tune was written by Howard Goodall who also wrote the Red Dwarf theme. Also wrote the QI theme, and appeared as a guest panelist once.

TomPalmer

I love this special. If people want historical accuracy, don't watch Blackadder!

Stuart Gibbons

Cliched juvenile trash that should have stayed in the dome. Ideal for those that want to show off their limited knowledge of history.

Dave Roberts

Well tweek my love spuds..have always avoided the specials but turns out they were quite good..if I knew Rik was in this 1 I would have watched years ago

Paul Liversage

I like how the T-rex was in the credits as himself. I always thought was a fun mini movie, I think it was on one Christmas here.

LyingSecret

Hadrian's Wall was much taller, but years of erosion and taking bricks off it for free building material made it a lot smaller.

Daniel Heywood

Has your front camera got a 'fish-eye' effect or am I more drunk than usual?

Daniel Heywood

😂 ♥

Jason Scade

Didn't Shakespeare writer for the common man, though? Full of violence, sex and toilet humour, like we still do today?

Joe Thornhill

During the train scene in Paddington 2, I was trying to think of 'Land of hope and glory' but all I was getting was the Blackadder theme. That's how good it is.

Joe Thornhill

Seeing Baldrick with Robin Hood always gets me thinking about Tony Robinson’s kids tv series he later wrote, Maid Marian and her Merry Men (which had some writing input from Richard Curtis and was basically almost Blackadder for kids). Marian is in charge, Robin is incompetent and Danny John-Jules (Cat from Red Dwarf) is an all singing Rastafarian merry man

Kevin Hussey

Never actually seen this for some reason. Loved it.

Phil C

It was easily the best thing about Millennium Dome which was otherwise massively disappointing

Matt

Absolute classic

Kieran B

A friend recorded this from Sky which is how I first saw it. I remember there was a documentary about the Harlem Globetrotters on the VHS afterwards - weirdly associate them with Back and Forth now

Kieran B

In terms of how big Hadrian's wall was, it varies depending on whereabouts on the wall you look. In some places it was a big wall, complete with guard towers and forts. In other areas it was little more than a rapidly erected earth barrier. I believe the original plan was that a fortified wall would eventually be built all the way along, but ultimately this never came to pass.

FPG

No-idea Keir is the worst PM in my lifetime and his fuck-wit collection of MP's have reached new lows, and that's saying something. The UK needs a 'Thatcher-esque' leader now more than ever to stop the downward spiral.

Fordy7169

So glad you reacted to this. Some people didn't like Back and Fourth but I love it. It didn't have quite the punch of the series but it was a nice little extra that did a good job of revisiting the various eras. Although I would have loved Hugh Laurie to reprise his role as George.

Michael K

You've got to try watch Peters friends...

rtkeane

Difference is thatcher prepared for 18mons. and went for her policies and delivered them, all the money blair spent came from her policies, no u turns no messing. like or loath her, she was a proper operator. New UK gov had 13yrs to be ready and they have done more damage messing with student politics and ideals in 6mons than truss did. they've made a mess and guaranteed a harder right

rtkeane

This was originally only shown in a special cinema in the Millennium Dome (our big arena built for NYE 1999) and was only later broadcast.

Iain Chase

Apparently (Sir) Stephen Fry wanted to reprise his role as Wellington because he felt bad for how inaccurately he portrayed him in Blackadder 3

Iain Chase

Hadrian's Wall as a defensive structure wasn't really built to keep out marauding armies or anything of that nature, as such things didn't really present a threat at the time it was built. It was more to stop small bands of thieves and raiders crossing back and forth from the fringes of the Empire to the lands of the 'barbarians'. So nobody was attacking it with huge armies and siege engines, but they would be trying to steal across it in small raiding groups. The wall, combined with the garrisson and pits, were enough in this respect.

ALW

At least Thatcher had bigger balls than the rest put together

Louise Miller

I would say Margaret Thatcher is more divisive than despised. We either love her or hate her. Most people that love her tend not to be as loud as those that hate her.

ALW

As I said previously, only a muppet would tell you not to bother watching "Back and Forth"! Just seeing Miranda Richardson as Queenie again makes it worth watching.

(Just) Steve

@The Everything Guy - Nothing to do with misinformation, Starmer and his cohorts have completely buggered things up from the start and it's only getting worse!

(Just) Steve

I enjoyed it when it first came out. And enjoy this episode each time I see it. Can't wait until Summer 3000 to see the sequel.

Ryan Lynch

To me it seems even more speed up than the 25fps version

Jasmine Carpenter

people rightly hated thatcher though, she did things we can point to and clearly say, this was because of her impact, milk, miners etc. she claimed it and was was proud of those choices. people have a bad opinion of Starmer mainly based on misinformation. hes made a few bad choices of course but nothing on the level thatcher was at, and even she was nothing compared to the last tory government.

The Everything Guy

IIRC it's to do with film being shot at 24fps, and the UK format is PAL/50hz, which playback of 25fps fits, resulting in the ever so slight pitch/speed increase for films (be it US, UK, or wherever) being shown on our screens. At least I think the explanation is something along those lines. (I remember first noticing a discrepancy between the voices of the kids in South Park the movie compared to the TV show) Most modern TVs display in 60hz so the issue is all but non-existant these days.

David Lyons

Centurion crests weren’t necessarily lateral, depends on the period and type of helmet 😁

Kieran B

I know a few people in this (mostly historical reenactors) in the Robin Hood and Napoleon scenes. Well spotted that Napoleon was Beria!

Kieran B

Margaret thatcher, probably the most despised Prime minister who's name pops up in reaction videos. Keir Starmer; "hold my beer"

Colin R

It's marvelous

Rob webber

Been waiting for this reaction :)

D R

Why is it sped up?

Jasmine Carpenter

Tim McInnerny is also in Gladiator 2.

Helen Francis

Glad you didn't listen to the killjoys!!

Baswell


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