BLACKADDER BACK AND FORTH SPECIAL REACTION!
Added 2025-01-13 17:00:07 +0000 UTCThis was excellent!
Comments
Great reaction KB thank you, agree it’s a top British show
Craig Jackson
2025-05-03 23:09:20 +0000 UTCI'd only seen this once ir twice over 20 years ago. I thought it was great!
Danny Wells
2025-01-17 16:40:40 +0000 UTCYES! I was checking to see if anyone else remembered it from there. I was 9 at the time, remember it very clearly!
Azza
2025-01-16 23:42:54 +0000 UTCIt's a poor man's Time bandits and jules verne's time machine
Yaapsdad
2025-01-15 22:19:27 +0000 UTCFor 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
2025-01-15 21:50:42 +0000 UTCFinished on a low. By far the weakest blackadder
Yaapsdad
2025-01-15 21:48:01 +0000 UTCTheme 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
2025-01-14 23:29:51 +0000 UTCI love this special. If people want historical accuracy, don't watch Blackadder!
Stuart Gibbons
2025-01-14 18:05:18 +0000 UTCCliched juvenile trash that should have stayed in the dome. Ideal for those that want to show off their limited knowledge of history.
Dave Roberts
2025-01-14 13:49:15 +0000 UTCWell 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
2025-01-14 12:20:54 +0000 UTCI 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
2025-01-14 09:02:42 +0000 UTCHadrian'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
2025-01-14 04:06:48 +0000 UTCHas your front camera got a 'fish-eye' effect or am I more drunk than usual?
Daniel Heywood
2025-01-14 03:54:45 +0000 UTC😂 ♥
Jason Scade
2025-01-14 00:08:03 +0000 UTCDidn't Shakespeare writer for the common man, though? Full of violence, sex and toilet humour, like we still do today?
Joe Thornhill
2025-01-13 23:47:00 +0000 UTCDuring 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
2025-01-13 23:29:37 +0000 UTCSeeing 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
2025-01-13 23:25:58 +0000 UTCNever actually seen this for some reason. Loved it.
Phil C
2025-01-13 21:54:59 +0000 UTCIt was easily the best thing about Millennium Dome which was otherwise massively disappointing
Matt
2025-01-13 21:52:35 +0000 UTCAbsolute classic
Kieran B
2025-01-13 21:39:32 +0000 UTCA 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
2025-01-13 21:39:11 +0000 UTCIn 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
2025-01-13 21:30:22 +0000 UTCNo-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
2025-01-13 21:12:13 +0000 UTCSo 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
2025-01-13 21:07:57 +0000 UTCYou've got to try watch Peters friends...
rtkeane
2025-01-13 20:25:08 +0000 UTCDifference 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
2025-01-13 20:21:13 +0000 UTCThis 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
2025-01-13 20:12:48 +0000 UTCApparently (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
2025-01-13 20:10:27 +0000 UTCHadrian'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
2025-01-13 20:08:30 +0000 UTCAt least Thatcher had bigger balls than the rest put together
Louise Miller
2025-01-13 19:59:13 +0000 UTCI 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
2025-01-13 19:45:30 +0000 UTCAs 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
2025-01-13 19:31:19 +0000 UTC@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
2025-01-13 19:30:56 +0000 UTCI 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
2025-01-13 19:19:19 +0000 UTCTo me it seems even more speed up than the 25fps version
Jasmine Carpenter
2025-01-13 19:02:23 +0000 UTCpeople 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
2025-01-13 18:54:36 +0000 UTCIIRC 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
2025-01-13 18:53:50 +0000 UTCCenturion crests weren’t necessarily lateral, depends on the period and type of helmet 😁
Kieran B
2025-01-13 18:37:34 +0000 UTCI know a few people in this (mostly historical reenactors) in the Robin Hood and Napoleon scenes. Well spotted that Napoleon was Beria!
Kieran B
2025-01-13 18:32:33 +0000 UTCMargaret thatcher, probably the most despised Prime minister who's name pops up in reaction videos. Keir Starmer; "hold my beer"
Colin R
2025-01-13 18:23:57 +0000 UTCIt's marvelous
Rob webber
2025-01-13 18:00:58 +0000 UTCBeen waiting for this reaction :)
D R
2025-01-13 17:58:48 +0000 UTCWhy is it sped up?
Jasmine Carpenter
2025-01-13 17:54:02 +0000 UTCTim McInnerny is also in Gladiator 2.
Helen Francis
2025-01-13 17:30:50 +0000 UTCGlad you didn't listen to the killjoys!!
Baswell
2025-01-13 17:04:42 +0000 UTC
