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WCDT: 2387-2391 (18-22 February, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread

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Valdís:
Ah, the post from page 7. Sorry. Was just responding to the YouTube clip. <_<

For what it's worth it's intentionally left unseen in the show. Just because I cry easy at stuff like that doesn't mean it actually ends that way for them.

DSL:
Some of the best storytelling arises from having to work around financial/technical limitations in telling of said story. Jay Ward's studio took their "limited" animation to the ... Limit ... In creating some truly genius "Rocky and Bullwinkle" stories. The six-minute running time limit imposed by Leon Schlesinger resulted in some smartly-paced Looney Tunes shorts -- even if chuck Jones would never admit it.

Fo the obverse, see any of the  "CSI" TV shows. " Writing" those things has to be the easiest job in television.

ZoeB:

--- Quote from: Valdís on 26 Feb 2013, 14:46 ---"Thank God! We lived through it! The Great War, 1914 to 1917.."

I've cried every time I've sat down and watched that episode. That one number says so much.

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Yes.

My Grandad Brain joined up in 1914. Trained as a sniper, he was in the first wave at Gallipoli in 1915, and covered the evacuation afterwards. Thence to the Western Front, just in time for the Somme in 1916. It was at Passchendaele in 1917 that he had most of his arm blown off, and somehow managed to survive to be evacuated.

TimO:
Presumably there's an implication that Captain Blackadder and Private Baldrick survived, because some of the Blackadder specials have been set in the present, and both (in their current incarnations) are present which suggests that they must have survived to procreate and generate some sort of succession.  I guess it's also possible that other family members could continue their lines, or that convergent evolution had to produce another one of each because the environment required it. :-D

Lubricus:

--- Quote from: TimO on 27 Feb 2013, 05:59 ---Presumably there's an implication that Captain Blackadder and Private Baldrick survived, because some of the Blackadder specials have been set in the present, and both (in their current incarnations) are present which suggests that they must have survived to procreate and generate some sort of succession.
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I don't think you can make that assumption - the first Black Adder did certainly not have any children, after all.

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