Blackadder Goes Forth: Goodbyeee (1989)
Season 1, Episode 6
10/10
An Extraordinary Series and Ending
17 December 2007
Warning: Spoilers
"Goodbyeee" is far more than simply brilliant satire. This is the most sobering ending of any war film ever done--and certainly the most impressive for any World War I film, Paths of Glory and Gallipoli included. The final images of soft and gently healing earth and poppies filling in what was so brutally thrown away--especially the lives of the characters that we had come to treasure through the development of the series--brings to life all the images of "Great War" waste that resonate throughout works such as Robert Graves' memoir Goodbye to All That. Truly Goodbyeee was an extraordinary accomplishment, and one that took a rare determination and insight to execute. It deserves careful study by those who would work in the visual and performance arts fields for its brilliant blending of a stark economy of words, the singularity of setting, and the authenticity of the collective rising sense of a fateful duty (without histrionics or excessive drama) leading to that unforgettable leap into eternity...
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