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Today's lecture was on how war changes language, for an example of this we watched the final episode of the cult British comedy television series Blackadder.
The professor obviously thought this episode would be devastating, because that's the sort of person she is (fact: her office is covered in Starship Enterprise posters). But it really loses something taken out of context. It would have been more effective, I think, if we'd watched an entire season of George being obliviously anachronistic, the aide being the commic relief whose plans never work out, Darling kissing ass to avoid being sent to the front line, and Blackadder scheming the same but being continously thwarted (but also continuously saved in the nick of time from certain death) BEFORE the last ten minutes, when they all go "over the top" into machine-gun fire. It felt like this might have been the only serious moment in a show spanning 450 years of British history, which would have supported Professor Israel's comments re: significant differences between WWI and all previous history, but with only 30 minutes to go on it was impossible to know for sure.
Context! Context! Like the context where nonfans wonder at the appeal of slashing two male characters together! Speaking of, our next paper in that class is Regeneration-themed (I take back everything trivial I said about this book, it's brilliant). We're supposed to draw parallels between the book's treatments of communication and memory and the larger historical implications of same. Inspired by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
worldserpent, I am going say that homosexuality was something everyone was talking about, but in indirect double-speaking ways, and how this was similar to not being able to openly denounce the war. Actually I'm not positive there is any validity to this what-so-ever, I just want an excuse to systematically go through the book looking for circumlocutions XD.
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Not just crossovers, crossovers subdivided into smaller categories of crossover! Be still, my beating heart.
Today's lecture was on how war changes language, for an example of this we watched the final episode of the cult British comedy television series Blackadder.
The professor obviously thought this episode would be devastating, because that's the sort of person she is (fact: her office is covered in Starship Enterprise posters). But it really loses something taken out of context. It would have been more effective, I think, if we'd watched an entire season of George being obliviously anachronistic, the aide being the commic relief whose plans never work out, Darling kissing ass to avoid being sent to the front line, and Blackadder scheming the same but being continously thwarted (but also continuously saved in the nick of time from certain death) BEFORE the last ten minutes, when they all go "over the top" into machine-gun fire. It felt like this might have been the only serious moment in a show spanning 450 years of British history, which would have supported Professor Israel's comments re: significant differences between WWI and all previous history, but with only 30 minutes to go on it was impossible to know for sure.
Context! Context! Like the context where nonfans wonder at the appeal of slashing two male characters together! Speaking of, our next paper in that class is Regeneration-themed (I take back everything trivial I said about this book, it's brilliant). We're supposed to draw parallels between the book's treatments of communication and memory and the larger historical implications of same. Inspired by
worldserpent, I am going say that homosexuality was something everyone was talking about, but in indirect double-speaking ways, and how this was similar to not being able to openly denounce the war. Actually I'm not positive there is any validity to this what-so-ever, I just want an excuse to systematically go through the book looking for circumlocutions XD.Massive Crossover Recs Post By Elihice <33333
Not just crossovers, crossovers subdivided into smaller categories of crossover! Be still, my beating heart.