Time's Adder

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Time's Adder
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Original Release Date:
1999
Original Running Time:
34 minutes
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Fanedit Running Time:
14 minutes
Brief Synopsis:
The ill-advised 1999 reunion special of celebrated BBC historical comedy Blackadder was never very funny but the time-travel plot was a hoot. So what if all the jokes were cut? Would it make the plot stronger and also would it become oddly funnier? The time-travel consecution seemed the ideal way to find out!
Intention:
To remove all "jokes" but not necessarily the humour inherent in the time-travel concept. Also Baldrick is no longer the stupidest creature ever born but now is genuinely a genius who has built a time-machine.
Other Sources:
Howard Goodall’s Blackadder Music
The Creature From The Black Lagoon Blu-Ray
Release Information:
  • DVD
  • Digital
Special Features
"MP4" is through Vimeo
Editing Details:
- All jokes removed
- Old-style BBC logo added
- Opening and closing credits replaced with vintage Universal-Studious style credits inspired by and featuring music from 'The Creature From The Black Lagoon'
- Edit given a monochrome sepia tint and filmic-grain
- Robin Hood subplot and all references to it removed from the start, the middle and the end (It was so silly it was impossible to de-comedyify it)
- Removed any reference to Baldrick being stupid
Time's Adder
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9.2
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9.0
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Time Travel Consecution, Episode 8

This has got to be the most nonchalant time travel film made. Great editing from TM2YC to bring this down to 14 minutes. I know it says "All jokes removed" but this was still pretty hilarious, in a more subtle way. And the ending was excellent.
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9.8
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Brilliant surprise on this consecution.
Faithful, reverent and surprisingly amusing edit of the "Back n Forth" special.
This is lighter toned than the original, and, dare I suggest, sunnier.
Meaner edges have been buffed down.
For all the trims, the story holds together nicely.
Bit jarring to hear music from "The Creature From The Black Lagoon" opening.
This is a straight faced rework, and one cannot escape the irony of it being funnier than the original.
Quicker, too.

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9.2
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Blackadder Back and Forth was a curious old thing...made it at the time as a complimentary peice for the ill-advised Millennium Dome eyesore. While it was nice to see plenty of familiar characters, the comedy seemed to have taken a humor by-pass. It was perhaps a little too in love with the memory of past glories rather than try to do anything new with the ensemble or even the premise.

Mr. Cinema has decided to make this a black and white piece, smoothed over transitions with great throwback music to films of old lore, and removed most of the jokes, and you wouldn't even know they were gone. Blackadder always works better when the characters are playing things completly straight despite their performances being so over the top, and here, holding back on the intended punch-lines makes it funnier in a slightly different way. No longer does it seem like they are trying "too hard", you feel like everything is more natural.

This is a fine edit and does more to instill good faith once again in a product that is usually all too rare to muck up

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(Updated: November 19, 2014)
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9.8
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10.0
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Blakadder is one of my favorite shows of all time, Seasons 2,3 and 4 in particular. I've never liked this special because well, it was not as funny as it should have been and it made the mistake of emphasizing spectacle over comedy, much like Season 1 which was the highest budgeted but most inferior of the original series.

This edit fixes the special in every imaginable way. First of all, the ridiculous Robin Hood nonsense is removed--Rik Mayall was ok in New Statesman, but I always found him very annoying in Blackadder, nowhere more than here though, so I'm glad he's out. The trims are all invisible and the story moves along at a great pace. This really helps the humor as there is less fat and a more streamlined narrative. The one thing I missed tho was Blackadder punching W.S. for all the schoolkids of the future, that was a funny line I remembered from the original.

Again, technically perfect, no flaws at all. The sepia tint and credits were fantastic actually, and superbly done. They fit the time travel aspect well and were reminiscent of the gong logo from the Powell/Pressburger films of the 30's/40's. I loved it.

Overall, this is as good as Blackadder back and forth can get and should be seen by every fan of the show. It is a definitive cut.

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Overall rating
 
9.2
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10.0
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10.0
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8.0
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This was very well done. I added one point to narrative and enjoyment, because of fanedit.org's policy of superfriendly ratings (almost like TV.vom). I was entertained and amused by a complete story unfolding in such little time with very well done opening and end credits. No cuts were visible or audible. Clearly, this was done by someone who has truly mastered the art of fanediting. My deepest respect for that.
What I particularly liked:
- coloring
- plot unfolding and story development
- fast paced
- the Monty Python feel of it

What I did not like so much:
-overly dramatic score in the beginning and the end
- the helmet on the wall scene felt a bit rushed, I had to watch it a second time to actually see the movement of the centurio.

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