"As capacious as an elephant's scrotum and just as hard to get your hands on" is, to me, the quintessential Blackadder quip. As much as I love the S4 finale, I think it also contains the quintessential counterexample of how tired and forced many of those quips were becoming in "an asthmatic ant with some very heavy…

I enjoy Back And Forth, but it's also almost always the last thing I watch when I go on a Blackadder tip. It certainly has its moments, but without having just reignited my love for all the characters, I imagine it would fall very flat.

Fry as Charles is the highlight of that episode. His softspoken, bewildered naivete is amazing.

I think it's becoming increasingly clear that he cares more about using Amanda for something than getting her into bed, or at least that's what he tells himself — he's unstable enough that his motivations are pretty unclear even to him.

Yeah I wasn't totally sure where the watch thing fell — I'm going to have to watch the scene again for sure.

Yeah I was thinking that too — it's not totally clear what happens. But it was definitely psychosexually traumatic, whatever it was.

Whatever happens is going to centre around Pottinger & Yewll's big plan, whatever that may be. And whatever it is *may* actually be responsible for bringing all these folks together on one side, because I don't really believe that it's going to be especially nefarious or evil — it'll probably be about helping earth or…

I really hope Rafe is smart enough to not let Stahma manipulate him. I mean, her scantily-clad arrival in the bath caught him totally off-guard and… fair enough. Plus he enjoyed strutting around in front of Daytak with an "I'm fucking your wife" vibe and again, fair enough. But he better rein it in soon, because she…

I'm not totally sure I understood the timeline correctly, because the conversation was a bit confusing, but I think the idea was:

One thing I was iffy about on the ending: I didn't really feel the dissolve to her young self was necessary. I was already right there in the moment and feeling the significance of her being behind the wheel, recklessly gunning down the road — that could have easily been the final shot.

Yeah, when I remembered it was on last night, to my horror/amusement my first reaction was giddy excitement to see what idiotic thing would happen next.

Yeah it was specifically "the largest non-nuclear bomb in our arsenal". So even on the never-again-shown side where the bomb went off, the worst hazards you'd face are mud and some animal corpses.

Also… the overture… "We will never stop looking for a way out."

For a long time I've been willing to forget about the outside world on this show because I thought "hey, the premise is that they are totally cut off, let's just go with it."

Also, you get internet and are *barely* excited about what that means for about ten seconds before you're back to just lounging in a chair idly checking Twitter.

Because nobody ever suspects the butterfly.

So nobody investigating the murder has gone back to pry open that locker yet?

"Humans and Bonobos engage in non-procreative sexual relations all the time in various ways, for various purposes."

I kind of think that fits — one thing the show has done a really good job of establishing for Castithans is that they are NOT uptight about sex, even in a family setting, to the degree that it's creepy to us (see: Stahma giving Alak a big ol' wet kiss on the mouth, or the latter making a relatively casual comment…

Yeah, but I think there still may be more to come. But I hope you're right.