Light entertainment to break the gloom

I needed a weekend break from the constant churning over how things worked for military families in late 19th century India or the horrors of early World War I battles, so I put that aside and watched all six episodes of Blackadder Goes Forth. It plays, of course, on all the stereotypical stuff of the brainless public school/Ox-bridge men pitted against the regular army grunts.

The last episode ("Goodbyeee") does a darn good job of encapsulating the various reasons - non-reasons? - for the war and gives a sort of timeline leading up the last battles (in between the pants-on-head, pencils-up-nose bits). Laughed myself silly until the last scene - which found me blubbering that these guys still, in the end, had to go over the top (though I've read that the last scene has been voted one the Top 10 funniest moments on TV in England - ?).

Anyway, it was a welcome break from the more serious work. Don't know if Walter would've liked the Blackadder stuff, but he had a great sense of humor, always appreciating the lighter side of life.