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Darling is the name of several fictional characters played by Tim McInnerny in the British mock-historical sitcom Blackadder. Introduced in its fourth iteration, Blackadder Goes Forth, Captain Kevin Darling is main character Captain Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson)'s intellectual peer and bitter rival; while Blackadder reluctantly serves in World War I trenches, Darling is safely stationed some distance from the front line. Darling is the sycophantic adjutant to Stephen Fry's General Melchett. The character was originally conceived as "Captain Cartwright"; writers Ben Elton and Richard Curtis were simply unable to think of a more amusing name for him. Eventually however, Stephen Fry suggested "Darling" would be a more comedic alternative; the series makes use of a recurring joke where his name is used or referred to for comedic effect. Although Darling only features as a main character for one series of the original Blackadder run, several of his ancestors and descendants are also portrayed by McInnerny, in keeping with the series' ongoing motif of identical descendants. The Blackadder feature-length special Blackadder: Back & Forth (1999) introduced descendent character Archdeacon Darling, on better terms with the contemporary Blackadder. The time travel narrative of the special also allowed writers to introduce more historical Darlings to the series' chronology: the Duke of Darling, aide to the Duke of Wellington (Fry), and the Duc de Darling, assistant to Napoleon I (Simon Russell Beale). The final Darling, however, is also a Blackadder and was portrayed by Atkinson in BBC promotional materials in 2002; the name Sir Osmond Darling-Blackadder suggests an unknown familial union between Blackadders and Darlings at some point in their histories.
McInnerny had appeared in series one and two as Blackadder's dimwitted right-hand man Lord Percy Percy, but he had declined to reprise the role in the third series, fearing he would become typecast (making only a single guest appearance); McInnerny never plays Percy in the series again after the series two finale, playing Darlings from Goes Forth onwards.
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Blackadder Back & Forth (1999)
, 33minutesRéalisé par Paul Weiland
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Science-fiction, Comédie, Historique, Science-fiction humoristique
Thèmes Film sur un écrivain, Voyage dans le temps, Comédie de science-fiction
Acteurs Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tim McInnerny, Miranda Richardson
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C'est Millennium Eve et Blackadder est l'hôte d'un dîner pour quelques amis choisis, Lady Elizabeth, le vicomte George, l'archevêque Melchett et l'archevêque Darling. Baldrick élabore encore un autre de ses plans infâmes infâmes pour aider son maître toujours avide Edmund Blackadder contre l'argent de ses amis crédules. Le couple construit une «machine à remonter le temps» à partir de paquets de céréales vides et fait des paris avec ses amis pour savoir quand, dans l'histoire, ils voyageront, récupérant divers artefacts de leurs voyages comme preuves, des objets déjà possédés par Blackadder! Cependant, dans une étrange tournure du destin, la machine à remonter le temps fonctionne et la paire est d'abord reléguée dans l'histoire à la période jurassique. Petit à petit, les deux hommes commencent à revenir à leur propre époque, s'arrêtant à divers moments célèbres de l'histoire, comme Sherwood Forest et la bataille de Waterloo, mais vont-ils rentrer à la maison?