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The details around the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand really jump the shark. Must've been a drug-fueled writing session on that one
When that one aired I assumed they were going to genre-shift into dark comedy or slapstick, but they... really, really didn't.
You haven't seen Blackadder? I thought the whole plot was a set up to the series.
one drunk dude with a pistol changing the course of the whole world?
Don't ignore the whole other stuff with the failed bombing etc.
From wikipedia:
Just the mental image of him chucking himself into a river after the failed bombing and then also failing his suicide on two fronts...
Lmfaooo
This is why you buy the 2nd cheapest cyanide pills, not the cheapest.
Not at all. Things were a powder keg. If it wouldn't have blown at that point, then shortly thereafter.
"The War to End All Wars" was a good season finale, but then just 20 years later they made a sequel with bigger effects budget and openly evil villains. Lazy writing. And the way things have been written towards WWIII but then backing off is a long season tease.