That's not quite the plot of Blackadder's take on Dickens's classic, and that's its problem. Ebenezer Blackadder is surrounded by people who treat him like hell, and he takes it, like Stanley Ipkiss in The Mask, without comment because he's so nice. Here's another idea--what if he's nice, everyone is nice to him, and the ghosts merely show him that he can take advantage of them. That's a tougher idea to pull off, but I rather think the comic rewards would be richer.

But that's just me. Not having had experience with the Blackadder series, I have to admit that my way around the plot was dimly lit at points. I'm gathering that the deliberately cheesy sci-fi environs of a future Blackadder are something that has been in the series before? And the character interactions, while amusing, were raunchier and less imaginative than I expected. Let's call this Christmas Carol mild fun, but probably for initates alone.