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What were your first impressions of the dungeon?
Well, I couldn't see much! The good thing about Knightmare is
that there's lots of variety due to the diversity of characters and the computer graphics. You need lots of skill to do the floor puzzles. My favourite part
was talking to people, though.
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Do you feel that your advisors did a good job? Have you
got any complaints?
(Pause) Let me see... They didn't communicate
information correctly, they told me to keep walking when I'd already hit the wall, and I'm sure they had aspirations to kill me on the job! Apart from that, though,
they did a fairly good job. They knew what they were talking about most of the time, and
they saved my life a few times.
Did you expect to win all along, or do you feel that Lady Luck
was with you?
I do feel that luck was with us a little, but that didn't mean
that we could be complacent, we had to concentrate the whole time. I don't think it's
possible to win without luck. We just wanted to have a good time, really.. I thought it
would be great to ride a dragon, not many people can say they've done that! Derek wanted to cast a spell or two.
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What's it like being frozen in time for on entire week, presumably
while life goes an around you?
(Laughs) Erm, well! It depends where you're frozen. You have
lots of time to meditate. I was halt way through the meaning of life when the dame
re-started!
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What was the worst port of the game for you?
Oh, when we were running out of food, (on level three)
definitely.
What would you do to improve results if
you were
Lord Fear?
I think he needs to try harder. He definitely needs to be quicker. There were some very
difficult parts of our adventure, however, like the spiked room which was very difficult.
We were quite upset actually because we never got to meet him in the flesh. I wanted to
have a slanging match with him, I think I would have won Lord Fear also definitely needs
to tighten up his security - I mean it seems as though just about everybody knows about
secret ways into the third level.
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Did you enjoy your time in the Dungeons?
Yes of course, I Just want to say that Knightmare's unique I mean
nearly all the other children s TV programmes are absolute rubbish. We wouldn't have
bothered to apply for anything else. I think the reason so many people watch it is because
they know that it would be fun to play; they're thinking "God, I wish I could do
that".
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What did you find the most difficult?
The floor puzzles, especially because we'd been practicing
the hexagon causeways from the series before for a whole week before the show. Then we
realised everything was different. I think the new ones were great, but it's a shame so
many teams go out on them. With some teams they deserve it and you're thinking "oh,
thank God they're going to go out on this". But sometimes you get very good teams
who've done everything else right, but can't do the puzzles.
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Does Sly Hands really smell?
Oh yes, of drink, rats and sewage amongst other things!
What did you think about the team before you who won being
all girls?
I don't think it's that important, any team can win, but they
were especially weird, so...
Do you have any advice for future Dungeoneers?
Have fun! You're going to look stupid on TV anyway, so
forget about it and just have fun.
TQ
Thanks to David Weir
(Memb No 1016), age 12
for the artwork used on this page.
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