Series 5 - Episode 9
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Yeah hi, I'm here! (Jenna - dungeoneer of current team!)
Please don't be so mean
! ;D After all, I was only just 12 years old at the time... plus, you'll notice that one of my team mates does not say a SINGLE word the whole time, and the other was not very helpful either. My sister may aswell as have been guiding me on her own!Also it was completely surreal doing the filming and extremely disjointed as you only filmed one scene at a time, and then had an hour or more break while they set up the next, which meant you never really get into the flow of it.
And if you think we're hopeless, just bear in mind that out of 20 000 applications, our team was just one of a handful chosen to be on the series, so there! ;D
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Yep, you're definitely right, I noticed it as well. No idea why it was edited like that- I'm surprised it could be edited quite that badly, to be honest. I could come up with a conspiracy theory or two, but I won't this time.
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Hi there Jenna. I had wondered about what that username might mean before now.
I don't think you did that badly. In fairness, that clue about the box was a bit confusing. I can really see why people might not have known how to react to it, although the suggestion to open the box was, well, um, yes.
I do think the ongoing quest says something about Series 5. The series does has difficult elements, and they don't really seem to get progressively more difficult as a quest goes on. If you can survive one causeway, you can survive them all, so long as you've listened to clues. That's different to other series where the puzzles tended to get progressively more difficult. I do think some S5 teams had a hard time because of those causeways- I mean, you know what to do, but you don't really have much of an idea how long you have to do it (unless they were told and it didn't make the final edit). So some teams get on with it and kill themselves in the process, whereas some teams are allowed to dawdle a bit and get away with it- there's really heavy editing gone on in some of the early teams' attempts, for example. (Yes, I realise there's one other case to mention from later on in the series, but I've put enough spoilers in already.) I can't help thinking that the S6 Causeways with timer were fairer, so teams knew how long they'd got, didn't dawdle too much but also didn't fall into the trap of hurrying where they didn't need to.
Had more to say on Team 4, but I'll think on it a bit more.
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I liked this episode! Yes, Level 3 seemed a bit short but I liked all the rooms and what happened in them. Not forgetting the characters! Elita really made me laugh this time (she annoys me sometimes tho') with her 'piggy piggy' remarks aimed at Ben. Then when Ben said (to the team) the scroll said 'Give a dog a bone' and Hordriss got angry at this - I laughed out loud! ;D
The final Causeway is a real masterpiece too - even though I knew the outcome it was still exciting!
On to Jenna's team now waves to Jenna and I agree that the scroll was a bit confusing 'cause it seemed to indicate that the box might be dangerous and that they should leave it. I liked the boat ride with Brother Mace as the boatman - lol, fancy a monk rowing a boat!
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I remember having a niggle about it when I saw the clip on the site - but I didn't think anything of it unti l I saw this thread.
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in my view the final puzzle was far too easy.
The roman numerals bit should have been harder, there should have been a situation where it came to 6 and they had to choose between VI or IV.
hey- some people don't know!
I agree, a corridor of blades, just after the hordriss room would have been a lot better and tested the teams mettle fairly.
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in my view the final puzzle was far too easy.
The roman numerals bit should have been harder, there should have been a situation where it came to 6 and they had to choose between VI or IV.
hey- some people don't know!
Looks at Grandfather (sorry Grandmother) clock I can never remember which is which and get confused. I didn't manage to see the end of the quest Yesterday thanks to our local council's bright ideas, Friday, only a few weeks til Christmas, the bus stopping at literally every single stop, some road resurfacing, etc. etc. I managed to catch the end of the episode though. I have seen the end of the quest (second half of the causeway) though (big thankyou to Illusion ).
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I thought Level 3 was pretty short compared with others who reached that point. Then again their quest was 50 minutes in and they had just entered Winteria.
Did anyone think the "Give a dog a bone" meant Festus or Mrs G?
And why did they only need the green gem? Unless Elita or Hordriss would be offended by the dagger neither that or the gold had any relevance to the quest.
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Yeah hi, I'm here! (Jenna - dungeoneer of current team!)
WOW, Hi Jenna, Its great to be in the company of a Dungeoneer who was actually on Knightmare, prehaps I should havew guessed it was someone from the show by your screen name Incidently Do we have any more people who was on Knightmare on these forums?? ??
Incidently I think you girls had a pretty tough challenge, The Level 1 clue room was complicated and seemed to indicate you should not take or open the box(at least thats what I thought) Also I can see how the causeway you got was probably slighty confusing and seemed a little unfair for Level 1 but thats the way it goes I guess.
Also Jenna, Did you recieve anything just for being on Knightmare or was gifts/prizes only given to winners??
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Hiya,
In answer to some of the questions...
Being the dungeoneer was just the most bizarre thing, and to be honest most of the time I did not have a CLUE what was going on! Try to imagine what it is like, walking round a completely blue room, where you can't see anything except your feet, and meeting characters you can't see, many of whom were new to series 5 so you didn't know if you could trust them or not. My biggest problem was understanding what a lot of the characters said because of the way they talked! I did not understand a WORD that Pixel said to me... hence me saying completely the wrong thing to her and being called stupid! When Brother Mace asked me if I was trying to get to Level 2, it sounded to me like "eleven two", which was why I asked the team what I should say... I mean obviously if I'd heard properly I would have just said yes! And the worst was Lord Fear... I didn't hold the eyeglass, Julius Scaramonger did, and all I suddenly got was a strange voice talking in my ear, again most of which was unclear!
So in conclusion, when you're watching teams, and you think they say the most stupid things, just consider the fact that they may also have encountered some of these problems!
And finally, everyone received a scroll for being on Knightmare, which doesn't seem like much, but the whole experience of filming and being treated like stars, was just so fab it didn't matter at all!
Ok, gotta get back to work! Enjoy my death on Monday ;D
Jenna
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Oh, I lied, I've just remembered we were also given a t-shirt, and we had our photo taken with Pickle and Treguard which we could then get them to sign for us, along with other cast members. They also gave us a tour of the whole studio after we'd finished filming, which was cool.
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Maybe they thought the Block and Tackle (since it was vitually that room where they confronted Aesandre) was going to come back to life, and they didn't want to take the chance, but with the frozen ice maiden blocking the right-hand exit, they would have been done for. I think Ben was guided to the left hand door by a member of the production team since they were that close to victory
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Enjoy my death on Monday ;D
This has to be one of the few forums where anyone could say that without people getting very very concerned.
Um, I still haven't posted on Team 4 like I keep meaning to. To save you the trouble of reading my predictable novel on the subject (and me the trouble of writing it), I was going to argue (on and on, probably) how they really didn't have a very difficult dungeon and how in many cases where other teams had to make decisions this team were okay whatever they did. I think "We need a winning team" syndrome was setting in among the production team again. I could back this up with lots of stuff from their quest, but you don't want to hear me waffle any more, so let's just say I put all the evidence in here and you read it, grunted a bit and thought "What a weirdo". Deal?
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Well, I can't deny that I also thought "well, that Level 3 seemed to be over before it started". Over before half of the episode was done, when other levels can end up taking more than an episode's worth of time! Though I can see how it was a bit trickier than other parts (clues were a tad more cryptic, more thought was needed into what they had to do). Plus I do love that final causeway.
Sadly, Jenna, I didn't pay a lot of attention to your quest in the rest of the episode - got distracted by something, was having a quick read and the next thing I knew Time Out! And sadly I may not get to see the rest of your quest...
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After watching it back again, it could be down to poor editing, but what kind of idiot editor would make it look suspicious.
On a dodgy scale of 1 to 10 i rate it an 8!!!!
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Maybe they thought the Block and Tackle (since it was vitually that room where they confronted Aesandre)
Definitely agree with you on that point. Jonathan (I think..) almost tells him it's the block & tackle when they first enter the room but seems to forget what it's called! Until the point where they left I think they were convinced the room was going to "come to life", hence the totally unnecessary panic over the relatively simple process of leaving the room!
I think Ben was guided to the left hand door by a member of the production team since they were that close to victory
I think this is conspiracy theorising gone too far! I'd be very very doubtful of there ever being a need for the production team to actually help a team through an exit. Particularly when the "challenge" of a particular chamber has already been won. The way it's edited does make the scene quite confusing but I'm certain that's all it was - a bit of clumsy editing. Probably because they wasted so much time actually getting out of the room that it wasn't deemed interesting enough to show us every step of their progress!
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