Worst series?

sda

Probably series 7, because of Majida totally spoiling things!

SemtexJack

Oh dear God sda. Hstorm will be here any second now....expect a damn good smiteing for saying that.

I'd offer you a spell for your protection but frankly, fancying Majida myself, you don't deserve one after that.

HStorm

Smiles calmly, then shoots SDA through the lungs for insulting Majida. Then shoots SJ through the balls for lusting after Majida.

She's mine, damn you both! Mine! Do you hear me? MI-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-NE!!!!!!!

SemtexJack

You're welcome to her.

I have Melis these days. Mid you, What exactly did u shoot me with? Nothing too damaging I hope, she won't be impressed!

HStorm

Er, well... an elastic band to be honest, But I bet it'll be sore for a few days,

SemtexJack

That's alright then. The pain will subside. Seen anything of Melisandrinoff recently? The castle is getting quite cold and lonely without her.

KFan

err... I think that series 4 was one of the worst, as it was a shock after series 3 being so good.

On the other hand, allthough I would never say a bad word about the show itself, I personally think that series 5 was terrible in most ways. The graphics were abserlutely crap, and I mean crap. There was nothing good about the scenes, exept for the rare settings of the coridoor of blades. The eye shield sequences in series 5 were awful too. Somehow, they improved a great deal for series 6. I also don't know how you can call some of the S5 characters good. I can't help but cringe when I see series 5, because I think about anyone who is switching on for the first time ever, to see what Knightmare is like. if you were seeing Knightmare for the very first time, and it was series 5, how inclined would you be to tune back in?

My favourite was series 3 (obviously! )... But I really want to see series 1 and 2, because although I have never seen much of them, the screenshots look really good, and lets be honest, series 1 2 and 3 are the only 'pure series'... the way Tim Child first dreamt it up.

Kieran

Hmm well you have to make advancements, even with a popular forumla.

If KM had stayed the same for S4, it likely would not have lasted as long as it did. You have to evolve, I think the radical change for S4 helped.

KFan

I guess, but it was a very big leap.

Maybe if it had slowly evolved from series 1 - 3 style, to series 8 style, it would have been better.

Kieran

Yes it may have helped, but I feel S3 had pushed all limits, so the only way to actually improve was to make a radical change.

If you kept it on the same format, it would be very very tough to make any major improvement on S3.

TheBrollachan

Is there such a thing a a worst series of Knightmare?

The series can be summaried as:

1 - 3: Mainly all hand-drawn based rooms.

4 - 5: Introduction of recorded footage used to link between rooms.

6 - 7: Returning to passage ways in the form of 'real' dwarf tunnels (not computer generated). Starting to use computer generated environments.

8: Almost totally computer generated environments I think.

Each series is different and to those who want to find a worst series...

...GOBLIN FODDER!

MoanaLiza

We'll be able to see s8 soon on Challenge. Please note this thread was started by an ex member, who is no longer with us. Anyway hi and welcome to our large community. Do you hunger for knowing? I suppose your going to ask us all for knowlege! Also please feel free to introduce yourself on the knewbie board if you can remember who you are of course and also visit knightmare.com if you havn't already done so. Just one question though; What is your purpose of being here?

Wolfshead

I used to love series 1-4 and I found 5-8 to be big dissapointments. That is to say I don't think they wre rubbish but they had strayed too far away from the original theme of knightmare. That a sub-teranian realm consisting of dungeons and caverns rather than places like Wolfenden or Witch-haven etc. Granted much of series 4 was out of doors, but it was a good mixture of the old and the new.

Debz_g

I have to say that my least favourite series is series 8. It wasn't overly bad as such, it did have some redeeming features. But I think the main problem with it for me was that the rooms were pretty much all CG, and I did like the inclusion of the images of real locations that had been treated with that weird CG effect, used in earlier seasons. That's not to say that the CG wasn't good, it was very good and still looks good to this day, but I guess the old style had a special place in my heart!

I think series 7 was the perfect compromise for me because it had the mix of the two (Alas without Pickle! ). But things have to move on, don't they.

TheBrollachan

According to knightmare.com Challenge have brought the rights to series 1 & 2 and will be showing them from June. That will be interesting to see, after series 8.

HStorm

We, er, found that out on Monday in fact, Broll... see http://www.talkknightmare.co.uk/yabbse/http://www.knightmare.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2;action=display;threadid=1250 for details.

TheBrollachan

I can't help that I was robbed of all my knowledge. Kicks self for not noticing the post date

Wolfshead

Series 5 and 6 have to have been the worst becuase thre was too much going outside the guneon. Series 4 did it, but it was a good mix becuase to me it still had the feel of the older series.

HStorm

Series 4 was weak for other reasons though, not least how repetitive the first two levels always seemed to be, and how pink everything was.

Wolfshead

The pink and purple of series 4 was annoying. Another thing was when one dungeonere used an egg timer to freeze that dumb lizard that wasn't going to do anything anyway. I mean would the team really have been finished without the egg timer?