Series 2 - Episode 2
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It's quite interesting the way there's that interaction between Treguard and people in the dungeon in this series, isn't it? And the team did look genuinely bewildered at what was happening with Mildred - it's when you see something like this that you know that the kids weren't told too much of what to expect before starting the quest.
I liked it when the 'well' was revealed to be Mildred's steaming cauldron - that really does give you the creeps when you see what she was trying to do.
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Mildread is a very creepy person, if you can call her a person.
I do love the fire room, it is probably my earliest clear memory of the show. They did stand on the fire a bit, I have never noticed that they stopped practically in the middle of it on the far left hand side.
The pace of the season is really beginning to pick up.
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I think the girls' team would have died a lot sooner without Treguard's help. In series 1, Treggs seemed to be quite a nasty piece of work, and he enjoyed watching the Dungeoneers die horrible deaths. In this series, he's helped two teams avoid serious mistakes (taking the cup with a bitter taste, for example).
Perhaps he started to feel sorry for all those dead, deceased Dungeoneers.
Someone seemed to press the buzzer to feed an electric shock to Treguard in his chair...I've never seen him so animated.
I laughed and laughed when I saw Treguard having a spasm on his throne. In fact, I remember laughing at it when I saw the episode for the first time on CITV all those years back. What I want to know is, how did they get Mildred to use the advisor's voice for things he hadn't already said to the Dungeoneer? "Martin - in front of you there's a well. Climb into it. Come on, what are you waiting for?" Surely, they must have had him record the lines beforehand. Either that or Mildred didn't actually say anything (which would explain the dumbstruck look on the faces of the advisors).
A great episode, with plenty of new rooms.
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Girl's team - Lillith gave them "a little spell" but didn't explicitly tell them what it was called. And that is only level 1! Level 3's difficulty must be sky high.
With 2 deaths in roughly 1 and a half episodes the pace of the show is prety quick.
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I can do a sound capture of the death, but not video. Would that do?
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Right captured and uploaded. Illusion you are more than welcome to use this on knightmare.com
http://www.stneotsfc.net/Knightmare/s2%20-%20team%202%20death.mp3
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I have made a video but my copy of this episode isn't very good and my capture card isn't tolerant enough so it's come out in black and white. Still the action's all there so... I really should get round to replacing all my fourth generation copies of eps with ones off Challenge.
I will upload it now.
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Here we are:
Please right-click and save as here (video in Windows Media format, I can't do RealPlayer):
http://www.nktp.freeserve.co.uk/s2t2.wmv (642k). B&W only for reasons already explained. Will probably serve as a temporary file until Illusion can do a better one. Rough capture, cut short at the end. Look happy.
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Spooky! Even though it's obviously a sheet, the speed of their death goes a bit towards making it a severe and swift end. Also their obvious panic in Ariadne's room would have probably made them hope for it to be alleviated in the next room...
"Oh dear. What a pity. Never mind."
Ahhhh, classic Knightmare!
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Frames are nice and smooth though cheers Neil!
That'll be because the compression codec is more tolerant of moving items in the film as opposed to RealPlayer which will drop frames on encoding to catch up. I much prefer DivX myself, I can cram a full 3mins or so worth of video into a 1mb file
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Which compression codec did you use? WM8 PAL?
Made with Movie Maker, which ships with Windows XP.
According to the properties of the file it gave me (Movie Maker, in true Microsoft style, tells you bugger all on the subject):
Audio Codec: Windows Media Audio 9
16 kbps, 16 kHz, mono (A/V) 1-pass CBR
Video Codec: Windows Media Video V7
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