Most innapropriate KM characters
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Ah Wok wasn't the first non-english character in KM that was Olaf The Viking from Series 2-3.
Djoska didn't say that Ah Wok was the first non-English character, although I also disagree that he destroyed the 'spirit of the show'. There were plenty of traders from abroad in Britain during the era. Oriental ones were unlikely, to be fair, but not impossible, and there were plenty of more serious anachronisms in the series than him.
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I think storm gueists were a bit badly designed (looked a bit odd and un-skull like) but they did replace the good old haunting and gave pooka a bit of a side-kick!
Before I'd seen series 6 (which I finally managed at the end of 2004 or there abouts, aged 25) I'd seem the Stormgeists on the KM website, and I figured they would shoot across the screen like the Lost Souls from Doom. But, instead, they floated pathetically and didn't have anywhere near the menace that the skulls had.
Then again, I saw the skulls first time round. That probably had something of an impact.
And the series 4/5 pookas were a lot nastier than the series 6/7 versions.
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They were nastier weren't they?
Now they look really dated- which makes it even worse!
Anyway,
All the characters like Olaf, Ridolfo, and the like were good because they seemed to fit in better.
I just didn't like Ah Wok and the music that accompanied.
East Asians and Pre-Medieval Britain- mmm.
That's why I thought Majida didn't fit in. But she wasn't too helpful!!
Why did Treguard even need a sidekick?
He could be more powerful and scary on his own.
(Where did I read a post someone wrote where this person thought he looked like someone from the sex offenders list...?)
And what about the troll in the early series'
...I'm a troll, I'm a troll, roll-de-roll, rol-de-roll,
this songs a load of TOSH!
He wasn't very scary was he? And how would he have killed someone unless they fell of the ledge?
Didn't Guy Standeven play all the "Larger" characters back then?
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Gwendolen was a tad too....bland, exept for the "tall elder brother bit"
Gretel also got on my nerve, specially her laughing. Scary, but when I'm relaxed I laugh just like her...
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I always found Snapper Jack a bit unsettling as a youngster. Now, with retrospect I can see he's totally pervy! He's a wee bit camp and is trying to capture children with his net and his naff glove puppet. It all adds up to something very bizarre!
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haha
snipper, snapper, look here's jack,
Now I'm erasing memories of my life, smoking crack!
Instead of catching fools, I'm now sitting in my net, collecting pieces of falling nose!
Treguard: spellcasting
D, H, S, S, ....whoosh!(quote from another post from another topic- quite relevant though as Snapper Jack needs to sort his life out, and his characterisation!)
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There were no inappropriate characters - sure, some may be seen as politically incorrect in todays climate, namely Ah Wok, but personally, thumbs up to all of them - no inappropriateness!
I'm with you there, Lowebo. Some characters were a lot weaker than others, but that doesn't mean inapproriate; propriety is really a matter of convention rather than of fact. (I've never been fond of political correctness, as it usually boils down to not wanting to give people something to over-react to. It's mind-control, I tell you!)
I seem to remember somewhere in the dim-and-distant past we did a thread about which characters were the worst stereotypes in the series. I think that's a better way of looking at it; which ones were poorly-written on artistic grounds because they were cliched, or involved 'labelling' groups in some way.
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Precisely. I fail to see how Snapper Jack was "inappropriate"? If being "scary" was inappropriate, then over half of Knightmare was. As said, the "stereotypes" are the only ones that could possibly be deemed inappropriate, with Ah Wok being the only one that would probably cause offence in todays climate
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Hi all... I was around for a little while around a year or two back, then lost my service to Challenge so wandered off, but recently got back into Knightmare.
Anyhoo, on topic... I think Gibbet from Season 1 was a fairly weak character, as he really didn't do much; thwacked one dungeoneer, let one go with a password... I ca't remeber if Gumboil the Knight was in season 1 or not, but it seems it was gathered he could do Gibbet's job just as well.
As for Snapper Jack... okay, so he did go about it in an odd way, but the thing I liked was that he harked back to the old Wall Monster "3 riddles" style of trial. Ah Wok... well, at least it gave Lord Fear's actor a chance to put on more of his silly voices aside from his lovely mockery of Skarkill. He worked as a role of the "clear tradesman for the Powers That Be", and in a way his accent did give an interesting trial for some dungeoneers (he gave Hordriss's calling to one dungeoneer as "Marefact", and the team had to work out he meant "Malefact")...
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