Knightmare Convention: suggestions for a name
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I like the idea of the venue becoming 'Knightmare Castle' for the day and spaces within the event being named after specific locations (Hugo Myatt interview, 1400, Merlin's Throne Room...or whatever) but I'm not sure a location should be the name of the convention itself...
Happy to be convinced though! (not that it really matters what I think )
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I have to say, within Knightmare, I detest the name "Knightmare Castle". For me, it's so fourth wall breaking.
Don't I also recall this being a point of debate among fans? The name of the castle, that is?
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I don't recall there being much of a debate about it, but my position is that I do find the name a bit jarring and slangy for a medieval castle.
The first time I ever came across the name 'Knightmare Castle' was a mention in a copy of the TV Times (yes, my family regularly bought the TV Times back then, but only because the Radio Times still didn't include ITV or Channel 4 listings) around the mid-stage of season 2. The name rather took me by surprise, as I always thought the castle was simply called 'The Castle Of Confusion' - not just because of Treguard's intros, but because the CITV announcer for 1988 always used that term as well.
Then I heard Treguard use the term 'Knightmare Castle' when congratulating Julian Smith's winning quest, and when I got my copy of the first Dave Morris novella a few weeks later, I found that the term was used very freely in that too, alongside 'Dunshelm', with no mention of 'The Castle Of Confusion' at all.
So I decided to just accept it. It's never bothered me greatly since that time, but even so it's still never sat all that well with me. 'Dunshelm' is preferable.
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