Series 4 - Episode 9
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Heh, NOTHING stopped me from watching that last night...
Hark, and listen to the old skull rattle his jaw, in this tale of TV, Dogs, and a UBER fast shopping moment.
'It was 15 minutes to 6, and the Hell-hound dogs were a-squeaking to be allowed to relieve themselves. Being my 'job' at home, I took them out, edgy about missing Knightmare. After all 3 were done, I finally got back in properly at 5:53. I floated to the nearest chair, preparing to watch the greater game, when I'm asked to go to the shop briefly. AAAARGH. So I do - Breaking every goddamned speed record possible to make a 10 minute trip fit into a 2 minute jog there and back. And I do - nearly dying of exhaustion as I get back in, and turn the TV back to the right channel, barely making the start of the beginning credits. Ten minutes later, Me and my mum laughed ourselves stupid, as 'Simon' and his advisors had a lapse of directional sense, and were sent plunging into the depths of the pit at Block and Tackle...It was worth all the hassle. ;)'
It's a true story, too.
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Not having seen Series 4 on CITV back in 1990 (I started some way into Series 6), but having heard numerous references to it in the past, I was glad to have seen it for the first time on Challenge?. But I have one complaint: people seem always to remember this and never the equally incompetent "side-step left" incident which caused Nathan's death in Series 8 (there is a clip in the series guide, for those who don't remember). Why?
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I think advisors roles should be as follows:
1 - Guiding
2 - Describing surroundings
3 - Spellcasting and answering questions
On another note - glad to see team 4's death again as it is the most famous. Also glad the dong has returned during deaths as it has been missing lately. Also whats with the other noises during Simon's death - a couple of strange noises accompanied by an air raid siren?
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In fact, if you read the story of a winning quest on this site (where they've provided tons of photographs) you see a scan of the Adventurer's Code that the team are sent before coming on the show. It clearly states that one adviser will be nominated as the 'spellcaster' and is the only one that can invoke spells via spellcasting. I think most teams also organised themselves into a guider and hazard/clue-spotter arrangement, as well as the spellcaster.
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With regards to the issue of whether HM and DL found it funny or had any opinion as to what the quests were doing, that question has been answered in an old issue of TES (the second in fact!) - DL's response is here:
http://knightmare.v21hosting.co.uk/tes/issue2/p11.htm
(why doesn't the "a href" tag work in YaBBC Code?)
It's really quite funny!
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cheers, the link has a " tagged on the end though...
http://knightmare.v21hosting.co.uk/tes/issue2/p11.htm
...that'll work
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I also like the way the advisor on the left started scribbling out his notes furiously after Simon's fall.
There's a lot of those. There was one girl in S3 who spent the whole time Treguard took to comment on their demise and DISMISS them violently attacking her clipboard with the pencil, as if somehow it had caused their premature doom.
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If you watch just after the scene you can see the advisor on the left, proudly picking his nose!
Are we talking just after the Simon SideStep to the Left Scene??? Sorry just want to make it clear what scene to look up before watching it again
Well cheers for spoiling that for those of us that don't have them all on tape already
Well I do apologise but I didnt mean to spoil it for anyone and besides, I thought pretty much everyone knew Team 6(Dickens Team) were winners.Also I didnt have these episodes on tape either(Not Before the series started) yet i still knew about this team winning anyway.
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