Series 3
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Series 3 was not my all-time favourite season, but it did leave me with some fond memories. Some of my favourite moments are listed below:
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The "Oracle" room in level three, where the beams shoot out from the eyes of the cats.
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The Axe/Ledge room in level three, which was only used once.
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The Mine-Cart ride. Sheer brilliance, and much better than a boring wellway.
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The Chessboard room in level three, where Mogdred often appeared. A large snake sometimes appeared from the hole in the center of the room.
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The Brangwen-She/Golgarath rooms were very good, and the faces of the monsters looked much better as animated models with a human mouth.
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The unusual Water room in level one looked quite nifty. Motley was often found near here.
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The Mountain ledge in series one was excellent, and it was the very first 'outside style' room that was ever used in Knightmare. You could see little lights and houses in the distance.
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The oracle of confusion scared me when I was younger, but she had a nice voice.
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Mellisandra. Cute just doesn't do her justice.
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Series 3, my favourite!
Best bits:
Morghanna - a sexy evil chick who also happens to be the only evil character with a 100% kill record! And the games she played with poor Martin before finally sending him packing with Unnatural Head Explosion Suyndrome was one of my personaly favourite parts of Knightmare in general!
Other good bits...I liked the Dwarf Tunnels, the first encounter with Hordriss (well, other than seeing a transparent image of his face in the L2 Clue Room), the nice-but-strange Mellisandre, and the infamous Mine Shaft...
Not-so-good-bits: Where oh where was Mogdred? He had only one real presence this season, turning McGrew into a man-sized toad, and a couple of quick cameos otherwise! Also this season was the first without Folly (not that I don't like Motley, but Folly was always my favourite jester...)
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Remember the bit with two doors at the end of the green valley and path? One team, (after meeting yours truly, I think!), went into the wrong door - the left one - and ended up in a room with an opened book on a pedestal thing. Cue Mrs Grimwold's husband, who killed them! That really annoyed me! And I'm so sure I told them to go into the door on the right - do I remember correctly?
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One team, (after meeting yours truly, I think!), went into the wrong door - the left one - and ended up in a room with an opened book on a pedestal thing. Â Cue Mrs Grimwold's husband, who killed them! Â That really annoyed me! Â And I'm so sure I told them to go into the door on the right - do I remember correctly?
Close! The reason they died was that they didn't take the crayon from the clue room. They were supposed to use it to draw a well way, but since they didn't take it, they couldn't get any further and so met a nasty, nasty end.
Um ... I think so ... anyway ...
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You're right, we didn't really see Mr Grimwold hit the dungeoneer with his club, just sort of moving towards him and holding the club over his head! Then Treguard coming in with "Ooh...nasty!" Not exactly a gruesome end (at least to our eyes!), was it?
Thanks for clearing that up, my memories of Series 3 are sadly a bit vague
Thank goodness for the clips (and the whole site!) on this site though, or I wouldn't be able to recall anything! -
Though choosing isn't easy, this is probably my favourite series. It took the best bits from the previous series and added some great new ideas. It also proved that the show was prepared to move on and innovate: gone, for example, is Lilith, mainstay of Level 1 in the previous seasons.
Some of what I loved about it:
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The quicksand that killed Team 1.
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The wonderful animated dwarf tunnels. Very atmospheric.
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The mine cart ride. A great idea and visually fabulous.
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Morghanna. Very effective, and pretty well-acted.
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Mrs. Grimwold and Festus. Okay, the acting wouldn't be out of place in pantomime, but it's funny for a while.
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Hordriss. I've said enough on so many threads for everyone to already know just how fabulous I think he is. Well conceived, brilliantly acted.
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Team 10's death. The abortive attempt while being killed to offer the goblins "a present" still makes me laugh.
All in all, very enjoyable. The difficulty is pretty consistent through the series too: it's a big challenge, but brilliant viewing for it. In my mind it proved too things:
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You can have an extended series with no winners that's still exciting and enjoyable.
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Sometimes simplicity is best. There's no really convoluted storylines here, no need to involve the teams in a drawn out storyline dictated by the plans for the End of Season. And it still works well for it.
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I think team 4 was better than team 11. Team 11 had an unwanted clue object in level 1. I reckon if the two level 3 questions ("the largest ring on English ground" and the beetle one) were swapped around, team 4 would have won.
I like the dwarf tunnels too. I think they should have those in a new series.
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Well they did use "dwarf tunnels" again, albeit....
No I must hold myself here, especially since I started this rule! ;D
If you relax the rule, you know I'll start ranting about Brother Strange again. Best keep the rule, methinks.
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Series 3 of Knightmare has just finished, what are your thoughts on the series and which series would you like to see shown next?
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They should go back to Series 1.
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I really like Series 3, and I'm glad lots of people have had the chance to see it again. I think it has a lot of nice touches and not too many bad points to speak of. More than anything, it seems a genuine challenge (no pun intended). Often the production team are struggling to keep teams alive, and I'd much rather have that than Level 1 being a complete walkover.
If Challenge? do change their minds and continue to show other series, I'd like to see them carry on chronologically with Series 4, then once they'd got to the end of Series 8 start back at Series 1. Sadly, it doesn't seem at present as if that will happen.
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Series 3 was really fantastic and it was great to watch it again, I think it had the best mix of rooms and some of the most exciting and hilarious challengers(I dont think I will never forget those famous words "Say Hello the Goblins Julie and ask them if they would like a present")
Series 3 did lack something though and that was a winner, Infact It is a big shame no one won because this would have made it the best series of Knightmare ever. Also I'm pleased that Series 3 proved to be a good challenge, Nothing was too hard, yet nothing was too easy either, It had the perfect mix of everything really.
I would also love to see Series 1 again, so if Challenge show more series, I would love it to be this one
Sadly, it doesn't seem at present as if that will happen.
Well at least Challenge have confirmed that would NOT RULE OUT the possibility of bringing back the program sometime in the future,this is a good positive sign, so we can always hope that maybe in late 2003 or 2004, they might be tempted to bring back the programme, so lets hope so.
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I think it had the best mix of rooms and some of the most exciting and hilarious challengers(I dont think I will never forget those famous words "Say Hello the Goblins Julie and ask them if they would like a present")
Absolutely! I hope one day I might be allowed to forget Amanda's hideous starry outfit, however.
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