What surprised me about their quest was how short level 1 seemed. They were already three rooms into level 2 when they met their end and yet their total quest time is listed as only 17 minutes. In the later series they wouldn't even be near the end of level 1 after that time....

Team 3 seem a bit more positive. Needed some prompting in the clue room, but finding their pace now.

The advisor wearing the glasses didn't say much. I wonder if he was sulking coz he forgot to pack his tie & yellow shirt.

Dramatic sound effect when they pressed the bell, altho maybe more suitable for a tense moment in level 3 than the opening room.

First appearance of Olaf. I always enjoyed seeing him looting&pillaging the dungeoneers, a lighter moment in the series.

Mildread up to her tricks again when the bell sounded.

A Mary Miller character gets caught in temporal disruption for the second episode running.

and that's perfectly fine by me. Can you tell why I love the early seasons? Mary is something of a reason I got to be who I am today... although I must admit Claire seemed to marry Lilith whereas Mildread seems to just want to eat them...

Another epic wound when Christoper had to ring the bell to cross the bridge! Plus was he the only dungeoneer to wear a tie?!

Just after the team entered Level 2, I saw a movement out the corner of my eye. A large spider was sitting right next to my face.

To quote Treguard: "Uurgh, how revolting!"

The more I watch the early series, the less I like the later ones. The early dungeon was such a weird and wonderful place.

With Cla(i)re's departure, we say farewell to the last female dungeoneer for quite some time. A few years ago, when she was getting ready for her wedding, she put on her veil and proceeded to have a flashback-induced screaming fit which only stopped when one of the bridesmaids pulled the veil off and beat it with the bouquet. This is, of course, a complete lie.

I'm inclined to think that Olaf would have been just as happy with the egg as he was with the egg timer. And if the team hadn't taken the gravewort, would we really have had another Mildread-driven death so soon?

Mildread shouldn't need to ask Christopher his name when she'd just used it! Perhaps her impersonation of Treguard, putting him in the Dungeon, was a commentary on how he had been so involved with helping the team in the clue room that he was practically there in person.

A Mary Miller character gets caught in temporal disruption for the second episode running.

A shame that this second episode of the second series didn't feature the debut of Combat Chess and its black bishop. After all, this was episode Tutu.

Still using that terrible snake graphic I see.. lol

First team really were giving a lot of help... being told to spellcast... at least they were soon killed off by a ghost.

Second victims... I mean team looked as if they got burned but with no effect, they were also giving a huge clue from Treguard with one of the riddles.

Mildread is brilliant.. but while I wish they kept her for series 3 we wouldn't have had Grimwold who was one of my absolute favorite.

"Taking the left door is always more dangerous" the team is told... yep a snake which doesn't move in a room that appears in almost every quest is 'more dangerous lol

Anyone tell me which series/episode??

I'd have liked to do it at 384 by 288, but for some reason the card refused to capture at that resolution without dropping 40-50% of the frames

Still, it's in colour, and is slightly higher quality than Neil's.

Looks fine and groovy to me; quite a spooky death, that one.

Don't suppose you (or anyone else for that matter) feel like compiling clips of all the deaths in Knightmare, do you?

(Hosting space isn't an issue - one of the benefits of running an ISP...)

http://tomsonic.dyndns.org:90/temp/km/s2t2death.avi

DivX 5 codec, 256 by 192, 25fps

I'd have liked to do it at 384 by 288, but for some reason the card refused to capture at that resolution without dropping 40-50% of the frames

Still, it's in colour, and is slightly higher quality than Neil's.

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

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

"Oh dear. What a pity. Never mind."

Ahhhh, classic Knightmare!

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.

I will upload it now.