I heard once that Lord Fear has a love of Quiches...

Hush-finger gesture But you didn't hear it from me!

Just because Lord Fear has a certain amount of celebrity doesn't give you the right to write these libellous "Quiche-and-Tell" stories.

Hush-finger gesture But you didn't hear it from me!

My question is this tho, if the lifeforce wasnt relevant in scenes where there was no food and the team wasnt been rushed, does it have an affect if the teams lifeforce is damaged (not destroyed) by a monster or something?

Who's this aimed at?

Naitch, presumably. Strangely enough, I imagined Dark Descender's comment narrated by the dog from the Churchill adverts.

Steady now.

Who's this aimed at?

I mean it was creepy, but that added to it in my opinion.

Esp. when it got to life force red, and the skull was disintergrating and the eyes would be spinning around.

I quite liked the walking life force as well. Not as much as the original face, but I liked the way that too disintergrated at the end.

The pie I was neither here or there with it. I thought it was a bit silly at first, but it didn't get me hot under the collar.

Well, not as much as Majida anyway

Definitely one more vote for the original life force clock - and not just because I never* saw the second or third first time round, either.

• For certain values of "Never", that is. I saw a couple of clips of series 6 first time round, at least one containing the walking knight clock - which I thought was unmemorable at the time, but since then when I've seen it on Challenge it does have a very impressive CLANG! every time a bit of armour drops off.

The main problem with the S6-7 clock, though, is the same problem that the S1-2 clock had - it ran far too quickly, and there are a number of rooms where the clock could have started at full power and the dungeoneer would have been dead by the end of it. (Examples: every single level one clue room...) Did anyone ever manage to piece together how long the S6-7 clock ran out? I reckon that one was the shortest of the lot.

The first life force is best. I think for a new series it should be modified by making more movements- eyes blinking and face movements- & the frame on condition green (where that face opens his mouth really wide) should have a blood curling scream also there shud be ripping sounds on condition amber when skin peels of. extreme HORROR the way i imagine it but would put suspense bak into the show.

i hated it when i watxched s 8 i say alweays to my friends "that bloody cake thing"

the 2nd lfe force was gos whern it was put into action for deaths though!!!! especially series 6 team 2 drednaught death!

You folks are just what I need to help me out of a creative rut I'm stuck in. I'm working on a Knightmare game, and there has been considerable deate about how to implement the Life Force Clock.

I'd really appreciate it if you could head over to the **Here's a mad idea... ** thread and lay down some ideas.

http://www.talkknightmare.co.uk/yabbse/http://www.knightmare.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=1;action=display;threadid=1153

Thanks a lot!

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It came out rather well, too.

The clock was certainly the reason why I wanted to watch the second episode after watching the first.

Perhaps they even used the digital framestore in the actual episodes, so it could be easily fast forwarded or cut when the life force got damaged by an enemy or magic.

I reckon we should find someone who worked on the programme and see if they still have the original source for the animation. Or even a 'clean' version of the tape with just the full-screen life force animation on it (i.e. without the credits running over it)

The Life Force animation (original face/skull) is one of the things that I remember vividly about the early series of Knightmare. I was only about 8 when I first saw it on CITV, but the Life Force death sequence remained lodged in my mind from that very first death!

Has anyone noticed that most of the deaths in series three involve falling off of things? The ones that don't (a lightning bolt to the head/captured by goblins) were the ones I remembered best.

I don't think it was scary by itself...but it helped to build up the tension. And it's such a vivid image, that most people can remember it years after the event.

The Mogdred sword death was great.

They didn't use a knell, just a slowing heart-beat and cracking bone. Awesome.