Series 3
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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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It always makes me wonder what they actually were supposed to do at that point....
Do you mean the bit where Julie got killed off by the Goblins?? ?? Basiclly what should have happened is that if Julie and her team got both questions from Merlin correct, he would have given the team an Anti-Goblin Spell, they then could have used that spell to somehow kill/Scare off the Goblins so she could continue.
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Am I the only one who thinks series 3 is the best series of Knightmare, I love everything about it.
1 ROOMS. Knightmare was best in series 1-3, when it was underground. the only rooms it needs from other series is, corridoor of blades, and the hexagonal causeways. The best rooms of previous series are still alive in 3, yet some new ones are so great. Frightening too. Has anyone notices that the distorted humm while walking through the dwarf tunnels is different each level, in three it is a creepy distorted quiver.
2 CHARACTERS, Brangwen and Golgarach are the best wall monsters? Truth Accepted! indeed they are. Mogdred was good, morganna was the best. Lord fear cannot contend with a woman from the deeper catacombs. Merlin was at his peak. Hordriss was in a run of good form in the episodes he was in. Velda was actually quite fit, she can shoot me with a grey arrow any time she wants, specially as they dont even do anything lol. Olaf was a bit crap though, i would swap him with skarkill.
3 HAZZARDS
The floating skulls were quality in this series, specially the variency in colours and that noise they make. The life force clock was best. The magic swords made a wicked noise, neneneneneee neneneneneee
Horaar WHAT A SERIES!
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I agree on all counts.
Each room had a nasty challenge in it and if you messed up you died pretty quickly (not like in later series where it was more narrative and less action). They were also very colourful and beautifully drawn. Such stunning graphics made it a pleasure to look at. Totally enthralling. Much better than the (sorry, folks) rather gaudy outdoor stuff later on.
The Life Force Clock. 'nuff said.
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