Knightmare Stereotypes
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Interesting topic.
I wonder, if I go to the back of my wardrobe, will I end up in Winteria talking to Aesandre?
Nice name, unoriginal character.Ariadne is just such a stereotypical spider. Spinning webs, scuttling around on eight legs, attacking smaller creatures - Arachnid Rights groups must have been up in arms. (Perhaps Mary Whitehouse lent them the arms.)
Ah-Wok, I think, is extreme; I always felt uncomfortable watching him, especially when his pronunciation of 'l's as 'r's actually became part of the puzzle. Although, thinking back to the Dungeoneer who asked Ah-Wok if he was from the East, perhaps not everyone saw him as an excessive stereotype.
I suppose it was sensible to have Merlin himself as the main 'good' wizard, rather than creating a diluted 'Merlinesque' character with a different name. Archetype rather than stereotype, you could say.
Sir Hugh de Wittless, seemed a bit stereotypical, but having his bluff gallantry as the result of a curse by Hordriss, added a nice twist to the character.
As for dragons... although Smirkenorff was a fantastic innovation on Knightmare, I felt that Owen the dragon was less stereotypical.
Hordriss seemed a very original character - perhaps that's why he lasted longer than any of the others.
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I don't mind Mace's character, since usually there was a little story going on around him. And if he's a stereotype, at least he's a pretty interesting one. Unlike some, Olaf. Ho ho ho, he's a Viking with a bad Scandinavian accent. Gosh, what a great creation.
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The way that Skarkill said 'lovely' reminds me of a character on the comedy show The Mary Whitehouse Experience (which despite the title was nothing to do with MW, who was so kind to Knightmare in its early days) whose catchphrase was 'Lovely! Milky milky!'
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Posted by Drassil on Dec 14th at 2:27pm.
The way that Skarkill said 'lovely' reminds me of a character on the comedy show The Mary Whitehouse Experience (which despite the title was nothing to do with MW, who was so kind to Knightmare in its early days) whose catchphrase was 'Lovely! Milky milky!'
"CHARMING DRASSIL. VERY CHARMING."
"TELL ME DO YOU KNOW WHAT THESE ARE?"
"HEHEHEHEHEH...LOVELY"
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As coincidence would have it, a couple of weeks ago I found websites that have episodes of TMWE (the original, much better, radio version) available for download.
You can visit http://www.tmwe.co.uk/ for all of them, although the site's accessibility comes and goes quite erratically.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~crosers/tmwe.htm is a good secondary source for episodes from the final season on radio.
Sorry, no milky-milky man in the radio version.
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Thanks, HStorm. I knew you'd know about TMWE!
"CHARMING DRASSIL. VERY CHARMING."
"TELL ME DO YOU KNOW WHAT THESE ARE?"
"HEHEHEHEHEH...LOVELY"
Skarkill, 'Milky Milky Man' was a very entertaining comic character, and my comparison was meant as a compliment to both.
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