Unintended Knightmare references on TV: Doctor Who

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Unintended Knightmare references on TV: Doctor Who

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For those of you who watch Doctor Who, there was a moment in episode 11 of the most recent series (The Lodger), where Matt Smith (a.k.a The Doctor) was in bed then all of sudden said "Ooooh, Nasty...."
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Amusingly, about a dozen people on Twitter were all reminded of Knightmare by the heartbeat sound in between songs on Eurovision this evening. ;D
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And before Eurovision was Doctor Who... featuring Idris the confused. ;)

(Was it a coincidence that a trailer featuring actor Idris Elba was shown afterwards?)
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Drassil wrote:And before Eurovision was Doctor Who... featuring Idris the confused. ;)
Yeah, I was trying to re-imagine that episode with Sidriss instead, but... couldn't quite picture her as the TARDIS personified, somehow! :D
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Drassil wrote:And I did enjoy seeing the Doctor blinded by a "silly" helmet in tonight's Doctor Who episode. Followed by four people going home for Christmas.
The bit that reminded me of Knightmare was at 37:00 and several times thereafter. :)

OT: can't for the life of me think who the female tree thing reminded me of! Anyone?
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The bit where the Doctor was slowly guiding Clara towards the Ice Warrior, and she was all "What should I say?", was very dungeoneer-like. ;D
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Some of the locations in tonight's Doctor Who episode looked very familiar indeed!
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When the Doctor and Clara time-travelled in search of Robin Hood & co, my first thought was "I hope they bump into Treguard!", so it was quite funny that they ended up visiting Knightmare Castle. ;D
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Before Doctor Who tonight, there was a trailer for Casualty. Standard stuff, vehicle crash with no sound and a woman's voice singing. Except I'm positive that at one point, the words she was singing were "Oooooh Naaaaasty".
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After last weekend's Doctor Who, people are wondering who the Timeless Child is. Until we know more, I'm happy to treat it as a nod to Knightmare. You just have to remove the eless.
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In this case eless is more. :)
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Drassil wrote: 20 Oct 2018, 15:27 After last weekend's Doctor Who, people are wondering who the Timeless Child is. Until we know more, I'm happy to treat it as a nod to Knightmare. You just have to remove the eless.

It seemed appropriate to learn of the Doctor's creative influence in an episode whose title includes the Knightmare creator's name.

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In Chapter 6 of Doctor Who: Flux, hearing the name Kragar reminded me of a certain Knightmare character. (Kragar was played by Dan Starkey, who has been a Knightmare Live advisor.)

The same episode had a scene that reminded me of Knightmare Series 2.

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