Temporal Discussion, A KM podcast

[Canadanne]

I have the novelisation of Hook too. :)
And I wasn't keen on the Addams Family film either - it lacked all the warmth of the TV series which I'd enjoyed on BBC2. (I haven't seen it since, so I've no idea how I would evaluate it as an adult, and admittedly I don't know which adaptation is more faithful to the source material.)

I'm with Martin O on the pronunciation, it's St BERnard unless you're American! (And I haven't heard it said otherwise in all my years of watching Crufts, either...)

[TheOldenDays]

I'm glad we're back to "normal" episodes now, and I have the first five episodes of Series 6 ready and scheduled for release. I'm currently editing a new TimeBusters special that will come directly after those.

[Canadanne]

Whilst some of the criticism in S06E01 is fair (and some is just a matter of opinion), Smirkenorff never flies in a circle in Series 6 - he always takes off from his nesting ledge (Paviland Cliff on the Gower) before landing at one of the castles elsewhere in Wales.

[TheOldenDays]

You know, I was seriously wondering whether I should include that thing about Smirkenorff going in a circle because I wasn't sure it ever really happened as a single continuous flight except for that one sequence in Series 5, but I'd already junked so much material that I knew to be inaccurate, I thought I'd better give this one the benefit of the (my) doubt. I'll make sure this gets mentioned on a future episode.

In the next episode I appeal to you specifically for your thoughts on something, Annie, so I hope you'll have some insights that can also be mentioned on the podcast in the near future. (I won't spoil the surprise now.)

I must admit to feeling a twinge of disappointment at how much Series 6 has been absolutely savaged on the recordings so far, but perhaps this will encourage me not to speak too scathingly about Series 7 and 8 when the time comes. Listen out for Amy on Episode 4 if you're looking forward to a touch of sunshine in the forecast.

[Canadanne]

You know, I was seriously wondering whether I should include that thing about Smirkenorff going in a circle because I wasn't sure it ever really happened as a single continuous flight except for that one sequence in Series 5, but I'd already junked so much material that I knew to be inaccurate, I thought I'd better give this one the benefit of the (my) doubt. I'll make sure this gets mentioned on a future episode.

In the next episode I appeal to you specifically for your thoughts on something, Annie, so I hope you'll have some insights that can also be mentioned on the podcast in the near future. (I won't spoil the surprise now.)

I must admit to feeling a twinge of disappointment at how much Series 6 has been absolutely savaged on the recordings so far, but perhaps this will encourage me not to speak too scathingly about Series 7 and 8 when the time comes. Listen out for Amy on Episode 4 if you're looking forward to a touch of sunshine in the forecast.

I mean, it's possible that the helicopter took off from Llansteffan before filming the landing sequence there (I don't think we can tell one way or the other), but it's certainly not like in Series 5 when Smirky would visibly start and end the flight at Carreg Cennen Castle!

Well, that's got me intrigued for the next ep. :)

Series 6 is my favourite so I was quite looking forward to the podcast finally getting there, and I too was disappointed to hear all three hosts complaining about just about everything so far, but oh well!

[Canadanne]

Incidentally, since it was mentioned that they did a brilliant job of not showing the pylon that's behind the roundhouse, it's funny that the Spanish version chose to use a shot where it's entirely visible!

[TheOldenDays]

When I first visited the Chiltern Open Air Museum and took photos of the roundhouse for TES, I was absolutely flabbergasted to see that dirty great thing dominating Holmgarth in real life. Upon returning home and taking another look at my sixteen-year-old video of S6E1, I could see what a great job had been done to hide the pylon from us. You can tell how striking I found this because I put it in the script (or podcast outline, as I like to call them) for this episode of Temporal Discussion, all these years later.

[Canadanne]

Personally, I still found the S6/7 pookas terrifying as a child, even if they're not as creepy-looking as the earlier ones!

OMG, the Farthing Wood edit with the death chime. Imagine if they used that every time one of the animals snuffed it...

You ask me about the Hall of Choice like I've got a history of staring at castle walls to recognise stone patterns.... yeah OK, geeky as charged. I'm sure I did ponder this one at some point but failed to identify the source, and now it's going to bug me all over again! I agree that it's likely based on a real wall, rather than something they've painstakingly drawn themselves (and I bet they've used the putlog/joist holes to create the doorways). I think we can rule out certain castles that don't have the right shaped stones or have gaps between them, but after reviewing various photographs and screencaps I still can't find a positive match. I'll let you know if I ever do! (And if anyone else has far too much time on their hands and wants to figure it out, please let ME know...)

While we're on the subject of that room, it seems I'm the only person who was disappointed when a place of choice returned in Series 6! I liked it in Series 5 when they just quickly chose a quest in the antechamber and got on with it, starting somewhere different each time.

[TheOldenDays]

Pookas and stormgeists are among the "superficial changes" (as I call them on this episode of the podcast) that I thought "Oh, I wish they'd just kept that the same as in S4/5" when I first watched S6, but the moments of threat and tension they provide can still be pretty tense - I must remember to mention that sometime.

If Farthing Wood had done that, they'd have worn out the sound effect in Series 2. Rosey and I managed to think of (at least) thirteen named characters who snuffed it in the first sequel series, making an average of (at least) one death per episode.

Thanks for the stuff about the Hall of Choice - I'll definitely include some of that in a future episode. What do you think about the Scarborough Castle room (level 3 clue room) where the floor is taken from? The bricks in the walls seem to be packed together in the same way.