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"Pantomime"! That's the word I was looking for.

"Oh dear, what a pity, never mind..."

"...has come to a sticky end..."

"isn't it...?"

Those were the most popular catchphrases I've heard a lot.

And both episode one and two's introductions are very much similar...

The intro and outro of almost every episode in season one was the same recording. As far as I understand it, they had to stick to generic announcements instead of creating new sequences for each episode due to time constraints. Just one of the many teething problems for any new series I fear. Thankfully they were given far more freedom from season 2 onwards.

The lone Treguard seemed to be far more involved as he didn't have the assistant to contend with. But I think Pickle and Majida were definitely suited to the series they assisted him in.

I liked Treguard with Pickle, and didn't mind him on his own either, I just never really took to Majida, for some reason, she always got on my nerves! *shrugs*

I also think that Treguard was good with Pickle in series 4-6 , mainly becuase of the use of forests. An elf seemed a good sidekick since there had been an elf in series 3 and because of the role of Elves in mythology.

A genie on the other hand just dosen't seem to fit in since Majida would obviously have come from the middle east. Perhaps here bottle was brought back from the crusades eh. Sytill though she does not fit into northern European style fantasy.

The 1-3 neutral Treguard was a lot more fun, he took a sadistic delight almost in the teams failure, only advising as much as was needed rather than doing EVERYTHING. 'Oh look master it's a blocker' episode after episode got very tiring with Pickle's inane banter and with Majida it was overadvised and she tended to get annoying, no offence to Majida fans. Neutral also gave some top class lines and didn't help quite as much, he felt more like the 'Dungeon Master' than a leader of good.