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Has anybody ever noticed now completely bizarre Hugo Myatt's voice is. For example, the other day I was watching good old series 1 and there's a moment when he says "Warning Team. Life Force Low." Nothing remarkable there, until you actually listen carefully. It should actually be written "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarning Teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam ..." - Myatt makes every word last for a very long time. Granted, this is often cool - but if you distance yourself from the programme - some of Myatt's pronunciation is entirely laughable. He sounds like a medieval air raid siren or something.

Who's the three star daddy now? Grimwold, you're next.

Yes, he was highly charasmatic as Treguard, especially in the earlier series.  One of the sound clips from this site is of Hugo announcing a competition to design a room in an early series.  Listen to him saying 'Imagine if you will' and notice how it booms noticeably louder than any other words.

Who's the three star daddy now? Grimwold, you're next.

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Has anybody ever noticed now completely bizarre Hugo Myatt's voice is. For example, the other day I was watching good old series 1 and there's a moment when he says "Warning Team. Life Force Low." Nothing remarkable there, until you actually listen carefully. It should actually be written "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarning Teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam ..." - Myatt makes every word last for a very long time. Granted, this is often cool - but if you distance yourself from the programme - some of Myatt's pronunciation is entirely laughable. He sounds like a medieval air raid siren or something.

I see what you mean. There are a very few instances where it does sound odd. As we've said before, it must have been extremely difficult for Hugo. I guess they wanted to get some atmosphere going in the antechamber, so he had to make the most of his lines. Having to act it realistically when your immediate listeners are three pretty quiet 13 year olds must have been difficult. So often he'd say his piece really well in character and set up some good atmosphere, and they'd react by then just sitting and staring at him for ages! Talk about spoiling all his hard work! So I guess going slightly over the top very occasionally is pretty excusable.
 

Can't actually say I've heard too many medieval air-raid sirens though.

Although give him credit for trying to make himself heard over the mumbling advisors, who I'm convinced have louder mics than him.

Well, in series 1 and 2 Treguard was quite deranged! I guess that's just the way he decided to play him.

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Mesa only one star...

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Although... Hugo DID have a habit of booming some words when it wasn't necessary.

He settled down into a more knightly persona for series 3 onwards, though (although he still giggled away in the background as teams messed things up!!!)

I wonder how he'll do it in the new series.

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Veeery good point.

Just goes to show, though, even the creator of Knightmare is new to this place...

Am I missing something here?

Well...maybe. That is, if you didn't know that beveryafraid is the screen name of Tim Child...

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He settled down into a more knightly persona for series 3 onwards, though (although he still giggled away in the background as teams messed things up!!!)

I wonder how he'll do it in the new series.

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I thought he was fantastic in Series 3, especially his introductions. It was all so very atmospheric, one of those moments where I doubt anyone sitting at home could possibly talk over the television. I too loved those moments when he cracked up in the background. Despite all the difficulties, hard work, line-learning and such, he must have had a great time making it.    

On the post count issue, despite what it might look like, I don't really think it's important at all. I'd personally much rather have a few posts that are interesting or that people enjoy reading than loads of one-line posts to inflate the post count. I've occasionally looked back over what people have posted in the past, and there are just some extremely interesting thoughts and hilarious comments among them. If anyone is knew to the boards, I'd definitely recommend looking back over some of the old threads when you get the chance.