Weeping Doors
Posted: 03 Oct 2016, 11:51
Is it really true (!) that teams needed one correct answer in Level 1, two in Level 2 and three in Level 3?
It would seem an anticlimax, from a production perspective, to make the end of series 4 hang on getting three True or False questions correct.
After our Level 1 encounter I asked Treguard (off camera) 'Will it go against us, that we only got two right?' and he said 'Let's just say it would have gone better FOR you, if you had got them all right'.
Seems to me the idea of the questioning is fine; what I would have changed about the Weeping Doors is the whole concept of sadness/weeping. A quick challenge from a knight or a monk on the drawbridge would have felt a lot more compelling, if not exactly uplifting.
Come to think of it, the KM script had several elements that might not be regarded as appropriate nowadays for 11-14/15 children's TV, e.g. the Third Weeping Door being described by Treguard as a manic depressive/bipolar 'Better deal with her quickly before she depresses us all' (or similar), the reference to Pickle being 'a half-wit elf, not a demented hunchback' and the drunken appearances by various characters.
If it were written again today, I daresay a team might have to stop Lord Fear from some crime of pollution near Knightmare Castle!
It would seem an anticlimax, from a production perspective, to make the end of series 4 hang on getting three True or False questions correct.
After our Level 1 encounter I asked Treguard (off camera) 'Will it go against us, that we only got two right?' and he said 'Let's just say it would have gone better FOR you, if you had got them all right'.
Seems to me the idea of the questioning is fine; what I would have changed about the Weeping Doors is the whole concept of sadness/weeping. A quick challenge from a knight or a monk on the drawbridge would have felt a lot more compelling, if not exactly uplifting.
Come to think of it, the KM script had several elements that might not be regarded as appropriate nowadays for 11-14/15 children's TV, e.g. the Third Weeping Door being described by Treguard as a manic depressive/bipolar 'Better deal with her quickly before she depresses us all' (or similar), the reference to Pickle being 'a half-wit elf, not a demented hunchback' and the drunken appearances by various characters.
If it were written again today, I daresay a team might have to stop Lord Fear from some crime of pollution near Knightmare Castle!