{"id":1613,"date":"2010-07-03T13:01:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T12:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2010-07-06T12:42:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T11:42:44","slug":"the-teutonic-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=1613","title":{"rendered":"The Teutonic Plague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I want to talk about the Germans.<\/p>\n<p>Alex rather brilliantly found an episode of German <strong>Desert Forges<\/strong> on Youtube, it&#8217;s well worth a watch, here&#8217;s Part 1, the rest are up there (Jasmin @ Desert Forges Teil x):<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FLNC9yG4khE&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Well, fair enough. The rules are modified a little bit (it looks like there&#8217;s a seperate dagger for each event, and it looks like the role of chaser and chased swaps each time rather than the winner of the previous event taking the chased role. And time limits are set by the first team to play) and the games are slightly different. Good.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m slightly baffled by the presentation. Germans often have a habit of doing things their own way, sometimes this is successful (their original 1990 <strong>Fort Boyard <\/strong>has barely anything in common presentation wise with any other version but is still very good), here I&#8217;m not quite so sure. It&#8217;s certainly <em>different, <\/em>but in a way that seems to neuter the mood of adventure and setting. It picks elements of the presentation of the original format, but in a way that seems rather jarring when they show up.<\/p>\n<p>ProSieben did the same thing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/view_play_list?p=DE5D92AB221523FD&amp;playnext=1&amp;playnext_from=PL&amp;v=yMToQon8jYA\">when they remade <strong>Fort Boyard<\/strong> in 2000<\/a>, the presentation choices are certainly rather curious. For most part any characters are sidelined, Sonya Kraus sets general knowledge questions up the tower, the theme is by Rednex. It&#8217;s certainly worth a watch, but again when it uses the traditional elements it feels rather jarring.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, <strong>Splatalot<\/strong> isn&#8217;t the only <strong>Total<\/strong> <strong>Wipeout&#8230; for kids! <\/strong>on the way, Kieran Jupe has discovered that they&#8217;re actually<a href=\"http:\/\/trafalgar-group.co.uk\/totalwipeout.aspx\"> making <\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/trafalgar-group.co.uk\/totalwipeout.aspx\">Total Wipeout&#8230; for kids!<\/a> <\/strong>on the proper course as well. I certainly look forward to Richard Hammond&#8217;s commentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I want to talk about the Germans. Alex rather brilliantly found an episode of German Desert Forges on Youtube, it&#8217;s well worth a watch, here&#8217;s Part 1, the rest are up there (Jasmin @ Desert Forges Teil x): Well, fair enough. The rules are modified a little bit (it looks like there&#8217;s a seperate\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=1613\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-q1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}