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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Djeta Thernadier" data-source="post: 1477453" data-attributes="member: 12043">Whoa. Well, sorry you didn't have fun. I don't think it's really billed as a serious act or that anyone goes into it taking it seriously. If you went into it expecting a serious act, naturally you'd be disappointed. It's pretty widely known as a silly good time. I mean, it's only a few steps away from being a chain restaurant, really!As for the violence, I have not seen any posters or tv ads for it that don't show swords and guys hitting each other with them, and I think most parents presume there will be a moderate level of violence. My parents took me to shows like this when I was small and I never turned into an axe murderer so I think probably, parents know the level of violence their kids can handle. It isn't like little kids playing make believe knights (or big kids playing RPGS) don't run around whacking each other with pretend swords anyway. I'd rate the violence in MT as PG at most. There is not even any blood. In fact, I only recall one guy dying and I think he was a bad guy. The rest of them all appeared winded or down, but not dead and bloodied. Cheering for death? That's a wee bit dramatic, don't you think? As I recall it, the sections are cheering for their knight to survive I think, not for the other knight to die. I think you as an adult are putting way more thought into this than the small children in the audience. Adults often do take these things way more seriously than children, who, unless already pre-disposed to violent behavior, left unsupervised and exposed to violence repeatedly in a real life situation day after day after day, tend to forget about it as soon as it's over and drift back to their little imaginations.I can next to guarantee you none of the children you saw in that audience will ever off a co-worker with a mace. Unless it's in a game of D&D of course...Things were pretty brutal in real Medieval times. Besides the various sword challenges like jousts and duels, you also had a lot of theft, banditry and pillaging. Not to mention invasions. Ooooooh, and religious persecution! And some fun forms of torture. Oh, and lets not forget the nasty , icky diseases. I think this show presents it as a silly, tournament with the flavor of romanticized Medieval Times. No one takes it seriously.WWF wrestlers? Well, better dressed perhaps. But knights (and gladiators, since you brought them up too) were the celebrity of their time. You bet there were people cheering for them back in the day. As for the kings guys all fighting each other - I honestly can't recall that part of the show. I think I recall something about the knights representing their own parts of the kingdom and doing this tournament for show. Sounds feasible to me. The fights I saw when I went looked real. Not staged. If you wanted perfectly choreographed fighting, perhaps you'd enjoy West Side Story more. Now, don't get me wrong, obviously these are choreographed but in such a way that they don't look like dance routines. Maybe your guys were just really bad, but the guys I saw in Orlando were on par with the ones at Excalibur (similar show in Las Vegas) and various ren-fests I've been to. Also, you're dealing with a live audience. It's not going to looks as pretty as it does in the movies.The armor and weapons I saw were either real, or damn convincing. I presume they have to have safety measures in place for liability but it in no way took from my enjoyment of the show - as I said before, my biggest gripe was the fact that the place has no concept of the fact that diabetic people might like more than water with their meals. And the photo people. But the show itself is fun.To each their own I guess. Sorry you didn't enjoy it.  :\</blockquote>

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