WWTBAM Bored

They go to Miracle Max--I mean, to the forest hag--to find ingredients for an antidote to the poison. And surprise, surprise, the hag has them run through another challenge, where the winner gets a medal (for "wisdom"!?) and the three losers face banishment. Plus there's a lot of the usual reality show team manipulation.

Gotta love how the queen's gray pallor was magically cleared up...by changing the color of the lights shining down on her.

And then the teaser for next week. The castle's under attack! So, naturally, the paladins are going to be sword fighting against each other.

Our heroes, who got trained with swords a couple weeks ago but still don't carry them when they could desperately use them (like last week, when they wasted time trying to assemble a scorpion for the first time, instead of joining Sir Ansgar, who's fighting the ogre singledhandedly) have to flee from the castle. Instead of escaping under cover of darkness, they're told to wait in a tunnel until morning? While the suspected traitor vizier knows they went through that tunnel???

They have to haul up some signal flags, using a ridiculously complicated pattern system that couldn't possibly be distinguished by anyone further off than themselves? And when they hoist the wrong message, there's no "real" penalty for having just given the army incorrect orders?

Then they camouflage their location in the woods. As soon as they're done, it's time to move on.

Later, they camouflage their new camp, but they've got it lit up with half a dozen lanterns.

They're sent out on a "real" scouting mission...so how do the Fates know whose answers are correct?

The dragon is released, but conveniently returns to its lair that has a cage positioned above it, along with the appropriate number of complicated winch mechanisms to close it.

The dragon eggs must be raised from the pits with the tools at hand, but nobody thinks that it might be easier to bring the nets down into the pits and use them? All because it's against some arbitrary (but not fully disclosed) rule?

And the biggest problem of all: the temple of the Fates. If that's supposed to be a magical building that conveniently poofs into existence whenever it's time for the paladins to enter, that hasn't been explained in the story. And if that's not how it works, they should have left the temple, with all those parts of the Sunspear, far behind them, in the hands of Verlox.

BTW, why couldn't they have assembled the spear as soon as the Fates handed out the pieces, in the first episode?

BTW, why couldn't they have assembled the spear as soon as the Fates handed out the pieces, in the first episode?

It is a goofy reality show which in itself should pretty well answer all these questions! I believe the spear point is in the stand where banished contestants have to return their chunk of the spear. If they tried to take that then the three fates would no doubt have Billy Crystal come out and smack them around for their impudence!