BBF: You know, I forgot all about the whole "locking in" concept. To be honest, that was something I always wondered about
: did they
actually leave the failed contestants locked in the challenge chambers for the duration of the filming? If so, it seemed a pretty harsh punishment; those chambers, once you took away the superficial "Medieval Zone" mystique, were essentially just cheaply made-up little cells filled with papier-mache boulders, dingy little pools and fog machines. I'm sure it was all fun and games in there when you're racing against the clock to find the crystal with all your buds cheering you on, but I'm guessing it would start to seem pretty grim if you got locked in there for over an hour, at the scene of your own humiliating failure, with the unsolved puzzle sat right beside you, taunting you for your inadequacies. Did anyone ever go crazy on the show?
jj: Yeah, that was a watershed moment for me, too. "Richard O'Brien wrote a
musical? About
transvestites??"
Then, having said that, he was kind of a weird guy; I guess it was par for the course.
