Without Honor They Are Nothing
January 15, 2011 9:30 AM Subscribe
Trying to remember a TV show from the late eighties or early nineties based on a single scene.
The hero and his band (this is in some sort of fantasy setting) are captured by these knights/encounter said knights. The knights are wearing full armor and are known to be incredibly honorable. The phrase "without honor we are nothing" or something to that effect is tossed around. The hero for some reason has to fight one of them, and is taken away from his companions (I think) to do the fighting. It turns out that the knights don't give him a sword to fight them with. He somehow manages to get a sword and decapitate the knight he was fighting anyway. The armor falls down, empty, as without honor the knights are nothing.
That's all I can remember. The clearest thing I remember is the empty suite of armor falling and the justification for it. This probably wasn't shown after 1994 at the latest, as I think I'd remember it better. Or did I make this up out of whole cloth, should copyright the idea and sell it to SyFy for their next original movie by including a giant sea animal in the description (the knights are all giant guppies or something)?
The hero and his band (this is in some sort of fantasy setting) are captured by these knights/encounter said knights. The knights are wearing full armor and are known to be incredibly honorable. The phrase "without honor we are nothing" or something to that effect is tossed around. The hero for some reason has to fight one of them, and is taken away from his companions (I think) to do the fighting. It turns out that the knights don't give him a sword to fight them with. He somehow manages to get a sword and decapitate the knight he was fighting anyway. The armor falls down, empty, as without honor the knights are nothing.
That's all I can remember. The clearest thing I remember is the empty suite of armor falling and the justification for it. This probably wasn't shown after 1994 at the latest, as I think I'd remember it better. Or did I make this up out of whole cloth, should copyright the idea and sell it to SyFy for their next original movie by including a giant sea animal in the description (the knights are all giant guppies or something)?
Best answer: Are there any television shows based on the book Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yard by Piers Anthony? In Chapter 11, Sword and Stone, there's a scene very much like what you've described, including this relevant passage:
Threnody looked at me. "Empty armor?" she asked, bewildered. "But it fought us!"
"It fought without honor," I said. "We were unarmed. Without honor, the Knights are nothing at all."
The book was published in 1984 and was part of a series. Maybe you read the book and imagined the scene as a movie in your head (I do that all the time with books).
posted by amyms at 10:37 AM on January 15, 2011
Threnody looked at me. "Empty armor?" she asked, bewildered. "But it fought us!"
"It fought without honor," I said. "We were unarmed. Without honor, the Knights are nothing at all."
The book was published in 1984 and was part of a series. Maybe you read the book and imagined the scene as a movie in your head (I do that all the time with books).
posted by amyms at 10:37 AM on January 15, 2011
Response by poster: amyms, that looks like it, although I could have sworn I stopped reading the Xanth books well before that one. And I must add, after reading that, not without reason.
But that would explain things, as I read the Xanth books long enough ago that I can't remember them clearly. Thanks!
(I don't think there was a TV show, just me recreating the scene in my mind.)
posted by Hactar at 4:44 PM on January 15, 2011
But that would explain things, as I read the Xanth books long enough ago that I can't remember them clearly. Thanks!
(I don't think there was a TV show, just me recreating the scene in my mind.)
posted by Hactar at 4:44 PM on January 15, 2011
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posted by ducktape at 10:01 AM on January 15, 2011