Instead of castles and knights there were almost modern-feeling houses, set on the contested desert border between the Homeland and the mysterious kingdom of Damar.
If you have a lifelong obsession with medieval knights there are practical things you want to know.
In "Shadow Knights," there are references to "Lord of the Rings," Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond, and the comparisons seem warranted: these stories also feature epic struggles, clever detective work, and plenty of gory violence.
So when the peripatetic Gotham Chamber Opera decided to mount Monteverdi's "Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda," a brief operatic work that centers on a ferocious battle between two knights, there was really only one logical place in New York City to stage it: the Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Arms and Armor Court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
For the Golden Knights, there were tears and frustration following the loss, but also a feeling of hope for next year.
With the intense matchup now a pleasant memory for Leufroy and the Golden Knights, there's now the matter of meeting up with Oak Park, which dispatched St. Francis in the quarterfinals last season.
While the prequels presented a rather more swashbuckling take on the Jedi knight, there's a sense that he fits the role of a supporting character better, at least on the big screen.
Though he is a hardly proportioned like a fairy-tale knight, there are those who love the fat old womanizer, liar and troublemaker who goes by the name Falstaff.
Knight: There were goals starting out.
He walks the line between what's ethically permissible and what's not, and while a lot of people see Gomez as a white knight, there are many who consider him a villain.
