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It's no Doctor Who, but was rather better than I expected, good undemanding fun. I like how he has a Northern accent. And how the soldiers are all mysteriously cockneys.

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Saturday, 7 October 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

As long as Kevin Costner is not involved??? Or old Bryan Adams, for that matter. He was only good when he had Edward James Olmos skin.

― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Saturday, 7 October 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

A new new series? No Clannad song? No Richard O'Brien not playing Riff Raff but some other weird character? No son of Sean Connery going "I will never get employment anywhere else"?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 October 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

No Clannad song, mullets or mystical twaddle of any kind, I'm afraid.

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Saturday, 7 October 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

YET!

It was diverting hokum. Keith Allen is really annoying (especially the way they've allowed him anachronistic speech patterns cos he's such a character) but Guy of Gisburne is nicely silky; no complaints about Robin and the merrie men so far.

The action scenes need a lot of work though. Particularly grating is the way all the enemy archers, swordsmen etc. helpfully pause to let Robin finish his kewl moves before they actually fire.

― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 7 October 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Boring. Really, really boring. They've taken Costner and Prince of Thieves as the template: jokey, but not funny enough; bland, miscast Robin; scene-stealing, scenery-chewing sheriff.
Very now - Hoxton fins and hair-putty ahoy, but I suppose it's no different to Robin of Sherwood with it's v.'80s dry ice caked forests and be-mulleted outlaw.

But this new Robin Hood is nowhere near as funny, dramatic or well written as Tony Robinson's Maid Marion & Her Merry Men. I turned over ten minutes before the end to watch that Michael Palin thing on BBC2.

― DavidM* (unreal), Saturday, 7 October 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

No Clannad song, mullets or mystical twaddle of any kind, I'm afraid.

omg!! i grew up a little in the UK, and this is dredging something up... uh Herne the Hunter and all that?? yeah? 1985-6ish?

xpost yeah we're remembering the same thing. good god.

― geoff (gcannon), Saturday, 7 October 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

it did all look like the "new years day" video didn't it.

has there ever been a good Robin Hood movie?

― geoff (gcannon), Saturday, 7 October 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, Errol Flynn. Completely OTT in the best possible Golden Age Hollywood way.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 October 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

I reckon the director was quite proud of the somersaulting-off-the-balcony bit.

Agree Nu-Robin is a tad bland. Also, he needs to shit or get off the pot re the beard.

― robster (robster), Saturday, 7 October 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Hell yes!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029843/

xpost x2

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Saturday, 7 October 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, the Flynn film is awesome. Some of the blindingest Technicolor ever as well!

― robster (robster), Saturday, 7 October 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

That's for sure! Every time I watch it I think "What a crazy job they did colorizing this" -- then I remember that they DIDN'T.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 October 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Saw the last five minutes and thought it looked shit, but I liked the way he had a NOTTINGHAM accent. What I saw was all action. I do not fancy Maid Marian, and I hate the fancy camerawork and editing.

Strictly Come Dancing was all right though.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Saturday, 7 October 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

"I reckon the director was quite proud of the somersaulting-off-the-balcony bit."

showing in slo-mo from several angles so it looks like they showed it twice, jackie chan style, i'd say a bit TOO proud.

HOW HAS NO ONE SAID: THE ARROW-FX CAPTIONS CAN FUCK OFF. grr

no horned god, no credibility

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 7 October 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

I was quite excited about this, it almost lived up to my expectations. (The modern hair and the ever so slightly pretentious fight scenes being major sticking points, for me anyway).
I fear that I might have a slight crush on Guy of Gisborne, even though his hair is alot more mullety than on the cover of the radio times. and I fear that Maid Marion and Her Merry Men may have ruined the name forever. The drippy ginger version was great.
Actually, I reckon that the BBC could win the so called ratings war straight away just by showing repeats of "Maid Marion.." at seven o'clock on a saturday.
Keith Allen, I think, still annoys me more than i would ideally like.

― Jedwin Van Pells (Jim Bob), Saturday, 7 October 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

errol flynn robin hood > disney robin hood >>> bugs bunny robin hood >>>>>> daffy duck robin hood ("yoicks! and awaaaaaaaay!") >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> kevin costner RH >> anything else

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 7 October 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

The trailer all week has used "Alice" by the Sisters Of Mercy under it. The fact Eldritch is making money from this programme is the nicest thing I can think of to say about it.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Sunday, 8 October 2006 07:49 (nineteen years ago)

ooh, i've totally got to download this. just this summer i bought all the robin the hooded man dvds and watched them, they're so fun. what has happened to torchwood, anyway?

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Sunday, 8 October 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

There was a trailer afterwards for Torchwood - "COMING SOON".

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 8 October 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

the trailer was on the homechoice replay of RH, yay!

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Sunday, 8 October 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

It was okay, and yeah I kept expecting the guy who played the cat in Red Dwarf to pop up and start singing a rap about what's been occuring in the episode thus far.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 8 October 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

All I saw was completely cringeworthy - the kissing the tailor's daughter, the multiple-shot somersault off the balcony, the terrfied townsmen. It seemed to be less Prince of Thieves than A Knight's Tale.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 8 October 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

I liked the way he had a NOTTINGHAM accent.

i didn't! too spoofy or not spoofy enought.

― the classic sounds of the seventh of january 1998 (Enrique), Sunday, 8 October 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

I couldn't understand why the tailors house had no walls.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 8 October 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, in the olden days they would totally have made houses with walls! They'd all die in the winter otherwise, or have their stuff pinched. On no! You don't think they made the house with no walls just so Robin could do that somersault? I feel cheated.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 8 October 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

it's not really a house, if it doesn't have walls.

― the classic sounds of the seventh of january 1998 (Enrique), Sunday, 8 October 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

It must have been scaffolding then, my bad.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 8 October 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

TS: Keith Allen V Alan Rickman

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Sunday, 8 October 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

I am yet to be convinced.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 8 October 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

It was very poor. Robin is like a cheeky Joe Cole.

― Pete W (peterw), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/images/2006/09/29/robin_hood_02_lead_203x152.jpg

I think he makes quite a good Robin, and he and Much had a good double-act thing going on.

I've only just realised that the actor who plays Much is Patrick Troughton's grandson. Bring on the daleks!

― C J (C J), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://espnstar.com/photo/1126080945241joe_cole_070905.jpg

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

Jonas Armstrong has that naughty fanciability that neither of the recent Doctor Whos had - northern wasisname was too darn serious for his own good and Tennant was too flimsy. And that's what makes it for me. And the script didn't make me squirm as much as Dr Who 'every planet has a north' etc etc. Keith Allen doesn't get on my tits that much either, though like Timothy Spall or Ross Kemp he does seem to play the same character in everything. Bring on next Saturday! And being similar to A Knight's Tale is no bad thing.

― Nobodys Prawn (Nobodysprawn), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

He looks a bit like Ben from Hollyoaks, now I think about it.

― C J (C J), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

I'm enjoying this more and more, the ridiculous modern political subtext, the campy sheriff, the cheap action. I especially liike the fact they've killed of a character to introduce a spurious (but cute) female muslim one.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 10 November 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

I've actually not bothered with the last two. I might give it another shot if you say it's getting sillier.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Friday, 10 November 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

last weeks, which I just watched on BBC Three, had muslim slaves, a miner's strike, the archery contest and some campy posturing by keith allen.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I'll watch it on Teleport replay when I get in pissed later.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

We really are laying on the spurious ethnic a bit thick this week with a black abbess in addition to our tranvestite/principal boy muslim.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 11 November 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

This is coming on Australian television soon, should I bother watching it? And how homoerotic is it?

― Drooone, Friday, 23 March 2007 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

Eh, watch it if you're in with nothing better to do.

― chap, Friday, 23 March 2007 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

And how homoerotic is it?

Lord of the Rings level homoerotic. Men saying they love each other and precious few women around. Robin and Much have a Frodo and Sam thing going, and Marion is Arwen.

I like it so far. The blatant politics are chuckleworthy (since I agree with them... if you think the war in Iraq was a great idea, this show will piss you off) and it doesn't take itself too seriously (pay attention, producers of Torchwood) so it's good fun.

I hope Alan-a-Dale gets more lines in future episodes, he's entertaining.

Also, speaking of Doctor Who... Paul Cornell wrote episode 3!

― f. hazel, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

handy translation guide:

marian = "pie face"
guy of gisburne = "sir useless of jizz bum"
etc. etc.

mark s thinks robin is scrawny and not "handsome" ina trad robin hood sense but he's sort of how i've always imagined robin, at least in looks (not so much in his total SLUTDOM)

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

Being a child of the 80s I always picture Robin Hood with a mullet.

― chap, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

Enjoy this tv series. Despite the silliness of a major plot point revolving around the "Black Knights" the second season was more engrossing than the first, with the plots concerning Allan as well as the Gisbourne/Marion 'relationship.' Watching an episode every now and then on netflix instant is a great background to cooking & seating supper.

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Monday, 17 January 2011 01:36 (fifteen years ago)

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