BBC Robin Hood 07

[AxeMental]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/robinhood/

So, any info on this? Has it been aired yet?
This is the same company that did the 80s version I guess.

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Hey P&P check it out: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/whatson/s ... Robin+Hood

-its being played on Saturday, try to cetch it. I wonder if we'll get this across the pond anytime soon.

[Matthew]

It is not very good. Indeed, horrible is how I would describe it. However, it has proven popular and looks to be getting a second season.

I am pretty sure it is not the same company.

Robin of Sherwood
Robin Hood

[AxeMental]

Bummer.

On the upside, I just aquired the entire Robin of Sherwood series on DVD (all 14 dvds).

[AxeMental]

Started watching these last night. I must say, I forgot how good this series is (hadn't seen it for a good 12 years). Alot of sorcery and witchcraft (as well as druidish stuff) I'd forgotten about. Even though its in bad need of being remastered it looks great on the big screen.

[JCBoney]

I'll have to get the DVDs... didn't know they were out.

I watched the series on PBS back in the day. It was great entertainment, and yeah... there was a heavy druidic element to it... Herne the hunter and all that. To me it went down hill when Jason Connery took over the lead.

[AxeMental]

Yeah, he didn't have the juice really, still its hard to go wrong with guys running around with swords in a really cool forest . Didn't the original Robin leave to do a soap or something?

What really sucked was that there had been talk about doing a movie with the original cast just around the time that piece of sh...t RH with Kevin Costner was announced, which killed it.

[dcs]

Druidism and sorcery in Robin Hood? How bizarre. Friar Tuck would burn every one of them at the stake!!

Give me Howard Pyle any day.

[AxeMental]

dcs, I just watched the episode last night where Merriam gets married to Robin the ceremony is perfromed by no other then Hern the Hunter (with antlers on and all) and Friar tuck (already part of the group by this point) isn't around.

[dcs]

dcs, I just watched the episode last night where Merriam gets married to Robin the ceremony is perfromed by no other then Hern the Hunter (with antlers on and all) and Friar tuck (already part of the group by this point) isn't around.

Now that's even more bizarre.

I realize that Robin Hood isn't an historical figure, but he was supposed to have died in the XIIIth century at a time when England was totally Catholic and had been for 500 years. Druidism died out around the VIIth century.

That's just way too much to swallow.

[Le Noir Faineant]

I watched some episodes, and must state that, while not historical, and full of flaws, it's entertaining.

The actor who plays Much is an excellent cast, as well as the Robin Hood actor.

Now, on the downside: Customes, overall story, lack of historical correctness.

Yet, a better show than I thought - nothing to get on DVD, but nice to watch during a free moment.

[Matthew]

This particular series (i.e. the old one) is set in the twelfth century. The Friars weren't even established by that point, so Friar Tuck would not even have been a Mendicant Friar. Given the etymological roots of Friar (i.e. frater or rather, brother) it's no big deal, but suffice to say he wouldn't have been trained to combat heresy.

As to the Catholicism of England during the twelfth century, there would have been a fairly wide degree of variance within the standard. Of course, nothing that could be described as Druidic, but a fair bit that might be described as 'folkish'.

The series, however, clealry owed a lot to the reinvented Celtic movement and so it is not too surprising to find a fair bit of dodgy ideas about 'paganism'. It is worth noting that at the same time Kevin Costner was making his Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' version, there was another much better Robin Hood television film released which owed a lot to the old series in look and style. Uma Thurman played Maid Marion.

[dcs]

This particular series (i.e. the old one) is set in the twelfth century. The Friars weren't even established by that point, so Friar Tuck would not even have been a Mendicant Friar. Given the etymological roots of Friar (i.e. frater or rather, brother) it's no big deal, but suffice to say he wouldn't have been trained to combat heresy.

I was being facetious and burning at the stake would have been left to the secular authority anyway. The Franciscans (Grey Friars) arrived in England in 1224; the Carmelites (White Friars) in 1240; and the Dominicans (Black Friars) around the same time as the Franciscans. Friar Tuck -- if he had existed -- would have been a monk.