In which she gets bored and starts watching Robin Hood

[zeborah]

10 seconds in: james_nicoll wasn't wrong: the Sheriff sure likes chewing the scenery. ...And he's not the only one. Also, I'm hoping that by the end of the episode I'll figure out which female is Maid Marion and who on earth the other one is.(3)

On the plus side, it's totally better than Supernatural.(1)

In other news, I went back to work today and it didn't suck, even when They asked if I could stay on the desk "a bit longer" and didn't come back for forty minutes.

(1) Just.(2)

(2) I take that back. OMG Guy/Sheriff slash! Total craptasticness!

(3) Marion is the girl who fails to plan for her enemies to have a basic grasp of the optical sciences. Still no idea who the other one is, so I shall dub her Onawg: "Obligatory New Age Woo-woo Girl".

Comments

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

OK... which Robin Hood? The Costmer movie?

Or do you mean the crap new TV one with Jonas Armstrong and lots of annoying whizzy arrow-scene changes and banal dialogue? I mean... Robin Hood with e 'Saracen' recurved bow??? No way! The only goodish thing about the new RH is Guisborne, played by the delightful Richard Armitage.

But all in all the TV companies should have saved their money and repeated the Robin of Sherwood from circa 1980 (with Michael Praed and Judi Trott. If you want a sheriff that chew the scenery brilliantly, look not further than Nicholas Grace. Alan Rickman (and the Costmer movie) definitely modelled himself on Grace. Unfortunately nothing Ciostner could do could remotely make him a model of Michael Praed, hence the TV show still rules. (OK, let's forget about Jason Connery.)
:-)

[zeborah]

The crap new TV one. Put it this way: via_pigeon keeps regaling me with tales of Supernatural episodes, and this is the only way I can have revenge. Also, as long as I don't take it seriously and skip all the scenes with Robin in them(1), it's so bad it's funny.

(1) Although I find myself intrigued by some guy who appears to have betrayed Robin et al to work for the baddies and now has betrayed the baddies to work for Robin et al. I wonder if he does this every episode, because that could be fun.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Ah, the betrayer would be Alan a Dale. Quirky character. he does seem to have a moral line in that he never quite betrayus anyone enough to get them caught... yet.

Have you started on season two yet? The first episode contains the immortal words 'Come on, my gang.' Ouch.

And there's going to be a thind season I believe. Double ouch.

Yes because I am always intensely interesyed in various different literary and filmic versions of the Robon Hood legend (because of a book-beginning I might decide to take further) I continue to watch it. It's a bit like picking a scab. Horrible, but compelling on a level so basic you don't want to acknowledge it.