Have the liberal left wing moronic BBC ruinied Robin Hood with its liberal agend!
Question: I can just about live with a little bit of over the top campy acting, but its little things like the sherrif talking about terrorism in the first season, having a muslim character (when there was never any mention of one in the old stories) and not even a sighting of friar tuck, Robin Hood reading the Koran and so on. This should have been an excellent, Saturday night family program, but they have ruined it. Whats everyone elses views?
Answers: I can just about live with a little bit of over the top campy acting, but its little things like the sherrif talking about terrorism in the first season, having a muslim character (when there was never any mention of one in the old stories) and not even a sighting of friar tuck, Robin Hood reading the Koran and so on. This should have been an excellent, Saturday night family program, but they have ruined it. Whats everyone elses views?
It has got silly, one episode had a character pulling off a rubber mask!!!
Still we can now see how true stories become legend and then myth as each generation 'modernises' a tale to make it 'relevant' etc. A lighthearted look at the legend could make good family viewing but it ought to have a bit more recognition of the legend.
I flippin' hate the BBC and Channel 4 (although the channel 4 programme 'Dispatches' is excellent), I don't have a tele now because its is a manipulating hypnotic waste of space.
There was a survey last month of BBC staff and 90% of them described themselves as Labour voters.
I fear that some media and most political workers have an agenda of destroying Britishness in these Isles.
Yes ... it's ruined .... next episode will have a mosque in the woods and Maid Marion all clobbered up in one of those black robes .... but you never know ... the good old BBC may well come to their senses and bring in the heroes all dressed in White Robes with good old Southern Yankee accents!
I hated it at first because it was so far from the "true" Robin Hood stories.
It's kind of grown on me now because it's so ridiculous and the guy who plays the sheriff of Nottingham is so funny - I'm on his side, for sure.
You just have to take the innacuracies and campness with a pinch of salt (like the chocolate cake 300 odd years before anybody in Europe discovered chocolate). I just ignore that it's supposed to be robin Hood and take it as lighthearted entertainment.
You also have to remember that Robin Hood is a folklore legend that may or may not be contibutable to a real person.
I have been wondering about Friar tuck, though... maybe next series, eh?
Where the hell do they get these writers and producers from! The BBC has become political-correctness crazy and this kind of polcor "revisionism" is now typical of the BBC. Paid for by TV viewers and supposedly, according to its charter, independent of political bias, the BBC has let us all down and become a disgrace.
Yes it is to P.C. Robin does not Kill anybody in it , They were Savage times and People had to be Killed to stop them Killing the People in Villages and even Towns. If Robin had a Chance He would Automatically Kill The Sheriff and Guy of Gisbourne. There was a Previous Robin Hood Series with a Muslim Character in it but he was a big Man with Two Swords and a Shield that he carried on his back, and there was plenty of Killing in it. It is very Saccherine Sweet and i just gave up on it.
Yep, you got it right Professor! I just watch these things and take them as pure entertainment factor. I think it is very funny and really tongue in cheek. Some of the costumes look like old fashioned modern and the references to 'pop' culture are amusing. I like it. It's an hour of entertainment on a lacklustre Saturday evening.
I do like watching programmes that don't take themselves seriously. And if anyone watched Robin Hood Prince of Thieves with Kevin Coster, Hollywood added Morgan Freeman as his sidekick.
But I want to know about Friar Tuck as well!
There have been many theories of Robin Hood that have been debunked. For example, Robin Hood and Maid Marian were not alive at the same time, they were born a couple of centuries apart and there is no proof of any other people connected to them with those names.
Therefore, the whole Robin Hood history is filled with inaccuracies. I think that is why the series is how it is - it is sort of taking the p*ss out of the story.
Nevertheless, it is very entertaining and I certainly enjoy it as fiction. That is what it is - fiction set against a backdrop of history and myth.
Yeah i know what you mean - when you look at it like that it is ruined like you say - but i just enjoy looking at Jonas Armstrong, Richard Armitage, and Harry Lloyd who is so cute LOL - maybe it's a woman's point of view...
I think they should give us a Friar Tuck though - seriously i do...