Robin Hood 1x01 "Will You Tolerate This?"

[Plane Sailing]

Well, I enjoyed it. I liked the portrayal of Robin of Lockwood, I liked the political situation that it set up (even the level of realism where Robin refers to Will etc as 'my peasants'), so I thought it got elements of social class handled nicely.

I also admit to finding the closing scenes pretty exciting (although I could have preferred something else to the sword flinging, admittedly).

I'm looking forward to the next episode. I liked Robin of Sherwood, but this was less angsty and had some rather nice touches.

I'll give it 6/10, a pretty good opener and lets see how they take it. I'll be quite pleased if they make a habit of leaving it on a cliffhanger.

Cheers

 

[Mark Hope]

I enjoyed it more than I expected to. There was a nice sense of drama, the characters were appealing and it had a good production value. I deliberately forced myself not to compare it with Robin of Sherwood before it started as it would undoubtedly suffer (nothing beats that show, imho - nothing is forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten). As such, I was able to enjoy it on its own merits. It doesn't take itself too seriously, yet still manages to set a serious tone appropriate to the historical era, and made for very good Saturday evening fare. My kids loved it as well, so it gets a thumbs-up from me.

Plus the Torchwood trailer at the end was a nice bonus ...

 

[trancejeremy]

<sigh> - I really wish Robin of Sherwood would come out on DVD In the US.

I dunno why we get really obscure shows like Omega Factor and Sapphire & Steel, but not something like that which was actually aired in the US in sydnication (and maybe on Showtime, too). (Or for that matter, Blake's 7). But I digress.

Hopefully BBC America will show this one eventually, if the Sci-Fi channel or something doesn't snatch it up...

 

[delericho]

Hopefully BBC America will show this one eventually, if the Sci-Fi channel or something doesn't snatch it up...

I would expect so... right at the end of the closing credits, there's a statement that it's a co-production with BBC America.

 

[Huw]

I feel less bad about missing it now.

 

[TheNovaLord]

was a tad disappointed. My son enjoyed it lots (he's eight) but as other have said, he got even more excited with the Torchwood ad.

It is defintely aimed at kids....almost have vison of the A-Team whose guns never killed anyone, but with arrows not bullets. It seemed poorly edited in parts but in others of high production value. I will likely watch all series, especially if it ends in cliff hanger (ish) like the season opening.

Robin and Much look a bit too clean cut and twee, whereas at least the rest of the rogues of Sherwood forest they met at the end looked dirty n 12th century! Sheriff N Gisbourne felt about right. Not sure of Marian, though she may be more martial marian that some previous incarnations.

I wonder if they will be any 'magic' in this series. The hern the hunter and sorcerors etc worked very well in the 1980's series

JohnD

 

[Redrobes]

I saw it...

I saw it and it was very disappointing. I guessed as much from the trailers but was holding out a small hope that they were gimmiky just to pull in some punters and the main show would have more depth.

It was pretty shallow, jumped right in there with some fancy posturing and rediculous stunts and terrible acting.

Perhaps it will calm down and get more serious as the series progresses but I will only discover that by other peoples comments as I wont be continuing with it.

The BBC has quoted 8.4 million viewers which they are stating makes the show very sucessful. I would argue that it shows that there is a huge demand for fantasy screenplay. I would like to know the viewing figures for next weeks episode - perhaps that will show whether it really has been a sucess.

Now Robin of Sherwood - that was a truly spectacular series. Totally unmissable. And Clannads music set the tone perfectly. (Filmed in my local area too )

 

[Brakkart]

Well not the greatest of starts, but it could have been a lot worse and the fight scenes looked good (well apart from the annoying use of slo-mo and that daft thrown sword). the characters do look the part, though not yet really sound it. I like how Robin doesn'r just take up arms etc, he did try to work inside the system and retain his rank etc at first. He only started the fight when it became obvious that the system was corrupt and that if he was inside it, then he would be as well.

I'm interested to see Little John and the other Merry Men turn up next week. Will Scarlett was barely seen this week. Alan-a-Dale as a quick talking con artist took me aback, but it does sort of work. Think I'd like to see him with an instrument at some point though. I didn't like Much at all.

Sheriff was a bit hammy in parts, but I really liked Guy of Gisborne. He made a good deputy villain, and he certainly looks the part all clad in black with a great sneering expression.

 

[johnsemlak]

You might be thinking of Robin of Sherwood. That was in the 80s. It was pretty good, and dealt with some darkish themes. Plus it had a cool soundtrack by Clannad.

Has a young Ray Winstone as a very angry, very rough Will Scarlett. Michael Praed as Robin for a couple of seasons, later replaced by Jason Connery (yes, son of THAT Connery), who wasn't as good.

Kevin Coster's movie stole a lot from that series - but less... competently.

I strongly reccommend that series over (what I've seen of) this.

Nope, he's thinking of The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Richard Green. Yes, highly recommended!

They both sound good. I've put them on my wish list. Apparently the Richard Greene series is available for download at 2 dollars per ep from the Amazon.com site. Looks like that's only for US customers.

 

[Thanee]

<sigh> - I really wish Robin of Sherwood would come out on DVD In the US.

Is it not? A friend of mine has the DVDs, so I would assume, that they are also available in the US?

Bye
Thanee