Oh...fie!

[trinityvixen]

So, the BBC Robin Hood series is ridiculous and silly and I think I might already be just a little bit in love with it. Despite the fact that Robin isn't attractive, Marion is strange looking, and Sir Guy looks like a rock star.

I mean, how can you not like a show that gleefully throws Robin nearly into bed with the Sheriff of Nottingham? And the latter plays coquette for the entire time!? ::titters::

To the show's credit, it doesn't isolate the Robin-against-the-rich dynamic from its (supposedly) historical setting, thus making it the most involved with the concurrent events of the day. Like Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Robin has returned to England from fighting in one or another Crusade. But the evilness of the Sheriff is more insidious, more cloaked in good intentions than in any other adaptation I've seen, as his excuse for taxing people to shreds is to support the war abroad. He even, rightly, dresses down Robin at a meeting of nobles in Nottinghamshire over the issue of supporting. He sounds like a fucking Republican chickenhawk chickenshit with the "I am doing something other than risking my limbs for the war, and that perfectly excuses me from having to fight and allows me to send others to their death," but he has a point with the particular war in question. Not only is he too old to go himself, he'd be abandoning his duties if he--the Sheriff--went to war. Since Robin's gadding about has led to his people suffering in his absence, it's a total, "Oh, SNAP!" moment. Took the wind of self-righteousness out of Robin's sails, which I quite like. The Sheriff is so fun!

And did I mention that Guy of Gisborne is totally a rock star? And that feiran suffered that same immediate, frightening lust for him as she did for Oliver Queen on Smallville? Maybe not as vehemently, but she did do a double-take over him.

Comments

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Ha! Yesterday my boss forwarded me the trailer for Aquaman, which I forgot was going to star the guy who ended up being cast as Oliver Queen as a consolation prize.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I've seen the pilot for that--I think they were calling it Mercy Reef, which was the whole problem right there--not Oliver Queen being both wet and shirtless. It wasn't great--it had LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS for pete's sake--but it had as much a shot on the WB/CW/WHATEVER as anything else they've kept ::coughcoughSupernaturalcough::

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

I'll have to grab a copy of that from you sometime if you haven't deleted it in disgust...

Are you saying you don't like Supernatural? :)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I'm just saying that Supernatural isn't any better than Mercy Reef started out being. And I still have the pilot, so you can steal it any old time.